Luter & Townsend Wedding

Tonight I was lucky enough to attend my life-long friend's wedding.  Julia and Spence are both amazing artist and all around fascinating people. Their wedding was equally beautiful.  It was in a friend's backyard, very intimate, and the decorations were knock-your-socks-off dreamy.  I wish my house had that ambiance all the time.  Here are the few pictures I was able to capture with the low lighting.

Here are the bride and groom toasting their marriage after cutting the cake.  You can see one of the terrariums sitting on the end of the table.  The decorations were all done by the bride, friends, and family.

The lights were strung through all the trees and bushes, and lanterns were everywhere.  Candles were hung and placed all around the yard.  It gave off a very magical glow to the night.

Note the beautiful four tiered ombre cake.  It went from a lovely medium green at the base, and lightened with each layer.  There were delicately made sugar flowers circling the base of each layer, then when you get to the top, the best part: two dinosaurs, one dressed in a top hat, the other in a veil holding flowers.  Veloceraptors, none the less.  Plus the petite ribbon banner above their heads.  I laughed each time I looked at that cake.  Truly brilliant and unique.

Had to use the flash to get any kind of a picture of the cake topper, but couldn't go without.

The lovely bride and groom, Julia and Spence, enjoying a dance.
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There was one other thing about the wedding making it truly memorable.  Julia's grandmother married her grandfather the year before World War II.  Her grandfather was then deployed to Japan for a year.  While there, he sent back a wedding present to his new wife; it was packed in a wooden box.  She didn't want to open it without her husband so she waited the year till his return.  Only problem was she lost it or forgot about it.  Later finding it, she said they would open it at their 5 year wedding anniversary.  Again it was forgotten, and later found.  She said they would open it at their ten year wedding anniversary, and so on and so forth until finally her grandfather died without the wooden box having ever been opened.  After the death of Julia's grandmother a few years back they found the box in the attic with a note for Julia telling the story of the box and instructing her that it was to be opened on her wedding day.   And that is just what they did.  Julia and Spence, told the story, then pried and hammered until the box was at last open.  Inside, packed in old newspapers, and even an old postcard, was a cardboard box tied with a string.  Julia opened that box, tore through the packing and unwrapped a beautiful tea pot, creamer, cups, saucers... the whole set.  From Japan during World War II.  The amazing thing about this is how much Julia loves tea, and collects tea pots and cups.  This is a gift she will undoubtedly treasure for the rest of her life and such an incredible story to tell.