Classic Vineyard DIY Wedding at Riverbend Chapel

Who says you need tons of vendors to make your wedding day come to life when you have friends and family like today’s couple who are willing to bring your classic vineyard diy wedding to life ..

Classic Vineyard DIY Wedding at Riverbend Chapel l Sonya Lalla Photography

If you’re anything like today’s DIY couple Ryan and Steve who utilized the help of three special vendors to assist in making their vineyard diy wedding come to life than you’re bound to love this wedding captured by the talented Sonya Lalla Photography. Held in Marthasville, Missouri this wedding just oozes elegance and classic sophistication that I absolutely adore. It’s amazing how detailed every aspect of this wedding is from the black bridesmaids dresses beautifully paired with the black chambray necklace, the chalkboard adorned snack table filled with white cheddar and nacho cheese to compliment the pretzel sticks.. YUMM, and just wait to you get a look at their reception space The Vineyard at Riverbend Chapel it is jaw dropping. Today’s wedding is the perfect Sunday pickmeup of diy wedding inspiration.

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Insights from the Bride Ryan

Steve and I have known each other pretty much our whole lives. We grew up together in church and went to the same school growing u. He has been best friends with my brother for as long as I can remember so he has always been around. As a matter of fact, our parents have been close friends for a long time as well, so there are strong ties between our two families.

Having grown up together, people would always talk about us “getting together”, but nothing ever really happened between us. He is four years older than I, so he was in college while I was in high school. When it was my turn to go to college, and I was officially “old enough”, neither of us made a move, and we both moved on. We were always very close friends and saw each other all the time at church and various family get togethers.

As a few years passed, we were both in different relationships, but people kept wondering when/if we ever would finally end up together. As my relationship ended, his relationship was just beginning and it seemed that timing was against us again. I was in the process o moving on while hi relationship was going seemingly well, but I couldn’t help but ended, he came to me one afternoon and said that we needed to talk. He told me how he had always had feelings for me and wanted to see if things between us could work. That was just over a year ago and we have been inseparable ever since.

Last summer he flew me out to Washington to meet some of his family. While we were there he drove me to Seattle, a city have always wanted to visit. While we were looking around and seeing the city, he told me to look up at the Space Needle. Once I glanced up, he said “We are having dinner up there tonight.” I was so surprised and thought it was the sweetest thing for him to surprise me with such a nice dinner. After we finished our wonderful meal, he came over to my side of the table, asked me to stand up, got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife. It was the most intimate and perfect proposal.

Our Wedding Day

“We tried to make things just simple, pretty and classic. Classic is what I tried to think of whenever I was making decisions for the day. We only used two vendors, besides our wonderful photographers:-), and that was Weinhardt Party Rentals for our glasses and napkins, and Zach Lewis, from Illinois, for our music. Other than that, everything was done by us. We ordered our flowers from Sams Club and put them together the night before, my wonderful Momma made our food, my students helped us set up and tear down, my cousin help set up all of the bars and did all of the signs, and Steve’s childhood neighbor did all of our desserts. There were plenty of other things that people helped us with and we are so thankful for everyone who helped make our day so perfect.”

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Classic Vineyard DIY Wedding at Riverbend Chapel Credits

Photographer:  Sonya Lalla Photography//Reception Venue: The Vineyard at Riverbend Chapel//Lighting: Weinhardt Party Rentals//

Submitted via Two Bright Lights

Comments:

  1. An utterly chic take on the rustic wedding. Stunning!

  2. What a gorgeous wedding gown!

  3. The statement neckline on her gown is a stunner!

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