ashley + adam

IT TAKES A SPECIAL COUPLE TO PULL OFF A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE WEDDING. ASHLEY AND ADAM WERE JUST THAT COUPLE! THEIR DAY PERSONIFIED THEIR LOVE: WHIMSICAL AND CAREFREE WHILE TASTEFUL AND SOPHISTICATED WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF FAMILY AND OUTRIGHT FRIVOLITY. 

THE CHURCH WAS DECORATED IN ADVENT GREENS AND ELEGANT CANDLELIGHT. THE BRIDAL PARTY PROCESSED DOWN THE AISLE TO A BLUEGRASS INTERPRETATION OF TRADITIONAL CEREMONY MUSIC, A HAPPY SURPRISE THAT SET THE STAGE FOR MANY MORE SUCH GIFTS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. THE BALLROOM WAS FILLED WITH SOFT, WARM TONES OF VANILLA AND TOUCHES OF GOLD. AFTER A DECADENT COCKTAIL HOUR (COMPLETE WITH SIGNATURE MARTINIS AND MANHATTANS) GUESTS WERE GREETED WITH DECOR REMINISCENT OF CHAMPAGNE BUBBLES. FROM THE CLUSTERS OF CLEAR BALLOONS TO THE BACKDROP OF BUBBLE LIGHTS BEHIND THE BAND, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO FORGET THE CELEBRATORY NATURE OF THIS SPECIAL NIGHT. 

SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT THE BRIDE AND HER FAMILY JOINED THE BAND ONSTAGE FOR AN EMOTIONAL RENDITION OF WAGON WHEEL. THE BRIDE, IN HER GOWN, GUITAR IN HAND, WAS A SIGHT WE WON'T SOON FORGET, NOR COULD WE MISS THE PRIDE AND BEAMING SMILE ON THE GROOM'S FACE.  MIDNIGHT WAS RAUCOUS AND LOUD, WITH NOISEMAKERS AND CONFETTI, MORE CHAMPAGNE AND LAUGHTER. WHAT A MAGICAL WAY TO RING IN THE NEW YEAR!

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