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TNWC Real Brides Married! Stephanie’s back to tell us all about her homepsun vintage fiesta wedding by the sea

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Here we are with our final blog post from our 2013 TNWC Real Brides. Today we are back with Stephanie, our lovely bride in the USA, to share all about her wonderful wedding day.

It has been such a lovely journey with last years ‘real brides’ it is somewhat sad to say goodbye to them with this final post. But, we are about to embark on a whole load of new wedding planning adventures with our 2014 TNWC Real Brides! So excited!

So it’s over to Stephanie to tell you all about her wedding – it’s more like a real wedding feature with all the stunning photos she’s sent me from her photographer Red Anchor Photo…(and don’t miss the skateboarding groom!)

Okay, maybe I’m slightly biased, but I’d have to say my wedding weekend goes down in history as the greatest weekend ever. About four months later and I am still buzzing with the love and beautiful energy my (now) husband and I felt that weekend surrounded by family and friends. The day of our wedding also happened to be the windiest day in history, but more about that later.

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TNWC Real Brides: Stephanie’s been making homemade honeybee themed gifts for her bridesmaids

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I’m so delighted that we had an American bride-to-be amongst our TNWC Real Brides as although British and American weddings are similar in so many ways, there are little extras that I love hearing about. Stephanie is getting married this September at a beautiful farm in Rhode Island and her guest post today is all about the homemade gifts she made for her bridesmaids and Matron (or Maid) of Honour.

As well as making the gifts herself, she also sourced honey from her dad who is a beekeeper, so really keeping her wedding details in her family. Plus I am an absolute sucker for honey, always picking up locally produced jars whenever we are visiting new places. I’m sure you will find some lovely inspiration from Stephanie’s blog post today…

I was really excited about asking my sister and a few girlfriends to be in my wedding party, so I really wanted to do something a bit more personalized and special than simply asking them on the phone or over some coffee.

I’ve been in a dreamcatcher phase lately and have been making them from old scraps of fabric and other items around the house. They’re pretty basic, but my sister, Dayna, has loved every one; naturally, I decided to make her a dreamcatcher of her very own as a gift when I asked her to be my Matron of Honor. I also thought it made sense since I’ll be making a few for my reception… I need all the practice I can get!

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TNWC Real Brides: Stephanie on deciding their wedding style and choosing farmers market flowers

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Rounding up the second guest posts from our TNWC Real Brides is Stephanie talking about a subject I love – flowers. As well as revealing details of her seasonal farmers market-sourced flowers, Stephanie also shares Pinterest helped her realise the style for their wedding.

When we got engaged we began to receive a lot of questions pertaining to the style of the actual wedding: What will your colors be? Where is it going to be? What types of flowers will you have? My initial thought was “My God, we’ve only been engaged for ten seconds… I have no idea about any of these things!”

Honestly, I began to panic a little bit because I wondered if perhaps I should already have some sort of idea of what I wanted. I began to pour through blogs, wedding magazines – whatever I could get my hands on – and felt even more overwhelmed! After a few weeks of this I decided just to take a step back and relax. I realized that I was allowed to move at my own pace and all of these questions were not meant to stress me out; they were well-intended and out of pure excitement for Justin and myself.

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TNWC Real Brides: introducing Stephanie and Justin’s homepsun vintage fiesta wedding by the sea

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It’s that time again to introduce to you another lovely TNWC Real Bride – and today’s couple are all the way over in the USA! It’s really lovely to bring you a couple planing a wedding in a different part of the world, and I hope you enjoy following their wedding plans as the year goes on.

If you’ve missed any of the other introduction, you can find them all by clicking TNWC Real Brides. Now, over to Stephanie to tell you all about how her and Justin met and their plans for their wedding…

Stephanie + Justin: 21st September 2013, Rhode Island, USA

Justin and I crossed paths our freshman year of college. One afternoon, we happened to be in the same dorm for a meeting, but neither one of us could muster the courage to say hello. After that year Justin transferred to another University, so it’s no wonder I never saw the mysterious handsome guy around campus again. Nearly five years later, we ended up meeting through our mutual friend Billy and the rest, as they say, is history. I really love telling people we had been attracted to one another from a distance so many years ago; it’s as if the universe somehow conspired to bring us together…it’s the hopeless romantic in me, I think.

Anyhow, our relationship initially moved really quickly and, much to the horror of my parents, we were living together in no time. Since then, our relationship has taken us backpacking throughout South East Asia, on surf trips throughout Central America, and living in three different states. We have built a strong bond founded on unconditional support and have shepherded one another through some really difficult times.

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