This North Carolina barn wedding is the epitome of rustic elegance. With a focus on family and enhancing the natural beauty of Claxton Farm, this sweet duo pulled off the wedding of their dreams starting with pretty stationery from Gourmet Invitations and ending with a dreamy tented reception. Carrie Coleman and Two Cents Photography captured it all for you here.
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From The Bride…Zach and I both grew up moving around a lot, so neither one of us really had a place that felt like “we have to get married here.” So we decided to have a destination wedding, and we wanted to pick a place that wasn’t too difficult for our guests to travel to. Being North Carolinians, and Zach being a Tar Heel, we knew we wanted to get married in North Carolina. It came down to either beach or mountain wedding. When we visited Asheville for the first time, we knew. This would be the place where we would get married, the place that we would come back to for years to come, the place that is “ours”. After much research, we found Claxton Farm and we knew it was perfect. And with the help of Shay Brown of Shay Brown Events, it was. With months and months of praying for good weather, we got exactly that. The sky was a beautiful Carolina blue, contrasted against the lush greens all around us. It was perfect. Shay helped bring my rustic elegant vision to life.
Zach and I wanted the whole wedding to be centered around family. Our daughter Emma Grace was the flower girl, my uncle was our officiant, my brother played the ceremony music, and we had flowers honoring and celebrating the presence of Zach’s older sister Emma, who passed away when Zach was in high school. We wanted the entire feel of the wedding to be centered around love. One of my favorite details of the wedding was the two doors we had with old family photos hanging.
We wanted to enhance the natural beauty of the venue, without taking away from it. Claxton Farm was a blank canvas for Shay to really get creative, and boy did she! We used lush greenery, mixed with soft neutral florals. It complimented the natural beauty of Claxton Farm and the mountains of North Carolina perfectly. The entire wedding was visually stunning. It was like a fairytale!
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Photography: Carrie Coleman | Cinematography: Two Cents Photography | Event Design, Planning & Floral Design: Shay Brown Events | Invitations & Paper Goods: Gourmet Invitations | Floral Design: Bobby Marks | Cake: Artista Cakes | Makeup: Pop Of Color | Hair: Cody’s Wedding Creations | Band: Groove Collection | Favors: Dot And Army | Transportation: Young Transportation | Venue: Claxton Farm | Cocktail Hour Band: Jon Corbin | Linen Rentals And Chargers: BBJ Linen | Popcorn: Poppy | Rentals: Upstyled Setting | Rentals: Classic Event Rental
