A Classic Green and White Lowcountry Wedding at Montage Palmetto Bluff

Lauren Megerdichian
November 12, 2020
Categories: Real Weddings, The Blog, Traditional Elegance

This wedding is the epitome of classic – a timeless white and green color scheme, the bride’s bouquet made entirely of calla lilies from Kathryn Anne Weddings, a candlelit indoor reception and the cutest four legged wedding guest! You might even recognize their beautiful venue, Montage Palmetto Bluff, where the Biebers famously tied the knot last year. To see all the reasons why this wedding planned by Spencer Special Events is so incredibly special, don’t forget to check out the full gallery – all captured by Amy Arrington Photography!

From the Couple… The incredible vegetation and water around Palmetto Bluff makes a perfect backdrop for a beautiful event, so we felt like our role was to interfere only minimally and let the space speak for itself. We styled the wedding accordingly: lots of whites, greens, and blues that reflected the environment around us. We wanted the overall impression to be one of thoughtfulness without fussiness—to us, the essence of great hospitality.

We felt incredibly lucky to have friends and families willing to travel from all across the US (and even some from abroad!) to join us for our wedding. We decided early in planning that we wanted to make sure that all of these people knew how much we appreciated the effort to be with us, so we declared that graciousness was the #1 priority for the whole weekend. This turned out to be a great investment in our ultimate happiness: because we knew that our guests were being celebrated as thoroughly as we were, our own joy came easily.

The weather in the South Carolina Lowcountry was great during the whole wedding weekend. The only exception—lasting maybe 10 minutes—was a brief rain shower at the end of the cocktail hour following the wedding. Serendipity struck hard: that brief rain shower made for some of the best pictures of the wedding! It also gave us a few minutes of downtime to FaceTime Austin’s grandmother, who was unable to attend the wedding.

We were grateful to be able to bring our puppy—a Samoyed, named Callie—to the wedding weekend. Callie was a joy the whole time, but she was particularly charming during hair and makeup for the bridal party. At one point, after hours of petting, playing, and dancing with her newfound friends, an exhausted Callie crawled underneath Juliette’s makeup chair and set up shop for the rest of the afternoon. One of our favorite memories from our wedding day was the midnight boat ride that Juliette’s mother had planned for us. In full secrecy, Juliette’s mother planned a midnight boat ride for us to escape the reception. After a full day of celebration and revelry surrounded by friends and family, it was amazing to end our night together (and alone at last!) on the water. It had been such a whirlwind of a weekend, we realized the longest conversation we had been able to have since Wednesday (now Saturday evening) was our vows!