A Wyoming Summer Wedding With a James Bond Twist

Lauren Megerdichian
April 13, 2022
Categories: Real Weddings, The Blog, Whimsical

Looking for inspo on how to pull off an upscale event in a rustic setting? Say no more. Calluna Events has got ya covered and then some. Today’s timeless black and white affair at a private residence in Wyoming is the definition of understated elegance. The classic floral arrangements by The Perfect Petal are just that, perfect. Check out the full gallery from James and Schulze and get ready to go on a major Pinning spree!

From The Bride… Jason and I met in Denver and connected over a love for Wyoming, golf, good music, and adventure. We both have a deep love for Wyoming and its beauty after i grew up there and took Jason to visit several times. It is where after many visits we fell in love! A few things we loved about the day – seeing our friends and family from so many places in this highly remote place and appreciating the beauty of the place we love so much. Seeing our highly unique vision of the juxtaposition of authentic, rugged Wyoming vs. An elegant, upscale black-tie event come together how we envisioned it.

The Dress

The Carolina dress epitomized the vintage elegance i wanted to wear within the Wyoming backdrop. Whilst the blue color hit was not incorporated as a theme for the event, that blue was perfectly me.

The Stationery

Easily one of my favorite parts. Sophie nailed the mix between western authenticity and upscale vintage classic and again, brought ideas that were new to the creative process instead of repurposing the same old thing. To think she hand tea-stained each save the date is incredible. Instead of an envelope for our invitations we used a “boxelope” that could tie in the story of our location to our guests whilst also having a very traditional, formal invitation within.

The Band and Speakeasy

Good gosh this was one of the most incredible moments of our lives (and we just were married hours before… Ha!) again with flipping templated weddings on the head, we wanted to incorporate our love for fun music that wasn’t your normal wedding band and throw an absolute blast of a night for everyone because doing that is one of our favorite things. We kept the reveal of the speakeasy a complete surprise to everyone in the wedding and although we had seen renderings of our design we didn’t step into the space before the actual reveal ourselves. There was a great moment well into the night when i found my dad having a cocktail at the end of the bar, watching the band bringing down the house within this incredibly svelte, moody speakeasy design and he said, “we’re in a hay meadow right now”. The whole concept was brilliantly done and perfectly executed alongside an incredibly talented funk band that had everyone smiling like they never had before. Your standout vendors – Jill, Sophie, James, Sperry, Fastlane, Calluna obvi!, The Perfect Petal although I didn’t focus on florals as much

Decor and Design

The whole event was about mixing authentic, rugged Wyoming with themes of vintage elegance to give off this incredibly private, unique, unexpected experience for ourselves and our friends. Many weddings follow basic templates and we threw most of that out whilst also keeping certain elements very traditional and it worked. Strings played, guests sipped on classic cocktails and enjoyed a black-tie sit down dinner, but yet were within this incredibly diverse Wyoming backdrop of mountains, streams, sandstone cliffs, and hayfields, culminating in this final reveal of yet another extraordinarily novel experience of a speakeasy that seemingly impossibly existed for only a few hours within this landscape. There was this unbelievably quiet feeling of secrecy mixed with incredibly fun, free funky music and dancing that made the event beyond memorable to all of us. Looking down from the cliff above you see the same old hay meadow by the stream … As if the memory of the event was created in your mind.