The Powell Wedding Weekend

For this wedding, AliKay, worked closely with the couple to create an intimate weekend for their immediate family and a few close friends. We planned a weekend full of events, with a timeless theme of black and white. 

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Keep scrolling to see quick highlights of how we transformed this property for their wedding.

The couple wanted the most bang for their buck but decided a limited one day venue wasn't going to fit their needs. Instead they wanted a whole weekend. 

We searched all 50 states for the perfect set up. We were even looking at 2 houses one for his family, one for hers. When we stumbled across this 12 bedroom house that fit the whole crew, we knew we had to book it.

This property sits on 33 acres and had no limitations to which vendors we could use and didn't have any noise restraints. Each bedroom had it's own bathroom. The only catch, they had to go to Texas. Fortunately, most of their guests were traveling from out of state regardless. AliKay created the couple's wedding website (on the knot) and helped research the town of restaurants, activities and additional lodging.

All events happened here. The Rehearsal, The Night Before, The Wedding & The Morning After. Which allowed guests to not have to worry about additional transportation and allowed for timeline discrepancies.

AliKay aided the couple in finding the venue, coordinating questions with the owner and onto the event planning we went.

After meticulously studying the property ONLINE for months, AliKay divided the property into 4 areas to accommodate The Beauty Suite, The Cocktail Hour, The First Look/The Ceremony & The Reception. 

See how each space was transformed below.

For this venue, we had to get crafty with a getting ready Beauty Suite for the Bridal Party. We converted the business center, by carefully unplugging the office supplies & storing them safely. AliKay provided a Hollywood Mirror, candles and vases to have a calm relaxing area for the girls to get ready.

Thank you AliKay Design Co for creating these custom robes!

We transformed this covered carport into an elegant cocktail hour to get the guests hyped for the evening. AliKay rented cocktail tables and a farmhouse table for a family member set up a grazing table to munch on & provided an ice table for drinks. 

We utilized the venues jenga, corn hole & foosball table to entertain the guests.

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With such a beautiful arch and scenery, we didn't need to do much for this intimate wedding. We utilized the venues chairs and put a simple aisle marker at the end of each row.

Out of sight of the guests at cocktail hour, we set the couple off to the right on the lawn to share their first look, share private vows & had their parents join them under the arch to share a private prayer before the ceremony.

Immediately following the ceremony, we took family & friend portraits, while the food truck was preparing dinner.

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AliKay transformed the open dining room & covered patio for the reception by creating a beautiful seating area for guests, a champagne tower, cake table, open bar, a cigar and whiskey bar & a Photo Booth. The venue had a great walkway leading off the dining room where we parked the food truck close to the reception. 

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For The Weekend Event, the couple wanted to provided In Sickenss & In Health, Wedding Recovery Kits to welcome their guests. These also doubled as their wedding favors.

These Kits included personalized makeup bags for the woman & shave bags for the men. Personalized koozies, sunglasses, stickers, tissue packs & chapsticks. 

Necessities for these kits included cooling towels, mini first aid kit, bug bracelets, stain remover wipes, deodorant gel, lotion, sunscreen, aloe vera, hand sanitizer, electrolyte packs, Emergen-C packs, makeup removers & mini hair kits. 

Guests were able to refill all of these necessities either with a backup supply cart in the shared 1/2 bath or on a tray in the kitchen. Extra bathroom items included q-tips, mouthwash, floss, hair spray, dry shampoo & tampons/pads. Extra kitchen times included tums, chapstick, eye drops, bug bracelets & basic medicine.