Kyle and I will be joining the "One Year Club" in one month. Being engaged was the best time of my life (so far). I obviously love crafting so preparing all of the crafts was the amazing. Kyle was also very helpful and supportive in helping get ready for our wedding. In anticipation for our One Year Anniversary, I will be sharing some of our details, crafts and pictures.
Details&Planning:
The Schuetzle-Lichty
wedding took place September 21st, 2013. Kyle and I endured a long
distance relationship for over a year as we were starting our engineering
careers. He was in South Dakota where I grew up and I was in Minnesota near
where he grew up. During our time apart, Kyle started saving Burbach Dairy
Cream bottles saying that they would make great centerpieces for when we got
married. The cream bottles were our inspiration piece for the entire
wedding. After he proposed, I got to
dreaming of ways to showcase these glass bottles. We put a spin on the wood
slice centerpieces using a unique white birch from Northern Minnesota. With
help from family members, we sliced and sanded the pieces until they were baby
bottom smooth. We notched the smaller pieces to use as place settings for each
guest. Since one of my goals was to make the wedding feel very DIY and homemade
I wanted to incorporate my love for sewing. I hand stitched the table numbers
using embroidery floss on kraft shipping
tags to give that homemade country wife feel—it turned out to be my
favorite part of the whole centerpieces.
Kyle and I
wanted this wedding to bring us closer together and show our guests what we
love to do. We each prepared separate wedding favors as gifts to our guests.
Kyle brews his own beer, and he prepared an IPA to share at dinner. We labeled
the beer bottles with labels from Etsy-half with Minnesota to represent where
he is from and half with South Dakota for me. Since I love to bake, I made chocolate
and vanilla cupcake wedding favors placed in single serving boxes and tied with
baker’s twine. I also prepared a variety of wedding mints, including orange
creamsicle, to share with guests and placed them on my personal collection of
cake pedestals.
Another DIY
project we enjoyed doing together was the Cake Topper. We picked out wood
pieces at Hobby Lobby to create a man and a woman. Kyle glued them together
using a dowel pin and I hand painted our wooden doppelgangers. We were also
very proud of the boutonnieres. Hunting is a big past time hobby for our
families. We used shot gun shell used from the pheasant hunt where Kyle asked
my Dad for permission to marry me and added twine and a brooch pin to the back
to create a custom country boutonniere for our guys in the wedding party.
Since, we got
married outside at Log Heaven Resort just North of the Oahe Dam in Pierre,
South Dakota, we did not want to do the typical unity candle since the
potential for a windy day was high. We opted to do the “Strength of Three”
found in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. We hand dyed rope in coffee and tea to represent
our marriage with God as the center. My dad also set up a “tree aisle” using
spruce trees he has been growing for years. We bagged the trees in a burlap
sacks and lined the path from Log Heaven to the altar. The lodge was a
beautiful setting to capture our candid moments and brought our theme together.
Advice: We both agreed that planning an outside wedding has many challenges. Just remember you can’t plan for everything, so prepare for anything. Have a plan A, B and C. Also, dream big and take on some wedding projects yourself! But as the wedding date draws near, make a list of projects that are left and do not add to that list. Be comfortable with the ideas and execute what you have left to accomplish before the best day of your life where you get to marry your best friend.
Vendor List:
Hair Stylist:
Schelby Stark
Veil/Cupcakes:
Bride’s creation
DJ: Schuetzle
Productions
Cinematography:
Riggs Sanchez
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