Abby Mitchell Event Planning and Design: Real Weddings: Marlana and Tyler's Ceremony

This touch of warm January weather has us reminiscing on a favorite from this past summer! Tyler and Marlana celebrated their big day at the cozy and quaint Blackberry Creek Retreat in Rogersville, MO alongside family and friends. Check out their sweet nuptials captured by D. Coleman Photography!

What was the most sentimental part of your ceremony?

We both wrote a letter to other to read before the ceremony. We each also wrote a letter to be read on our first anniversary and placed the letters in box during the ceremony. We plan on writing letters to each other every anniversary and opening them the following year.

Why did you choose the ceremony space that you did?

We wanted an outdoor ceremony, and couldn’t imagine a more perfect place than the Blackberry Creek Retreat for our wedding. The ceremony space is a large deck at the edge of the woods overlooking a creek. The tree in the middle of the deck provided the perfect amount of shade for a summer wedding, and the lights strung through the tree created the perfect ambiance.

Did you choose to do any memorable events or traditions within your ceremony?

In place of a unity candle, we had a “unity tree.” We closed on our first home together just a few days before our wedding and thought it would be really special to plant a tree symbolizing our growing relationship in the yard of our first home.