Southern Weddings Blog Feature!

A recent wedding of ours has been featured on Southern Weddings Magazine's blog! It's a two part feature; take a look here and here.

DIY Flowers

At our most recent wedding, the bride ordered her flowers from a wholesaler, Fifty Flowers, and made all arrangements and bouquets herself. This is no small feat on Bald Head Island--she had to order them and get them over to the island, and THEN make the arrangements--all the day before her wedding, so that the flowers were fresh! See her posting about how she did it here.

We strung & hung paper lanterns over her ceremony site, which later flipped to be her dance floor for the reception. Most venues on BHI will not do this for you; you have to hire an outside vendor who has insurance. Just another of the many services A Day at the Beach offers!

We're crafty, too!

We were asked to create a greeting sign to help guide day guests getting off the ferry to the correct tram for an upcoming wedding on August 28th. Here's the end result!

Real BHI Weddings: Tiffany + Brian

What could be more appropriate for Bald Head Island than a Coast Guard wedding?! We at A Day at the Beach spent months planning and designing this one, and were thrilled with the end result. We kept a nautical theme, while working to play up the island's natural beauty. The rehearsal dinner was held at Old Baldy --a simple bbq dinner at sunset, with the wedding ceremony and reception held at the Shoals Club. Many thanks to Rachel of Millie Holloman Photography for these amazing photos!

Haley + Marcos' Wedding Video

The wedding video compiled by Mari Kittridge for Haley and Marcos has come back and looks fantastic! What a true repesentation of Bald Head Island's simple beauty, and the happiness that Haley and Marcos radiate when they are around one another.

haley & marcos from Mari Kittredge on Vimeo.

Real BHI Weddings: Haley + Marcos

We were lucky enough to help out with Haley and Marcos' wedding on May 22, 2010! A brunch reception at The Shoals Club provided guests with pancakes, a custom omlette station, and bloody marys. Music by Gene O'Neil created a beautiful ceremony and easygoing reception atmosphere. Arrangements of white flowers from Kim Fisher Designs created a clean, crisp feel throughout the space.
















A few comments from the bride:

Jessica provided exactly what I needed leading up to and during the wedding weekend, which was an extra set of (knowledgeable, creative, helpful) hands. Leading up to the wedding Jessica was able to provide insight into some intricacies of BHI weddings that I hadn't thought of and had some creative ideas for working around some issues we had been pondering. She also provided some information on vendors and used her relationships on the island to help get things done. The weekend of the wedding she was right there with everything I needed, reminding me of things that had slipped my mind, shuttling wedding stuff all around the island and running to my house to get my marriage license out of my suitcase when I realized I forgot to bring it to the ceremony. Overall, Jessica was a definite sanity saver for me and my husband. Everything went off without a hitch and I know that wouldn't have happened without her help!

Photos courtesy of Anne McGowan Photography.