Nicole knew immediately that she wanted a yellow and gray wedding—the rest, she said, didn’t come quite as easily. “At the beginning I lacked direction,” she told Pretty Little Weddings. “There were just too many pretty things I wanted to include. I think that finding the venue really helped us narrow our focus. Once we could visualize the site, we started building off of that. I am more rustic and the groom is more modern. So we decided to combine our two styles into a wedding that kept the outdoorsy and barnyard feel of the venue but didn’t end up looking country.”

“Since I had met James’ family,” the bride said, “I learned that James’ dad always had some homemade limoncello on hand. The yellow tone of the limoncello and the fact that it would be homemade, with love by us and our family, made it the perfect wedding favor.” The couple used chalkboards wherever possible, for everything for programs to a seating chart, to save on paper and serve as “a nod to James’ teaching profession,” Nicole said. And a group of family and friends helped put together the centerpieces, held in secondhand mason jars, the day before the wedding.

It was clear from the start to Rebecca and Michael, an avid crafter and jack-of-all-trades, that they’d design every detail of their wedding day. “We wanted a wedding that would reflect our personalities and for everything to have meaning to us. It didn’t matter if anyone else thought it was special—each piece would be a cherished memory to us,” Rebecca said. “Our vintage, country theme was put together through many months of finding just the right pieces within our home to add the special touches and to really showcase our style.”

Rebecca and Michael discovered vintage Noritake china and goblets, which they used to add charm to their table. “We knew we had to use those colorful goblets for the head table to completely set it apart,” Rebecca said. The couple composed their ceremony programs from burlap swatches and paper, and Michael designed an arbor for their ceremony, using trees from his family’s farm. “Placed at each setting,” Rebecca said, “were hand painted favor boxes, which added our personal touch so that family and friends had a real piece of us to take home.”

For their wedding, designers Megan and Jacob went back to basics—because for the couple who adored photo booths so much that they were engaged inside one, there didn’t seem to be a more appropriate theme. The pair crafted a wedding based on classic photo booth colors, including red,  blue and brown, and invited guests to pose inside a booth they rented from The Travelling Photobooth for the occasion.

Megan and Jacob’s wedding was a do-it-yourself affair, the couple said. Megan’s mother created all the couple’s flower arrangements, filling vases and pitchers with flowers purchased from Horrocks farm market. The couple crafted each paper product, using a banner design to unify the programs, menus, escort cards and more, Megan said. “ I wanted a consistent and well-planned graphic treatment,” she told Pretty Little Weddings. “I think it allows guests to relax because it appears like everything is taken care of and put together.” The bride also fashioned her own veil and pearl jewelry.

From the start, Kelley and Brian knew they wanted to host their wedding at the home where the groom was raised—an alpaca farm passed from generation to generation that lent sentimental meaning and rustic flair to the couple’s country wedding. With a soft palette of purple and gray, the couple married clean white linens with hay bales, full purple blooms with delicate dusty miller and weathered antiques with crystal chandeliers for a look Kelley described as “simple and classic.”

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Kelley’s mother combined purple and white hydrangea, baby’s breath and dusty miller to make the bouquets. Guests were seated on hay bales covered in classic white fabric during the ceremony. The couple even added country flavor to the menu, serving beef brisket, pulled pork and chicken to their guests. And as a nod to their peach orchard engagement session, the favors were peach gummies stuffed into bags.