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.”

When Christina and Nathan found their venue—at the edge of a mountain top community in Manitou Springs, Colorado—the couple decided to let its beauty speak for itself. “We really wanted the wedding to be simple, intimate and stress free,” said the bride, who with her groom invited only 20 family members to the vintage-inspired ceremony and meal that followed. “It was important to me that Nathan feel the wedding represented him, too,” Christina said. “I didn’t want an all-pink, frilly kind of wedding.”

As a child, Christina recalled eating off her family’s “make-a-plate creations,” she told Pretty Little Weddings. “Nathan and I decide to carry on the tradition by drawing butterflies for our unique dinnerware,” on which guests enjoyed a country-style buffet of pulled pork, macaroni and cheese and more. The bride also fashioned her birdcage veil, and with help from family and friends arranged a single banquet table with succulents from her mother’s garden and “items we either already had in our homes or found in thrift stores,” Christina said. And the couple gave guests nontraditional favors. “Each female guest received a vintage flowered handkerchief and vintage brooch,” Christina said. “The men received gifts unique to them such as comic books, a pocket-knife, geodes, old postcards and a children’s accordion.”

Morgan and Wes wed on the beach—just miles away from the stretch of sand where Wes proposed and where Morgan’s family vacations each year. The couple envisioned a “vintage wedding with a neutral color scheme,” the bride said, complementing the simple backdrop of Inlet Beach and its Grand Pointe pavilion with do-it-yourself burlap designs and vintage furniture pieces.

The couple incorporated burlap throughout their wedding, constructing a burlap arch for their ceremony, ring bearer’s pillow and table runners. The bride and groom also hand-painted a smattering of wooden signs directing guests to their ceremony and reception locations. Morgan, whose hobby is sewing, made flags for the couple’s candy and cake tables. And the couple’s cake—a three tier taupe tower made by the groom’s aunt—sat on top of a Singer sewing machine and antique table.

Yijun joked that Xiaomo and she “met at the Met”—short for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of course. “It’s totally serendipity,” she told Pretty Little Weddings. “We were both there for a special Chinese painting exhibition. Instead of the paintings, we began checking each other out.” Three years and 10 days later, the couple wed in a simple civil ceremony infused with vintage flair.

Yijun accessorized her knee-length Vineyard Collection gown with a hairpiece from BHLDN, lace gloves and classic Christian Louboutin shoes. Her groom, Xiaomo, wore J. Crew. And because the couple wanted a “small and intimate wedding,” Yijun said, they wed at New York City’s city clerk’s office.