Charlotte + Carson, Spring Farm Wedding | Wadley, GA

In late May, we packed up all our team and made the journey out to Wadley, Georgia, a tight-knit community where we have had the pleasure of producing several weddings on beautiful farms that mean so much to our clients. We were thrilled when Charlotte and Carson got engaged and came to us to help them design and plan their big day on Charlotte's family's farm. They were envisioning a large tented reception to gather their many friends and family members to celebrate their long-awaited nuptials (Charlotte had just finished 4 years of medical school a few weeks prior!). 

The ceremony was held under a towering pecan tree on the property. Our floral designers hung thick garland of various greens and swaths of white fabric from its limbs to create the ultimate romantic backdrop for Charlotte and Carson to exchange vows under. While the weather was a bit touch-and-go the whole week leading up to the big day, we were incredibly lucky the day-of! There were some light sprinkles throughout the morning but the sun peered out from behind the clouds just as the couple exchanged their vows, creating the most incredible light that beamed through the pecan tree. It was truly magical!

After the ceremony concluded, guests made their way across the property to enjoy cocktail hour in front of the towering white sails of the reception tent. The beautiful wooden round bar you see below was built by Carson and his dad. After cocktails, guests moved into the main tent, enjoyed food and drinks, and danced the night away while the sun set over River Ridge Farms.

There were several wonderful highlights from this wedding day, it is hard to pick a favorite. The oh-so-talented Elaine Burge came and did two live paintings of the day! Guests looked on as she created one of the ceremony and one of the first dance. Highly recommend incorporating a live-artist for any event, it was amazing to watch her creative process. Another highlight included Carson and his band mates getting on stage and performing for the rest of the guests as their band, Cracker Jack Prize. The grand finale of it all though was the incredible firework display Carson surprised Charlotte with as they made their way to their limo. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day. 

We had an all-star vendor team for this one, with photography by Mark Williams Studio, the catering provided by the all-star JK Culinary team, and non-stop dance party courtesy of the Celebrity All-Star Band it was a day for the books! See the entire vendor list below.

Event Design & Production, Decorative Rentals, Linens by Greg Boulus Events | Floral Design & Paper Goods by Charleston Street | Photography: Mark Williams Studio | Catering & Bar Service: JK Culinary | Band: Celebrity All Star Band | Videography: CL Money Films |  Tenting & Rentals by Macon Tent Rentals | Ceremony Musicians: Soloist: Mike Jerel, String Quartet: led by Joe Kovac | Groom's Cake: Cake Art Studio | Wedding Cake: Tony Brett | Live Painting: Elaine Burge | Hair: Kellie Scarborough | Makeup: Kaleigh Simmons | Bridal Gown: Ines di Santo  | Men's Attire: Chancellor's Men Store | Bridesmaids Dresses: Hayley Paige

Why Your Paper Goods Matter | Wedding Planning Tips

As many of you know, we at Greg Boulus Events/Charleston Street have an entire portion of our business dedicated to all things paper. We help customers pick out custom stationary, create invitations for baby showers, help design holiday cards, and of course, create invitation suites and other paper goods for weddings. What started out as a necessity for those looking for a paperie specialist in the Augusta area, has soon become an integral part of our wedding design process when a bride chooses to work with us on their wedding day.

Image by Lauren Carnes Photography

Image by Lauren Carnes Photography

Think about how the wedding process unfolds. The first thing your guests see from you as a bride is your save-the-date followed by your wedding invitation. Save-the-dates tend to be a bit more casual and a place where our brides exercise a bit of fun in the design process. Alternatively, the invitation gives guests an idea of what the wedding will look like. Formal vs. more casual, traditional vs. creative, even black ink vs. color are all ways in which guests are given a peek into the style and choices the bride has made for her wedding day.

Image by Ashley Seawell Photography

Image by Ashley Seawell

Image by Ashley Seawell Photography

The day of the wedding there are many different opportunities where your personal style can be injected into your wedding paper suite. This starts with the programs at the ceremony which can highlight generations of tradition, meaningful hymns and verses, or personal anecdotes from loved ones. Even there we have a variety of different design ideas, from booklets, to pamphlets, to cards, we've even had bride choose fans! These are then followed by the many paper goods that make up a reception including escort cards (displayed in some unique way and they don't have to be on paper!), menu cards for a seated dinner (these could be one per table, one per guest, or even a board with hand-calligraphy!), bar & food station menus (fun drink names in honor of your pet or alma mater), coozies (with your favorite song lyric), cocktail napkins (with your signature monogram), the list truly goes on and on. 

Image by Lauren Carnes Photography

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When we are hired for full service wedding design we sit in on our clients' paperie design meetings to help them brainstorm elements of the event design that can then be translated into the paper goods. We may have a signature color that would be the perfect font color, or a large focal floral element that would be a pretty motif to utilize, or even a specific fabric that we are using for linens that would be the perfect ribbon choice for your ceremony program. 

Image by Ashley Seawell Photography

We know that planning a wedding can be overwhelming and sometimes these details can be overlooked in that planning process. However having this kind of attention to detail is crucial to creating those perfectly cohesive weddings that seamlessly flow from one element into the next. It truly is what sets one wedding a part from the rest. Those are the details we try and look for, create, and implement in each of our wedding designs to make each wedding we touch truly one-of-a-kind.

Image by Amy Noon Free

If you are interested in meeting with us to help design your paper goods (or even your wedding day!) please reach out to events@gregboulusevents.com and we can schedule your complimentary consultation.

Spring Wedding Inspiration | Best of Greg Boulus Events

Spring is in the air and we can almost taste the warmer weather, blooming trees, and of course the delicious fragrance of spring blooms!

We our neck deep in the design phases of a few of our spring weddings so we thought it would be appropriate to share some spring wedding images to inspire any future spring brides out there!

When designing an early spring/spring wedding we try and keep the color palate fresh. While many of our brides are drawn to neutrals, it can be a fun time of year to inject a bit of color into the floral design as a nod to the prettiest season here in Augusta.

Continue scrolling to see some of our favorite spring wedding highlights from the last couple of years!

The envy of all floral arches

Featured floral: peonies, garden roses, orchids

whimsical maids bouquet

Featured floral: dusty miller, hellebores, hydrangea, tulips

farm fresh

Featured floral: hydrangea, tulips, ranculus, lilac, david austen roses, hellebores, dusty miller, astillbe

Pops of pink

Featured floral: orchids, hydrangea, ranculus, peonies

SHADES OF BLUE

splash of color

Featured floral: tulip, ranculus, hydrangea, hellebores, lilac

when garden meets mill

Featured floral: hydrangea, smilax, lillies, roses

BOUNTIFUL BRIDAL

Featured floral: peonies, ranculus, astillbe, dusty miller, bell flower, nigella, forget me nots 

the littlest floral

Featured floral: seeded eucalyptus, hellebores

garden maids

Featured floral: lilac, garden roses, peonies, astillbe, dusty miller, hellebores

Images by: Ashley Seawell Photography, Lauren Carnes Photography, Amy J Owen Photography