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Southern Comfort Wedding: Fun, Surprises, and a Dolly Parton Impersonator!

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Comfort is key, especially when sharing your home town on your wedding day. Monica and Patrick’s southern comfort wedding day was filled with fun and surprises. Just wait until you see who showed up at their reception!
You can see more of this sweet southern wedding day captured by Ulmer Studios in the full gallery here.

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Smiling bridesmaid holding bouquet, wearing a gray strapless dress

Wedding groom with sunglasses, and the bridal party smiling

A boy in a wedding leads a dog wearing a floral crown

Sharing TN with NYC

For us, we just knew the things that were most important to us. We just wanted to have the perfect party with a little southern flare. The majority of the guests were traveling from NYC and we wanted them to have a great first visit to Tennessee. Most importantly, we wanted everyone to have fun the entire time!

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Rustic barn wedding reception with guests and seating chart

Elegant table settings with golden animal decor and numbers

Wedding reception table with buffet menu, floral centerpieces

What Makes You Happy?

I think my design philosophy was just do what makes us happy and not question it too much. I kind of centered the design around the streamer colors that I hand dyed and sewed.

Also, I didn’t want to just do flowers on the table and like the modern eclectic look for the table, so we did milk vases with succulents, kitschy ceramic animal figurines spray painted matte gold, and wildflower vases.

Malt balls sign with flavors like coffee, mint chocolate, and more on display

Candy and cookie buffet with treats and chalkboard menu displayed

Surprise Guest At The Reception

My favorite part of the wedding was the surprise guest “Dolly Parton” impersonator because we didn’t tell anyone. It was our wedding day secret. It was a really fun surprise and everyone really enjoyed taking pictures with her!

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Bride and Groom First Dance with Guests Applauding at Reception

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"Dolly Parton" Celebrity Impersonators: Yankee Girl Entertainment
Catering: Mrs. J Catering
Cookies: Dozen Bakery
Flowers: Turnbull Creek Farm
Lighting & Entertainment: Nashville Audio Visual
Lighting & Entertainment: Dan Buckley Productions
Photographers: Ulmer Studios
Transportation: Wise Coaches
Venues & Officiants: Traveller's Rest

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