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Hi!

I'm living in D.C., but we're having our wedding in central KY at the end of this month!  If anyone needs any help with vendors, etc., don't hesitate to message me! 

Hi luckyinKY :)

I'm getting married in little ole Mt. Sterling--my hometown growing up--on my grandparents' farm.  But all of our vendors are from the Lexington area. 

Hope the long engagements mean that your all's planning is relaxed and easy!

Well, luckyinKY, I know what you mean, but just try and make those decisions and then let them lie.  There are too many other details to worry about in the end!

I'd be glad to share photographs once the wedding is done.  We're definitely going for rustic, romantic elegance.  We're getting married in front of an old barn.  But as my grandfather restores antiques, we're hanging an old wrought iron chandelier in between the barn doors and then we're hanging curtains between the doors as well that will sweep onto the ground.  We'll hang grapevine from the fencing that surrounds the barn and fencing area and use antique gas lanterns hung from shepherd's crooks around the ceremony area as well.  It will be a tented reception, but our florist is also using antiques there as well--all of my family's old copper kettles, buckets, etc. to fill with flowers, ice down the wine.  Lots of hydrangea, Monet roses, etc.  I think it will be fun and I'm excited to celebrate my family's heritage and history in the wedding!

Anyone else looking for a KY photographer, who doesn't have one already, we've been really happy with Amanda Egan so far.  I know how hard it is to find someone local who's reasonably priced.  I'll post reviews after the wedding, but she did a free engagement session for us since we booked her for the wedding and I thought the results were great (we're Cat and Gary): 

www.amandaeganphoto.wordpress.com

Thanks luckyinKY!  I'll definitely post some pics up once we get back from honeymoon in mid-June.

In the meantime, what are you all planning?  Where will you get married and what are the details like?  

cfwinston--What a small world!  So nice to hear that someone knows where Mt. Sterling even is located on the map   I'll definitely post some pics come June.

The great thing about Amanda is that she was willing to negotiate our package to give us the digitals on a CD instead of a wedding album.  As my FI and I both have some photo editing experience, and since we wanted to be able to do affordable reprints for lots of our family members, this was the perfect solution.  It's definitely worth finding a photographer who will do this or negotiating with your photographer to get a digital CD or DVD.  We didn't have this option for our engagement session photos and they were $12 for a 4x6 (!!!), as opposed to 20 cents or so on Snapfish, or any other online printing service.  We'll make Blurb photobooks for our parents after the wedding with the digitals.

hey luckyinky--awesome link.  Wish I would've known about this earlier!  We're using a lot of vendors that we know, but since KY is kind of a smaller crowd, I found it hard to find vendors with reviews/experience, or that we felt we could trust.  As for keeping it simple--I'm with you!  Ours hasn't turned out that way really, but one of the things I've loved is picking vendors that I trust and then letting them make the decisions (i.e., I don't really know what flowers we'll have, but I'm sure they're going to be beautiful).  So many people focus on the details and then forget about the important stuff--like the ceremony, and just having fun with friends and family.

msbutton--the Duncan Memorial is beautiful--love the slate floors!  I can't believe you have so much done and the wedding is still a year away!