credits

church: First Presbyterian
venue: Tesca
florals: Rod Meek
lighting: Castle Lighting
catering: Avenue Foods
cake: family member
band: Big Ray and his Kool Kats
dress salon: YWCA
dress designer: Watters and Watters
shoe designer: Kate Spade
stationery: Farm Basket

Whimsy and elegance merged in this fall wedding in Lynchburg.  Anne and Erik’s downtown reception was highlighted by balloons and one single red balloon in honor of Anne’s favorite childhood story.  But I’m going to let them tell you about meeting when they were four and how it was so important to them to feature downtown in their celebration!

How did you meet?
We both went to First Presbyterian Day Care together (Erik always as Superman and Anne as Minnie Mouse), but we didn’t really become friends until middle school and got to be very good friends at the end of high school, but didn’t start dating until were conveniently a thousand miles apart–Erik went to the University of Wisconsin and Anne went to UVA.

How did you choose your venue?
We both love downtown–Erik has lived here for two years, and Anne is a city planner by training with an interest in downtown revitalization and historic preservation. Tresca was an obvious choice—great example of adaptive reuse and the interior is fantastic!

Tell us about your dress, shoes and other accessories!
Dress is by Watters (from a store outside Philadelphia), and the one thing I “knew” I didn’t want in my dress was a pattern that faded out—whoops that’s what I got.
Shoes were Kate Spade and SO comfortable
The pearls I wore were my grandmothers and the rings on my right hand were given to me by my parents on my 16th and 21st birthdays.
I had a gardenia in my hair but really kept it pretty simple!

What detail did you like best about your wedding day?
When Erik’s voice cracked when we were saying our vows

Describe your decor and how you chose it!
We like to keep things light and fun and weren’t too particular so we ended up with bright colors, polka dots, and balloons! (Rod Meek is the best at making it all work)!
Anne loved balloons as a child and loves polka dots to this day and it was easy to incorporate those festive details. In one of the balloon displays there was a single red balloon to pay homage to the 1956 movie, The Red Balloon, that Anne watched on repeat as a toddler. Polka dots were on the men’s ties and the cake and worked great with big round balloons!

What was your favorite moment during your wedding day?
Dancing to the Power of Love (from Back to the Future) with each other! Also getting pummeled with flowers when we were leaving the reception (some of you weren’t playing nice)!!

Tell us about your food and cake!
Avenue Foods did the dinner. Anne loves seafood and Erik is a tough sell on anything without legs so we tried to do a mixture of surf, turf, and southern (for the out of towners making the long trek).
When Erik’s grandfather came to the United States from Norway, he started a successful, family-run bakery in a small town in Georgia. Erik’s Aunt Lila now carries the family tradition and makes specialty cakes out of her home in Augusta, Georgia. She made this one in Erik’s parent’s house with alternating tiers of almond, carrot and pumpkin spice. Lila outdid herself on this 5-tier polka-dotted masterpiece.

What’s next on your calendar as a couple?
Getting Erik a new wedding ring because a little fishy stole it off his finger in the Caribbean (that or it fell off). It’s a good thing we aren’t superstitious!!
also
We are excited to be an Aunt and Uncle in April/May!

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