Okay, my friends. Get ready. This wedding is the brainchild of one half of the very popular Rae + Dot Studios, which means that everything was designed to perfection, no detail was left unattended, and the party looked like it was killer.

The wedding was held on Lexi’s family farm, which is IDYLLIC. Granted as I’m writing this, it’s wintertime and I would love to feel that warm sun (it was actually so hot this day) and smell warm wheat fields right now, but just take one look at all of those trees and the huge lawn! It was the perfect setting for their tent wedding just outside of Winnipeg.

Photos by Kassandra Donaldson

I love the way Lexi blended a modern design style with the country atmosphere. We used a warm palette with lots of rich neutrals (toffees, browns, taupes), and punched it up with accents of black. And that burnt orange tone in the bridesmaids! Hot dang. We did each bridesmaid bouquet a bit differently so nothing was totally perfect.

Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Toffee roses, apricot lisianthus, cosmos, zinnias, yarrow, hypericum berries, ninebark and olive foliages.

This tree! Could there be a more perfect spot for a wedding ceremony? The only thing was, that Lexi’s sister was married in the exact same spot a year earlier, so we wanted to make sure we weren’t designing the same focal flowers.

We went with a ground-based installation, incorporating dried hydrangea, rust amarnathus, lots of olive and nineback, lisianthus, and stock. Lexi sourced hunks to tyndall stone, that we incorporated into the installation. Adding in a styling element like this can take a floral installation from good to great.

Lexi gave me full creative reign over the centrepieces (and all florals, actually). They had a large guest list, and a lot of tables, so we didn’t want to have everything look the same throughout the tent.

I started by taking a look through some of my wedding rentals and sketched out a few options for centrepiece styles. I wanted some with fuller florals, some more focused on candles, some modern stem vases…we ended up with 4 centrepiece styles and I loved each of them equally.

Lexi tucked in more of the tyndall stone as table numbers and it all pulled together so beautifully!

These design elements! This is what happens when the couple is creative AND good with their hands. Look at that bar — they custom made and branded that bar! It was enormous, by the way, which is totally what you need when you have a large guest list so you can station several bartenders there. We added one large focal floral piece — my current favourite floral features.

Lexi hung three grid panels and a neon sign behind the head table, that we added some fresh floral pieces to. A few of the ceremony floral pieces were added to the chair gap in front of the couple (my favourite layout for a head table is double-sided seating with a space for the couple to be able to look out and see everyone!).

I love a wedding party who knows how to party :) And a wedding party who knows how to support the couple, and help create the ambiance the couple is hoping for. I’ve seen a lot of wedding parties interacting…my friends, don’t ignore this part of the role that you play when you sign up to be in a wedding party!

Anyone else totally on board with the removable sleeves trend? You get two looks without needing to run away from the party and get changed. Sweet!

Deanna and Jason set up this wedding, which I was so grateful for because I was at a wedding in Kenora. But I was also SO SAD to not be able to see how this wedding came together in person because it was just so gorgeous.

Everything that Lexi planned and designed elevated the work the rest of us did. It was a dream tent wedding ✨

Kassandra Donaldson Photography ~ Soiree Event Planning ~ Rae + Dot Studios ~ D’Lite Tents ~ Planned Perfectly ~ Collective Event Rentals ~ Baked Expectations ~ Trident Films ~ King Cole ~ Bliss Bridal Boutique ~ George Foreman and the Grills

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