All Things Country

Grandmommy and Papaw's place was a farm in Mama's time living there, but by the time I was born it only held some chickens, a few of my uncle's horses and a beautiful orchard of apples, peaches and pears. Besides the decent sized garden planted once a year, the farm I knew was home to tall grass and wildflowers, prickly blackberry bushes with the sweetest fruit to this day, a pond that flooded or evaporated according to the weather and the season, and an old barn housing piles of building materials that my cousins and brother and I used to our amusement to build bridges or reconstruct the monuments of our earliest childhood. Summers were Grandmommy's pots and pans filled with fruit or sometimes with pondwater and minnows. There was usually a homemade pie and peach icecream, football games and running off into the woods to see what critters or trouble we could find. Never was there any kind of elegant tea or dinner party under the pinetrees, but there was many a picnic stretched out on quilts made by Grandmommy's kin or the ladies from church. So, to have a wedding out on that property and not incorporate some of those sweet and wild country memories, just wouldn't be right. Here are a few pretty ideas I love for reception.

Using quilts or vintage looking fabric, or even gingham as a picnic table cloth. Of course, the wine glasses and candles are a bit much for something so casual in the summer. I prefer the look of mason jars. I saved this picture so long ago, I forgot which site I got it from, but I know it was a wedding by Joy Thigpen. You may come upon it in one of the sites listed on here to the right.

Quilts are such a sweet way to add color to a country event. They remind me so much of the beautiful quilts and crocheted blankets both of my grandmothers always made. The pictures above and the one below on the right, I believe I found on Primadonna Bride under DIY. The beautiful cluster of pictures below to the left I took from Live. Love. Lipstick..
 

 The red gingham pictures are also from Primadonna, and though red-red is not really one of my colors, these pictures are adorable. Now for a nod to things handmade...

I love this one just because of the apple and bunting!

This one from Primadonna Bride gets me with the soft earthy tones of burlap and not-th-flowers-you'd-expect bouquet. The one below was found on Primadonna as well and is a super-easy diy project that can be done using paper doilies. I think the project originally comes from Papermash.

And now, just because I found these along the way and I can't leave them out, here are a couple more Primadonna diy projects. One for the flowergirl (which I really want to use) and another for the bouquet.