Our Slightly DIY Tartan-Travel-Cheesecake Wedding

It has been almost a year since I married my sweetheart.  What a year we've had!  All I can say is that I am proud to be his wife and look forward to all of the adventures our life has in store for us yet!  As we near closer to our first anniversary as man and wife I thought it would be really awesome to show you a little of our wedding that I worked so hard to come to life.

Now, this was not completely a DIY wedding.  When it came down to it, I knew there was only one of me, and only 24 hours in a day.  So thanks to family, friends, and some really great vendors, especially my photographer Lucy O Photo whose beautiful photos I've included below, I was able to pull off my tartan-travel-cheesecake wedding.

 My bouquet. I used the colors of the my husband's families tartan (did you know each family name has a tartan associated with it?) I'm glad his was full of beautiful fall colors.

 My two garters hand made for me by one of my lovely and talented aunts.

 My bridal party flowers.

 My headpiece- Now THIS was a DIY project that I could not be more proud of.  I used a piece of embellished trim and two flower clips I found at H&M.  I cut the trim to size, added a piece of ribbon to each side so the headband could be tied and the ends of the ribbon hidden under the hair.  I detatched the clips from the flowers and hand stitched them to the trim.

 The tartan tie, the inspiration for the entire wedding.  We had this tie for a few years, and it is my husband's favorite.  I carried it with me for wedding planning purposes.

 Altar flowers.

 Here you can see the colors of the tartan carried throughout the wedding party.  The bridesmaids wore navy blue with red shoes, the junior bridesmaids in hunter green with navy shoes.  The groomsmen (and lady) in black & navy the ushers in red.

 Another of my DIY projects! My mom made the table runners out of a very close tartan fabric we found at Joann's.  These red mosaic vases we found at Kohl's after Christmas and got very cheap!  If you begin planning a year ahead, you can get themed items on sale after the holidays!

 The bases of the centerpieces are pieces of tree cut by my uncle with fake leaves and real pine cones- Each of the tables were named after a city.

 Our wedding luggage tag favors- I bought this pattern which was very well written and helpful.  It was a labor of love, but was eventually successful with help from MANY friends and family members to get them cut, ironed, folded, sewn, grommets hammered... they turned out great though! Even now I hear from guests that they used their tags on vacation!  They're sturdy and colorful!

The pins on the tartan bobbles were for guests to place on the map which you will see below.

 I am not a cake person.  We decided that at our wedding we would have cheesecakes.  They were splendid!

 Our map, you can see Virginia awkwardly at the bottom, the idea was that since we were having guests attending from all over the world (farthest was Japan) that people could put their pin where they traveled from.  Some guest got a little creative though!

 Instead of a guestbook we had a photo book of our engagement photos for people to sign.  This is now our coffee table book!

My last DIY project that I'm quite proud of- the collection of family wedding photos from both of our families in one beautiful display!

This was one remarkable and amazingly meaningful day that I'm proud of being a part of and organizing/designing!