A fun Urban Daisy wedding with Emily + Grant in one of the best modern and industrial wedding venues in Minneapolis.

This is going to be the blog that convinces you to host a simple and sweet backyard wedding, I just know it.
(It’s also going to make you want to hire all the all-star vendors that contributed. I know this too, for I know them to be the best.)

Can I tell you what’s inspiring?

(Sure, Hutton House might seem like the obvious pick, although that’s not what I’m thinking here.)

I’d just like to state for the record that before 2020 necessitated the shifting of wedding plans, I’ve always been a firm believer in the power of a backyard wedding. Shelby + Kyle’s wedding on one perrrrfectly glorious October Saturday only furthers that feeling.

I wonder when Nils and his family moved into this house years ago if they ever imagined that he’d grow up to marry his dream girl Kayla in the backyard? Because that’s exactly what happened last month.

Thanksgiving in August.
Quite perfect, really.

There’s just something…

I have about 273 wonderful things to say about this day.
Here’s a couple.
(Plus a cute newly married couple. ;) )

Studio KH: Photographer of candids that aren’t cheesy.
Or at least that’s the word on the street.
(The smack middle of S LaSalle Steet to be exact, straddling those solid yellow lines.)

Thoughtful.
Tis the adjective for B+A that keeps rising to the top as I’ve been editing their stunner of a day at the Calhoun Beach Club.
It’s the glue that binds every little detail together (after Becky and Alan of course) making their wedding day feel fully intentional. My favorite.

Wanna know a little something about these epic wedding blogs?
I don’t plan what I’m going to write about in advance. Most of the time it’s an organic reflection of the things I’ve been thinking about while I’ve been compiling it, special little details I noticed about the couple or their day, or notes of gratitude that tend to reach far and wide in their subject.

Amanda and Johnny though, they’re stopping me in my tracks. And it’s not for want of any of these things, but a grand excess that’s making my heart swell. Although it makes sense, as A+J aren’t like any other. Maybe we just go on down the line?

Here’s the thing that struck about Mathias + Michelle as we were gathered round a table of beverages, weeks before the big day:

Lemme tell ya, guys: there’s just no wrong way to have a wedding. (As if Lindsay + Michael’s day coulda been anything but wholly wonderful.)