On October 1st my little brother, Doren, married this lovely lady. It was an incredible day full of autumn magic, pie and (of course) lots of love. I am so excited to share photos of their special day with you!
On the morning of the wedding, we woke up early and traveled to a beautiful lakeside cabin about an hour away from Springfield. We picked up donuts for the bride-to-be. (remember the donut shower? mhmmm) It was very laid back and fun. I loved seeing everything they'd chosen and what everyone was wearing.
Here are a few Instagram memories that I snapped with my phone. I love that top photo with our mom. Aren't the wheat bouquets a sweet idea?
It was so heartwarming to see Doren and Sarah so in love and so full of butterflies. They're perfect together.
Sarah wore a vintage lace dress from Red Velvet. It was really special to us to help her find the perfect dress. I loved all the fall colors that they chose. The cozy vibe was so good.
The ceremony was too sweet. I tried not to cry…. and failed. I actually cried way more at Doren's wedding than at my own. It was wonderful. Full of love…
This is one of my favorite photos from the day. Grandparents are the best. So sweet.
The reception is a very fond memory. There were picnic tables and blankets spread out. Cute kiddos running everywhere and good conversations. The sun was setting and it was absolutely beautiful.
I love all these little moments. Each one is so special…
The dinner was a yummy BBQ meal put together by Sarah's father. It was casual and adorable!
Emma created a beautiful dessert table with pies and caramel apples. It was super charming! I loved the mix of textured blankets, ripped fabric and pretty pies.
The day came and went too quickly, as all weddings do. I am grateful to Janae Hardy for caputuring the wedding in such a beautiful way! These photos are a real treat. I have already looked at them about 100 times. Thanks so much for taking at peek at my brother's special day! xo. elsie
*All photos by Janae Hardy Photography (plus one by Skunkboy and some Instagrams from my phone). Special Thank Yous to my friends at 100 Layer Cake for featuring Doren + Sarah's wedding!
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Such a sweet and special wedding! Love the photos!
They look so beautiful. xo, rv
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So pretty!
Aww what a beautiful wedding!! Congrats to your bro! All you girls look stunning
Everything looks so pretty! I love the whole casual idea also!
How special! You have the sweetest little family – thanks for sharing these memories with us 🙂
Adorable! Simply adorable! You can feel the love in the air! 🙂
What fabulous pictures! Really beautiful. Also…where are all these gorgeously colored tights from?
*LOVE* those moments as Sarah is walking towards Doren and hugs him in front of the water and that glowy light. So amazing and captured so beautifully 🙂
So beautiful. Thanks for sharing! I especially love the pie table. I need a pie table. 🙂
So lovely! This cozy fall wedding is too sweet <3e
What a beautiful wedding! Your words as well as the pictures show all of the love that went into this special day! Lovely & sweet post!
I’m so happy for your brother and his new wife. Their wedding looks so full of love and happiness. 🙂
Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline
I love how intimate & cozy this wedding looks! Its adorable. I love all the details. (And I’m sort of obsessed with the arrows painted on the holga camera! Whoa!) XO
im dreaming for the wedding like this. Really simple, and so colorfull. Full of love and joy. Hope someday i can make a wedding like this. 🙂
congrats Sarah and Doren. 🙂
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What a beautiful wedding! I absolutely LOVE the bride’s dress/hair/makeup! All of the vintage details are just so lovely 🙂
Aw! What a lovely wedding! When I get married I want something very similar – especially the bbq dinner. Yummy!
I love the idea of casual weddings. They seem so much more personal and sweet. I definitely want to get married outside in a knee length vintage dress whenever my special day comes. <3
Awesome wedding, you have a beautiful mother, those little gold leggings are the ultimate.
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Oh wow, what a magical day! These photos are so dreamy….I’m so happy for them!
she looks so beautiful and reminds me of Emily Browning! What a beautiful location. This wedding seemed to be so incredibly beautiful!
Everyone looks amazing! I am glad it was a nice event!
Wow! How absolutely beautiful. It seems like yesterday you were posting the senior pictures you took of Doren. I remember particularly the one of him lying in the road. So happy for him and Sarah and Miss Penelope. I adore watching the snippets of your life on this blog, Elsie.
Looks fantastic, love the cohesive vibe. I am curious: how did you guys manage to coordinate everyone’s outfits?
this is too beautiful…i absolutely love it!!! i’m on a little (okay pretty big…) wedding kick right now, and this has to be one of my favorites that i’ve seen!
awwww. your weddings make my heart happy <3 these are lovely elsie! i've always pictured a cabin theme wedding... or something in that nature. i can't blame you for crying. such a lovely family <3 your family is just so gorgeous!!
what a gorgeous wedding! so unique and beautiful!
Oh, I got an ache in the back of my throat when I got to the photos of them meeting at the lakeshore. The embrace. The anticipation. The journey. . . such a golden beginning. Wish you well, D + S.
It’s amazing how you and your siblings all have the same design aesthetic within you! {my siblings and I couldn’t be more different…} I knew right away when I saw these pictures on 100 Layer Cake that you had a hand in it! Congrats to the happy couple!
seems absolutely magical… 🙂 love the pie menu idea!
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So many pretty details!
so gorgeous!
This is adorable! What a great wedding.
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What a charming wedding! Love everything about it.
Faaabulous photos and I love the theme of the wedding! Thank you so much for posting this; I feel inspired!
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This looks like such an amazing wedding. Like with your wedding, I just love how much character is shown. Everything seems very personal and very well put together. I love it!
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So beautiful, thank you for sharing. It causes me to become all teary-eyed.
It’s so great to see the revival of the “backyard” wedding. A pretty dress you can treasure (not have to hoard because it broke the bank and takes up a whole closet) and just enjoying the day with the one you love, family and friends. It’s perfect. Thanks for sharing her day!
Pretty pictures and I LOVE that wedding dress! Vintage For Life!
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I so love the whole concept awwww! I want a vintage wedding!
How beautiful, cozy comes to mind and it seems like everyone is having such a fabulous time. Congratulations to your brother and his bride!
What a gorgeous couple and beautiful event. These photos are absolutely magical!
What a lovely day! All of the details are so sweet, and everyone looks like they’re having so much fun.
These photos are stunning! It really looks like a magical day, and the love in the air that day and your family have been captured so beautifully! Thanks for sharing them!
This is so beautiful. I love the laid-back country vibe. What a darling couple!
The whole thing was so beautiful!
Three cheers for happiness!
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it’s like looking at a wedding from another era. so beautiful and these pictures just blow my mind. i want all you girls’ hair, fashion, makeup, etc. i think you should do makeovers for girls who “want to pull of the vintage look” but just don’t know where to start. first stop wichita, ks?
you could do something where someone wins “a day in your life” and you get to style the person etc!!!
that all sounded very groupie ish!
Looks like a magical time – congrats to them! 🙂
She looks beatiful! this wedding was so lovely! congratulations!
this is so adorable. and they look nice.
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Wow, this makes me want to get married all over again-to the same man of course- so i could steal ideas! I love the brides hair, how was it done? Beautifully done wedding, and without all that outdated traditional hoopla and debt for years. Hooray for weddings about love, family, and friends, and not $ and pageantry!
Beautiful.
What a beautiful wedding! Loved looking at the happy snaps of the couple & guests. Thankyou.
Suzi x
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Lovely pics!! The weddings you show are always quite unconventional… I love it!!
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lovely.
What an amazing fall wedding! Beautiful warm colours and the location is gorgeous!
The wedding looks blissful. A really beautiful and relaxed day for everyone. The photography is superb too . Thank you for sharing these happy images!
Stunning! x
wow, everything looks so pretty and unique! Sarah’s bouquet is totally gorgeous and I love what she did with her hair!! The dessert table is also amazing and those last 2 photos = magical! 🙂
this is so lovely. I’ve been coming across so many utterly awesomely lovely weddings on various blogs lately-including your own wedding! I simply must sit down and document them all in one place, perhaps I should do a wedding post..! I just can’t believe what wonderful ideas people have that I just want to conjure them all up so I can create bits of each of their magic on my own day and my friends ones too. Thanks for sharing 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
such a beautiful and simple wedding! it’s just so gorgeous!
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Beautiful photos! It seems like I was there. Such nice autumn day.
I must stay that your sister-in-law looks more like your own sister than you real sibling than your brother 🙂
wow, looks absolutely beautiful! i never used to understand why people cried at weddings; as i’ve grown older, I completely get it!
Katie x
these photos are really beautiful 🙂
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This is the most beautiful wedding! I love how casual and realxed it all looks, and hello? Log cabin by a lake? Yes please! Thank you all for sharing it with us 🙂
What a beautiful day Thank you for sharing your proud sister memories with us.
And congratulations to the two love birds I hope you enjoy a mega super happy life together!
Nicolette xo
If someone came across the photos without the context they would swear it took place in the 70s. It looks totally rad!
My gosh! Can these pictures be more beautiful??? What a gorgeous wedding! I also love the pic with your mom <3 congratulations to the newlyweds!!
so beautiful!! I love how casual everything was!
So many beautiful pictures, seems like it was a lovely day!
wow, so beautiful photos!
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This is so pretty, everything about it is exactly what I want for my wedding next year. 🙂 Thanks for sharing the beautifulness.
Lovely photography, thanks for sharing. It looked like a relaxing day, which is rare for a wedding! That pie table is so impressive…the granny blanket was a nice touch 🙂
Absolutely inspiring for my own wedding. Thanks for sharing.
Such a beautiful day…and a beautiful bride!! Everything looked wonderful! It looks like scenes from a movie!
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This is probably one of the most beautiful weddings I have ever seen. I love every photo.
Wow, beautiful pictures!
Beautiful and romantic pictures 🙂 Nice colors too!
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Such beautiful photos! You have a lovely family.
Sarah’s make-up looks fantastic!
What a beautiful wedding! And such lovely photos. I just love an outdoor wedding. Or maybe I’m biased because mine was outdoors? Either way, everyone looked perfect and happy.
She is so pretty!! What a happy event 🙂
looks like autumn day wedded bliss! i adore all the ideas & photographs. was that cherry pie with the cute heart crust? i can’t choose a fave photo, because i like so many of them.
her dress is gorgeous! what a lovely wedding!
What a gorgeous day! So many special little touches – thanks for sharing them with us.
Oh my goodness! Congratulations to your brother! My father used to say “there is beauty in simplicity” and this celebration certainly applies! Just wonderful…
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My goodness! You have such a creative, inspiring family. I LOVE IT!
Absolutely gorgeous. Makes me wish that I went the casual route with our wedding. Just seems way more focused on what the day is truly about. What a beautiful family you have! xoxo
So beautiful! Love how relaxed and happy it all looks. And what a stunning location! Congrats to them again!
I love this kind of weddings and I love your style!!! Congrats to your brother!
What an absolutely DARLING and lovely wedding! My sister just got married (I need to post pics) at the end of last month, and my 9 year old son is named Doran 🙂 I must show him this post; he’s often saying he feels like he’s the only one in the world. So, hi and Congrats to Doren from Doran in California!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
these are really great! thanks for sharing them. I really enjoyed looking at them. 🙂
Lovely 😉
great pics 😉
wow. does this EVER make me want to get married again! Well, I will just have to live through my daughter’s wedding (the poor girl). She’s only 4 months old now…so that gives me LOTS of time to plan. 😉
wonderful photos, full of love
You make the most breathtaking pictures I´ve ever saw. I´m so in love with them!
So beautiful! it looks like such a happy wedding.
goodness, these are gorgeous. and so is she and so was the wedding! what beautiful love 🙂
LOVE the bride’s dress and the wheat bouquets! Beautiful, beautiful wedding.
Oh, what a beautiful bride! The dress is absolutely lovely!
This wedding looks absolutely amazing! Everything is so beautiful, but in a simple way. It’s really wonderful to see a couple that has the best priorities at their wedding: family, beauty, fun, affection, Nature, etc. Congratulations to the lovely couple!
Wow, I love it. Congratulations to Doren and Sarah. Thanks so much for sharing these warm photos 🙂
These pictures are just beautiful, and the whole setting is stunning and so romantic!
These are wonderful photos! Indi wedding are so much nicer and cozier.
WOW! Autumn is probably my favorite season, and I just love all of the cozy fall colors going on in this photo spread. It looks like it was a WONDERFUL day. I hope that they live a long and happy life together!
The first time I saw a pic of Sarah, I thought she looks soo much like you. It’s amazing how you guys look like blood sisters. Even more so in these photos! Pretty girls!
such a lovely wedding! I love these pictures so much I can’t even comment on a little detail, they’re all incredible!
wow indeed! this wedding looks really lovely. I loved the place, I loved this stylistic simplicity, if I can say that. All of you look really nice!
what an amazingly beautiful wedding!
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Very nice wedding! Simple but elegant! I love it! and I love the bride’s flower too!
SO SWEET PICTURES!
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waow.. such a sweet wedding.. and your pics are stunning.. i love every single shoot.. its awesome..
congratz doren and sarah
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This can’t be real, this can be seen only in magazines. So beautiful, so sweet.
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I was a high school seonir in a small Mennonite community in Kansas (nine students in that class) when Charles Van Doren began his appearances on Twenty-one. I watched those TV shows intensely, jealous that Van Doren and others could recall so much information, while I had trouble remembering names I had studied the previous day for history class exams. Van Doren was a hero for me. His fall was part of my coming of age and loss of innocence. I am included when he writes, I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them. I found his New Yorker essay riveting, especially (perhaps because I am male), his relationship with his father. The hugs with his father and later with his wife were high points in the essay for me. I do appreciate the insightful comments by Stanley Fish, Shirley Showalter and others. But I would not have thought to critique the essay for its lack of affect. One thing I find missing from Van Doren’s essay is attention to the impact of his, and NBC’s, abandonment of integrity and truth-telling upon the larger culture. Orderly society depends upon truth-telling. Even the writing and marketing of memoirs depends upon some presumption that the writers are doing more than creating elegant scams. I trust it is more than ongoing unwarranted innocence when I want to believe that Van Doren’s New Yorker essay is not just another lie a smaller version of his grand lie half a century ago.