Southern Weddings

Thank you Southern Weddings Magazine for featuring our adorable, Ashley and Judd’s Winter Wonderland Wedding!  They had so many fun details you can read about at Southern Weddings, but here’s a little snip of the story Ashley and Judd wrote, describing their wedding day :

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Some of the fun details of our wedding include…..

It was supposed to be a winter wedding on 12/11/10 since our first date was in Salt lake City around Christmas time in 2005 and Judd proposed to me on the side of the mountain in Park City, Utah in December 2008. This is why we chose to do a winter wonderland wedding. We then found out right after Judd completed pilot training that we would be stationed in Charleston SC and that he would be deployed at the end of October of this year. We had to move the date but the reasons for the theme still were true to who we are and the love in our hearts.

I (the bride) graduated and Cheered all four years at Florida State University where I graduated with a degree in Early Childhood Education. The Escort cards were attached to bronze metal airplanes that doubled as pencil sharpeners because it was both of our careers in one since he is a pilot in the United States Air Force. Our wedding/ event planner. Nector Collazo was a graduate of the Univerity of Florida….The biggest football rival I have. I had told him I will love him until the day after the wedding and then it would forever be GO NOLES:) Since the wedding cake was made by the amazing pastry chefs at the resort he had the chefs make the inside of the cake Orange and Blue. I was the only one out of Judd (the groom) and both sets of parents that had no clue. When we cut the cake for the first time I was in complete shock that before me were the ugliest colors known to a seminole. A seminole Cheerleader at that.

We tried to make it both a winter and military wedding. Instead of having a guest book for people to sign, we used an 8ft wooden prop, ordered from asimplertime.com to support Judds career. We also used the alphabet the military uses instead of just 1,2,3… for the table numbers so it was alpha, bravo, charlie, delta….

Airforce, airplanes with pencil sharpeners because he’s a pilot, she’s a teacher

For the escort cards. Cards were behind the airplanes as if the planed were pulling the cards like a banner

All ushers were military; either air force or navy. Ushers performed the Traditional military saber ceremony for bride and groom as the entrance into the reception.

Guests were ushered into the reception to the theme from Top Gun as well as the bridal party and bride and groom.

Our favors were wine bottles, of chardonay,my favorite of course, with labels made with the wedding date and on the back with your favorite picture. It was actually a complete cycle for it was the picture used for the save the date cards.

What Southern details or traditions did you include in your celebration?  What was Southern about your wedding? (It’s okay if not much was!) When I think Southern I think traditions. It was a very traditional wedding with modern flare. I think southern, is being who you are and expressing what you are. My parents who were born and raised in Beaufort, SC have raised my 2 sisters and I on a tradition of a frogmore stew a.k.a. the low country boil every year. My family had introduced the grooms family to the amazing feast during Judd’s pilot graduation weekend. For the rehearsal dinner, The grooms parent, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Berry kept the whole thing a surprise. When we arrived he arranged for the head chef at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes Orlando to duplicate my dad’s recipe card he had given to Mr. Berry. They had written on a chalkboard sign “A Boxx Family Tradition”. It brought home and our southern way to a beautiful wedding. It was the perfect beginning to an amazing wedding weekend.

My something Blue was a 1940  powder blue hanky- ordered this hanky from etsy.com to represent not only my something blue, and the fact that my dress had amazing pockets but also to represent the love of history, oldies, and the days of a simpler time Judd and I love so much.