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Carrie & Albert’s All-Smiles Wedding at The Barn at Valhalla in Chapel Hill, NC

June 11, 2024

We met Carrie & Albert for the first time over bagels and coffees and we immediately understood how amazing this couple was! They were both highly educated, deeply caring and very genuinely nice people which may help explain why we love our job so much. We got to work an amazing team of wedding vendors but most of our interactions were with Leah from C&D Events. Leah really made our job easier with so many moving parts and the ceremony “off the grid” down in the trees. The Barn at Valhalla is one of the unique wedding venues in the area and has an amazing story which is exactly why Carrie & Albert chose it to host their wedding guests. Check out the photos below from Annie Watts Photography!

For the ceremony, Carrie chose ‘Sea of Love’ by Cat Power for her entrance song and they chose the Star Wars Throne Room song as their recessional. Albert’s Dad was the officiant which always makes a ceremony a little more sentimental.

The cocktail hour music was provided by a jazz quartet of students at the University of North Carolina and they were so much fun and really sounded great. We took over and brought the bridal party in to “You’re Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher” by Jackie Wilson then we dropped that out and announced the newlyweds to their first dance song ‘La Vie En Rose’ by Louis Armstrong. The Father & Daughter Dance and then the Mother & Son dance were followed by a very warm and special welcome by Carrie & Albert. Dinner was a combination of upbeat contemporary, wedding dinner classics and jazz. The Matron of Honor and Best Man brought down the house with two short but amazing toasts and then we were off and dancing! Everyone was so genuinely happy and fun that it really made for a fun and memorable night for us and for everyone else involved too. You’re really going to enjoy the photos from Annie Watts Photography below. Thank you Albert & Carrie for letting us be a part of your wedding day!

Check out Carrie & Albert’s Wedding Vendors!

Venue: The Barn at Valhalla

Coordinator: C & D Events

Photographer: Annie Watts Photography

Caterer: Neomonde Mediterranean

Linens: CE Rental

Wedding Cake and Cupcakes: Bella Cupcakes

Hair and Makeup: Radiant NC

Karen & Dean’s Wedding at Duke Gardens in Durham, NC

November 20, 2019

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

We were so incredibly lucky to be a part of Karen & Dean’s wedding! Our friend Emily with Events by Emily connected us and we are proud to work with her and her clients. Dean & Karen were married at Sarah P. Duke Gardens on a beautiful early Fall surrounded by their friends and family. This was actually a follow up to their wedding in China a few months back! Karen and Dean are really amazing people and met in grad school while at Duke.

The chose to have a live harpist playing as the Mothers, Wedding Party, and the Bride and her Father came down the aisle with us providing microphones so the harp and the vows were nice and clear for everyone to hear. Immediately after the ceremony, the guests enjoyed a perfect cocktail hour which included some of their favorite artists like Bruno Mars. We brought Karen and Dean into the reception to a roar of applause and had their first dance to Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran which they had choreographed together and was amazing! Dinner was accompanied by some light Jazz music of they choosing and allowed for great conversation between new friends. They chose to cut the cake to Everything by Michael Buble and which we transitioned into a packed open the dance floor. Everyone had a blast and celebrated the couple to some of Karen & Dean’s favorite music. As their wedding reception came to an end, they chose the song Good Life by One Republic as their last song of the night and we saw these two wonderful people off to start their new life as a married couple. It was an honor to DJ for you Dean & Karen and best wishes!