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Amber & Clark’s Very fun and VERY Duke Wedding

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark had their super fun wedding at Duke Gardens in Durham, NC on a BRISK spring day and we got to help make it a great day for them!  Please check out the always impressive gallery from indie Bird Photo as well as the great wedding video by Twenty-One Films below.

You know you have cool clients when it rains cats and dogs on their wedding day and they only think positive and funny things like requesting ‘Ironic’ by Alanis Morissette!

We started off this amazing day with Amber & Clark’s wedding ceremony inside Duke Gardens surrounded by their closest friends and family.  Our friends Emily & Rebecca with Events by Emily arranged everything perfectly and really helped make it beautiful both inside and out in the tent.  Cocktail hour was outside under the clear top tent with amazing florals and decor.  Amber & Clark decided to pretty much let us have control of the playlist so we went with a heavy dose of fun 90’s tunes for the cocktail hour and then a wide range of genres and styles for dinner from Country to Motwon to contemporary and even a little classic rock.  It was very important to them that their wedding was a fun celebration so that’s exactly what we gave them.  The Grand Entrance was, of course, fun and lively and led nicely into their First Dance. Jacob and the team from Snap Pea delivered an amazing dinner experience after some heartfelt (and funny!) speeches by the parents.  Then it was party time so we helped move everyone inside and the party was an absolute blast!  Check out the amazing scene in the video and photos below and you’ll agree that it was an all time party that everyone will remember forever.

Best wishes to Clark, Amber and everyone we got to celebrate with on this amazing night!

 

Here is Amber & Clark’s Amazing Wedding Vendor Team

 

Caterer:  Snap Pea

Venue:  Duke Gardens

Videographer: Twenty-One Films

Photographer:  indie Bird

Hair and Makeup:  Wedded Kiss

Wedding Planner:  Events by Emily

Florist:  Bower Bird Flowers & Apothecary

Rentals:  Greenhouse Picker Sisters

Officiant: Reverend Todd Maberry

Lighting: Get Lit Event Lighting

Transportation: EcoStyle

Photo Booth: Zim Zoom

Amber & Clark’s

Wedding Day Timeline and Song Choices

 

5:30 – DJ Set Up for the Ceremony with lapel mic on Officiant and mic on stand for reader

  • Family and Bridal Party song is ‘All of Me’ by Stringspace
  • Amber’s song is ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by Stringspace
  • Recessional song is ‘This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” by Natalie Cole

7:40 – Grand Entrance

  • Song is ‘I’m a Believer’ from Smash Mouth
  • Bridal Party
  • Best Man and Maid of Honor
  • Mr and Mrs Clark and Amber!

7:45 – First Dance for Amber & Clark | ‘Loving You Easy’ by Zac Brown Band 

7:50 – Dinner | Welcome and Blessing by Clark’s parents and Amber’s parents

8:50 – Toast | Maid of Honor

9:10 – Father/Daughter Dance | ‘My Little Girl’ by Tim McGraw

9:13 – Mother/Son Dance | ‘Landslide’ by Dixie Chicks

9:15 – Dancing! 

12:00 – End of Amber & Clark’s Wedding

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

Amber & Clark’s Wedding by indie Bird Photo and Video

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

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

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!

Karen & Dean’s Wedding Vendor Team

Photographer: L’amour Foto

Catering & Bar: Donovan’s Dish

Officiant: Reverend Ron Weddings

Makeup: Makeup by Ashley Mooney

Transportation: North Hills Transportation

Wedding Planning & Design: Events by Emily

Wedding Lighting: Get Lit Event Lighting

Ceremony & Reception: Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Photo Booth: Zim Zoom Photo Booth

Rentals: American Party Rentals

Hair: The Makeup Addict Studios

Wedding Cake: Capital Cakes

Harpist: Winifred Garrett

Florist: Fallon’s Flowers

Karen & Dean Real Wedding Timeline

Duke Gardens, Durham, N.C.

5:30 – Ceremony Seating Music- Harpist

6:00 – Ceremony- No music by DJ- Lapel Mic for Minister, Wireless Mic with Stand for Harpist

6:30 – Cocktail Hour

7:35 – Bridal Party Introductions

*Groomsmen *Bridesmaid *Bride and Groom: The Newlyweds, Karen and Dean

7:37 – First Dance to ‘Thinking Out Loud’ by Ed Sheeran- End at 1:51

7:40 – Toasts by Karen’s Father and Dean’s Father

7:55 – Dinner Music- Jazz

8:45 – Toasts at end of dinner *Best Man n

*Maid of Honor *Friend

9:00 – Cake Cutting to ‘Everything’ by Michael Buble

9:05 – Open Dance Floor

9:45 – Bouquet Toss to ‘Single Ladies’ by Beyonce

10:15- Announce last call for bar

10:55 – Last Song to ‘Good Life’ by One Republic

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L'amour Foto

Karen + Dean Duke Garden Wedding by L’amour Foto