Kellye + An

I have known Kellye for years, and she wanted her wedding to be focused around her family in southern Louisiana. So the site was Denham Springs, at her grandmother’s house. In true southern bride style, Kellye was in her wedding dress at a times, barefoot outside helping direct her brother and friends in adorning the site. At various points she was barefoot. This was the kind of wedding where the cakes were all homemade by family and friends, and a tea ceremony opened the affair.

The weather was perfect, not hot or cold. Mustard was blooming, alongside a beautiful thistle of some kind – some of which had already begun casting their feathery seeds. It was my first time in Denham, and the country roads would tighten with pine trees, then open into farmland. There was a brief moment of some raindrops, but by and large it was a gorgeous day with a wedding taking place beneath a giant live oak tree. Nestled amongst this pattern was a ceremony between lovers.

There are no vendors to mention, as the entire event was produced old school – with family coming together to rent all the needed stuff, food, etc. An’s family are Vietnamese-American and practicing Buddhists, so there was a traditional tea ceremony combined with an eclectic DIY Christian/agnostic ceremony. Tea ceremony was a first for me, and gorgeous. The families offer tea to each other and express the joy of weaving their family lines together.

The couple also spent considerable time folding 1000 origami peace cranes which they hung from the porch. I have no doubt their honeymoon in Maui was incredible.