Simple East Tennessee Elopement – Jessica and Tyler

Jessica and Tyler – August 11, 2021

Simple East Tennessee Elopement

Jessica and Tyler brought their favorite people to us for a simple elopement ceremony. They dressed the chapel in champagne fabric with blush and marsala florals. He wore a green wool suit, and she was in a beautifully elegant white dress. They had the cutest details!! He has Super Mario etched on his wedding band, and they used a quote from 50 First Dates on their vow booklets. She started her vows with, “When we first met in the mental hospital…” and then continued on with, “while we were working there…”, you could hear the laughter tinkle out. Congratulations, Jessica and Tyler!!

 

From the Bride:
We met 7 years ago while we were both working as CNAs at Broughton Hospital (Nc state mental hospital lol). We had so much in common between music & movies. We both kinda grew up in the 90s and share that nostalgia of our childhood! We even buy each other things we both had from the 90s as gifts! When we first began seeing each other, I went to the beach for a week so Tyler got off his shift from Broughton & had his roommate help drive him 5 hours to Oak Island to watch the sunrise with me before turning around and driving 5hrs back home right after. That’s when I knew I couldn’t let him go! I already had a small daughter (Presley-age 12 now) whom Tyler bonded with right away. Now we have Presley and two little boys (Phoenix-5 and Memphis-4).
For the first date, we met up in the neighboring town of Hickory, NC and went to eat at Texas Roadhouse (one of our favs because of those butter rolls haha). Then, we went to the mall after.
Tyler proposed last May. We share a love of mountains and the Blue Ridge Parkway. I especially love Asheville’s atmosphere. Tyler set up a picnic basket complete with Rocky’s Hot Chicken and took me to a pullover area along the Blue Ridge Parkway. He told me he got me a scratch off lottery ticket because I’m known for making Tyler holiday gift baskets that always include his fav candies and gift cards along with scratch offs! I began scratching my $5 scratch off when I saw I had 3 matching symbols. I then revealed a ring-it still didn’t click. I scratched more, and the words “will you marry me” appeared. I looked up, and Tyler pulled the ring out! Best day ever! (Besides the birth of our children of course lol).
We love TN. We love mountains and forest-we do a lot of hikes with our children so we wanted something very enchanting and whimsical in the forestry aspect. I searched and searched locally but did not find anything until I was searching hashtags on Instagram and came upon the chapel. Fell in love instantly and when I showed Tyler-he agreed it was perfect. We are most looking forward to he magic of the day & being able to have it be captured to share with everyone (we have kept it a little hush hush to everyone but close family).
Tyler was very close to his Italian grandmother-Grandma Cookie (Deloris Rizzo Trueheart). I never got to meet her, but I’ve heard many stories. We don’t really have an “anniversary” date because we just kinda fell in love and went on about our adventuring together which out a specific date. So, Tyler said he would love it if we could get married on Grandma Cookies birthday-so here we are!!!
We collect things from the 90s. We watch movies a lot (a lot of Halloween movies-Jess loves anything Halloween! And lots of Adam Sandler & comedies) Tyler sings & plays guitar a lot & Jess loves to listen! We go on lots of “adventures” together and with the kids! Lots hiking!
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Florals: Chapel in the Hollow via Melissa Timm Designs
Dress: Baltic Born
Menswear: Studio Suits
Photography: Star Noir Studio
Rings: Etsy
Officiant: Ian Parrott
Videography: Taylor with Yugen Productions
Makeup: Shante YuSlay
Hair: Bride
Venue Associate: Elizabeth DeCoursey
Are you ready to plan your simple East Tennessee elopement? We can help!! Check out our pricing to see if we’d be a good fit for you.

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