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Family Planning: Team Nygren Takes On Kara’s Wedding

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Most wedding planning meetings are attended by the bride and her mother. When I arrived to a meeting for Kara’s wedding a few weeks ago, Steve, Garnie and Quinn were already at the table. That’s what you get in a family of event planners.

We all have unique opinions and perspectives, having overseen events from 50-500. But Kara’s very clear on what she cares about and what she doesn’t. “I trust y’all,” she says. “I know you’ll make it pretty; I don’t need details.”   IMG_5126

So her sisters are picking out the bridesmaid dresses and Kristin Genet, a Serenbe resident and former set designer, is doing the tables: simple white tableware, short glasses instead of stemware, candles and wildflowers picked from the nearby meadow. Her fiancé Micah’s family chuppah from Israel is being brought in and we’re using my grandmother’s tablecloth on the cake table.

What’s important to Kara is that her father walk her down the aisle. That she and Micah will write their own vows. That her sisters are co-maids of honor and both stand with her. That 17 flower children fill the aisles with flower petals and that the ceremony is followed by a cocktail hour with passed hors d’oeuvres before a seated, family-style dinner.

And she thought she wanted to head straight to the cocktail hour after the ceremony until Steve and I convinced her otherwise. Trust us on this one, we told her, you need a few minutes with your new husband. You need that picture from when you were just married.

IMG_0923It took me back to my first private moments as a couple with Steve and the realization that we had made a commitment of love to one another before a lot of people and were bonded as wife and husband (yes, in that order). That’s when it hit me: This is real.

And I looked across the table and saw Steve tearing up, thinking the same.

One of our babies is getting married. And we want it to be special. Not perfect—we’ve all done enough events to know that’s unrealistic. But when the four of us come to the table for Kara, it’s with love and hope that each one of us can be a part of making her dream come true.

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