Taylor & Bryce

Do you ever look through someones wedding photos and instantly wish you guys were friends because you feel like you missed out by not being at their wedding? No? That’s just me? Welllll… that’s probably because you haven’t seen the photos from Taylor and Bryce’s incredible wedding out at Harpor’s Vineyard in New Virginia, Iowa.

Here is what Taylor had to say about her wedding experience.

Do you have any sweet or quirky stories about how you and your husband met / got engaged?

I have always been a “nosy Nelly” ever since I can remember. I hate secrets and surprises, so my now husband has learned that things are really hard to keep a secret from me. I’m so nosy that I knew Bryce wouldn’t have any good hiding places throughout the house, so I tore up the house looking for a ring on many occasions while he was at work. No luck! I flew to Texas for a week for a college course, and my husband knew this was the only time that he could plan an engagement without having me at home, being nosy and snooping through everything. We got engaged in the Des Moines airport when I flew back home! He had my family there and everything. I was absolutely shocked and couldn’t believe he was able to pull it off secretly. Talk about perfect planning on his part!

2. What was your favorite part of planning your wedding?

Planning a wedding is very stressful, but my favorite part of the whole process was showing up to my wedding venue, on the day of my wedding and seeing all of the little details, hard work, and planning put together. It was amazing to see all of my ideas finally fall into place.

3. How would you describe the “vibe” of your wedding?

The “vibe” of our wedding was full of outdoors earth tones, and “Outdoor Wonderful” was 100% what we were going for, which happens to be our Venue’s, Harpor’s Vineyard, signature saying.

4. How did you find find most of your wedding vendors?

I found a lot of my wedding vendors by recommendations of other vendors. Harpor’s Vineyard is what we booked first, and they shared a lot of people they had worked with and enjoyed working with. Harpor’s also had a vendor fair that I attended in 2018 and 2019, so I found a lot of other people to book there as well.

5. Do you have any tips for future brides?

Brides – slow down. Everyone told me how fast the day of your wedding goes by, and they weren’t kidding. My biggest piece of advice — on the day of your wedding, grab your now husband/wife, stand off to the side of your venue and just take a moment to look around. Look at all of the people there dancing, partying, conversing, and know that they are all there doing all of that in celebration of the two of you. Take a minute and just soak all of that in. Bryce and I are so grateful we took a few minutes to do that. We felt so loved!