The South is full of wonderful things like 300 year old grand Oak Trees, beautiful weather, and great traditions. Our Weddings are no exception. Southern Weddings are full of fun traditions. One of my favorite Southern Wedding Traditions is bury the bourbon! Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of it before, I hadn’t heard of it till I witnessed it myself a few years ago. This is a fabulous little tradition that anyone can work into their wedding day and even your Engagement Session photo’s like Caroline and Wilder did this last fall for their soon-to-be beautiful Spring wedding this year!
Caroline and Wilder’s ceremony will be held at their local church and the reception will be at Caroline’s family estate in Pawleys Island, South Carolina next month! Her family home is like something out of Southern Living Magazine and I can’t wait to see it all dolled up for their wedding day! Both Bride and Groom grew up in the south so what better way to celebrate their coming together than to incorporate the wonderful southern tradition of Bury the Bourbon Bottle! Tradition says that if you are going to have an outdoor ceremony in the south, you bury a bourbon bottle upside down (in this case, details matter) and then dig it up on your wedding day and it is supposed to ward off rain. So far the times I have seen this done it’s worked so I’m hoping that for Caroline and Wilder the streak continues! So for the 1st part of their engagement session we buried a wonderful bottle of Bourbon (They said if you like Bourbon THIS was the bottle to buy) on her families property and they will dig it up on the wedding day! Then we finished off our time with a few more romantic photographs at stunning Caledonia Plantation. What could be sweeter.
Here is hoping that the rain stays away on April 29th 2017! Check back soon for what is sure to be a beautiful southern wedding!
