Alex Dalton & Rob Campbell
Your Roots, My Roots, Our Roots
Married
Nov 4, 2017
Sandestin ,
Florida
Photo Credit
Lacher's Lens
Style Guide
Color Palette
Style
Formal
Season
Fall
The Proposal
On December 17, Rob had a series of Christmas surprises for me. He took me for a drink at the speakeasy where we first met followed by a picturesque walk through Cheekwood Gardens. We returned home to exchange Christmas presents. I opened my present to find a wedding cake sampler from my favorite bakery. When I looked up, he pulled a ring from his pocket, got down on bended knee and proposed. His last surprise was to take us to dinner where we celebrated with amazing food and champagne.
In Preparation
We wanted our wedding to be a reflection of our Florida and Tennessee roots – to see the beauty and cohesion that marriage brings combining two families and upbringings. We wove our history into most of our wedding details. Our wedding cake topper was a 100-year-old Christmas ornament featuring two bridal turtledoves passed down to me from my grandmother. Guests received Jack Daniels and Goo Goo Clusters, an homage to our life together in Nashville. We set up Mario Kart for guests to play at our welcome party because we both enjoyed the game as children and we play together even now.
The Big Day
We woke to a picture-perfect autumn day in Florida. Like all weddings, our morning was filled with preparations, photos and laughter. For our presents to each other, Rob had commissioned an artist to paint the road where I grew up while I gifted Rob with historic maps of his family home. For the ceremony, we asked each of our parents to speak because it was important to us to be married by the four people that taught us what a great marriage could be. Following the ceremony, the party started on the Grand Lawn where guests enjoyed outdoor lounges, cocktails, a cigar bar, family-style dinner and speeches. My dad, Rob’s brother and my sister gave speeches evoking tears as well as laughter, and they even had a surprise PowerPoint complete with photoshopped Game of Thrones references! We rounded out the evening with live music and lots of dancing.
The Retreat
Rob gave me a map of the world so we could spend our lives filling that map with pins to mark our adventures. The first half of our honeymoon in New Zealand was spent exploring rainforests and black sand beaches, wine tasting on Waiheke Island, hiking the Routeburn trail, observing kiwis, jet boating down the Dart River, zip-lining in the mountains, kayaking the Abel Tasman Park with fur seals and flying into Milford Sound. From there we traveled to Fiji where we lounged by the pool between meals featuring incredible seafood and going scuba diving with fish, sea turtles, stingrays and sharks.
Featured Wedding Vendors
Caterer
Ceremony Venue
The Elation Lawn at Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort
Reception Venue
The Grand Lawn at Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort
Contributing Vendors
Ceremony Entertainment
GTS Entertainment Group
Reception Entertainment
The Blanton Reed Band
Event Planner
Defining Moments Weddings and Events
Favors + Gifts
Sweet Peony Press
Flowers
Florals by the Sea
Gown
The White Room
Invitations
Minted
Photographer
Lacher’s Lens
Rentals + Dècor
Florals by the Sea
Rentals + Dècor
Tents of Northwest Florida
Videographer
Crestview Films
Honeymoon
Hotel Sofitel Viaduct Harbor, Auckland, NZ
Honeymoon
Hotel St. Moritz, Queenstown, NZ
Honeymoon
Rutherford Hotel, Nelson, NZ
Honeymoon
Tokoriki Island Resort, Fiji
