Sarah & Tucker || Savannah Railroad Museum Wedding
Sarah and Tucker’s Wedding Day at the Savannah Railroad Museum was the most gorgeous day! An absolute dream come true. From the most stunning details to the biggest and most energetic and fun reception the day unfolded so gracefully! Their Wedding has been published on THE KNOT Magazine Georgia - Spring/Summer 2020 edition and is currently available for purchase here. You can also read the issue online. Go on and check Sarah and Tucker’s The Knot feature on ISSUU. Pages 78, 79, 80 and 81. We are so trilled to see this incredible couple inspiring so many engaged folks!
They have shared with us how they met, how Tucker proposed and some insights from their wedding day! I hope you’ll enjoy reading their love story and get inspired!! <3
HOW DID YOU MEET?
We both went to Georgia Tech and were set up as blind dates by a mutual friend for a fraternity formal that took place in Tucker’s hometown of Savannah, Georgia. We hit it off instantly and were together five years before we got married.
SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROPOSAL AND ENGAGEMENT RING(S).
Tucker grew up on Skidaway Island in Savannah so we often go back over holidays to visit his family. We always take the golf cart out around the marshes and golf courses in their neighborhood and over time we found our special spot: halfway across a secluded bridge that crosses over a beautiful marsh, with nothing but the sounds of nature around you. We were headed to our spot one night in April 2018 when he said something about the battery running out and that he needed to stop the cart to check it out. He was behind me talking about how he’s so sorry he let the battery die and he’d never let me down again as long as he lived - and I’m in the front seat thinking, “man, why he is getting so serious about this dead battery?” - so I turned around to give him a hard time but never got there because he was down on one knee with tears in his eyes and asked me to marry him.
Vendors:
Photography: Aline & Mihai Marin - @AlineMarinPhotography
Wedding Venue : Georgia State Railroad Museum
Hotel - Hyatt Regency
Wedding Officiant: Tracy Brisson - www.savannahcustomweddings.com
Event Planner & Day Coordinator : LT with House of Bash - www.houseofbash.net
Florist & Rentals: Andy Beach
Music - Band: Music Garden, The Main Attraction
Videographer : Square City Productions - www.squarecityproductions.com
Wedding Dress: Suite Bridal - www.suitebridal.com
Hairstylist: Posh Hair by Lindsay - www.poshhairbylindsay.com
Makeup Artist: DIYed by Sarah Biggers The Bride founder + CEO of @cloveandhallow
Bridesmaids Caterer: Endive - endiveatlanta.com
Cake: Topiary Cake Designs - www.thetopiarycakedesign.com
Bridal Party Outfits: Lulus Wedding
Bands: Bride: Anna Sheffield. Groom: Solomon Brothers
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CEREMONY AND RECEPTION DÉCOR.
We focused on angular and geometric edges, real candlelight (so happy our venue allowed this!), and mixed metals. The green florals that hung over the banquet seating on each side of the stage were lush and mesmerizing, especially when you saw them next to the neon “The Stewarts” sign that was hanging in front of the dance floor.
DID YOU INCORPORATE ANY CULTURAL, TRADITIONAL OR SENTIMENTAL ELEMENTS INTO YOUR WEDDING DAY?
Yes, we did. The morning of the wedding, we wrote notes to each other along with our gifts and made sure the videographer captured us reading each other’s notes. Looking back on the footage makes us tear up. Tucker is Catholic and I am Jewish so we had a non-denominational ceremony with a couple custom tweaks. Tucker and I signed a Ketubah the day before the wedding and it was presented during the ceremony. Tucker is big-time Scottish, so we also incorporated the Scottish tradition of hand-tying into our ceremony and it went perfectly!
DID YOU INTENTIONALLY BREAK WITH TRADITION IN ANY WAY?
We broke with tradition in many ways! My ring is a black diamond. I had a Maid of Honor and Matron of Honor and one of my best guy friends was up there with me wearing a black tux that matched the groomsmen across the aisle. My Dad and I didn’t do a first dance just because that isn’t “us” - instead, he gave the only toast at the wedding. It’s your day, do what you want!
WHAT DID YOU DANCE TO FOR YOUR FIRST DANCE?
We chose Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra. It’s a vintage classic (which we love) and for some reason people rarely choose the classics for their first dance song so it still felt original. We don’t slow dance together often so we took one lesson beforehand just to learn the basics of slow-dancing so we’d feel super comfortable. We also rehearsed two bars of choreography to begin and end the dance, but the band announced us in a different way to what we expected so we ended up just winging it!
WHAT KIND OF MUSIC PLAYED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT?
I am not exaggerating when I say the band we hired was the most talented, high-energy, INSANE band I’ve ever seen. They played a wide range of music from oldies, to old-school hip-hop, to modern hits. They did THREE costume changes and played non-stop the entire reception; it felt like a concert and people could not stop talking about it.
LOOKING BACK, WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE WEDDING? DESCRIBE IT.
One of the straps on my dress broke because we were dancing so hard. Tucker and I cracked up, but I did need it for support so my new father-in-law gerryrigged a new sleeve using his bowtie. The scene was hilarious: a beautiful wedding with a packed dance floor and a bride in a viking hat with a McGuyver’d dress sleeve. It was representative of how much fun we were having and I love that memory so much. A close second would be taking the handkerchief out of my husband’s pocket to wipe his forehead in the middle of the ceremony because he was sweating and crying everywhere. Fun moments like that made the day so “us” and special.
