Music is a theme in the lives of Lauren and Jason. She’s a professional vocalist and he’s a professional guitarist. They met in college when he transferred to her school—he had to get to know the girl who was playing guitar.
“He ran up to me and introduced himself,” says Lauren. The couple dated for three-and-a-half years before getting engaged. They married 10 months later at Auburn Valley Golf Club, a venue they loved for its “picturesque views, peaceful location, great food selection, and our love for the game of golf.”
The color scheme of tangerine, coral, Tiffany blue and turquoise was perfect for the summer wedding. Lauren honored family in her wedding attire, tucking her grandmother’s blue floral handkerchief into the garter for her “something old” and “something blue.” Her mother-in-law made her “something new,” a headband.
The bride arrived at the ceremony “in a golf cart draped with curtains and white flowers to keep me hidden from the guests and groom,” she says, explaining her entrance music was a piano version of Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars.” Next, her father walked her down the grassy hill to the aisle. “We cried as we walked,” Lauren says, explaining that as part of the ceremony: “All of the parents came forward and prayed over us.”
When she saw Jason, Lauren was “overwhelmed with excitement and joy and couldn’t keep from crying.” Jason couldn’t wait to get hitched, saying he was “happy, full of joy and at peace.” The couple shared their own vows as well as traditional ones, and while thunder rumbled during the ceremony, it didn’t rain. “There was changing weather throughout the day and we got lucky,” says Jason.
After their I Dos, the newlyweds danced down the aisle to Bruno Mars’ “Marry You,” before taking pictures on the golf course’s 18th hole with a sunset backdrop. Instead of signing a guest book, all 146 guests signed the bride’s first guitar.
Jason’s favorite wedding detail was the homemade peach jam in four-ounce crystal-quilted jelly jars. Wedding favors featured tea-stained sheet music cut to fit the jelly jar lids, which were stamped in black ink with “R,” the initial of the couple’s last name. Tiffany blue cardstock tags finished the favors with the words, “Let’s Jam.”
“The day went by so fast—before I knew it we were married,” Lauren says. “The wedding day goes quick,” agrees Jason, advising other couples to “do whatever it takes to soak it all in.”
—Kristen Castillo
