Ideas for a Country Wedding: Hitching Post

Jenna and Andrew Lombardi incorporated personal mementoes and family heritage into their wedding, serving Italian food in honor of Andrew’s heritage at their reception, and celebrating the couple’s love of nature and the outdoors in the farm setting.

Jenna and Andrew Lombardi’s wedding day took place on a perfect sunny May day on a 300-year-old Georgia farm.

Jenna took a chance and ordered her wedding dress by mail, but was delighted with the results: a simple shape that perfectly suited the romantic, unpretentious spirit of her wedding. “For my something blue, my mom stitched my wedding date in blue onto a piece cut out from her wedding dress, and then sewed it inside of my dress,” says Jenna.

Jenna’s bouquet is a nod to Andrew’s habit, when they were first dating, of picking bouquets of wild flowers for Jenna. On the morning of their wedding, Andrew went to his secret Athens, Georgia spot (he’s not telling) to pick Jenna’s wildflowers. Jenna added her signature baby’s breath to the arrangement to give it more fullness.