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"We wanted our wedding to reflect who we are," said the bride. "Besides, traditional planners couldn't create one like ours!"
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Their vision was a daytime wedding with a wildflower theme in vibrant colors of yellow, red, blue and green. With five months to get it all done, planting fresh grass and wild flowers in time to bloom for the ceremony was a snap. But making 500 wooden flower-centerpieces (that would also serve as favors for their 300 guests) came down to one simple trick: calling in the troops. "So many people helped!" remembers Jenn. "A friend from high school even donated wood scraps from the cabinet shop where her brother works. And lots of people helped us paint them. We'd take anyone we could rope into it, or anyone that made the mistake of stopping by while we were working on them!"
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