High Country Weddings Blog

Michelle Lyerly Photography Can my wedding be fun, beautiful, easy breezy AND ecofriendly???? Yes and no. Weddings can certainly create a lot of waste and the pandemic hasn’t help that fact with everything needing to be pre-wrapped and disposable. There are definitely some ways that you can make your celebration more intentional and green just […]

Dancing with your parents has long been a tradition at wedding receptions. Whether your mother or father are total novices or light on their feet, the song choice can feel like a momentous decision. From time to time, the song choice for these emotional moments can get a bit cringe due to the overall cheesiness […]

Pandemic times are turning the Event Industry upside down. For our team, of course it’s been a difficult year. It’s also brought on a lot of time for reflection, creative projects and growing in new directions. When Hannah Hunt from Golden Thistle Design came to me and said – “I just had a wedding cancel […]

Hi Friends! How’s it going out there? I know, I know, we’re still talking about this COVID thing. Who would have believed that this would still be a conversation we would be having moving into. 2021??? Well, I guess some people did know but those of us in the event business were still trying to […]

Michelle Lyerly Photography Elopements are our new favorite. Paige, Michelle and I had so much fun pulling this one together on the fly – with a little help from our friends…. Lauren and Matt decided to have an intimate family elopement followed by a celebratory picnic with a view. I love this photo of them […]

We’re right there with you…. In light of recent world events, we really don’t know what to expect the wedding industry to look like in the near future. It’s definitely a crazy time to be planning a wedding but then again, it’s also a crazy time to be a human. Micro Weddings and Elopements have […]

So honored to have been among the ones chosen to participate in the cover shoot for the High Country Wedding Guide. This years featured the lovely Westglow Resort and Spa outside of Blowing Rock, NC and of course, as with almost any styled shoot I’m involved in, it was a rainy, foggy mess. We absolutely […]

“Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long We’re both of us beneath our love, we’re both of us above Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love” -Leonard Cohen The DJ leaned over to me while […]

Ok they’re all my favorites but Lilly and Patrick’s wedding was pretty close to what I would do for my wedding if I had it to do all over again. Lillie’s family has an amazing home right on the New River outside of West Jefferson NC. Lillie and I met a few years back when […]

So excited to share this wedding. Just everything about this day. From the view to the flowers to the late summer sun and Gabrielle and Justin’s sweet and perfect love for each other. There is so much beauty in all of their simple touches. It was our first time working at Villa Nove Vineyards and […]