Graceful Farmhouse Nuptials — A Romantic Denver, Colorado Wedding
Photography by Jensen Sutta
Even buildings can feel life and love. Although they are made of wood and nails and bricks and screws, they carry memories, provide shelter from the storm, and become part of who we are. We were honored to have led a team producing a wedding at Quincy Farm, a Denver, Colorado working horse farm that the bride grew up learning how to ride and a location that has held such special meaning to her family for her whole lifetime. The first time we toured the space, we knew this wedding would be far unlike any other. After walking the grounds and discussing the vision, ambiance, and wedding experience that our clients were dreaming of, we had a crazy thought: instead of using the barn as a backdrop alone and hosting the wedding reception under a tent, we proposed the dinner reception be hosted inside the charming barn itself. Through our eyes, the center aisle walkway was the perfect setting for a farm style head table and the barn stalls themselves seemed to be inviting little nooks to tuck tables of six and eight for an intimate guest experience. We had to get the sole resident at the barn of Quincys Farms approval, our furry, hoofed friend, Margarita, who graciously agreed to a weekend getaway at another barn on property during the wedding festivities.
Photography by Jensen Sutta
For months leading up to the wedding day, the bride and groom did what they do best: rolled up their sleeves, and got to work on cleaning, planting, trimming, and beautifying this incredible property, inside and out. These salt of the Earth equestrian and animal lovers poured the same heart and soul into the revitalization of every wooden plank and every blade of grass as they clearly do to their love for one another. In the meantime, we went about assembling an all-star team of wedding creatives to breathe life into the vision of this exceptional day. Angela Rohr of Bella Lu Floral, designed a palette of cream, blush, sorbet, and sunburst with pops of yellow amongst a backdrop of organic greens, including fresh mint, to add soft elegance to the style of the day. Bella Lu’s brilliant idea of incorporating the very trophy chalices, urns, and ribbons won by past residences and friends of the farm into her centerpieces and design, in a very real way, brought those great memories back to life on Elizabeth and Kelly’s wedding day.
The ceremony was held at the main barn entrance beneath the Quincy Farm’s original sign. An asymmetrical greenery and floral garland by Bella Lu Floral, framed the ceremony alter, flanked by saddles, tack boxes, and trophy floral clusters. The bride was glammed-up by longtime friend and stylist, Michael Moore of Moore For Life, before saying her vows to her husband to be. Guests looked on as the bride and groom said their vows from a mismatched congregation of chairs and bails of hay, aptly fitting the farm house elegance of the event. Those that could not be with the couple in body were there in spirit. We felt their presence in the warmth of the air and sunny skies of the wedding day, as the day prior and the day after the wedding both burdened with thundershowers, but the power of the people watching over them held the weather pattern at bay.
Following the ceremony, guests grabbed libations from wheelbarrows and raised a toast to the bride and groom while noshing on appetizer platters of mini lobster rolls, green chili mac n’ cheese pots, and Olathe sweet corn shooters courtesy of the incredible chef stylings of Randall Baldwin of Darleen’z Dillas. Our service staff by Social Affairs treated guests like royalty, as they were then invited to be seated in our barn dining room, stall by stall, which were named after special animals in the couple’s life, before being served an elegant country dinner menu. Guests dined on grilled palisade peach and buratta salads followed by an entree duo of braised short ribs and apricot mustard chicken.
The custom stationary suite designed and crafted by the endlessly talented duo at Platypus Papers, set the stage for the event with a creatively crafted horseshoe logo for the couple in letterpress and laser cut invitations, which were brought to delicious edible life by the expert sugar touch of Lisa Herrera of A Cake Come True with a two-tier wedding cake emblazoned with the couple’s custom horseshoe logo atop whitewashed wood panels.
Guests moved from the intimate dinner experience to a clear roof tent adorned with market lights courtesy of Colorado Party Rentals whose both stunning and functional inventory turned a barn into a wedding venue. Jensen Sutta captured all the moments for the bride and groom and the overall vision of this fantastic day while Hannah Q Photography and her light airy photography style focused on documenting the details of this beautiful celebration. Dustin Devine and the Real Deal dished up the country tunes as guests kicked the dirt off of their boots and danced into the evening.
Watching this exceptional celebration unfold before our eyes, is one of the truest honors of our career. With all of the years passing through the wooden planks and hollow stalls of this incredible space… to reimagine this location where so many memories have been made, laughter shared, friendships forged and triumphs achieved, every last detail of this truly exceptional wedding was as genuine as the couple we planned with. Congratulations to Dr. & Mrs. Tisher, may the spirit of Quincy Farm live within each of us lucky to enough bear witness to this day.
Photography by Jensen Sutta
