Cross Creek Ranch Wedding
This wedding from Shipra Panosian is just one of those that makes us immediately happy. With a fun-loving bride and groom, endless feminine touches and personal details, this wedding day is the perfect mix! Be sure to check out their wedding cake — it’s a definite favorite of ours!
From the bride, Lauren: Since Jon and I can be a bit, let’s say “quirky”, we knew we didn’t want to be too traditional in planning our wedding. We really wanted a rustic, vintage feel, but also to have fun. We wanted our guests to have a total blast at our wedding and be something that they could remember forever along with us. Moments of silliness were definitely a necessity to tie in with everything to help us relax and enjoy the entire evening.
Adjectives to describe our wedding would include silly, romantic, rustic, and FUN. We didn’t really have a set color palette, but we tried to stay within a mix of spring pastels with pops of bright color for contrast. I would say about 75% of our wedding was DIY. From the invitations, programs, guest book, cake topper, place cards, wedding jam favors…I could probably keep going… we wanted everything to be very personalized. It was also great having a 13 month engagement in order to take our time with all of the projects, and thanks to the ranch, the rest of that 25% was taken care of by them and their wonderful staff.
Any advice for brides planning their weddings now? Don’t stress – just have fun!
View all images from this wedding in the gallery
Wedding Music:
Bride’s Processional: “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”
Recessional: Indiana Jones Theme Song
First Dance: “Cosmic Love,” Florence and the Machine
Wedding Location: Dover, FL / Wedding Venue: Cross Creek Ranch / Wedding Photographer: Shipra Panosian / Wedding Flowers: Alta Fleura / Wedding Dress: Pronovias / Bridesmaids’ Dresses: J. Crew / Makeup Artist: Collective Creations / DJ: Harmonic Events / Wedding Caterer: Affairs to Remember Tampa / Wedding Cake: Alessi Bakeries
All of us at Cross Creek Ranch loved working with Lauren and Jon! What a great couple. Our set up team had a great time putting it all together and loving their DIY items.
LOVE this wedding photographer! Every picture looks bright and fresh! Beautiful wedding details, gorgeous colors, stunning ceremony backdrop, love the burlap ring bearer pillow and the twine wrapped boutonnieres and bouquets, very pretty wedding!
Lauren & Jon’s wedding was a dream to be a part of. Thanks so much for featuring their beautiful day!
So romantic timeless and beautifully captured, I love her work she is so brill.
Beautiful pictures! I absolutely loved working with Lauren and Jon to help design the look of their wedding. It turned out amazing!!!!
Gorgeous wedding! Love the ceremony under the tree!
Gorgeous wedding!
Wonderful Pictures and Perfect Day! The Floral Department at Cross Creek Ranch was delighted to design and create the flowers for this special day.
What a great night that was!! So much fun (and I was working)!! Lauren and Jon are the sweetest couple. It was so obvious how much Jon loves his bride. They also had great friends in their wedding party. It was a pleasure and honor to be their wedding coordinator.
Absolutely breathtaking! The rustic theme is incredible! The quilt in one of the pictures above is gorgeous — is that a family heirloom!? Love everything about this!
The tree at the ceremony <3 Lovely colours and very happy feel, congrats!