McDaniel The Wedding
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Miller
“I had always wanted an outdoor wedding and to arrive at the ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage. It was important to me to have my horses be a part of the wedding,” said Margie Kate McDaniel, who wed Adam Miller on her family farm. While Margie Kate’s horses didn’t pull the carriage at her October 23, 2010, wedding, they were situated right next to the barn in view of the ceremony. “Our wedding day was picture-perfect, even better than I had dreamed,” she said. The ceremony took place in front of the barn at sunset. The couple chose fitting fall colors: orange, gold, green and yellow. The reception was held under tents in the pasture. “I wanted a formal wedding with a western flare,” she said. Dr. Alison Seal Moore had taught Margie Kate to ride when she was three and as a nod to her teacher, Moore’s son, Jax, served as the carriage attendant for the wedding. The carriage was a wedding gift from vets: Drs. Al Seal, Alison Moore, Tyson Pompelia and Earl Laird. To personalize the wedding, Elyse Thompson, mother of bridesmaid Emily Thompson, baked cookies in the shapes of horse heads, horse shoes, boots and hats. It was a sentimental gesture because Elyse has been baking cookies for Margie Kate and Emily since they became friends in pre-school. For the ceremony, Margie Kate wore a strapless Casablanca gown of sleek satin with a sweetheart neckline and accented with hand-beaded trim. A scalloped trim embellished the hemline. The dress was completed with an oval-cut, fingertip length veil of illusion edged with crystals, pearls and bugle beads flowing down from a silver headband. Instead of white, Margie Kate chose berry-colored shoes in a classic peep-toe satin high heel that matched the bridesmaids’ dresses. She carried a bouquet of small, white tulips, white spray roses, white roses and six dark red “star-burst” Alstroemeria wrapped with an ivory satin ribbon. To pay homage to her grandmothers, Margie Kate wore a wedding ring worn by her maternal great-grandmother and grandmother, and for something blue, Margie Kate’s grandfather gave her a sapphire and diamond bracelet that had been worn by her paternal grandmother.
The Proposal “Horses are my first love. I still have the horses I competed on for Junior High and High School Rodeo. When we started dating, I introduced Adam to the horses. (Anyone, who is a horseback rider, would understand what I mean.) The night Adam proposed, we had gone to the barn to feed the horses. We were in front of the barn where the ceremony took place a year later. It meant so much to me to have the horses be a witness to Adam’s proposal - these ‘gray girls’ who have been a large part of my life, witnessing my love for the true love of my life.” Mississippi
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