Bringing together friends, family and their talents, Sarah and Andrew’s early-fall wedding featured food, florals and music from their communities highlighting local flavors and themes.
They met at church in Sylva, NC. Although they attended Western Carolina University at different times, they ended up having mutual friends and kept bumping into each other, going hiking and backpacking with different groups of friends. In January 2020, Sarah and Andrew went to Snowshoe, W.Va., with a group of other friends and they realized then “the rest was history,” Sarah says.
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