Grace & Adam’s Rustic North Carolina Microwedding
First dance / Josh Garrels - Heaven’s Knife
Back in May, I had back to back weddings in North Carolina.
The first was an intimate church microwedding in Charlotte, North Carolina. The second was Grace and Adam’s rustic backyard wedding. From when I first met Grace and Adam, I knew that their wedding was going to be incredibly special, curated, and have lots of personal touches.
They chose to get married in the backyard of their home that they spent the previous year restoring together. This historic house in West End, NC (just outside of Pinehurst, NC) had been in Grace’s family for generations, and most of her family had spent time living in the house at one time or another.
After Grace’s granddad passed away, Adam and her fully threw themselves into the project of restoring the property for them to live in once they got married.
A “microwedding” is essentially an event that encapsulates all the aspects of a traditional wedding day, scales them down, and still gives the full wedding “effect” without necessarily the traditional wedding guest list.
Grace and Adam’s wedding was during a super tricky period in the coronavirus pandemic. Guidelines were switching week to week, and state to state. Some of the regulations we had in Virginia were not in effect in North Carolina. With regulations changing so frequently and uncertainty so high, they opted to keep their wedding celebration small, including their very closest friends and family.
It was so cool to walk around the property and be told about the history and meaning of everything. Grace’s mom literally made the shutters. Adam’s wedding ring was passed down from his granddad. Grace’s engagement ring was an heirloom. If you drove around the loop past Grace’s home, you’d find Grace’s parents property, her cousin’s properties, and down the road, their antique market the Bougie Redneck.
Grace had told me when she first inquired that she knew they were young, but she also knew without a shadow of a doubt that they were meant to be together. I can attest to this - they are, without a doubt, meant to be together. Their wedding day oozed with joy, meaning, prayer, worship, fellowship, and celebratory anticipation of a long life spent together.
Their first dance song “Heaven’s Knife” by Josh Garrels gave me full. body. chills.[in a good way] (Any Crime Junkies here?! haha!) I definitely encourage you to pull it up right after finishing this article, listen to it, and then listen to it again. and again. It’s beautiful.