An Intimate, Stunning Boho Desert Wedding in the Modern Midwest

May and Jordan tell us about their wedding

We had originally planned our wedding at a larger venue and hoped to invite everyone we know and love. However, the pandemic gave us an opportunity to re-think all of it. We lost our deposit and decided to have a small wedding instead.

We loved everything about our wedding, from the simplicity of our ceremony to the Argentinean and Brazilian food we had. It was small and intimate, and most of all, I didn't wear white.

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Our photographers were amazing and captured everything exactly as we had envisioned it. We aren't a traditional couple, so it didn't make any sense that our wedding would be traditional.

We drew a lot of our visual inspiration from the natural beauty of the desert and the modern look of our venue.

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Jordan made our wedding table, which now serves as our dining table at home, and we relied on dried orals to make the decorating process easier.

Lots of things went wrong-- half of our decorations blew away overnight into the desert wind, my family got stuck in soft sand in the middle of the night, and we had forgotten a lot of things... but in the end, none of that stuff mattered more than getting married and being together.

Photographer: @maxjuniophotography

Venue: @serenityescapejt

Hair & Makeup: @foxyfacesbyjen

Bride's Instagram: @maypescante