Brilliant Fall Wedding Celebration at Northern Haus Features Moody Details

Kenzie Boyd and Alec Davenport have a great appreciation for special events—they met at one! The two were working at a wedding venue, she as a planner and he as security during a summer off from his teaching job. Their love blossomed over the next six years as they moved in together, raised Alec’s daughter and got their first puppy. Kenzie’s knowledge and experience as an event planner resulted in a brilliant fall wedding in Door County, replete with leaves in bright shades of red, yellow and orange. “I wanted to take a different approach to the traditional fall wedding,” Kenzie says. “I was striving for a very moody vibe to contrast with Northern Haus’s beautiful white canvas.” Using nontraditional dried florals and grasses (many harvested from her florist’s own garden), Kenzie achieved that look with an assortment including dried brown hydrangeas, broom bloom, dried celosia, white strawflowers, explosion grass, bronze fennel and dried baby’s breath in striking, earthy tones—even dainty bare branches with Spanish moss. Kenzie also planned special interactive food-and-drink experiences to make the occasion more memorable: a Champagne station, build your own ice cream sandwiches, an espresso station and a “Sip & Solve” puzzle for guests with the winner choosing the first dance song of the evening. Tapping into their theme of “an old-fashioned kind of love,” Kenzie and Alec opted to make old-fashioneds in a custom whiskey barrel. “We made our own unique cocktail mix and poured it into the barrel with the intent of the cocktail aging in the barrel over time, just like love gets better with age,” Kenzie says. Parents, grandparents and god parents also were involved, in a blessing of the rings before the couple exchanged vows. Advice from Kenzie, as a bride and an event planner? “Don’t lose sight of why you’re doing all of this, and enjoy every small moment along the way with your significant other.”