Romantic New Year's Eve Traditions To Start

After you get married at our rustic wedding venue near Knoxville, you will have many years of holidays together to look forward to. Beginning traditions that are just for the two of you can add a romantic spin to any holiday. Country Jewell has come up with a few ideas that you can turn into annual New Year's Eve traditions and look forward to every year. Even if you're not married yet, you can go ahead and start these traditions now and continue them after your wedding. 

Write Love Letters
A wonderful way to get excited about a brand new year together is to highlight all of the great things that happened to the two of you in the past year. Sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve, put pen to paper and write a heartfelt letter to the love of your life telling them all about the things they did over the past year to make you love them more and more each day. 

Add to a Time Capsule
You can have an ongoing time capsule that you add something to every New Year's Eve. A few things to include could be tickets from movies, games, or concerts you attended, your favorite new thing from that year, or possibly a special photo you took. Every New Year's Eve when you get the time capsule out to add something to it, you can look through the additions of years past and relive sweet memories of your life together. 

Make New Plans
After taking a look at your fantastic past as a couple, make plans to do something special together at some point in the next 12 months. You could go ahead and pen in a few date nights on the calendar for the coming year. Another great idea is to pick something new that the two of you have never done and vow to give it a try. It could be going to a new restaurant, taking a class together, visiting a new city, or even taking on a DIY project for your house. The important thing is that it be something you can do together. 

Share a Toast
Pick up a special bottle of your favorite wine, champagne, or other beverage that the two of you love and use it to toast each other at midnight. It could be sweet to use the same glasses that you toasted each other with on your wedding day. Maybe you could even come up with a special toast that you say every year, just on this night. 

Dress Up
Turn New Year's Eve into a formal occasion and put on your finest party clothing, even if you're staying home this year. Everyone feels a little more festive when they are wearing something fancy, and you know you like the way your spouse looks when they're all dressed up! Whether you go out for the evening or stay in, you'll look incredible. (Be sure to take a photo together! It will be a perfect item to add to the time capsule.) 

Break a Record
At the stroke of midnight, you are supposed to share a romantic kiss. See how long you can make that kiss last every year, possibly even breaking your record from the previous New Year's Eve. A tradition like this is bound to lead to more interesting things later on for a couple in love!

Your wedding day is a very romantic time in your life. Take every chance you get after the wedding to add romance to your day to day routine. You may even be able to recreate some of the things that you did at your romantic wedding near Knoxville and turn them into traditions too. All of us at Country Jewell wish everyone out there a very prosperous new year full of love and lots of new romantic traditions! 

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10 Wedding Trends To Watch For In 2018 (Part 2)

Last week we featured the first 5 of 10 wedding trends that we expect to see a lot of at our rustic wedding venue near Knoxville in 2018. Today we're finishing that top 10 list with the final 5 trends that would look right at home for any ceremony or reception at Country Jewell. 

6. Hanging Flowers & Wreaths
Flowers are present at nearly every wedding (although there are many lovely alternatives to florals that can be implemented too) and florists are always looking for new and unique ways to display them. In 2018, expect to be looking up at wedding decor with hanging flowers and suspended arrangements. Many couples are also expected to decorate with lovely wedding wreaths throughout the venue. 

7. Transparent Elements
We talked about popular colors last week, such as metallic silvers, chromes, and coppers, plus Pantone's color of the year - Ultra Violet. A lack of color will also be present in the form of transparent elements. Expect to see the use of lots of windows, possibly for wedding signage, and also many glass items. These add to the beauty and depth of the overall look of the wedding without drawing attention away from your wedding colors and floral focal points. There are also transparent papers available that you can print programs, menus, and even invitations on.

8. Creative Food & Desserts
Dessert stations with unique and varied sweets are still a popular wedding plan, but bigger wedding cakes are slowly making a comeback. It's easy to have both. Just opt for a smaller version of the classic tiered wedding cake and surround it with your other treats, such as cupcakes, pies, cheesecakes, donuts, cookies, etc... You can even serve wedding cake for dessert, then save an extra sweet treat to serve as a snack later in the evening. 

9. Formal, but not stuffy
Many brides and grooms are leaning toward a more traditional, slightly formal ceremony and reception, but not completely. You can blend classic wedding elements with more modern ideas and easily fuse the two together. If you want the guests to dress up a bit, make sure to let them know in the invitation or on your wedding website, and you can even invite them to bring a change of clothes for the reception if you like that idea. It's very possible to add elegance to your wedding but still have some laid-back fun.  

10. Guest Interaction
Creating an interactive and fun experience for wedding guests is a priority for lots of couples. Photo "booths" are still a popular reception activity but expect to see more backdrops rather than actual booths. Games can be planned for guests to join in on, and interactive food stations are a great way to keep things interesting for everyone. Extending the experience and setting up room blocks for the entire weekend with group activities instead of just a one-day party will be a popular trend too.   

Trends come and go, but your wedding memories will last a lifetime. Feel free to use the 10 wedding trends for 2018 that we have shared to plan your ceremony and reception at our scenic wedding venue near Knoxville, but if they don't match your vision, do something completely different. Country Jewell offers a friendly, comfortable atmosphere for both you and your wedding guests. Your favorite things are what is going to make your wedding here special. We can't wait to see what you come up with!

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10 Wedding Trends To Watch For In 2018 (Part 1)

Every year wedding professionals try to imagine what will be the popular trends for the coming year. Since your ceremony and reception at our scenic wedding venue near Knoxville will be a very personal experience filled with your favorite things, a "trend" may not appeal to you at all, and that's perfectly okay. On the other hand, if you're having some trouble deciding exactly what you want to do for your Country Jewell wedding, then these anticipated trends could be a wonderful source of inspiration. 

Here are the first 5 of 10 exciting trends that we expect to be seeing a lot of in 2018. 

1. Small Weddings
Instead of inviting every person you've ever crossed paths with in your lifetime, plus relatives you've only heard about but never met, couples will instead be hosting weddings for just their nearest and dearest. There are many benefits to hosting a smaller gathering, and our small wedding venue near Knoxville is the perfect place for up to 100 guests to share your very special day with.  

2. "Woodsy" Themes
Some are saying that "woodsy" is the new "rustic." It's a similar idea with a lot more wooden items incorporated into the wedding decor. Slabs of wood can be used in many decorative ways, such as table numbers, signs, seating cards, chargers, cake stands, and so much more. You can even use the look and pattern of wood on your invitations, menus, and programs. This theme fits in beautifully with the charming look that Country Jewell already exudes. 

3. Texture
Lots of different textures can add a wonderful visual appeal to your celebration. The wooden items mentioned above have a fantastic texture to them already. You can also use wax seals on invitations and menus to give them a cool look and feel. Play around with table linens too. Possibly layer a lace runner over a shimmery tablecloth, or pair bold stripes mixed with a bit of burlap and lace. The tables don't all need to match either. You may want to experiment with 2 or three different reception tabletops all in one space.   

4. Ultra Violet
Pantone has become the authority on popular colors, and they annually choose a color of the year. 2017 was all about Greenery, and 2018 is going to be the year of Ultra Violet. According to Pantone, it's "a dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade that communicates originality, ingenuity, and visionary thinking..." If purple is a color you are considering using for your wedding, this may be a wonderful shade for you. It can also be beautiful to use as an accent color.    

5. Metallics
Metallics will once again be a popular tone to use for wedding decor. Rose golds were seen a lot this year, and next year lots of silver, chrome, and copper is expected to make an appearance. Metallics offer a nice, shiny, eye-catching pop that works well with most color schemes. These also reflect candlelight beautifully for a warm, romantic glow.  

Photo by Melody Cook Photography

These are 5 upcoming wedding trends to look for in 2018, and next week we'll continue our top ten list with #6-10. Our wedding venue near Knoxville has its own rustic/woodsy charm already built in, so you don't have to do a lot of decorating to turn it into the wedding venue of your dreams. If you want to dress up Country Jewell in your own way, many of the expected 2018 wedding trends can easily be incorporated into what we already have here for you. 

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Creative Rustic Winter Wedding Ideas

It's December, which means it's time for us to start enjoying the beauty of the creative rustic winter wedding decorations and ideas that the brides and grooms come up with at our scenic wedding venue near Knoxville. Today, we've decided to share a few of our favorite wedding planning ideas in case this is a theme you might like to use for your own Country Jewell wedding. 

Natural Elements
Flat slabs of wood cut from tree trunks look wonderful at a rustic wedding any time of the year. They have a wide variety of uses, such as centerpiece bases, cake stands, chargers under dinner plates, and you can even write on them and use them for signs around the ceremony and reception. 

For winter weddings, there are also some lovely natural elements that you can bring indoors to add to your wedding decor. Evergreen branches look gorgeous as table runners, and sprigs of it can be tied to many of the other items that you will be decorating with. Pine cones are also another seasonal piece of nature that make wonderful decorations. All of these natural greens and browns make a nice neutral palette that is perfect for a rustic wedding.  

Winter White
White is often associated with weddings, and in the winter it's a great color to use to resemble gorgeous, shimmery, newly fallen snow. Snowflakes are also great symbols to use in your decor this time of year. You can stick to an all-white theme and use silver or icy blues for accent colors, or you can go for a mostly white look with bright pops of color that stand out boldly against it. 

Mason jars with white candles inside give off a beautiful glow, and ribbons can be tied to the jars with those sprigs of evergreen we already mentioned. For even more of a romantic glow, strands of twinkle lights strewn all around the room are always a showstopper.  

Fun Favors 
Use the weather outside to inspire your choice of favors for the wedding guests. A basket full of blankets or throws can come in handy when there's a chill in the air. Another brilliant idea is to have a basket of cozy slippers for your guests to slip on their feet to dance the night away in. Couples do it all the time with flip-flops in the summer, and this is a nice winter twist. 

Other favor ideas could be warm mittens or gloves at everyone's place setting, or perhaps a pair of fuzzy socks to ward off "cold feet." (Those are never welcome at a wedding!) Mason jars filled with hot cocoa ingredients are a wonderful idea too. Add a cute saying, like "To have & to hold, in case you get cold" and instruct them to simply add hot water to the contents.  

Country Jewell is a beautiful venue before any decorations are added, but when our couples begin putting up the special touches that make their wedding unique, we are always happily surprised at how much more gorgeous this quaint rustic wedding venue near Knoxville can be. Come by soon and have a look at Country Jewell in person. We'd love to hear the wonderful ideas you have to add to it's rustic beauty! 

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