Welcome to the sixth installment of Wedding Wednesdays. Semi-regularly, we will share a lovely handmade wedding with you. Check out our previous installments here, and if you know of a wedding that we simply need to feature, please email us!
Thank you to Monica Parcell for putting this post together, thank you to Jessica for providing the amazing tale of her hand-hewn wedding, and thank you to photographer Sherry Lee for the beautiful photos.
This wedding, from a dashing couple in Charleston, South Carolina, proves that you don’t need to wear white or have a fancy string quartet for the bridal march, and you can make all of the food yourself (while still having a great time).

Jessica and Ben, in the rain and loving it!
Jessica and Ben Garbee both have tons of (DIY) style, but, as partners in a start-up personal chef company and catering business, not as much cash. So when the Charleston couple got married last fall, they looked at each aspect of the day as an opportunity to use local resources—and their own resourcefulness—to make it a personal, and stylish event. “We knew that the only things that would keep us really happy would be good food, good beer, and style,” said Jessica. They roasted oysters and cooked up Southern barbecue for friends and family, set their wedding in a sculpture-filled park on the Cooper River—and the bride wore gold.
















