Jessica and Daniel had a huge obstacle to overcome when their wedding venue, filled with their wedding décor and rentals, burnt down on the morning of their wedding. Their day was certainly not lost, when everyone came together to rearrange their day so they could still be married.

They had a beautiful day in Tennessee, with beautiful blooms, a quirky cool wedding party and so much love. I adore Jessica's bohemian bridal look and Daniel looked dapper in a three piece suit and bow tie.

Thanks so much to Kelly Ginn Photography for sharing her wonderful images with us today.

"Saturday, October 5th was our perfect wedding day. Let me tell you the story.

I woke up on the morning of my wedding in a huge hotel bed with some of my bridesmaids, exactly what I had pictured for my wedding day. We blared some music and squealed a little bit because the day was finally here. I looked over at my phone to see a missed call from the owner of our wedding venue. Thinking she must have just forgotten what time we were getting there, I called her back. It was then that she told me that the barn that we planned to get married in later that day, that we fell in love with the first time we saw it, that we shared our rehearsal dinner in the night before with all of our closest family and friends who said wonderful things about us that we definitely did not deserve, that we visited multiple times just to look at again, had burnt to the ground overnight.

At first I thought it must just be a mean joke that she played on brides the morning of their wedding (which would NOT be funny, by the way), but when I heard her choking back tears and the true sadness in her voice- I knew it was not a joke. We no longer had a wedding venue and her family no longer had their barn. I got off the phone with her and my bridesmaids were all just staring at me because they knew something must have happened. Somehow I choked out that the barn had burnt down and something along the lines of "How are we going to get married today? We don't have a venue," then shortly after that "Oh, no! The horses.." with lots more tears. I'm kind of an animal freak. (They got out and were fine, just to clarify.)

I then started realizing that the majority of our decorations and all of our rentals were already in the barn, which was in ashes by now. That spun me into another mini panic attack at the thought that all of the things that I had spent so much time planning and making were gone. Completely gone. At some point in the middle of this I called Daniel (who did not answer, so I proceeded to call every member of his family until someone woke him up and put him on the phone for me) and he was on his way to the hotel. We had not planned on seeing each other until we walked down the aisle, but we needed to see each other. At this point, the bridesmaids that were with me and I had a little powwow. One of them said to me, "You know what this means- it means that God was going to do really great things through your marriage, and this is Satan coming in trying to not let that happen." We prayed together- for peace and comfort throughout the day for us and for the family who owned the barn and at that point I was determined to not let this ruin my day. We realized that we still had all we needed to get married- a bride, a groom, a whole lot of wonderful family and friends, so regardless- this was happening.

Daniel showed up at the hotel and was very surprised by how calm and pulled together I was. By this point, my bridesmaids had called the wedding party, wedding coordinator, family, and anyone else who was planning to be at the venue in the next hour or so to get ready. They were SUCH blessings that morning- I barely had to do a thing. Daniel and I made a call to one of our church administrators and friends who can just about make anything happen to try to figure out our plan B. She offered for us to have our wedding at our church, Hope, even though they do not usually do weddings on Saturday nights because of church service. We decided on that and to push the wedding back from 5:00pm to 7:00pm to give us time to regroup and get things started. She asked us if we wanted to be involved in the planning or if we wanted them to just make it happen. We were both so overwhelmed we decided to just give up all control (the BEST decision I made all day).

At this point, my bridesmaids came over to where Daniel and I were talking and said they were just about going crazy because they wanted to do something, ANYTHING, to help. So, Daniel left and my bridesmaids and I requested a later check out, went back to the room, and started making things happen. We split up our entire guest list and delegated it to people to let them know that the wedding moved times/places. I think the exact text read- "The barn burnt down. Wedding is moved to 7 at Hope. Be ready to party." And party we did. When we got to the church, I honestly didn't expect much. NOT that I underestimate what could be done, but with only one day to re-plan a wedding I didn't have very high expectations. When I walked in, I was so overwhelmed I almost burst into tears again, but I contained myself. Once the floodgates open, they DO NOT stop. What I saw was tons of people already working like crazy to put together a perfect wedding for us.

Hope's youth group kickball team had a game that morning that they forfeited to come and set up for our wedding. I was getting phone calls and messages all morning long of people offering to do whatever they could to make our day special. People offering venues, decorations, and anything that they could for us. It was so overwhelming in a wonderful way. I have never felt as loved and supported as I did on that day. It was amazing to see everyone come together for us- I am still finding out now all the things that people did that I didn't know about and am just so very thankful that we have the family of faith that we do. They did everything in their power to bring that barn to life in our church- someone even found fence posts that were on the stage during the ceremony and also at the reception! It was beautiful.

Everyone has asked me "What were you thinking all day?" or "How were you feeling?" and to be honest what I felt most of the day was very undeserving of the wonderful family, friends, and church that we have. I felt very sad for the family who owned the barn because they lost much more than we did- we still got to have our day, just a little differently than we planned, but they will not get back what they lost. I also felt a little ridiculous for all the things I stressed over throughout the planning process- for example, my cake topper that I ordered accidently got thrown in the trash a few days before and I thought that was the worst thing that could have happened. The situation of our day definitely made me realize that it was not just a wedding that we were having, it was a marriage. What was important was not the cute cake topper, personalized napkins, and rustic decorations. What was important was that I got to marry the best person on the planet and spend the rest of my life with him. In the end, I felt so thankful. Leaving the wedding all Daniel and I could talk about is how loved we felt and how thankful we were for everything that happened that day. If just one person felt the love of Christ that day that had never felt it before, THAT makes it worth it. There was so much love that day it was ridiculous. And we wouldn't have had it any other way."

Photography | Kelly Ginn Photography

Videography | VMWeddings Studios

Florist | Angie Morton Design

Invitations: |What's Inside Design by Mary Jo Green

Dress | Vineyard Collection by Barefoot Bride

Bridesmaid's Dresses | Anthropologie

Bride's Shoes | Modcloth (NVY Collection)

Line Dance Caller | Kenny Shackelford

Caterer | Jennifer Young

It just goes to show that love can overcome all and it's always important to focus on the marriage rather than just the wedding day. So inspiring.

Thanks so much for sharing guys XOXO Lou