About Rustic Wedding Chic

Rustic Wedding Chic has become the wedding blog of choice for brides planning a rustic or country wedding. Launched in May of 2009, Rustic Wedding Chic inspires and guides couples with a daily muse of photography and information along with a curated directory of resources, the very popular “Ask Maggie” feature, a “How To” with DIY projects, etiquette advice and helpful articles. Rustic Wedding Chic loves to showcase “real” weddings- filled with creative, dreamy and inspiring photos. Our loyal and engaged following has made Rustic Wedding Chic a number one wedding blog. Rustic Wedding Chic is the inspiration for a collection of rustic wedding favors and goods offered at the Whispering Pines catalog online store. The Rustic Wedding Chic book is in stores now! Our second book, Barn Weddings will be in stores Fall 2013 and we are hard at work on our 3rd book! Learn more how Rustic Wedding Chic came to be what it is today. In early 2013 Rustic Wedding Chic launched it sister-site, Rustic Wedding Guide to help connect couples with the best rustic wedding vendors.

Maggie Lord – Founder / Editor

A self confessed wedding junkie since the age of 13, Maggie Lord loves the romance and beauty of weddings. Passionate about the rustic style and eager to share her discoveries and ideas while planning her lakeside wedding at her family’s summer cabin in Northern Wisconsin she started blogging. Now RusticWeddingChic.com has become the number one online resource for rustic & country weddings. In addition to being the editor of Rustic Wedding Chic, Maggie is a sought after wedding expert and often appears on TV, radio and podcast giving wedding design insights, planning tools & tips and wedding trend reports. Maggie currently is a contributing writer for various other online and print publications and is the go to expert on all things rustic & country. Maggie is the author of Rustic Wedding Chic, the book and a contributing writer for The Huffington Post, DIY Wedding Magazine. Maggie’s second book, Barn Weddings will be in stores Fall 2013. Maggie and the Rustic Wedding Chic team recently launched their second website, Rustic Wedding Guide. Maggie is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and received a Master’s Degree from Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and young son.

Learn more about Maggie Lord and the Rustic Wedding Chic company. Follow Maggie on FB / Twitter / Pinterest / Google +

Photo credit: mcr-photography.com

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M Carson Romano – Contributing Writer, Photographer, Designer

M Carson Romano is a contributing writer & photographer for Rustic Wedding Chic. Currently based in Manhattan, M Carson was born and raised in Tucson where she grew up in the desert as the daughter of an artist. Her house was an abundantly creative place where everything from packed school lunches to family holiday parties were embedded with delightful handmade surprises. From a young age she was attracted to the aesthetic potential in all things and has since lived her life in a constant search for expressions of beauty. Rustic weddings have captured her interest by bringing together creatively meaningful gestures with naturally stunning aesthetics.

M Carson is a photographer with a professional background that merges fashion and fine art. After moving to New York, she worked for the The Sartorialist and then went on to start her own creative studio, MCR Projects. She is currently collaborating with Maggie Lord on her third book, which is set to be released by Gibbs Smith in 2014. M Carson also photographs a select number of weddings each year and MCR Weddings was just featured by Conde Nast’s Brides Magazine as one of 2013’s Top International Destination Wedding Photographers.

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Kerry, Jillian & Erin of Rambling House – Contributors

Rambling House’s namesake is the Irish tradition of a family home where locals gather to share in good conversation, storytelling, and song and dance. Rambling House strives to infuse that sense of community, tradition, and celebration into each personal touch added to events, from handmade décor, to quality food designed and created from local sources. The Rambling House mission is to make clients and their guests feel right at home. Erin, Kerry, and Jillian. The former two are sisters and New Hampshire natives, who draw inspiration from childhood visits to the family homestead in the Irish countryside; the latter is a good friend who originally hails from upstate New York and met Erin during their time at college in Vermont. She grew up baking with her family and taking Sunday drives through the Adirondacks. All three women graduated with writing degrees and possess shared passions for local and organic, as well as hosting a great party. With an acute attention to detail, Erin harbors a fondness for anything vintage, and grew her appreciation for food, wine, and sustainability during her time as a volunteer organic farmer in Europe. Jillian, the taste buds of the company, has multiple years experience in farm-to-table catering, spent time working with EatingWell Magazine, and has lived with a passion for food since childhood. Kerry, our resident crafter, recently returned to the northeast from Los Angeles, where she spent three years working, exploring, and throwing obsessively-detailed themed parties; she will soon be embarking on a year in South Korea and plans to return with fresh design inspiration.

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Kate McKenna - Contributing Writer

Kate McKenna is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles, where she remained after receiving her degree in English Literature from the University of Southern California. Kate hails from Western New York, where she was raised by a family that believes wholeheartedly in the special magic of the simple things. During childhood summers spent at her family’s cottage on the rocky shores of Lake Ontario, where she experienced the very definition of rustic. This cottage, held together with a wish, a prayer and lots of elbow grease, was built by her grandfather from a hot dog stand, an airplane spotting station, and any number of odds and ends as the Second World War came to a close. It was in this way that she established a deep and abiding love for all things rustic, natural and steeped in history, as this remains one of the most magical places she has ever know. Kate can be counted on to cry at every wedding she attends and hopes that never changes.

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