Holy smokes you guys! Hold on to your headphones for this shindig! Lauren sent me SO many great details about her fabulous wedding to her best friend Matt. Their DIY wedding was focused around an American Football/Mike Kinsella quote: Best Friends and Better Halves. They have that same quote as a tattoo. His says: “Best Friends” Hers Says: “Better Halves.” How adorable is that?! Read on to swoon over their tale, see how they tied the knot, and what music kept the party going!

Matt and I met in December 2007. He said he was a musician and that he was going to be famous, but I did not believe him. Ha. He is in a band called Go Radio. His only source of income is being a touring musician. I guess I was wrong. So, we dated for a year. Matt of course showed me thousands of amazing bands in that first year. In that same year, Go Radio went through 3 guitar players and from a “so-so local band” to a touring national/internationally known mega fan based indie rock band. We got engaged exactly one month and 10 days after we met. Matt proposed to me in Montana on December 22, 2008. Go Radio had not signed to a record label yet. When we returned to Florida that Christmas vacation, Go Radio switched management to Unrivaled Management of Tallahassee, FL. Now, music is literally our life. We decided to have a long engagement, so we waited for 2 long years to get married.

A string quartet played all of the ceremony music and Lauren walked down the aisle to a stings version of The Funeral, by Band of Horses.

Pre Ceremony
Avett Brothers: The Weight of Lies, The Ballad of Love and Hate, Go to Sleep, The Perfect Space, Backwards with Time, Die Die Die
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Shuffle your Feet
Brett Dennen: Ain’t No Easy Way
David Dondero: South of the South
Kings of Leon: Back Down South
Old Crown Medicine Show: Tell It To Me, Wagon Wheel, Hard to Love
Iron and Wine: Such Great Heights
Dolly Parton: Jolene

Cocktail Hour
Andrew Bird: Tables and Chairs
Band of Horses: No One is Going to Love You More
Bruce Springstein: Radio Nowhere
Cold War Kids: Hang Me Up to Dry
Coldplay: The Scientist
Copeland: Thanks to You
Counting Crows: Catapult
Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody, That’s Amore
Death Cab: Soul Meets Body, Marching Bands of Manhattan
Eels: Novocaine for the Soul
Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me
Jack’s Mannequin: Dark Blue
Kings of Leon: The Bucket
Lucero: All Sewn Up, Drink Till We’re Gone, Chain Link Fence
Manchester Orchestra: Shake it Out, I’ve Got Friends, Everything to Nothing
The Promise Ring: The Deep South, Best Looking Boys
Queen: Radio Ga Ga
Rilo Kiley: Bulletproof
Smashing Pumpkins: 1979
TV on the Radio: Staring at the Sun
Vampire Weekend: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance
Cold War Kids: Hospital Beds
Death Cab: Crooked Teeth

Specialty Songs
Wedding Party Announced to: Ratatat
Groom and Bride Announced to: Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
Matt and Lauren’s First Dance: Band of Horses – Marry Song
Matt and Mom First Dance: Cat Stevens – Wild World
Lauren and Dad: Frank Sinatra – The Way You Look Tonight AND The Jungle Book – Be Like You

Reception
Prince: 1999
Billy Idol: Dancing With Myself
The Beach Boys: I Get Around
Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out
Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
Kenny Loggins: Foot Loose
Jay-Z: Change Clothes
Kanye West: Touch the Sky
The Cure: Just Like Heaven
Kings of Leon: Taper Jean Girl, King of the Rodeo
Madonna: Into the Groove
Michael Jackson: Beat It, Billie Jean
M.I.A.: Paper Planes
LMFAO: Shots
The Knife: Heartbeats
Queen: Under Pressure
Neil Diamond: Cherry, Cherry
The Killers: Mr. Brightside
T.I.: Live Your Life
MC Hammer: You Can’t Touch This
U2: Sweetest Thing
Lucero: Sweet Little Thing, Drink Til We’re Gone
Enter Shikari: Juggernauts, Solidarity
Tone Loc: Wild Thing
Ratatat: Crips, Seventeen Years
Phil Collins: Sussudio
Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl
The Murder City Devils: Boom Swagger Boom
Phoenix: 1901

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Venue: Barrington Hill Farm
Photos: Matt Miller & Amber Fouts @ Our Labor of Love
Flowers: Flowers By Edith
Wedding Day of Coordinator: Signature Events
Food: Good Food Catering
Tunes for Ceremony: Alafia String Quartet