A Dreamy Mauve Palette Wowed at This Mountain Wedding at Golden Ledge in Telluride, Colorado

There’s a reason so many songs wax poetic about escaping to the mountains to relax. That calming feeling of being surrounded by rustling foliage and rugged peaks is exactly why Tane Harvey (26 and works in merchandising) and Matthew (Matt) McDonald (26 and an estate services specialist) returned to the Colorado Rockies, the location of their engagement, to tie the knot. During a prior visit to Telluride, the couple “fell in love with the open space and the absolutely stunning views.” They celebrated the locale at every step of the wedding, starting with a first look among the aspens. The mountains framed the ceremony—timed perfectly
to coincide with the sunset—after which guests decamped to a lounge area to sip cocktails and enjoy the view. 

“Telluride is such a special place to us, and we wanted to preserve the natural beauty of it as much as possible through the planning process,” says Tane. Inside their dinner tent, the couple chose to forgo flooring the entire space so the grass underfoot wouldn’t be harmed. But that didn’t stop them from making the tent shine. “The wow factor was the fall foliage adorning each tent pole, and the bamboo chandeliers lighting up the space.” The couple’s floral designer “foraged the area to infuse foliage that came directly from the landscape we were getting married in,” says Tane. The tablescape included cut-crystal stemware, wood napkin rings and stoneware dishes. The couple saved the top tier of their white-chocolate, praline-crunch wedding cake so they could enjoy the dessert down the road.

Plastic packaging and single-use stationery are potential sources of waste at weddings. Tane and Matt combatted this issue in numerous ways beyond the recyclable boxes guests received with petals for the recessional. The menu cards at each place setting were customized with guests’ names so attendees could keep the pieces to use in the future as bookmarks. "Throughout our entire wedding, we didn’t use any plastic and opted for beautiful paper petal boxes for guests to toss at the end of our ceremony."