A Traditional Wedding at the Birmingham Athletic Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Despite knowing of each other in high school, newlyweds Alexandra Park (23) and Patrick MacKenzie (26) didn't begin dating until Alexandra transferred to a state school several years after graduation. "As soon as we started dating, we both wondered what we'd waited for all along!" she says. The proposal came a few years later once the two made an offer on their first home together. "We signed the paperwork and headed to our new home to open a bottle of champagne and celebrate," Alexandra says. "I was sitting on the floor in the empty master bedroom fiddling with the bottle when Patrick said my name. I looked up and he was kneeling in front of me, ring in hand." For their traditional August wedding in Birmingham, the couple said 'I do' at the Holy Name church downtown before moving to the Birmingham Athletic Club for their reception. "Patrick and his family have been members there forever, so we felt really at home in the space," the bride explains. "Plus, the club has an elegant feel to it, so we had to do very little in the way of adding additional decor." Armed with a color palette of dove gray and burnt orange, the couple pulled off the perfect casual, yet elegant, fête thanks to some DIY help from the maid of honor herself. "The card box was a lobster basket that we lined with tulle and we set up a cigar bar using glass jars and wooden carousels from Home Goods," Alexandra explains. "My maid of honor even hand-drew all of the table numbers herself on specialty paper from Paper Source." All 170 guests were treated to a cocktail hour on the club's terrace before retreating inside for dinner and dancing. "The hit of the night was the photo booth," the bride says. "Everyone got involved -- even my 94-year-old grandma! It produced some hilarious photos -- we had a line out the door throughout the entire night."