First Wedding Held in Clemson's West Zone Club

We did a spectacular wedding this weekend, which just happened to be the first wedding ever held at the Clemson Stadium. As you can see from the pictures we took, it is a unique place to have a wedding reception. We had the entire building at our disposal, which made it great since the girls could get ready on one floor and the guys could hang out on another while vendors were busy putting together the event on the fourth floor.

Being the first wedding held there we did run across some “quirks” with the building (elevators that wouldn’t run, lights that wouldn’t come on, stairwells that were locked) but my Willrich team handled them and everything turned out like a dream for the bride and groom.

Travis Bell was the photographer for the event and as soon as I get some professional pictures I will post them, but until then here are some of the ones we took.

Here are the bride and her girls getting ready in the Clemson Tigers locker room.

This is the cocktail hour area. We placed wedding pictures of all the parents and grandparents and even some great grandparents on the tables. Each was labeled with the name and wedding date. It was so sweet.

Here are views of the room set up and ready for guests. Flowers were done by Dave McMillan of Memories by McMillan. We had one end of the room as the cocktail area with couches to recline on, and butlered signature drinks along with wine and beer were served to guests as they entered the room. A fruit and cheese display was set for the guests to enjoy. The middle of the room facing the staduim was used as the ceremony site and later after the chairs were removed it became party central with the dance floor jam packed all night. The far side of the room was where the heavy hors d'oeuvres were served. We had everything from a mashed potato bar to shrimp and grits. Aramark did an excellent job on the food.

Looks like the Clemson tiger even had a little chicken for dinner.

The cake by Holly's Cakes was beautiful. Look at the view of the stadium behind the cake.
The ceremony was beautiful and touching. They did the blessing of the hands as part of the ceremony. It's a favorite of mine.

John Mac and Carrie make such a beautiful couple and were so sweet and easy to work with.

One of the carving stations set up in the room. We had several stations placed throughout the dining area.

Now there is a picture you don't see to often. That's Travis Bell getting those great shots.

It was a honor to get to help such a great family plan their wedding and to be a little bit of history too.