Wedding | A Wedding Day Inspired by a Love of Kansas City & Taylor Swift

I love a wedding with a style guide PDF. And, boy oh boy, did Callie & Danny have some PDFs to share. Callie, a designer herself, planned and executed this day impeccably, alongside an incredible vendor line up. I don’t think one aspect wasn’t considered; one stone left unturned. These two integrated their deep love of Kansas City into almost every aspect of this day. From the place settings to the stationery to photo booths to their own portraits. We traveled to several of their favorite Kansas City haunts, and I can assure you there were many more on the list we weren’t able to visit. Each reception table represented an iconic Kansas City location; an elaborate stationery pack along with bespoke signage guided guests through the array of disco balls, streamers, photo booth sets, and a large lounge surrounding the ever lively dancefloor.

This was a wedding day I would’ve loved to have attended as a guest, and I might have been tempted to party with them into the night, if it hadn’t been for two additional weddings I shot this same weekend. (Why do I do that to myself?) Also thematically relevant, were many stylistic nods to a joint love of Taylor Swift. From their choregraphed first dance to Swift’s 2019 hit Lover, to their pink retro styled “Lover” lounge inspired by the album. It’s funny in retrospect to see these two themes coexisting prior to Tay & Trav and the 2024 Super Bowl. Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce had only been known as a couple a few weeks prior at the time this wedding took place, yet Callie & Danny took full advantage of them being close by. Even attempting to bump into them on a golf course in hopes of inviting them to the wedding.

Although an appearance from Taylor Swift herself wasn’t in the cards, this wedding was one for the books either way! Cookie, their calico, even reached minor celebrity status on TikTok after Callie posted a photo of the cat dressed, as what I can only describe, as an utterly enraged flower girl. Callie & Danny’s wedding day may have come and gone, but the memory of this iconic event will live on… along with Cookie’s rage, probably.

V E N D O R S
venue: UNION
floral design: Wild Hill Flowers & Events
photography: Juliana Noelle Jumper
catering: Brancato’s Catering
hmua: Hello Lovely
gown: BRIDE. KC