He Caught Her Consideration on the Neighborhood Heart

In June 2021, Mr. Dansby shocked Ms. Combs with a proposal with assist from her former boss at Harvest Arms, who invited Ms. Combs to what she thought was a volunteer appreciation dinner on June 27. The invitation was a ruse, and when Ms. Combs arrived on the occasion, she was shocked to see Mr. Dansby and a coronary heart made from rose petals on the ground, beneath a banner that learn, “I select you.”

“It was magical,” Ms. Combs mentioned.

The couple wed on Jan. 29 at Lengthy Hole Gardens, a winery in Gallatin, Tenn. Mark Irving, the pastor of Fellowship Nashville church, officiated earlier than roughly 160 company. They included the bride’s dad and mom and the groom’s mom, father and stepmother. (Each Mr. Dansby’s mom and stepmother later danced with him on the reception; “The one factor higher than one mother is 2,” Ms. Combs recalled the D.J. saying.)

On the ceremony, company have been seated in a circle across the couple, a setup Ms. Combs mentioned allowed them “to actually really feel the intimacy of our group round us.”

The reception that adopted didn’t have a seated dinner; as an alternative, attendees mingled with one another and the couple, who needed to “really feel in contact with our company,” mentioned Ms. Combs, who credited their wedding ceremony planner, Josiah Carr of Ninth & Everett, with creating the atmosphere for the entire occasion.

In lieu of a visitor e book, the couple rented a telephone sales space, the place company might document voice messages for Mr. Dansby and Ms. Combs, who moved into the bride’s residence in Nashville after the marriage.

Ms. Combs’s college students additionally performed a component within the festivities by writing questions and ideas about marriage on items of paper that have been displayed on the venue.

“Among the questions have been actually real,” she mentioned, “and a few have been actually humorous.”