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in a bridal magazine. In this dress, you look like you.”
That was it. “We bought my wedding dress right
there,” Lauren said. “Planning my wedding with my mom
was very special. Not everyone gets to plan their wedding
with their mother.”
They included Lauren’s grandmother in as many of the
bridal planning occasions as possible.
Clyde’s uncle, Bill Horton of Bill Horton Designs and
his staff produced all of the floral designs for the wedding.
They were, of course, dazzling.
“I told him, ‘I want them to look like this,’ and he
made it happen,” she said. “The crux of our wedding was
that we wanted something that no one else had,” she
said. “We wanted something that was distinctly ours.”
Lauren had a set vision in her mind of what she want-
ed her wedding to be.
“I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to convey to
everyone exactly I wanted,” Lauren said.
On October 19, 2019, almost a decade from the day
Clyde and Lauren met, they were married. “I walked in
and, oh-my-gosh, they did it. They pulled it off. It was
beautiful.”