Fall Wedding in Basalt, CO
Roaring Fork Club Members' Lodge

Caitlin & David

Caitlin had been coming to the Roaring Fork Club since she was a little girl — learning to golf, celebrating holidays, building the kind of memories that make a place feel like home. When she met David, a fellow golf enthusiast, the Club became part of their story too. So it was no surprise that when it came time to plan their wedding, Caitlin and her mother reached out before David had even proposed, knowing exactly where they wanted to celebrate and wanting to get ahead of the calendar.

From a design perspective, Caitlin came in with a clear vision: fall color, and lots of red. As we worked through the design together, I shared a guideline I come back to often: much like the advice "when everything is important, nothing is important," when everything is red, nothing stands out the way you want it to. We pulled back, refined the palette, and let red play the starring role it deserved rather than competing with itself. Caitlin's bridesmaids wore a rich wine color. Knowing that living flowers don't always arrive in the precise shade you planned for, we made the strategic decision to remove true reds from the bridesmaid bouquet palette entirely — leaning instead into peach, mauve, and pale yellow, which complemented the dresses beautifully and let the bolder red moments elsewhere in the design land with real impact.

Those moments were worth the restraint. The ceremony floral, designed by Little Shop of Floral, was particularly spectacular — an organic, foraged aesthetic built on log pedestals and locally-gathered branches and foliage, elevated with roses, dahlias, and other seasonal stems. The wooden plank walkway was flanked with lightly-flowered greenery that felt as though it had simply grown there. Inside the reception tent, antler chandeliers draped in cascading greenery anchored both the dance tent and the dinner tent spaces — drawing the eye upward through the clear-top tent to the Colorado sky above. 

The stationery, designed by Kate of Skelley West Design and Letterpress, told its own story. David proposed to Caitlin at the Maroon Bells on a snowy November weekend — and as if the setting weren't magical enough, they and their photographer spotted a family of moose, a rare sight that felt like a wink from mother nature, and that they carried with them in their love story. That moment found its way into every layer of the paper suite. The Maroon Bells became the envelope liner for the save the date. The couple's full crest featured a letterpress image of moose antlers surrounding their initials. A moose appeared on each table number card. And tucked into the floral meadow surrounding the cake — easy to miss if you weren't looking, impossible to forget once you found it — was a tiny moose figurine. The best wedding details are the ones that tell a real story, and this one had a very good story to tell.

We were gifted a perfect fall weekend; the aspen trees just beginning to turn. Caitlin's family hosted a welcome party at their home just down the road on Friday evening, setting a welcoming tone for the weekend ahead. On Saturday, the ceremony took place on the Club's wedding terrace, followed by cocktails on the patio. Then guests moved inside the tent for dinner, and The Radio Band kept the dance floor full well into the evening. It was elegant, romantic, and a perfect reflection of Caitlin and David's love story.