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Kennedy Occasions is a wedding planning & floral design studio based in Nashville, TN. I plan & design weddings so that your life-changing occasion can be nothing short of spectacular - well planned, timelessly designed, & flawlessly executed.

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I love Instagram.  I have won contests, found workshops and made friends via Instagram.  On one particular boring day, I ran across a post from Once Wed asking for floral designers in the Atlanta area who might be interested in a project with Joy Thigpen.  I emailed expressing an interest but letting them know I […]

Joy Thigpen and Wedding Styling 101

May 11, 2016

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Full disclosure: My cat destroyed my Christmas wreath.  I needed a new one.   I have always loved fresh Christmas greens.  The smell + the textures + the idea of snow (cause let’s be real: it was 70′ on Christmas Day!) = happy Emily!  I knew I could make one.  I knew I could teach people […]

Snips and Snaps 2015: wreath-making workshop

December 30, 2015

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I know, I know. I’m behind on blogging. Honestly, it’s not a strong point and sometimes I DREAD the idea of uploading pictures, tagging them and bragging about an event.  However, September has been a rough month.  To be completely honest, it nearly did me in.  My stress level reached an entirely new, unprecedented level, my […]

A colorful picnic at Belle Meadows Farm – style shoot

October 2, 2013

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When your best friends are expecting a baby, what else would you do, other than throw a great party?! Megan (who many of you have seen running around working her tail off at our weddings) and her husband, Chris, shared their good news with us in July and we knew we were planning an event to […]

Baby Saunders Gender Reveal Party – Murfreesboro, TN – 10.27.12

March 12, 2013

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You might think we’re crazy and legitimately so.  Oftentimes, we take on more projects than we should….one of those ‘projects’ is the floral needs for a wedding.  And we L.O.V.E it!  Well, let’s be clear; by ‘we’, I mean me…and my sister, Jena…and my sweet friend, Megan. Clay is a great critic, but not a […]

Midnight Floral Design

February 18, 2012

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We have been planning this for months and had a great time putting all the details together!  Our sweet friends Matt and Andrea are planning a New Year’s Eve wedding, and in keeping with the “holiday” feel of their celebration, we decided that a Halloween wedding shower would be perfect!  Clay and I co-hosted the […]

Matt & Andrea’s Halloween wedding shower

November 3, 2010

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Despite my double ear infection, I couldn’t wait any longer to post these pictures of my favorite 4 yr. old’s birthday party.  I’m not sure I can conjure up the appropriate words to describe how important this family is to me.  Suffice it to say that Anna (Miles’s mother) is one of my oldest and […]

Miles’s Birthday Tea Party

August 11, 2010