June & Rhys

Watching her walk down the aisle: June & Rhys’s manor wedding

A live-gospel processional, eighty guests, and a first dance on the manor steps — June and Rhys kept their Austin wedding small enough to feel every minute of it.

June walked down the aisle to a five-voice gospel choir while Rhys, famously composed, cried from the first note. Their film of that three minutes has been watched more than the highlight reel.

The couple seated all eighty guests at four round tables in the manor’s great room, served a three-course Southern menu, and danced the first dance on the front steps as the sun dropped.

Their biggest saving grace, they say, was a strict phones-free ceremony — every guest was actually watching, and the photographs prove it.

The details

• Location — Austin, photographed at ceremony hour
• Guest experience — built around one unhurried timeline
• Standout moment — the scene guests talk about first (see the full story above)
• Planning tip — stretch the celebration beyond a single day where you can

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