The welcome took place at Roundhouse, a restaurant atop a mountain with sweeping views of Sun Valley. “All of the guests took a gondola up to the top,” shares Emma. “I rode up with Cody, my mom, and my son Rhodes, which was such a nice moment of calm before stepping into the party.” The couple describes it as the perfect kickoff for the weekend. “Everyone left with a L.L. Bean goodie bag customized with ‘hitched’ on the side with a Wythe custom hat inside,” says the bride. “It was so fun to see people sporting both the rest of the weekend. Some even at the wedding!” The goodie bags also included a deck of playing cards and Larchwood Huckleberry Caramels for a local touch.
As the big day finally arrived, guests gathered to watch the bride and groom exchange vows with a flowing creek and organic floral arrangements by Bloom Theory as their backdrop. “The wedding literally felt like it was out of a book,” says Emma. “Our favorite movie is Breakfast at Tiffany’s, so I walked down the aisle to an instrumental of ‘Moon River.’” Cody’s brother-in-law Luke officiated the wedding with a “short, sweet, and from the heart” speech. “He absolutely killed it,” says his new sister-in-law. The couple also shared vows they wrote themselves before saying “I do.” Emma adds, “We didn’t read our vows ahead of time, and yet there was overlap which I thought was really beautiful. It made the ceremony feel really unique to us.”
The newlyweds and their guests then moved to cocktail hour, which featured two of the bride’s favorite bites: spicy tuna crispy rice and caviar on potato chips. Emma and Cody took to the floor for their first dance to Ryan Adams’s “Dancing When the Stars Go Blue.” Says the bride, “We had no time for lessons, so it didn’t last long before we had the whole room up slow dancing with us! We then played ‘Man I Need,’ by Olivia Dean, which got literally every person dancing like I hadn’t seen them dance before.”
That energy continued into the night, ending with Metro Music Club Band playing “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls. “I have never seen people sing louder or dance harder,” Emma says. The party didn’t stop there—rather, it moved over to The Cellar, a popular bar in town, for country music and custom pink jello shots. “The day after, we had an unofficial meet-up at Grumpy’s,” she says. “It was really fun because family came, friends came, and for people that hadn’t been there, I feel like Grumpy’s is a Sun Valley must.”
Reflecting on the wedding weekend, Emma describes it as feeling like time stopped. “Which for me, is just the best feeling in the world,” she continues. “I feel like I’m always in a rush. All my friends are always in a rush. My family, we’re always in a rush. So to feel like people really got off their phones, were present, and that everybody I love was in one room… I can’t even capture the feeling of that. I couldn’t have dreamed it better.”
