East Alabama Wedding 2023

Kathleen Corcoran Moody &
Tyler Anthony Moody
DECEMBER 31, 2021
One week after returning to Nashville
for graduate school after four years in
Washington, D.C., Auburn native Kate
Moody was meeting people at a friend’s
bonfire party. She was asked if she was
related to Tyler Moody. When she replied
no the friend called to Tyler across the
yard, saying, “Tyler, come meet your
cousin!”
After “do you knows?” and laughing
“where are your Moodys from?,” the couple
hit it off.
In May of 2021, after dating throughout
COVID and a direct hit from a tornado
on the home Kate was sharing with two
friends, Tyler proposed. The couple went
for a Saturday hike where they happened
upon a pre-planned picnic blanket with
Tyler’s guitar. He had written a song,
“Last First Date” for the occasion.
Slate and Lane helped plan a New
Year’s Eve wedding. Cotton and Pine
Creative printed invitations and a wedding
program. The ceremony was at the
bride’s home church Trinity Methodist
in Opelika with the reception at the
nearby Bottling Plant Event Center. The
Heritage House Bed & Breakfast, next
door to Trinity, was the perfect spot for
bridesmaids to stay and for pre-wedding
photographs.
The couple’s pastor, Brant Bonetti, also
the husband of a dear college friend of
Kate’s, performed the ceremony and their
daughter Edie was flower girl.
Guests enjoyed music from a string
quartet and joined in singing Great is Thy
Faithfulness and 10,000 Reasons to piano
accompaniment. The sanctuary inside
and out was adorned in emerald green,
cream and white flowers and ribbons and
large and small pinecones gathered by
the bride’s mother.
The same colors and decor continued
at the reception – all with a celebratory
New Year’s Eve theme laughingly dubbed
#happymooyear.
The bride’s parents, Scott and Patricia
Moody, welcomed guests while the dance
band Rupert’s Orchestra played until the
ringing in of 2022. Musician friends from
Nashville joined the band to sing the first
dance song.
The Bottling Plant served shrimp and
grits, bruschetta chicken, prime rib,
pasta, spinach and strawberry salad,
bread pudding and Conecuh sausage corn
dogs. The wedding cake was a simple one
with a small cascade of gold flakes. The
groom’s cake was chocolate and peanut
butter topped with buckeyes in a nod to
the groom’s Ohio upbringing. Both baked
by Barb’s Cakes.
With unseasonably warm weather,
guests strolled outdoors to the courtyard
to make s’mores. A 360 degree
slow-motion photo booth added to the
fun. And to keep the party going, midway
through the evening, beignets were
served and LED stick shakers and Happy
New Year crowns were offered.
When the clock struck midnight, balloons
dropped as the band played Auld
Lang Syne. Moments later with guests
chanting “Moody! Moody!” the bride and
groom departed – driving off as gerb firework
fountains lit the way.
The couple live in Nashville where Tyler
is a Christian music producer and church
worship director and Kate is a therapist
after receiving her master’s degree from
Vanderbilt University in 2022.
PHOTOGRAPHY Clark Brewer WEDDING PLANNER Slate and Lane
FLORIST HotHouse Design Studio, Birmingham
VENUES Ceremony: Trinity Methodist Church, Opelika
Reception: Bottling Plant Event Center, Opelika
EAST ALABAMA WEDDINGS 31