Backyard weddings are different.

You are not just planning a celebration. You are creating the space, the flow, and the feeling.

This is the four-phase approach I use to guide backyard brides through both the logistics and the love.

From Celebrate Them to Carry Love Forward.

Which phase are you in right now?

✨ Welcome to Nova’s Nook ✨

If this is your first time here, I’m so glad you found your way in…

This little space is for backyard brides who are planning something deeply personal in a very real space. Whether you’re dreaming, planning, or reflecting after the day has passed, you belong here.

A few gentle community guidelines…
(Please be sure to review the full Community Guidelines as well. Thank you.)

🌿 Be respectful
🌿 No selling
🌿 No spamming
🌿 Help others
🌿 Have fun

Step 2 → What Best describes you?

I’d love to get to know you a bit…
When you’re ready, I invite you to introduce yourself by creating a new post in the group and sharing:

⭐ Your name
💫 Where you’re planning from
🤩 And what season of wedding planning you’re in right now

•Just dreaming and gathering ideas
• Starting to plan, feeling a little overwhelmed
• Deep in planning mode
• Final stretch before the wedding
• Newly married, reflecting and settling in

No pressure to be perfect or polished. ❤️
Just come as you are… this is a space for real brides, real questions, and real support.

Here’s a simple example to get you started:

Hi! I’m Kellydawn from Phoenix ☀️
I’m in the season of guiding backyard brides and building the tools I wish every bride had.
So grateful you’re here 💛

A couple years after my father’s passing, and during the early shaping of this program, I came across a writing of his.  He wrote:

“The love you have for yourself—that love helps you define who you are.”

That stopped me.

Because those words are soul-deep.
They speak to something much deeper than weddings.
They speak to worth.
To presence.
To the quiet knowing that who you are matters before anything you do or create.


And all of it begins there.

Dear one, you are precious.
Just as you are.
And you are doing something meaningful.

You are choosing to celebrate your love in a space that already holds life, history, and connection.
A backyard.
A place that matters.
A place under the stars.

And because a moment like this matters so deeply, the responsibility of holding it well can feel heavier than anyone expects.

I learned that truth firsthand during my daughter’s backyard wedding.
And I have seen it again and again in every backyard wedding I have supported since.

 

And that's why we're here.


At the heart of my work is helping backyard brides hold both the logistics and the love.
Because when the logistics are in place, there is room for love.
And when love is centered, the logistics fall into place.

In your corner, always...
Kellydawn