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Hitched at Harvest
Couple wins all-expenses-paid dream wedding, thanks to local vendors
Sydney & Jamie Oliver
Oct. 14, 2017
Jamie and Sydney (Gohlston) Oliver wed Oct.
14, 2017, at The Loft on Spring after winning the
first-ever Get Hitched at Harvest giveaway.
Laurie Haag, owner of Eventful 203, Laurel
Wreath Bridal and Loft on Spring, came up
with the contest as a way to celebrate Harvest
Homecoming’s 50th anniversary. She easily
garnered the support of local vendors, all of whom
donated their services, and asked the public for
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email submissions. Then, a committee made up of
community members picked the winner: Jamie’s
entry about his soon-to-be wife
“You have to fight through some bad days, to get
to the best days of your life,” read the submission
from Jamie. “A lot of times you hear about the love
of your life, but what about the life you’ve grown
into by love? I wasn’t always the man I am today.
I didn’t always want the things I have today, but
because of Sydney and the way she’s always put
love first, her love of life, her love of our children
and her love of me, I’ve grown – by love. … Sydney
is the love of my life and the hardest rock I know.
She’s a diamond! When life’s pressures were
applied, in the midst of darkness, she turned our
life into something more beautiful than I could
have ever imagined.”
On Sept. 29, Laurie announced on WHAS11’s
“Great Day Live!” that Jamie and Sydney were the
lucky couple who had won the dream package,
which included a wedding dress provided by
Laurel Wreath bridal, a rehearsal dinner dress for
the bride (and 20 percent off bridal party dresses)
from Sapphire on Main, a rehearsal dinner at
River City Winery and an Oct. 14 wedding at The
Loft on Spring.
“There’s a cadence in which society tries to
follow rules,” wrote Jamie in his submission.
“Love tends not to follow those rules. It has no
rhyme or reason, no fault nor blame and as a
pastor once told us, ‘Love holds no records of
past transgressions.’ It is unconditional. It may
not be the greatest love story of all time, but it’s
all love for us.”