Kendall’s favorite part of the planning was choosing her looks for the week with one of her best friends, stylist Mimi Cuttrell. “Mimi and I are extremely close,” Kendall says. “She understands my style and knows when to push me outside of what I would normally choose, so I completely trusted her vision.”
With an entire week in Idaho to dress for, Kendall knew she wanted vintage to play a major role. “I’ve always been obsessed with it,” she explains. “From the beginning, I knew I wanted to weave special pieces throughout the week rather than have everything feel new or traditionally bridal.”
Her Danielle Frankel Pia dress was the first outfit she tried on while shopping with her mom. “It was the only dress that made both of us emotional, and I think deep down I knew almost immediately that it was the one,” she says. During tailoring, Kendall and Mimi removed the tulle underneath the originally fuller, more princess-like silhouette, allowing the dress to fall naturally and giving it the understated ’90s feeling they wanted.
“One of the best decisions we made was actually a last-minute one on the wedding day itself,” Kendall notes. It had rained the morning of the wedding, leaving the ground muddy, so Kendall traded her Manolos for cowboy boots. “They gave the look this effortless, slightly unexpected feeling that felt so right for the setting,” she says.
Cully wore a Double RL pinstripe double-breasted navy suit with a bolo tie and suede Double RL boots for the welcome night, and a Ralph Lauren Purple Label peak-lapel tuxedo for the wedding. Both looks subtly paid homage to his late grandfather, Arnold Smoller, whose sense of style had a lasting influence on Cully’s own.
A storm had swept through in the early morning hours of the wedding day, forcing plans to continually shift. “I was really proud of Cully and me because, through all of it, neither of us let it take away from how excited we were to get married,” Kendall says. By the time the ceremony began, the skies had thankfully cleared.
Kendall’s brother, Neels, officiated the ceremony on her family’s property at the top of the mountain, overlooking the Seven Devils range. “My family hasn’t broken ground on the property yet,” Kendall explains. “We loved the idea of beginning its story with our wedding—knowing that one day it will become a place where our family, and hopefully our future children, can come back and feel connected to this chapter of our lives.”
The couple planted a tree on the property to commemorate their wedding, and as guests arrived, each added a shovel of dirt. “Creating something tangible that connects such a monumental moment in our lives to a piece of our future felt incredibly meaningful to both of us,” Kendall says.
After the ceremony, the newlyweds grabbed Aperol spritzes from the bar and stole a few minutes alone. “We just stood there together and soaked in what had just happened,” Kendall remembers.
Following portraits, Kendall changed into a vintage Les Habitudes dress for the reception. The couple made their grand entrance and took the floor for their first dance to Chris Stapleton’s “Joy of My Life.” “We hadn’t practiced once before the wedding,” Kendall admits. “So we pretty much laughed our way through the entire thing.”
They danced all night before Kendall changed once more into a vintage dress and headed to Foresters, the local bar, for the after-party. “Some of our best guy friends DJed, everyone completely let loose, and we danced until the end of the night,” she says. “It was the most fun ending to the most surreal day.”
