Your Wedding Week
Thursday, October 8
Doors open 6:00 pm
Doors open at 6, toast at 7, and the full bar is reserved just for us. The Observatory looks out from the AC Hotel over the downtown skyline and Big Spring Park. Small bites are on us; cocktails and anything heartier are pay your own way. Come and go as you like.
Where The Observatory (@ AC Hotel) — 435 Williams Ave SW, Huntsville, AL 35801
Attire Come as you are
Pay-your-own-way
Friday, October 9
10:30 am–2:00 pm
Nine holes at Huntsville Country Club, where golf has been played since 1925 (one of the oldest courses in Alabama). Greens fees and rentals are on you; we'll handle the tee sheet. Once you've RSVP'd, tell us about your game at wyattandgarrett.com/friday so we can group the tee times. Stay for lunch at the club after if you'd like.
Tees off at the same time as the Spa Takeover — adults pick one. The kids have their own adventure at the Space & Rocket Center.
Where Huntsville Country Club — 2601 Oakwood Ave NW, Huntsville, AL 35810
Attire Golf casual
Pay-your-own-way
Friday, October 9
Shuttles 9:30 & 9:40 am · lounge until 2:00 pm
We've reserved the spa. Services are pay your own way, one each, and spots are limited and first come. Once you've RSVP'd, pick your service at wyattandgarrett.com/friday. We'll ride over together: shuttles depart SpringHill Suites at 9:30 am (lobby by 9:20) and the AC Hotel at 9:40 (lobby by 9:30). Then lounge with us; bubbles and small bites provided.
Runs at the same time as 9 Holes — adults pick one. The kids have their own adventure at the Space & Rocket Center.
Where Terramé Madison — 8151 Madison Blvd, Madison, AL 35758
Attire Comfy
Pay-your-own-way
Friday, October 9
10:30 am–2:00 pm
There's a reason Huntsville is called the Rocket City, and it's parked at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center: an actual Saturn V moon rocket, the home of Space Camp, and the story of how this town put people on the Moon. The ultimate field trip: student lab, simulator time, a planetarium show, and museum time. A dedicated adventure for the wedding group, not shared with the public. $32 per child. Once you've RSVP'd, give us ages and a chaperone at wyattandgarrett.com/friday, and we'll send payment and drop-off details closer to the date.
Runs at the same time as the adult activities. Ages 17 and under — parent chaperones are welcome to come along.
Where U.S. Space & Rocket Center — 1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35805
Attire Play clothes
Pay-your-own-way
Friday, October 9
6:00 pm
The night before the big one. Dinner outside at the Coyne family home, with Huntsville's skyline sparkling below and food by Chef Ruth from Hatch.
Where The Coyne Family Home — 2253 Governors Bend Rd, Huntsville, AL 35801
Attire Cocktail — a little dressy, a lot of fun
Saturday, October 10
Ceremony 5:30 pm · Reception to follow
The reason for the week. A short ceremony as the sun goes down, then dinner, drinks, and a dance floor we intend to keep full. Wear your finest; we'll take care of the rest. Please take your seat by 5:25.
Where Huntsville Country Club — 2601 Oakwood Ave NW, Huntsville, AL 35810
Attire Black tie preferred — go all out with us; a dark suit or cocktail look is still very welcome
Sunday, October 11
11:00 am–1:00 pm
Ease back in: brunch, mimosas, and plenty of coffee at the historic Poplar Grove, the home of Cathy and Bill Stender.
Where Poplar Grove — 403 Echols Ave SE, Huntsville, AL 35801
Attire Come as you are
Our Story
Every good story needs a beginning, and ours started somewhere ordinary, with a first dinner cooked together over a perfectly normal stove. What followed was a lot of long conversations, the kind where you glance at the clock and start doing math about how much sleep is still technically possible, and a certainty that arrived embarrassingly early. Within those first weeks it became obvious that we wanted the same things, at the same speed, for the same reasons. Everything since has felt less like deciding and more like confirming.
If you've been to an event we're in the middle of (or been drafted into one), you already know how we operate. It starts the night before, both of us up past reasonable hours getting things "close enough," which neither of us believes in. By morning, Garrett is rearranging furniture that (you thought) was fine where it was and hanging things from places things were not designed to hang, while Wyatt is behind the bar with a shaker in one hand and a spreadsheet in the other, because a cocktail is not a signature cocktail until it has been fine tuned, named, and assigned a backstory. And somehow, no matter how much of that gets done, the hour before it starts is a full sprint, every time. We love a full house, and doing something for other people is the fastest way we know to feel like ourselves.
That's the through line of our life together. We throw ourselves at things. Garrett develops and restores property across Huntsville, cofounded Hatch, a nonprofit, and spends the rest of his week working for the best dealer in town, because no week of his has ever felt quite full enough. Wyatt leads engineering teams at a health tech company in San Francisco and treats every problem, technical or otherwise, as solvable by tonight. We are both the kind of people who find an idea and disappear into it for a week, then surface and corner you with all the details you didn't ask for. Recognizing that in each other was electric, and it still is. It's the thing that pulls us together again and again, and we hope you'll see a little of it this weekend.
We're planning this wedding ourselves, mostly because we figured it was kinder to spare a professional planner the experience of having us as clients. We're also planning the honeymoon, drawing up renovation plans for a house we intend to grow into, and quietly plotting a second life for some of the tables, chairs, and decor you'll see this weekend, because neither of us has ever met an idea we didn't want to try. It's a lot. It's also exactly how we like it.
Underneath all the motion is something simple. We want a big, loud, loving family, and we want the people we care about close to us. This weekend is the first real chapter of that story. Thank you for being part of it.
With love, Wyatt & Garrett
If you know us, you know how much family means to us. It's where we spend our time, energy, and love, both the family we come from and the family we've chosen. Building one of our own is what we're most excited for on the other side of this wedding, and we're building it through surrogacy.
Instead of a traditional registry, we have a single fund: Help Grow Our Family. Every contribution goes directly toward bringing our first children into the world, and having the people we love help us get there would mean so much. Of course, having you at our wedding is already the greatest gift we could ask for. Nothing here is expected, and no gift is too small.
Thank you for celebrating with us, and for being here as our family's story begins.
Travel & Stay
Address 435 Williams Ave SW, Huntsville, AL 35801
To the venue About 3 miles to Huntsville Country Club, a 10-minute drive
To the shuttle Picks up at the front door
Room-block rate $215/night
Thursday's Welcome Drinks will be held right here, in The Observatory.
Book the room block ↗Address 745 Constellation Place Dr SW, Huntsville, AL 35801
Phone (256) 512-0188
To the venue About 3.5 miles to Huntsville Country Club, a 12-minute drive
To the shuttle Picks up at the front door
An all-suite property: rooms can come with two queen beds and a pullout sofa, comfortably sleeping six. A short walk from the other downtown hotels.
View hotel ↗Address 800 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL 35801
Phone (256) 539-7373
To the venue About 3 miles to Huntsville Country Club, a 10-minute drive
To the shuttle No pickup here, but the AC Hotel stop is next door, a 2-minute walk
Getting Around
Complimentary shuttles run from the AC Hotel and SpringHill Suites to all wedding events.
Text (256) 653-2192 the week of the wedding for the full schedule.
Driving in? A car isn't required if you're staying at one of the host hotels — the shuttles cover every wedding event — but complimentary parking is available at the hotels and at the venue if you'd rather have your own wheels.
Good to Know
Black tie preferred. This is our big night, so we'd love for you to go all out with us. Think tuxedos, floor-length gowns, and your finest evening wear. That said, we care far more that you're there than what you're wearing, so a dark suit or cocktail look is very welcome. Each event's dress code is listed in its details up in the schedule.
Every household's invitation notes exactly who's included, please check yours for the details.
Alabama in October is usually mild but can be unpredictable, so heaters will be provided. In the case of inclement weather, we will move the ceremony and reception indoors.
Complimentary parking is available at both host hotels and at the venue. See the Travel section above for the full rundown, and remember the shuttle is always an option too.
If you'd like to give a gift, the Help Grow Our Family fund is linked below. Every gift goes toward starting our family.
Text us at (256) 653-2192 and we'll get back to you as soon as we can, probably between wedding errands.
Registry
Your presence is the best gift. In place of a traditional registry, there's just one thing here: the fund closest to our hearts.
Trouble seeing it? Open our registry on The Knot ↗
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