Katherine & Landon's Ethereal Hill Country Wedding at Villa Antonia

Author: Natali Grace Levine
Wedding date: 12/05/2025
City: Austin

Love Story

It was 2020, the year of COVID, all the bars were closed, and two people got introduced by mutual friends at a house party at Indiana University. Katherine was a sophomore. Landon was a senior. "A love at first sight kind of moment," she calls it — and we believe her completely.

They were young, they were each other's firsts, and there was, as Katherine says, "a lot of learning and growth." When Landon graduated and moved to Austin for a job, Katherine had a year and a half of school left. She didn't let that slow her down for long. She finished a semester early and moved to Texas without a second thought. No plan, no high-paying job waiting. Just the decision that she was going where he was. "It was 2023, I had a low-paying job, and Landon was building his career," she tells us. "6 months of us living together, we found out we were pregnant with a girl." They were still adjusting to sharing a life together when that news arrived.

But Katherine has a beautiful way of framing it: "God knew what he was doing." Aurora was born, the dust settled just slightly, and then Landon got down on one knee on the South Congress Bridge in downtown Austin. "No cars had driven by oddly enough," Katherine remembers. "It felt most natural to have had that special moment to ourselves."

About Your Wedding

They locked in their Villa Antonia date in November 2024, about five months after the engagement, but Katherine says the actual planning didn't start until January 2025. Four months to bring her vision to life — and what a vision it was.

"Ethereal, romantic, warm, and a little bit of dramatic," is how she describes it. She wanted something "timeless with a vintage feel," and Pinterest was where she went to gather ideas and let them breathe. On May 12th, 108 people came to the Texas Hill Country to celebrate with them.

For anyone currently in the thick of wedding planning, Katherine has advice worth writing down: "Pick your vendors that match your vibe and go in with 0 expectations — because then if something goes wrong you might not even recognize it, and if you do, it will already be fixed by one of your amazing friends, family, or coordinators. Also, have a day-of coordinator — shoutout to Adriana at RedBook Events!"

Morning Details

Katherine's engagement ring is a family heirloom, which meant that before any flower was arranged or any veil was pinned, there was already something deeply meaningful on her hand. For flat lay details and stationery, she turned to Paper Cliché, and had 26 Pressed make a custom sign for the champagne tower with her and Landon's names on it — one of those small personalized touches that ends up in every photo and means more than you expect.

Bride Getting Ready

“I came across this breathtaking Vera Wang dress on social media and completely fell in love," she says. She tried it on, and that was that. The final look: Vera Wang gown, Vera Wang veil, Miu Miu shoes, Tiffany & Co. jewelry. Her bouquet was all white — orchids and white roses — put together by Honeymoon House Floral.

Getting ready happened in the bridal suite at Villa Antonia, with her mom, sisters, and bridesmaids around her. The bridesmaids wore Norma Kamali. Think Brink Beauty handled hair, and It's Made by Beck did makeup. Throughout the wedding, the florals shifted by space: romantic hydrangeas in mixed colors at the ceremony, red roses at the reception, and that all-white bridal bouquet for Katherine herself.

Groom Getting Ready

Across the villa in the groomsmen suite, Landon was getting ready with his guys — dressed in a sharp black tux from The Black Tux. Easy morning, good company, and probably a lot of anticipation about what the first look was going to feel like.

First Look

The first look took place on the terrace overlooking Villa Antonia, with the Hill Country opening up behind them. When Landon turned around and saw Katherine for the first time, he said: "Wow, that is the love of my life."

Katherine was somewhere else entirely in her head. "I was thinking finally, we are at this moment in our life after everything we have experienced where we can finally be man and wife."

Photoshoot Before The Ceremony

The pre-ceremony session stayed entirely on the property. "I chose Villa Antonia because of its history," Katherine says. "I also loved how it felt to be there — such natural, authentic beauty." There really isn't a bad angle at this venue. The old stone, the gardens, the Hill Country light — it all does the work for you.

Ceremony

The ceremony was held at Villa Antonia's ceremony site with hill country views laid out in every direction — the kind of setting where people stop talking the moment they walk in.

Katherine came down the aisle to an acoustic version of "Video Games" by Lana Del Rey. Landon walked in to "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne. "The whole crowd just started laughing," Katherine says — and honestly, that one detail tells you everything about the two of them.

Their daughter Aurora was the flower girl. Mid-ceremony, she looked up, pointed at her mom, and said "Mama." Katherine's brother officiated and gave, in her words, "a really special speech" — the kind where everyone is laughing and crying at the same time and it's exactly right.

Photoshoot After The Ceremony

After the ceremony, Alyssa Morris of Morr Photography took the couple through the villa's most beautiful spaces. Katherine's favorites were the staircases — inside, and outside near the butterfly garden. "It felt like time stopped and we were playing dress-up," she says. "I'm a Disney girl through and through so to have a Cinderella moment was everything to me. Cannot thank Alyssa Morris enough for capturing those moments."

That staircase moment — a brand-new wife in a Vera Wang gown on stone steps above the Hill Country — is the image we keep coming back to.

Wedding Venue & Decor

Villa Antonia in Jonestown already has a personality of its own. Old-world Italian architecture, terraced stone gardens, hill country views that go on forever. Katherine leaned into all of it and layered on top — rich, romantic, just a little dramatic.

The palette was reds, white, cream, black, brown, and gold. Honeymoon House Floral brought in vintage candles and roses that made the reception feel like a candlelit dinner in another era. Premiere Events handled the tablecloths, and Table Manners supplied the plates, napkins, and silverware — everything considered, everything intentional. The champagne tower had its custom Katie and Landon sign by 26 Pressed standing beside it. “It turned out to be truly such a beautiful and magical night," Katherine says.

Reception

The first dance was to a slowed-down version of "First Time" by Seven Lions, Slander, Dabin ft. Dylan Matthews. "It really brings back the first time we fell in love," Katherine tells us. For a couple whose story started at a house party in 2020 and wound its way through a pandemic, a move, a pregnancy, a proposal, and now a wedding — the song landed exactly right. DJ Blake from Premier Entertainment kept the energy exactly where it needed to be all night.

The food was personal in the best way. "I wanted to have a pasta dish because I come from a very Italian family — so to me it was special." Crave Catering made a bolognese that Katherine calls "so so so delicious," and we're inclined to trust anyone that enthusiastic about their own wedding food. His-and-hers cocktails rounded it out: a Pickle Tini for the bride, an Old Fashioned for the groom. The wedding cake came from Flower & Flour.

On the vendor team that made it all happen, Katherine is generous with her praise: "I guess how knowledgeable they are considering their experience with weddings. I give a lot of credit to all of them with the professional level they have to uphold and their diligence."

108 people, a Hill Country sky, a family they'd already built together, and a night none of them are going to forget.