user: IN: Inside Emily Maynard's Rustic Glam Wedding : People.com
06/12/2014 at 08:00 AM EDT

Tyler Johnson, Emily Maynard and her daughter, Ricki

She may have worn her share of sequins and gowns on

says she's much more low-key.

So when it came time to plan her

to fiancé Tyler Johnson, 28, an automotive management consultant, the bride-to-be kept it simple.

"I'm not super fussy," says Maynard, 28, of her down-home outdoor affair, complete with twinkling lights and a Southern-inspired menu. "I never pictured myself as the country club bride."

The ceremony's location, underneath a 150-year-old white oak tree on the groom's family farm in Sharon, South Carolina, was a no-brainer.

"As soon as I saw it, even before Tyler and I discussed marriage, I thought, 'Yup, I'm going to get married under that tree,' " Maynard says. "It reminded me of growing up in West Virginia – the beautiful trees and the green grass."

And for the 200 guests, who were told they were attending an engagement party, the surprise nuptials were all the more sweet.

Once they arrived at the farm, Maynard's 8-year-old daughter (and maid of honor) Ricki helped make an aisle with lanterns, at which point the bride, wearing a custom Modern Trousseau dress, walked toward her groom to "Here Comes the Bride."

"Seeing Tyler standing there was one of the most magical moments of my life," Maynard gushes. "And having my daughter standing up there with us made the whole thing that much more meaningful."

Once they were pronounced husband and wife, the newlyweds joined their guests in a clear tent for a rustic glam reception, planned by Ivy Robinson Events.

Tray-passed appetizers – "fried and Southern, my favorite!" Maynard says – included pickled shrimp, fried okra and mini cheese tarts, while food stations featured fried green tomatoes, macaroni and cheese and pulled pork.

Capping off the culinary delights was a four-tiered confection by Wow Factor Cakes featuring two flavors: almond sponge cake with raspberry and white chocolate and lemon sponge cake with lemon curd and lemon mousse.

Then it was time to party. An open-air dance floor and tunes from Zachary Kale kept people shimmying all night. "There was no shortage of dancing!" Maynard says.

And no shortage of sweet treats, either. Before friends and family departed, they received burlap bags filled with local goodies like ONEHOPE coffee, Neet's Sweets pies in a jar and all-natural cookies from Helen's Kitchen.

The wedding may be over, but the ex-Bachelorette's happy ending is just beginning.

"I'm just looking forward to building our life together as a family," says Maynard, who will move into a new home with Johnson and Ricki following the honeymoon. "This is exactly where I'm supposed to be. And I'm excited to have babies!"
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OUT: The former Bachelorette tied the knot with a Southern-inspired bash on Saturday


IN: TV shopping giant QVC buys Zulily for one easy payment of $2.4bn
QVC, the television shopping channel, has bought the mom-focused online retailer Zulily for $2.4bn.

Zulily is a “flash-sale” retailer that sells toys, onesies, lotions and women’s apparel at a steep discount from traditional retail pricing for a brief time, then it’s gone. A Fast Company profile of the company from earlier this year described the appearance of its offices as looking “like the world’s nicest Crate & Barrel swallowed a pediatrician’s office”.

QVC, part of John Malone’s Liberty Interactive, is so often the target of parody that it’s easy to forget how profitable the shop-from-your-couch network is: it made $8.8bn last year and its airtime is coveted real estate for eager retailers. The six-minute segments (simulcast on YouTube), during which interested viewers call in to buy the items being displayed, can generate tens of thousands of dollars in sales and generate exposure to the huge daytime TV audience in the US for a wannabe mogul’s jewelry or fashion designs.

Zulily has been something of a distressed asset in recent months: the stock was downgraded by Goldman Sachs in July from “buy” to “neutral” on fears that the company’s user base was getting tired of the service and leaving it behind at rates that couldn’t sustain the company’s growth. Still, Goldman estimated that the company has some 2.8 million active customers.

The company started off very strong, with four rounds of funding including a series D of $85bn led by blue-chip Silicon Valley investor Andreessen Horowitz. Founded in 2010, Zulily went public in November 2013 and its stock surged 71% on the first day of trading and reached a peak market cap of $7bn the following February. Since then it’s been inexorably downhill for Zulily’s shares, and Liberty clearly sees value in the acquisition. It’s not bad news for Alibaba, either, whose 9.3% stake in Zulily is worth some $223m at the purchase price (shares of Zulily also rose sharply and stayed high on the news of its acquisition).

Liberty issued a statement on the deal, saying that the company would be incorporated into Liberty’s QVC tracking stock, suggesting strong collaboration between the organizations. “Combined under Liberty, we have an incredible opportunity to delight shoppers from the TV to the internet,” said Greg Maffei, Liberty’s CEO.
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assistant: The channel has bought mom-focused online retailer, which started off very strong in 2010 but whose stock was downgraded in recent months