The day was shocklingly perfect. I had myself prepped for a disaster of some sort throughout the day, and was almost surprised at how much I was able to enjoy my own wedding. The day was perfect for us. I had told a few of my friends during the planning process that the wedding was turning out to be more formal that I had thought - the venue (which we looooooooved) was more formal than we thought we'd go for. The dress that I found was more princessy than I thought I would want (but I loved that too). So we tried to add some fun aspects as well. Turns out, we had some surprise fun thrown in. Some highlights:
Starting with the ceremony...
- Our very talented friend played us down the aisle on the piano.... but when everyone stood, he could no longer see us, so he kept on playing, not knowing whether or not I'd made it to the front of the room yet. When no one tipped him off that he could stop playing, Andy made the decision to yell to the back of the room that he could cut it. Excellent tension breaker to an already emotional ceremony (between me and dad, a few tears were shed.)
- The rings made a distinct :clink: as the hit the floor during the ceremony. Our precious ringbearer, Lucas, was trying to be the best ring bearer he could be by making the ribbons on the pillow even, not realizing that those ribbons were the only thing securing the rings. It was kind of adorable.
- After all that, the exchange of rings portion of the ceremony was somehow missed, and we had to stop the pronouncement of husband and wife so that we could swap rings. We will have to play back the video when it comes in to find out if we were ever actually pronounced husband and wife.
Seriously, I loved all that. It was so appropriate for us, since we hardly ever act seriously for an extended amount of time... especially with an audience.
Though we didn't get as much time to mingle during cocktail hour as we would have liked to, (man, those pictures take a long time, huh?) we loved that we did have a chance to get out and say hello to some of our friends and family. I even managed to score myself a mini grilled cheese with tomato soup shooter or two. SCORE.
Then, the reception. We wanted to start things off with fun entrances, and I think we accomplished just that. Even the DJ remarked that he got a kick out of our request to enter to House of Pain's "Jump Around". We wanted to get people in the mood to party and get on the dance floor.
As it turns out, that wasn't much of a problem. People were on the dance floor ALL NIGHT LONG. We actually ended up having to extend the party with the head waiters, bar tenders, and DJ because it was clear no one was leaving before midnight... or MUCH later. Between the power slides, air guitaring with crutches, dance off's, chair lifts, Call On Me dance routines, and sing-alongs, I think I can put our wedding in the "win" column.
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