Life In Reverse: The Wedding: Part one

Okay so I worked on my wedding for almost two years. Of course now that it is over I have a need to gush about every single detail of my day. Its a way to squeeze out every last bit of left over big day euphoria. So to start at the beginning:

The Attire:
If you read my previous blog entries then you know my dress was an Oleg Cassini ballgown. But now I can show you pictures!

The Bridesmaids wore Mori Lee strapless tea length dresses in peacock blue.

The Jr. Bridesmaids and flowergirl wore ivory dresses I got from a cute little site
http://www.justuniqueboutique.com although flowergirl's came out more yellow than ivory.

The boys rented their tuxes from Ducky's and were allowed to choose any black tux style they wanted. They wore peacock blue vests underneath and a red pocket square. Jake wore Ivory to match me.

The Ceremony Decor:
We had our ceremony outside next to a wedding gazebo at a local golf course. The gazebo was decorated with ivy vines and a few flowers. There was a small table set up inside the gazebo for our sand ceremony.

There was a small man-made pond with a waterfall right next to site and I would be lying if I didn't say that my biggest fear for the whole wedding was that Lucas was going to try to jump in that thing at some point. He didn't. We had white folding chairs for the guests to sit in and instead of pew bows we had small blue paper lanterns tied with red ribbon on every other chair. (Our colors were peacock blue with small red accents.) In the entrance way to the wedding area we hung our monogram using wooden letters we painted in our color and red ribbon.

The Ceremony:

The boys we had already standing with Jake by the alter, leaving the kids and the girls to walk down the aisle before me. They walked down to the Princess Bride love theme.(The Princess Bride is my favorite movie, If I could have found a pastor who would do the "mawidge" ceremony I would have done it.) I walked down with my dad to Jonathan Cain's arrangement of the Bridal March. The whole time I was laughing because my dad kept telling me if I needed to run he's got the keys and the car. Oh dad. The ceremony went by so fast. It seemed like all I did was walk up there...