My last wedding post ever!

So I've talked about the ceremony music and how awesome it was.

I've shown you all the cool costume pictures and the halloween-ness of it all.

I've talked about how adorable the kids were at least a few times.

What does that leave?

Oh right, there was the cake cutting bit.

Everyone knows when it comes to the newlyweds eating their first bit of cake it can go one of two ways. There's the everyone is all nice and happy as they each feed each other a piece and then move on to more important things.

Or there's the dark side of cake feeding when the cake suddenly gets out of hand and the next thing you know there's a huge food fight.

Well my husband came up with a third option.

I was all prepared to do the traditional cut a piece, he feeds you then you feed him a slice. Well mister impatient couldn't wait that long, so while I had the first piece of cake in my mouth he swooped in. We eventually met in the middle Lady & the Tramp style.

I was laughing so hard at the unexpected move it's a wonder we didn't make a huge frosting mess (not that I would have minded chocolate butter cream rules).

I guess that's it. The end of the wedding. Time to close that chapter and move onto the next. Got to ride off into the sunset. Yep, all over. Nothing to see, move on.

Oh what the hell, for anyone who wants to really flip through all the pictures here's my just added Flickr pile.

Dancing rules!

When it came time to picking all of our special reception dances I didn't want to do the whole "junior high swaying back and forth like we're on a ship at sea" dance. I wanted something that people wouldn't fall asleep while watching

But we can't dance. I can find a rhythm and make up my own steps to it but I have no idea what the difference is from a rumba (a dancing version of rhubarb?) a foxtrot (I think you need a special outfit and horse) or a waltz (sounds like a pastry to me).

My husband has the exact same dancing expertise as 90% of males across the nation, meaning next to none at all. But he was willing to humor me on wanting to try some faster songs. So began some great fun nights at home doing our best to work out how one does turns, flips and dips (all without destroying too much of our property).

What makes it even more entertaining if you do learn just a few fancy little steps; your guests will clap and whistle for every little thing. It was amazing how often we got cheers just for shaking our groove thing to some Frank Sinatra.

If all that hasn't encouraged you to try doing a faster first dance maybe some of our pictures will.I love all the motion of my dress, veil and tail (though some of you may opt out of the tail)We were laughing the whole time. You can't be nervous if you're too busy having fun.

We had some little usurpers sneak in in the middle of our dance. How cute is that?A photo finish.

Kids are damn adorable

This is probably my 30th post about the kids and the things they got up to at the wedding, but each time I see new pictures it just makes me laugh and I just had to make up some axioms to go with it.

They were so concerned about the cake, these two kept sneaking over to make sure that it still hadn't been cut yet.

Even with all that candy around there was still always the promise of cake, so remember to look towards the future but at the same time count on what you have in your hands.

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Two fisting the candy. Why try just one when you can have two?

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The kids warmed up the dance floor by um well falling on top of each other.

Dance as though no one were watching. But if they are make it look like the funnest thing in the world.

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After a bad night, there's always a good friend a phone call away.

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Kids provide weddings with laughs, joy, and a nice sticky goo.

Hurray pictures are here!

I finally got the last of the pro pics including the coveted receptions ones. We also got all the ceremony proofs that they didn't use and I just had to share two I found hilarious:
I have no idea what the hell we're doing here but it sure looks like fun.
Kids, gotta love 'em.

And now for the reception pictures. There are so many fun ones it'll take me a few days to show them all off.
The best part of having a costume reception, everyone gets really into it (though they may just be drunk)
My Mother went all out, but I really love my face up in the corner. I have no idea what I was doing but it sure looks scary.
How many brides can say they had to draw on their flower girls boob for the wedding?
Showing off my fabulous tail. You can tell just how proud I am, though that thing was a pain in the ass to sit on.








I'll end for now on my all time favorite picture, two kids covered in sugary goo going in for more.

Random pictures part 30

I've been going through trying to oomph some of my favorite wedding pictures. These are what I've gotten done so far:
If anyone is curious how I did it, feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me. I think my favorite so far was making the fake watercolor one.

More texture

I'm just having too much fun, trying out different ideas and texturing the textures:

My own kidnapping

Hello, police? We seem to have had a bride get kidnapped.

Yeah, right at her wedding. They just came up behind her, slipped a blindfold over her and walked her out (though it seems they are really bad at blinding someone as she didn't walk into the few poles they tried to lead her in to).


The suspects? Well the ring leader looks a lot like Bride of Frankenstein

There is another one with blond hair in a wedding dress and leather jacket and another looks like she just got out of a scrap and had her dress torn.

The last one appears to have just gotten off work at a vet clinic.



What should we do? Just sit down and color while you handle it? Okay, we can do that.

We just got in these ransom pictures. It appears to our forensics office that the bride was kidnapped to a local Doc Johns probably to embarrass the shit out of her.

Here the culprits proceeded to drag her around the store, pointing and giggling. They may have at one point had a store employee show off one of their vibration machines. Perhaps they finished the crime off by buying her some "things" for the wedding night.

So, do we prosecute?

No, it seems she was delivered back in time for the end of her reception. Let's just call it case closed and go get some coffee.

Some more halloween stuff

Hurray! I just got the e-mail saying that my pro pics are done and on their way.

So soon I'll be able to look through them all and share the handful I think are blog worthy.

I also spent a few hours last night working on our wedding video. It's turning out a lot cooler than I thought it would. I was really afraid that I'd just have a cobbled together mess thanks to my parents just focusing on filming their grandkids.

Let me tell you, if you are just gonna have someone for free film all your important moments make sure that it's a childless 20-something. They won't totally focus on their grandbabies and ignore your first dance or your cutting of the cake.

But I've found a way around it all by just having the pictures set to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from our reception that is so cool. I sometimes amaze myself by how well things turn out.

Anywho, to celebrate the fact that the pro pics are coming in I thought I'd share some other people's pictures of our haunting decor.

The first thing you see upon entering the reception was this little guestbook set up.
And seated at the guestbook was this guy. I don't think he asked anyone to sign in, but a few of the mints behind him went missing so he must have gotten into the festivities at some point.This was an idea my Mother-in-Law and her cousin came up with. They got an M&M dispenser and added the veil and tux to it (It still kills me that Red is the girl in this relationship). I love the expression on yellow, as if he can't believe what he's seeing.
It's our headtable. You can see the pumpkin we carved complete with the cute bat on top and one of the candy baskets. The red pumpkin was also much prized and there was a slight argument over who got it:

A better shot of our headtable at night. The guys did an amazing job.
My Mother went all out. She even painted her skin green, so I wound up getting my fair share on me. She's probably where I get my Halloween enthusiasm from.

My father-in-law, showing off his newest set of teeth.The bridesmaid really working that red-eye. Their whole family seems to be cursed with it.It's good to know that I could quite easily look like a serial killer if I so wanted.

And finally a picture of me and my tall flowergirl going at it. That ugly toss bouquet became a great prop til it had to die.

Le toss de bouquet

Most brides anymore forgo the bouquet toss thinking that it's outdated and repulsive to remind everyone that some of your friends are single. I can understand that as there were a few times that I got drug out onto the floor not really wanting to land a man anyway (I didn't have the right hooks).

But I still had it at my wedding as a lot of people still expect it and seem sad if you don't.

It also gave me the best story ever.

This is my tall flowergirl. She's been with her boyfriend for over a year and just had to attend two weddings (mine and her brothers).

This is my wedding coordinator. At the time she was two weeks away from getting married and a little um shall we say tipsy.

They are both great friends and so excited to be sisters now, but that night they had a slight competition going on. One claimed that she had to catch the bouquet cause she was getting married next (as within two weeks) while the other said that it wasn't fair and she deserved it (she's also had a slight case of wedding fever).

In the end my tossing of the bouquet ended in this:

It's a good thing that the toss bouquet was poorly made and, if I say so myself, quite ugly. I hear that after the end of that little wrestling match they ended up with a bruised hip and ripped dress.

And see all those petals and various green bits, the small flowergirl decided that she should full fill her duties by picking it all up and giving to me.

After that little surprise my biggest regret is not having the pro photographer there to snap the bouquet toss. These are sadly the best pictures we have but there is at least some video footage.

I'd suggest that if you are gonna have the toss you may want to make a little emergency kit full of band-aids, tape, mouth guards, and a spit bucket.

And if you've decided not to do it, well you never know what fun you may be missing out on.

Happy Halloween everybody!

This year, Christmas will be ours!

Sorry sorry, I just had to.

Well it's Halloween (or for those who love punctuation more Hallowe'en) that fun time of year when anyone can pretend to be someone or something else without being sent away for observation and kids knock on strangers doors and rather than getting the silent treatment receive candy.

Let's see, what else is Halloween? Oh right that wedding thing I had a couple weeks ago.Mwhahahahaha!

I thought now was the best time to share some personal reception pics and help to get us in the halloween spirit.

My Matron of Honor and best friend as the Bride of Frankenstein. She had the creepy bride eye thing down all night (I'm not sure if she even knew she was doing it)My tall flower girl and her boyfriend. They went as Bride of Chucky and Chucky. I just love this picture.Our ringbearer as cookie monster. I wish we had a picture of the shirt he was wearing underneath. His mom made a t-shirt with various organs on it and cookies in the stomach. It was so cool.

One of our table spreads. The guys worked really hard to bring it all together in a few ours without me being able to be there and tell them what to do. A lot got forgotten but at least it still looked neat.

A look at our head table (ignore the weirdo's kissing). It looked really cool, but a word of warning spider webs make eating really hard. Your knife and fork keep getting caught in it.Finally our cake. It had spiderwebs on the bottom, ghosts and leaves in the middle, and stars and a moon on the top. Plus it tasted delicious.

If you are still in the halloween mood I'd recommend checking out Creepy Cupcakes. She's planning a halloween wedding next year and has been sharing lots of cool Halloween stuff for the past few months.

Happy Halloween everybody!