Friday, May 28, 2010

Dum dum dum dum (think wedding march)

After pictures were over, it was about one hour until go time and I was hustled out of the sanctuary so any early guests wouldn't see me in all of my gloriousness.

Five o'clock rolled around and Nick comes into the room we are waiting in and says, "Don't panic, there is a slight delay because people are still filtering in." Ahem...what!? You mean there are actually going to be people watching!? Seriously, that was my first thought after he said that. I know, that's ridiculous because we actually invited all of these people, but I never expected there to be as many as there were. Apparently the sanctuary was almost completely full and that was when I started getting nervous. Not about getting married, oh no, I had already felt married for about a year by this point (with none of the perks mind you). I was nervous about remembering my vows (which wasn't a big issue since I would have them up front with me) and not tripping while walking up the aisle or on the stairs on the stage.

Take a deep breath, one last hug from my mom and it's down the stairs to the door we would all be entering through. I was concentrating on not falling down the flight of stairs and...I heard the first bars of the first processional song and absolutely lost it. I tried to hold it in, but I was just so overwhelmed and happy to be marrying Nick that I started sobbing!! Thanks to one of my girls, not sure which one, they were all blurry, I was handed a tissue to keep my make up from running down my face. More deep breaths and our processional line is moving forward.

You can listen to the processional song while you read!

Israel kamakawiwo'ole - "What a Wonderful World from Mountain Apple Company on Vimeo.



First up were the grandparents. I only have one picture of Tim (my brother) walking my granny down the aisle.
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Next were Nick's parents and my mom. Both of our mothers were to bring our sand up front and put it on the table on the stage for the union sand ceremony. Apparently they forgot about the sand until after Nick's mom was already up front and my mom was halfway down the aisle. Yikes! Mom turned around and grabbed both sand containers and walked back up the aisle.
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Crisis averted.
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Next up came my maid of honor andbridesmaids, I don't have pictures of all of them either so I will show the ones I have. They were so pretty!
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Junior bridesmaid and ring bearer (handled the ring dish very well, even with our real rings on it)
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Other junior bridesmaid and flower girl.
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I love the interaction between FG and Granny. So cute!

My turn...
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Nick looks a little antsy doesn't he? He's had to wait all this time...

And so will you because I will be in the next post. :-D

Note: All pictures were taken by our photographer, Jessica Lemmons, and her assistant. Check out her amazing work here!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Final formals

Here are the last of our formals, we will start with our wedding party pictures and then wrap up with the family pictures.

Since the weather was playing nice, we headed outside and took pictures in an alley.
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Notice anyone missing? That's right, my brother! He was still at the church talking on his cell phone to his girlfriend (now fiancee) and didn't know where we went. Silly boy.

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We all huddled up because even though it was not raining, it was still cold!

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Another laughing picture. Ha ha ha...ha...

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Ah! Brother decided to show up for this picture.

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Then it was time to head back to the church for family pictures.

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Full wedding party...love the faces on the younger kids. Precious!!

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All the handsome boys and moi!

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More of the handsome boys!

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Nick, his brother, and nephew

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Nick's family

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Nick's parents

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My family...I feel like a doll. My expression hasn't changed in any of these pictures.

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My granny

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My grandparents

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My parents, brother, and sister

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My parents

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Aw!

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We take some good pictures...

...And then we take some interesting pictures.
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Uh...

Right, so...yeah, we're an interesting family. Haha! Gotta love them.

Well, I've finally run out of pre-ceremony pictures! You know what that means?! It's on to our ceremony! Yay!!

Note: All pictures were taken by our photographer, Jessica Lemmons, and her assistant. Check out her amazing work here!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Just the two of us

I'm not a big fan of getting my picture taken, but I had gotten used to it by this point and it was actually kind of fun! Note: This post might be a little picture heavy. I'll try to pear them down, but I liked so many!

After our first look, we stayed on the bottom floor of the building to take some pictures on the fabulous leopard print staircase!
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And then we headed upstairs to Jessica's studio.
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This is my sexy face.

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My absolute favorite pictures of the whole day
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Hold me

Another favorite
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Time to head back and take pictures with the rest of the group, but one more on the stairs to show off my train :-)
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I warned you it would be a lot of pictures. Up next is our wedding party pictures!

Note: All pictures were taken by our photographer, Jessica Lemmons, and her assistant. Check out her amazing work here!

Friday, May 14, 2010

Our first look

I know, I know...it's been a while. I apologize, but work has gotten REALLY crazy since we hired a new person and I am her trainer.

Anyway, we're on to our first look! After my girlie pictures, photographer Jessica and I headed over to the building where her studio was located so I could hide before Nick arrived. The whole building is done in 1920s decoration, so it is really neat and made a great background for pictures! I went upstairs and hid in Jessica's studio until Nick was set up at the bottom of the stairs with his back turned.
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Ain't he cute!?

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I think I said something about trying not to fall down the stairs, so that got us all laughing.

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Almost there!!

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Turn around Nick

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Safe to say he liked what he saw :-)

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First kiss of the day with many more to come!!

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He was so handsome in his tux! I loved the fact that it was white against the other guys' black (you saw that in the last post). We couldn't stop smiling and kissing!!

From there we went on to our formal shots, which will be in the next post! Stay tuned!!

Note: All pictures were taken by our photographer, Jessica Lemmons, and her assistant. Check out her amazing work here!