I love surprises!

This wasn't a surprise for Nick and I, but for our guests. After our special dances were over the DJ announced the lip sync contests. SURPRISE!! We had a pretty good turn out for the guys and girls separate contests and Nick and I judged and picked a winner for each. First up was the guys singing...


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The guys really got into their song.








Nick and I had a hard time choosing a winner, but we finally did choose his brother as the best lip syncer. Although, this guy did pretty good too.









Haha, not much lip syncing though.

Then it was on to the girls. They lip synced to this song.

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I mean, come on. What girl doesn't know every word to this song? Am I right?


Haha, my brother's girlfriend wasn't a big fan of the song.





My bridesmaid, Megan (now in purple), totally got into and Nick and I unanimously named her the winner of the girls' contest.


After the contests were over, it was time to dance the night away...in the next post. :-)

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

And I have tomorrow off, so happy Friday to me!!

I could have danced all night!

I loved, Loved, LOVED dancing with Nick. It started off a little rough, since we hadn't practiced, we kind of stood there for a second trying to get our feet coordinated. Once we got the hang of it, I didn't want the song to end. It is such a beautiful song, I could listen to it all day and I have before!


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It was such a special time for the two of us, like no one else was in the room. Nick sang the whole song to me and I loved every second of it.










I really didn't want our dance to end, but the song faded and Nick kissed me one more time before handing me off to my dad for our dance.




I really didn't want our dance to end, but the song faded and Nick kissed me one more time before handing me off to my dad for our dance.


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He was a happy daddy that day. Not sure if he cried or not, but he certainly smiled a lot and looked handsome in his tux.






Dad & I exited the dance floor and Nick and his mother walked out and began their dance.


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Nick's mother did cry which made him cry. He is her youngest son, so I imagine it was hard giving him to someone else.





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Oh Grandpa. He lasted about 30 seconds into the song (if that) and started crying, which got me crying, which got EVERYONE ELSE crying.






At one point I looked over at my sister and her head is buried in my mom's shoulder because she is crying so hard. Haha, what a family we are.

After we all dried our eyes, it was time for our surprise. :-)

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

“In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.”

Haha, just kidding, but it got your attention right?


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Our DJ announced the bouquet toss and all of the girls piled onto the dance floor.


I stepped up to the plate with my bouquet. If you'll remember from this post that my tossing bouquet was made up of about 20 single flowers bouquets. My bridesmaids and I wanted to make sure that the girls knew there wasn't just one bouquet coming at them so we staged a little scene. My bridesmaids yelled at me to toss the bouquet at them and I let them know there was plenty for everyone (I know, kind of cheesy).




And the pitch!


Going, going...


Gone...onto Megan's (bridesmaid) head. Hmm, the flowers sort of stayed all bunched together when I threw them and they all landed on Megan and she got dog piled. Oops.



Her saying, "That's not how this was supposed to happen!"

But as a whole, the toss was a success and everyone (I hope) got a flower.

This lovely lady got four!

What a laugh we all had over that and then I heard this music come on and Nick walking towards me with a grin.

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I was plunked down in a chair


And I told Nick he had to be nice-ish. He could use either his hands or his teeth, but not both!


Pay no attention to the grin on my face!


He really went for it and I had to hold my dress down so nothing would show that wasn't supposed to!


But he finally got it off of me and my part was done. He let the garter fly.


Our ring bearer was going for it!


He would have had it too, but he was a little late in his grab and it passed into the waiting hands of...


My brother!


And he's on the run to...


Can you see those arms? He ran straight to his girlfriend!


The whole thing totally looked staged, even though it wasn't.


They are so cute!


We all had a good laugh at that (it looks awesome in the video) and then we sobered up a bit for the dances. This will have to be in another post because this one is really long already...and I might tear up a bit so it'll have to wait.

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

Speech! Speech!

We ate and mingled and had a lovely time for a while and then I was informed by my DOC that it was time for speeches.

Nick's best man started things off & got a little teary when talking about Nick. There was also a mention of homosexual gnomes that apparently is a private joke between the two of them (yeah, I didn't get it either).




Then it was my maid of honor's/sister's turn. She didn't have a speech planned, but it was cute and funny anyway.




And finally Nick thanked our families for helping and everyone for coming and we drank again.





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Our beautiful cake was ready to be cut and eaten now that everyone wasn't so full of food. Nick and I weren't really sure what we were supposed to do, but thanks to our experienced photographers, we got everything figured out.


My turn to feed Nick first...

and I missed his mouth the first time. Luckily the cake fell back onto the plate and not onto our white clothes.

Take two was a success!


Then was Nick's turn and he didn't miss.




As fun as shoving cake in the other's face can be, it wasn't for us, especially since we were both wearing white and the cake had raspberry filling.

Stay tuned for our bouquet and garter tosses. Lots of fun!!

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

Oh, and happy Friday!!