The flowers on the doors of our church.
Flowers on the altar
The pew bow
A memorial candle for our family members who were not able to be there with us. The yellow rose was for my mom - it was her favorite flower!
The flower arrangement for our unity candle.
My beautiful bouquet.
Gorgeous flowers!
I love this picture of my flowers.
The Harbor Club room all decorated.
Our sweetheart table.
Our rings.
Our "guestbook".
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Busting a move with the girls on the dance floor.
Pretty sure this is during the song dedicated to the bridesmaids (Sexyback). I have no idea why I'm making that face, I just think it's really funny.
"I'm a pole!!"
Yes, that is my best friend (and MOH) dancing with my new hubs.
Not entirely sure what is going on here, but it definitely makes me laugh. Maybe I was telling him to stop getting all up on my girls.
Looks like he didn't listen because he moved on to 2 of the other bridesmaids including my 19-year old niece!
I'm not really sure what it is about singing/dancing that makes my eyes get so big.
The next few pictures crack me up. Becky and I thought we were rockstars!
We were so proud of ourselves in this picture. Ryan even thought we were hilarious.
Mom-Mom even joined us on the dance floor for "We Are Family".
WOW. Ryan really was a ladies man that night.
Dancing with my new brother-in-law.
So, after I danced with Philip (Ryan's very sweet younger brother), I turned to Ryan and said something like "I just molested your brother." And Philip goes, "It's ok, we're sisters now" (instead of saying something like "It's ok, we're family now"). So, this is my reaction to that comment and you can see a hysterical Ryan in the background. Too cute.
Group shot during Don't Stop Believin'
The End. What a perfect day.
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Our first dance was "Someone Like You" by Van Morrison. Such a great song, but apparently, we weren't feeling very sentimental because every picture I have of us dancing together is of us laughing/smiling. Even our bridal party was laughing - if you click on the picture to enlarge it, you'll see Alexis cracking up in the background about something.
See, I told you! Still laughing. What I really like about this picture is how our Best Man and Maid of Honor look like they scheming about something (they are both trouble-makers). I'm guessing that they're really just talking strategy for their big toasts.
MOH Toast. I'm pretty sure this is where she called us Mr. & Mrs. Chick.
Best man toast. I think this is where he told everyone that Ryan had been dreaming of this day ever since he was a little girl.
My dance with my dad. We danced to "I Loved Her First" by Heartland.
Ryan's dance with his mom. They danced to "In My Life" by the Beatles.
Here we are cutting the cake. I have a couple comments about this cake. 1) The cake topper - not exactly what I asked for. It was almost like a mini bridesmaid bouquet! 2) The cake was supposed to be PINK! Not yellow, PINK! I think that was the biggest thing that went wrong that day. Not really complaining because the cake still tasted oh so good!!
I love the way we're looking at each other kind of questioning what the other is going to do (smash it or be nice). I think most of our guests missed this part of the reception, so if they had been egging us on, we may have smashed it. But, since they weren't, we fed it to each other nicely and then just smeared the icing on each other's faces. Pretty lame.
This was after Ryan smeared the icing on my face. I don't remember being mad about it, but I sure look like I'm ready to kill him in this picture!
Here we are, icing and all. Guess I'm not mad anymore!
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Ryan & me with Mom-Mom
Us with our parents
The new combined family.
Us with Deacon Fritz (after he changed). We didn't care - we just wanted a picture with him especially since it was his first wedding ceremony!
What a beautiful church!
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Finally walking into the church after I had to hide behind the limo while the last bus of guests arrived at the church. Guess we didn't time it as well as we thought, but at least everyone made it to the church. It was at this point when the nerves hit me.
Hanging out with the girls while we waited for our turns to walk down the aisle.
Walking down the aisle with my dad. If there was going to be a moment where I cried, this was it. I was so excited to get up that aisle to Ryan, but I also felt so overwhelmed by the fact that all of our friends and family that we love so much were all in one place to celebrate our wedding with us. It was truly an amazing feeling. Somehow, I was able to keep my composure and hold the tears back, but it took everything I had.
I love this picture of me and my dad. I'm pretty sure that I'm looking at Ryan, hence the huge smile on my face.
I also love this picture for a couple reasons. 1) It's me and my dad. 2) You can see how beautiful the floor of the church is. 3) You can see Ryan's Uncle Mike with his huge camera leaning way out to get a picture.
My dad giving me away.
During the homily/readings. For some reason, we couldn't stop chatting with each other.
A picture of our beautiful church.
Another cool picture of the church - I think this was taken with the fish-eye lens.
The blessing of the rings. So, apparently, we were supposed to give both of the rings to Dave so that he could give them to our Deacon ahead of time. I had given the rings to Becky thinking that she'd hold Ryan's ring and then when we got to the church, she'd just give my ring to Dave. So, when the guys were hanging with the Deacon before the ceremony, he asked Dave for the rings, and he didn't have them! So, they texted me, and of course I didn't have my cell phone with me in the limo. Since they couldn't get ahold of us, they started to get a little anxious about the rings even though Becky had them both with her. We almost ended up using Ryan's parents rings for the ceremony, but we arrived and the rings were given to Dave just in time.
With this ring...
Deacon: "Alright, Ryan, please give Wendy your left hand for the ring." As you can see in the picture, he got his left and right confused and had his right hand out for me. So, I'm giving him the "Are you kidding me?!" look and you can also see the Deacon laughing at me/Ryan. I absolutely love that our photographer caught this shot.
Finally, we figured out left from right, but you can see that we both are still laughing as I'm starting to put the ring on his LEFT hand.
Our first kiss as Mr. & Mrs.
We're Married!!!
Our second kiss as Mr. & Mrs!
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