Wedding Week: The Ceremony

In honor of our 4th Wedding Anniversary tomorrow, I talked yesterday about the the pictures at our wedding. Today I am back with photos of our ceremony.  It was held in the auditorium of the school I grew up in. I went to chapel weekly in this auditorium, participated in music concerts, DARE graduation, and high school graduation. It held alot of significance and was the perfect place to say "I Do."

The front of the church was decorated with a trellis, flowers and trees we fished out of a dumpster after a friend's wedding. We painted them black and added candles. We also rented pink spotlights to illuminate the background and it added a cool effect.

 Before the ceremony, I gathered with my bridesmaids and my mom and mother-in-law in the room I went to preschool in. We took pictures, ate some food, and they gathered around me and prayed for me, Todd and our future. It was a heartwarming time in the last few moments of me being a single lady.  

 Then came the processional. The grandparents, parents, bridesmaids, ringbearers and flower girl went down the flower petal and candleabra lined aisle. Then came my turn.

 I remember the rest of the ceremony, but at times it seems like a dream. It was something I imagined in my mind so many times, but now it was happening. There in front of our family and friends, we promised to spend the rest of our lives together.

We paraded through a sea of bubbles as husband and wife to the limo that would whisk us away to the reception. Stay tuned. Next up in about the reception.

Wedding Week: The Pictures

On Wednesday, I will be celebrating my fourth wedding anniversary with the love of my life. I can't believe how fast four year went, and yet it seems like we've been married forever! So in honor of our fourth wedding anniversary, I will be doing a four-part mini series about our special day.

Today I will show pictures of before the ceremony on our lovely wedding date of August 15.

It was the most perfect day for a wedding, a bit hot, but what do you expect in August? The sun was shining perfectly and we were surrounded by the family we loved and our nearest and dearest friends. Yes, it was a perfect day. The perfect day to become husband and wife.

The day started out with getting my hair done by my wonderful aunt and eating Panera bagels with all my best girlfriends. I will admit I tried to do too many things that week and was still trying to get things done that morning. Don't ask me what still needed to be done that morning because I have no idea... I just remember I was running around trying to get something done. Later that morning, one friend did my makeup and another drove me to the reception site where we would start taking pictures.

I got to the event center and put on my amazing princess dress. It was the dress I had dreamed about. Sparkles. Check. Huge, Billowy Skirt. Check. Heavy. Check. In all, I think it weighed like 20 pounds. Maybe not. But it felt like it by the end of the night. And for shoes? Flip flops. My dream shoe. I know, not so glamourous, but super comfy. I would recommend!

So then I was all ready to go and ready to see my man. I had butterflies like we were meeting again for the first time. It was one of those moments I'll never forget. 

And then came like 10,000 pictures. I enjoyed them but I don't know if I could say the same for Todd and our wedding party. They all had a great attitude and were super supportive that day. And let me just say, I had the most gorgeous bridesmaids.

Up next: The Ceremony!