As my good friend Devon mentioned in her blog post about our wedding, we did have a couple of wedding crashers. Just not the kind that you'd expect.
At some point during the reception, my new hubs interviewed a couple of groomsmen regarding the events of the day. Videographer Carson, in another one of his teases, has posted footage of these interviews, as well as some of the more...exciting moments of the ceremony.
(Yes, I'm aware that my husband is a total dork.) ;-)
The funny part is, some people were concerned I'd be mad about the, ah, distractions that occurred. But I just figured, at least we have a fun story to tell, and nobody's going to forget this wedding for a long time! ;)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Our Wedding Video "Trailer"
Our videographer, Carson Greene, used to work with Ryan at NCSA. Carson has become a good friend of ours, and he worked super hard at filming every aspect of our wedding. (He even got footage of me putting on my wedding dress, although I could not allow him to come in while I was, ahem, in my Spanxx.)
He is personally delivering our DVD to us on August 21st (he lives outside Chicago) but he has been teasing us with clips here and there.
First, the "trailer." This video makes me tear up every time I watch it. :) I don't have an electronic file of this clip, so for now you'll have to access it the way we do, at YouTube, here. (You have to pretend (or play in the background) "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel K. in order to make this video work.)
He is personally delivering our DVD to us on August 21st (he lives outside Chicago) but he has been teasing us with clips here and there.
First, the "trailer." This video makes me tear up every time I watch it. :) I don't have an electronic file of this clip, so for now you'll have to access it the way we do, at YouTube, here. (You have to pretend (or play in the background) "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel K. in order to make this video work.)
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Finally back from Jamaica, mon.
When I stop feeling overwhelmed, I will hopefully find the inspiration to blog about every aspect of my wedding -- but for now, I need to get settled. I need to unpack. Suitcases, that is, because then I need to repack -- this whole house, so that we can move into our new one that we bought. Eventually. In like 2 weeks. Ugh. (Patience wearing thin, here.) But here's what's going on in my head right now.
Ever since I can remember, I have been imagining what my wedding day would be like. Acting it out with Barbie and Ken, drawing out designs for what I thought my dress would look like. Picking out colors for flowers and bridesmaid dresses. Changing my mind every year. There is no doubt that my wedding turned out to be everything I’d hoped it would be, and all my ideas – especially everything about the bridesmaids – turned out beautifully. Yet the day after my wedding, I found myself feeling empty, when I should have felt happier than ever. I finally realized that I was mourning my wedding – all those times I (and some of my single friends) have said “it’s just one day” – we were all wrong. It’s your whole life. Yes, you wear the dress for one day, maybe just a few hours. But your wedding day is not just one day, not just a day you planned for during the length of your engagement – it is the culmination of a lifetime of wishin’ and hopin’…and hopefully, it will be or was everything you dreamed of, but regardless, once it’s done, it’s done. I knew the ‘stakes’ were high, I knew I’d look back on my wedding day for the rest of my life, but even I didn’t realize just how important a day it was until it was all over. Wow.
Ever since I can remember, I have been imagining what my wedding day would be like. Acting it out with Barbie and Ken, drawing out designs for what I thought my dress would look like. Picking out colors for flowers and bridesmaid dresses. Changing my mind every year. There is no doubt that my wedding turned out to be everything I’d hoped it would be, and all my ideas – especially everything about the bridesmaids – turned out beautifully. Yet the day after my wedding, I found myself feeling empty, when I should have felt happier than ever. I finally realized that I was mourning my wedding – all those times I (and some of my single friends) have said “it’s just one day” – we were all wrong. It’s your whole life. Yes, you wear the dress for one day, maybe just a few hours. But your wedding day is not just one day, not just a day you planned for during the length of your engagement – it is the culmination of a lifetime of wishin’ and hopin’…and hopefully, it will be or was everything you dreamed of, but regardless, once it’s done, it’s done. I knew the ‘stakes’ were high, I knew I’d look back on my wedding day for the rest of my life, but even I didn’t realize just how important a day it was until it was all over. Wow.
Monday, June 29, 2009
We did it!
We are leaving in a few short hours for Ocho Rios, Jamaica...when we return next week, I'll have lots to post, but for now I leave you with an image that Ryan's mother took of our first dance:
Love. :)
Love. :)
Friday, June 19, 2009
table names
So in reading the various wedding magazines I've collected since last July, I keep seeing this idea over and over to name tables at the reception, rather than just numbering them. Yes, we are doing the seating chart thing; I just feel that telling guests exactly where to sit and seating them with people they know or will get along with eliminates the middle-school-cafeteria awkwardness. Especially considering our venue is not large enough for four or five people to take over one 8-top table; plus, we are renting white chairs for the reception, so there won't be many extra seats.
We will have about 20 round tables at our reception, which means if we are going to name the tables, we have to think of a category that has 20 things in it. Of course, with my fiance's love of sports, we could have gone with mascots or something...but that would be completely irrelevant to the style and theme of our wedding. After a lot of thinking, I finally came up with the idea to naem the tables after places or things that are special to us.
For instance, one table will be called Mine That Bird, which is the name of the 2009 Kentucky Derby winner. This horse is not just relevant to FH and me because we attended the Derby when the horse won -- FH actually placed a $10 bet on that horse on accident. For one, he never bets $10 to win on any horse, and for two, he thought he was betting on the one with chocolate in the name, "because I like chocolate," he said. Well, FH's accidental bet earned him $500. WTF. Needless to say, we went out that night. :)
So, the table called Mine That Bird will have a sign showing the name. It will also have a 3.5x5 wooden picture frame featuring a handwritten explanation of why the table name is relevant to us.
This will be repeated at all the other tables. Other tables will be named after song titles, bars, streets, teams, etc., and every name will be accompanied by an explanation.
The idea is to seat guests at tables where they will learn something new; we figured this will help our guests get to know little details about us that they probably didn't know before.
The only problem is, why didn't I think of this sooner than 10 days before the wedding??
We will have about 20 round tables at our reception, which means if we are going to name the tables, we have to think of a category that has 20 things in it. Of course, with my fiance's love of sports, we could have gone with mascots or something...but that would be completely irrelevant to the style and theme of our wedding. After a lot of thinking, I finally came up with the idea to naem the tables after places or things that are special to us.
For instance, one table will be called Mine That Bird, which is the name of the 2009 Kentucky Derby winner. This horse is not just relevant to FH and me because we attended the Derby when the horse won -- FH actually placed a $10 bet on that horse on accident. For one, he never bets $10 to win on any horse, and for two, he thought he was betting on the one with chocolate in the name, "because I like chocolate," he said. Well, FH's accidental bet earned him $500. WTF. Needless to say, we went out that night. :)
So, the table called Mine That Bird will have a sign showing the name. It will also have a 3.5x5 wooden picture frame featuring a handwritten explanation of why the table name is relevant to us.
This will be repeated at all the other tables. Other tables will be named after song titles, bars, streets, teams, etc., and every name will be accompanied by an explanation.
The idea is to seat guests at tables where they will learn something new; we figured this will help our guests get to know little details about us that they probably didn't know before.
The only problem is, why didn't I think of this sooner than 10 days before the wedding??
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
the checklist.
at least the major stuff.
- finish gift for groom
- get gift for mothers of bride and groom (and probably new stepmother of groom as well?)
- finish list of formal group pictures (ugh. too many on the list already. more like, edit the list of group pictures.)
- finish ceremony script (almost done. swear.)
- finish day-of schedule
- create seating chart and name cards
- finish slideshow (which includes scanning baby pictures. perhaps the most time consuming task i have left. a.k.a. royal pain in my @ss.)
- get dress steamed
- get ring cleaned/refinished
- finalize programs (designed and to be printed by FSIL, who also designed invites, god love that girl!)
- meet with ashley about our cake (i know. but we don't want much. promise. she knows this.)
- finish ceremony music cd and give to dj
- confirm pa system with dj
- print copies of ceremony readings and mapquests for guests
- get marriage license
that might sum up what i have left to do over the next week or so. maybe.
holy cow.
- finish gift for groom
- get gift for mothers of bride and groom (and probably new stepmother of groom as well?)
- finish list of formal group pictures (ugh. too many on the list already. more like, edit the list of group pictures.)
- finish ceremony script (almost done. swear.)
- finish day-of schedule
- create seating chart and name cards
- finish slideshow (which includes scanning baby pictures. perhaps the most time consuming task i have left. a.k.a. royal pain in my @ss.)
- get dress steamed
- get ring cleaned/refinished
- finalize programs (designed and to be printed by FSIL, who also designed invites, god love that girl!)
- meet with ashley about our cake (i know. but we don't want much. promise. she knows this.)
- finish ceremony music cd and give to dj
- confirm pa system with dj
- print copies of ceremony readings and mapquests for guests
- get marriage license
that might sum up what i have left to do over the next week or so. maybe.
holy cow.
parties.
my shower and bachelorette party went off without a hitch. no drama, no awkwardness. no weird sentimentality or embarrassing moments either. just girls having a good time.
i did spend several hours by the pool and am still recovering from the sunburn (i haven't yet become attached to the spf as i should). also, at some point on sunday i lost my voice, which i am blaming on allergies because if it was due to my determination to talk over the loud music, my attempt at singing at the karaoke bar, or god forbid, my intake of alcohol, i'd be over it by now.
i do remember the entirety of the bachelorette party, which includes the parts where i attempted to sing "total eclipse of the heart" with 3 other girls and completely botched the words in the first verse; where i attempted to dance on a giant speaker and was removed by a guy wearing boxers and a tie (who, by the way, stole my pink garter that said "bachelorette" and immediately took my place on the speaker, wearing my garter on his head, and never gave it back); where i moved to dancing on the bar (which was apparently more appropriate than dancing on the speaker); where i ran into a former basketball player from my college, asked him what he's up to now, and bragged to the basketball player that i was going to call my fiance and brag to him about my conversation with said basketball player; where i ran into two old, old frat guys i used to hang out with when i was a freshman in college; where i slurred over and over how much i loved the BM who was driving us home for being so kind as to drive us home, considering she absolutely does not drink and had to tolerate my dumb@ss drunkenness; and my favorite: the part where i met some guy from new zealand and realized the only thing i know about new zealand is that they filmed the lord of the rings movies there -- my completely numb brain could remember this fact but could not remember the name of the damn movie. lord only knows what i said to the guy, because all i remember is him repeating, over and over, "it's not australia!!"
as i relive these moments in the sharing, i remember why people tend to black out when they drink, and wish my own brain could have been so kind.
i'm sure some incriminating pictures will surface soon enough, as i did not bother to carry my camera around, knowing i would have either forgotten i had it, or lost it altogether.
i did spend several hours by the pool and am still recovering from the sunburn (i haven't yet become attached to the spf as i should). also, at some point on sunday i lost my voice, which i am blaming on allergies because if it was due to my determination to talk over the loud music, my attempt at singing at the karaoke bar, or god forbid, my intake of alcohol, i'd be over it by now.
i do remember the entirety of the bachelorette party, which includes the parts where i attempted to sing "total eclipse of the heart" with 3 other girls and completely botched the words in the first verse; where i attempted to dance on a giant speaker and was removed by a guy wearing boxers and a tie (who, by the way, stole my pink garter that said "bachelorette" and immediately took my place on the speaker, wearing my garter on his head, and never gave it back); where i moved to dancing on the bar (which was apparently more appropriate than dancing on the speaker); where i ran into a former basketball player from my college, asked him what he's up to now, and bragged to the basketball player that i was going to call my fiance and brag to him about my conversation with said basketball player; where i ran into two old, old frat guys i used to hang out with when i was a freshman in college; where i slurred over and over how much i loved the BM who was driving us home for being so kind as to drive us home, considering she absolutely does not drink and had to tolerate my dumb@ss drunkenness; and my favorite: the part where i met some guy from new zealand and realized the only thing i know about new zealand is that they filmed the lord of the rings movies there -- my completely numb brain could remember this fact but could not remember the name of the damn movie. lord only knows what i said to the guy, because all i remember is him repeating, over and over, "it's not australia!!"
as i relive these moments in the sharing, i remember why people tend to black out when they drink, and wish my own brain could have been so kind.
i'm sure some incriminating pictures will surface soon enough, as i did not bother to carry my camera around, knowing i would have either forgotten i had it, or lost it altogether.
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