So, we got hitched over the weekend. It was fantastic. I've never been to such an awesome party in my honor. I'm still waiting for all of my mom's pictures, and, of course, the professional photographer's shots, too.
Here are a couple shots from our friends' Facebook pages that sum up the day nicely:
Our ceremony was short and sweet. J's best friend Bill came from San Francisco to be our officiant. He provided an awesome humor to the ceremony. One of my best friends,
Kate, did a fantastic reading by
Neil Gaiman called "
The Day the Saucers Came."
My wedding and engagement rings, engraved and etched 3-dimensionally. Further, lines from the ee cummings poem, "
i carry your heart" are engraved along the inside.
Here we are with J's cousin Jamie and aunt Mollie.
The
Ben Daniels Band provided hours of fantastic music during the course of the evening. Everyone really loved them.
Here is a fantastic picture with some of my favorite Ann Arbor girls, Sam, Sauce, Kolby, and Ariane. I love this picture so much!
And, here we are... looking at you.
We had a fantastic day, and we are so blessed with many amazing friends and family members who gave us so much help getting the wedding ready to go, and provided us support and love through every step of our journey so far. We have got to be about the luckiest people in the world to be surrounded by so much love.
I want to give a special shout out to our vendors who made it such a fun and unique day:
- Standard Pizza Co., Grand Rapids, MI. They made the best wood-fired pizza and didn't object at all to traveling across the state to get to our event. They were super easy to work with, and really nice, and went out of their way for us over and over.
- Sayklly's Candy, Escanaba, MI, made the favors and such fun purple boxes. We.... we didn't even get any because our guests managed to scavenge all of the extra boxes, including the ones at our place-settings. I can only assume they were awesome. Jim at Sayklly's was so personable, as one would expect a UPper to be.
- Abracadabra, Ann Arbor, MI provided us such wonderful and special rings that they designed after understanding what we wanted. They turned out perfectly!
- Plum Market, Ann Arbor, MI. Allie, the catering manager, was super easy to work with and gave us exactly what we wanted. She was super great.
- Ashleigh Nesmith, our wedding consultant. She worked so hard to help to give us the best and easiest day possible, and she is such a doll to work with. Please hire her for your event -- she is SO worth it. (Email me for her contact info.)
- Jesse Reyelts, Minneapolis, MN. Jesse is licensed in cosmetology and is excellent with hair and make-up. Luckily, she's my cousin, so she offered to make my life easy and do those things for me. She did an amazing job, and I got compliments all night about how gorgeous my hair was.
- Sharpe Contrast Photography, South Lyon, MI, provided us a fantastic price for a great engagement shoot, and a lot of attention during our wedding. He was super fun to work with.
- Cobblestone Farms through the City of Ann Arbor, provided us with such a fantastic venue.
- Gwen's Cake Decorating and Etc., Saline, MI. Though it drives me insane that she has the words "and etc." in her business name, she gave us EXACTLY what we wanted -- a unique cake, delicious cupcakes, and fun cookies. Our guests complimented us time and again for having delicious sweets at the wedding.
I can't even tell you the help that my mom and dad provided before, during, and after the event, also. My mom and aunts made all of the decorations, and a whole slew of our relatives and friends helped set up the day of the event.
We are slowly cleaning up our house to get back to normal life, while also taking care of the name-changing and financial-organizing business. Married life isn't so bad!
Who'd-a-thunk that I would ever get hitched?! :)
