You Make My Dreams Come True: Car Decorating

When I realized several members of our bridal party were missing for about 20 minutes late in the evening, I had a pretty good idea of where they might be. Thankfully I have some great photos so I know exactly what was going on!

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I’ve got to end the post with these next two pictures. I absolutely adore them!

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*Photos in this post (unless otherwise noted) taken by Becky of Stamp of Life Photography*

Need to catch up?

 

We started on Thursday.

We decorated Friday morning.

We rehearsed.

We got pretty!

I put on my dress. 

We had our first look!

The guys had their turn.

The girls stole the show. 

We got some fun bridal party pictures. 

We took bride & groom portraits.

We took care of the formal portraits.

We took pictures with the kiddos.

We spent time hanging out waiting for the ceremony to start.

The grandparents and parents were seated.

It was finally time for the processional.

A step back to the playing of the slideshow.

The ceremony started. (Part 1)

The ceremony continued. (Part 2)

The ceremony ended. (Part 3)

We had a little fun with our recessional. 

I shared our ceremony details. 

We made our grand exit.

And then made our grand entrance!

We listened to touching toasts.

Then it was time to cut the cake.

We had our first dance!

We danced with our parents.

We did our bouquet and garter toss.

And the dollar dance!

Then it was finally party time!

You Make My Dreams Come True: Party Time

It was finally time for some dancing! I think the dancing was honestly one of the things I most looked forward to about our wedding. I LOVE good music, good friends, and shakin’ my booty. I was so happy to see our dance floor packed the majority of the night.

{Thunder clap and ‘Yeah’ by Usher, anyone?}

{Remember my friend J?}

{David’s older brother and best man, J and his wife, L – I love this picture!}

{My SIL and David’s cousin – We all have the same first and last name!}

{LOVE this picture! Both my dad and David’s brother J say they don’t remember this happening – ha!}

{Cupid Shuffle!}

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{I love my niece and nephew in the bottom left corner!}

{Love these pictures!}

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{My brothers! Guest photo}

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We had SO much fun dancing the night away. Towards the end of the evening, a few of our friends (and several members of our bridal party) disappeared for a few minutes – You’ll see what they were up to in the next post!

*All photos in this post (unless otherwise noted) taken by Becky of Stamp of Life Photography*

Need to catch up?

 

We started on Thursday.

We decorated Friday morning.

We rehearsed.

We got pretty!

I put on my dress. 

We had our first look!

The guys had their turn.

The girls stole the show. 

We got some fun bridal party pictures. 

We took bride & groom portraits.

We took care of the formal portraits.

We took pictures with the kiddos.

We spent time hanging out waiting for the ceremony to start.

The grandparents and parents were seated.

It was finally time for the processional.

A step back to the playing of the slideshow.

The ceremony started. (Part 1)

The ceremony continued. (Part 2)

The ceremony ended. (Part 3)

We had a little fun with our recessional. 

I shared our ceremony details. 

We made our grand exit.

And then made our grand entrance!

We listened to touching toasts.

Then it was time to cut the cake.

We had our first dance!

We danced with our parents.

We did our bouquet and garter toss.

And the dollar dance!

You Make My Dreams Come True: Dollar Dance

The dollar dance is another controversial wedding tradition, but it was one we knew we’d participate in. I’ve heard it may be a Midwest thing (or called something else in other regions) but every wedding we’ve been to has done it, and a lot of our guests expected it. We had so much fun with it, and our guests did too. It was so nice to get a chance to visit with tons of people individually.

To be honest, I have no idea what songs our DJ played. I pretty much left it up to him, and he did a great job of keeping the music going (even after he had to play a few more songs than we’d planned because of the number of guests who wanted to participate!) and kept the mood upbeat and fun. Anyway, on to the pictures!

{David’s younger brother’s girlfriend}

{BM S!}

{MOH A’s boyfriend}

{GM J}

{GM J’s girlfriend}

{Our wonderful SIL}

{My beautiful momma}

{David’s aunt with his mom looking on}

 

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{Love my mom!}

{My aunt and godmother who was a reader in our ceremony}

{My ‘little’ brother}

{My big brother}

{MOH A’s boyfriend}

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I feel like I say this about every post, but these are more of my favorite memories and pictures of the night. I think I’m laughing in almost every picture! So don’t hate me too much for having a dollar dance at my wedding. :)

*All photos in this post (unless otherwise noted) taken by Becky of Stamp of Life Photography*

Need to catch up?

 

We started on Thursday.

We decorated Friday morning.

We rehearsed.

We got pretty!

I put on my dress. 

We had our first look!

The guys had their turn.

The girls stole the show. 

We got some fun bridal party pictures. 

We took bride & groom portraits.

We took care of the formal portraits.

We took pictures with the kiddos.

We spent time hanging out waiting for the ceremony to start.

The grandparents and parents were seated.

It was finally time for the processional.

A step back to the playing of the slideshow.

The ceremony started. (Part 1)

The ceremony continued. (Part 2)

The ceremony ended. (Part 3)

We had a little fun with our recessional. 

I shared our ceremony details. 

We made our grand exit.

And then made our grand entrance!

We listened to touching toasts.

Then it was time to cut the cake.

We had our first dance!

We danced with our parents.

We did our bouquet and garter toss.