Show Us Your Life – Wedding Receptions and Honeymoon

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It’s that time of week again! It’s Friday, and it’s “Show us your life” over at Kelly’s blog. This is such a fun theme for me (and for a lot of people) so it’s going to be a long, photo-heavy post!

Our reception was held in a dining room on the campus of the college where we got married. (The chapel was relatively close to this and it was easy to get to.)
A wide shot:
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I painted these for our head table. When I first saw them, the piece that they stand on was upside down and had candy in it. Since I made a lot of the decorations, I had a few mini-freakouts early on in the reception (trying to put things the way they were supposed to be.)
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First dance:
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The back of one of the programs on our table – I made the programs. Our tables had fall leaves and candy corn spread beneath three votives (of different heights) as the centerpieces. People loved the candy corn šŸ™‚
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We have a lot of photos of us looking in different directions:
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Cake cutting (in which he started to give me the cake about 3 times before I finally kind of yelled, “just give it to me!” It’s on video. It’s pretty funny.) I made the cake topper (the monogram), and the flowers matched those in our bouquets. They’re all silk.
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“Thriller” made an appearance towards the end of the reception, and everyone enjoyed it. My husband and matron of honor actually practiced for a couple of weeks to make sure they got the dance down just right.
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This is just a photo I had to share….just before the ceremony and drinking my “signature drink,” if you will:
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And how random is this? We ran into one of our groomsmen in the Charlotte airport, the day after the wedding. This was over 2 hours from where the wedding took place. And we all hung out until our flight took off. It was actually a lot of fun!:
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And that brings us to our honeymoon in the Bahamas. We stayed at an all-inclusive resort in Freeport, and it was a fabulous week!!
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We took a ride on a glass bottom boat, and when it was over, the owner of the boat drove us back to our resort in his crazy van:
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The day we sent sea kayaking (and the day I entered a sea kayaking race, and was partnered with a rather large man from Canada named Richard. He was not very amused by me – maybe it was all of the free drinks I had that day – but we made it through the semifinals. Of course, this is not me and Richard, but me and my husband!)
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Our last morning, and a photo with our favorite bartender, David:
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See? That was a lot of pictures! Hope you enjoyed them!

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4 Comments

  1. Dang, those honeymoon pics make me want to go somewhere tropical asap šŸ™‚ I had to fall off the kelly bandwagon because this obviously hasn’t happened for me yet. but one day! šŸ™‚ then i’ll have lots of pictures like you! šŸ™‚

  2. going through the honeymoon pics made me want to take a trip this weekend! And just wait until Kelly hits the kid’s parties. I’ll be throwing parties for my cat so I can be included every week šŸ˜‰

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