Our Wedding Was Featured!

A few weeks ago, I received an email from Bellenza.com asking if I would grant permission for my wedding to be featured on their website.  I love our rustic wedding, so after checking out their neat website and seeing that they gave great credits to all involved in the content they use, I of course agreed!

Bellenza did a WONDERFUL job summarizing our wedding.  Even I felt in some ways like I was looking at our decorations for the first time, so I won't delay you anymore and you can check out their post for yourself HERE!

Guest Posting Today at Happily Ever Crafter!

Today I have a guest post lined up over at Happily Ever Crafter!  

If you've been missing my wedding posts, this will be one of the last (or maybe the very last) post about my wedding!  It is an informative one too, talking about how we catered the wedding ourselves!  You won't want to miss it, so check it out HERE!  :)

Catherine also has a great Wedding Wednesday series going on with tons of great advice from many different bloggers, so any ladies out there who are wedding planning should definitely check out her blog!

Our Wedding Music

This week, I wanted to talk specifically about our wedding music.  I'm going to be completely honest and say that I was inspired when Joelle shared her wedding music with us a few weeks ago.

I put a lot of time into picking pieces that would be timeless to us and guests in most aspects, and that were really meaningful.  Oh, and did I say that I spent forever working on the music details?  I should at least be able to brag about it.  

And thanks so much to my matron of honor's husband for doing all the music and sound stuff for us at the wedding...it took a lot of work!

Ceremony Music

PRELUDE

Guests were seated to a small compilation of classic and jazzy songs.

Mello as a Cello - The Big Broadcast, Vol. 1 by Joe Venuti & His Blue Four

Camulonincapoop - Up (For Your Consideration) by Michael Giacchino

Thank Heaven for You - The Big Broadcast, Vol. 1 by Rudy Vallee 

Up with End Credits (3:19-5:15) - Up Soundtrack by Michael Giacchino

Dining Room Source - Up (For Your Consideration) by Michael Giacchino

PROCESSIONALS

Grandparents, Parents and Wedding Party

Up with End Credits (beginning repeated) - Michael Giacchino

Bride's Processional

Carl Goes Up - by Michael Giacchino

Recessional

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - by The Proclaimers

Reception Music

BACKGROUND MUSIC 

(Throughout Reception)

For this portion of the music, we broke away from the jazzy theme somewhat to use songs we like that were meaningful.  Expecting to open a dance floor, we had narrowed down the list from about 30 songs to 10 songs, so when we didn't dance to anything but the first dance, those songs started repeating pretty frequently.  So my advice, put more on than you think you'll need!

I won't list them all, but some of my favorites were Life in Technicolor, The Moon Represents My Heart, Easier to Be, and I Have and I Always Will.

FIRST DANCE

My Girl - by Dave Barnes

Not having a DJ meant we could change our plans if we wanted to.  And we did.

We had planned an entire playlist of dance music (that may or may not have included this awesome song and dance that has been played many times during late night study sessions) but when the moment came to whether or not to start the dance floor, it just didn't feel right.  I think it could have been fun, but we really liked how the night ended up going without forcing it.

Side note:  if you skipped the link that says "this awesome song and dance" then go back and click it.  I'll even give you another link to go watch it.  Wouldn't that be awesome on a crazy wedding dance floor?  I think so.

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I love the music we chose for the wedding and I still listen to my playlists all the time!

Bride and Groom Shots: On Dry Ground

We really took a ton of portraits - which is great with me since we have a lot of great pictures together and a lot to choose from for albums and picture frames around the house.  But for the same reason, I'm splitting the posts on portraits into two parts...so if you missed the "Love in a Canoe" segment of portraits - go check them out!  They are our favorite group of pictures from the day!

A big thanks to Birds and Coffee Design for each and every one of these portraits!

Love everything about this one except I look mad at Tyler! haha!

Really loved how this filter she added captured the light in the background and brought out the brooch and dress detail.

Pretty sure we look exhausted in this one!

Wedding Cake, Cupcakes, & Cake Cutting

Today's post is about our wedding cake, cupcakes, and cutting the cake!

We used Christina's Cookies and Cakes out of Sulphur, Oklahoma.  

Christina came to set everything up, and I must say I was amazed by how great it looked and tasted!

Enjoy, and don't lick your computer screen.  It'll give you the wrong impression.

We had a small wedding cake with lots of cupcakes!
We had Lemon, Red Velvet, Cherry Cheesecake and Chocolate with a Strawberry on Top cupcakes!

Chocolate Covered Strawberries on Chocolate Cupcakes!  Yum!

Thank you Christina's Cookies and Cakes for the delicious cake, cupcakes, and for setting up!  It was all wonderful!

We love the texture Christina put on the cake!  It went great with the succulents and cake toppers!

These little cake toppers have a wonderful little story.  They belonged to my great grandparents, Leona and Kermit.  My grandma told me they were used at Kermit and Leona's wedding. They were married on June 19, 1938.  That means these two figurines were at least 75 years old at the time that they were used again during my wedding.  

A photo of my Great Grandparents before they married.

I made the decorative piece below our cake using wedding pictures or young pictures of our grandparents and parents.  From the outer edges are our grandparents, leading to us in the middle.  We would not be together today if it were not for our families and heritage!

Thanks to mom for making the awesome wooden cake stand as well!

 The Cake Cutting

Cutting the cake!

My 'oops,' 'crap,' 'oh no,' and 'oh well' face all rolled into one when I realize that I forgot to tell Tyler that we're supposed to save the top layer for our anniversary.  We just made up for it by eating all the leftover cupcakes on the honeymoon.  :D  Love you anxiously hungry for wedding cake hubby! :)  

Yep, you know what I'm thinking.

Do you see this??
He is literally chasing my hand with his face because he thinks I would shove it in his face if he didn't catch it first.
He was right, but he made it too difficult, so I ended up being nice.
That wasn't my plan, just FYI.

Of course he is nice.  He's always nice.

See, nice.  I was nice.  I. Was. Nice.

Yum.  I hope we can go get some cupcakes from her bakery on our anniversary!

Cake is good.  Really good.

Marriage is okay too.  ;)

A big thanks to Birds and Coffee Design for capturing all the photos from our wedding day!