Waiting to make our grand entrance :) We had a red carpet going from the lobby (where we had our gift table, open bar, sign in board, guest book, etc) into the actual reception room. The music we walked into the room with was the theme from Star Wars... it was very much a movie-geek themed wedding! :)
The reception room before we made a huge mess! lol... I think those huge windows were what sold me on that room..
One of the centerpieces. We also had some with white dahlias and the blue delphiniums - half daisies, half dahlias.
Favours - M&Ms :) We got TONS of white and light blue M&Ms (ordered them from mms.com) then wrapped them up in either blue or white tulle (blue M&Ms in white, white M&Ms in blue), tied them with ribbon (white for the blue tulle, blue for the white tulle), and tied the flowery thing on the top. The blue tulle had the white flowers, the white tulle had blue flowers. Those were a major PITA to put together! lol
Toasting flutes.
Instead of table numbers we did these mini movie posters (hubby made them all). We just picked a bunch of movies we liked/were sort of wedding or romance-themed and used them.
Very English thing here! Brides in England all carry horseshoes for good luck - one of my mom's friends in England sent this over to me. We just attached it to the bouquet from the top of our arch and had it on the sweetheart table.
Our first dance was a fox-trot to "It Had to be You" by Harry Conick Jr. That was playing when hubby proposed so it automatically became our first dance song :) We had the dance choreographed for us and it was so cute... until I kept tripping over my dress, that is! Oh well, we had fun stumbling through it and our photos definitely show we were having a good time!
At the very end of the first dance, I had this thing where I twirled around for 12 beats then sat down on hubby's lap (took forever to learn to do that without getting totally dizzy!)... it all ended with a kiss on the last beat of the song.
My dad and I danced to "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. I secretly wanted Joey Ramone's version (lol) but decided that wouldn't be so appropriate! ;)
Hubby and his mom joined us about halfway through the father-daughter dance.
LOL... yeah... we started this Charlie's Angels thing at a friends' wedding years ago and it has just stuck. We've done it at every wedding since. We always use props - a cell phone and a knife. Too much..!
MOH (my Alpha Xi Delta big sis) and I.
The obligatory ring shots ;)
Our cake and the toss bouquet... I absolutely did not want a white cake! I thought the cake came out so pretty (bonus - it tasted great too!). We had 4 layers - 2 of chocolate-raspberry and 2 of lemon.
You can't really tell since the photo here is small (and my scanner sucks), but the cake design is reflected in the cake slice thing... it looks really cool in the actual photo :)
Our cake topper - hubby found this guy in San Diego who blows his own glass. We had this custom made.
Our DJ played "How Sweet It Is" by James Taylor while we were cutting the cake :)
Do not even think about it! No, he was good ;)
Garter toss - "Legs" by ZZ Top... so cheesy but I couldn't resist :)
Bouquet toss - "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" by Cindi Lauper (again, I couldn't resist...)
LOL.. look who caught the stuff! Our ringbearer (he was 8!) and a friend's high school student daughter (I think she was 14 or 15 at the time)...
Can't beat a good San Diego sunset! One of our guests took this - it was the view looking out of the windows in our reception room.
Our family members all stayed at the resort the night of the wedding and we went for breakfast at one of the restaurants. These two photos were taken on the lawn which was next to our ceremony site. After this we went back to our house to open wedding gifts and eat cake with the family and then left for our honeymoon!
