Wow! It has taken me a lot longer than I thought it would to get
these wedding photos posted. Joe and I asked a friend to take photos for our
wedding and she offered to do it free of charge! Hard to pass that up. Our
photographer gave us the CDs of our wedding photos unedited and I thought that
one day I would get them edited and printed off; but I never have...much to the
dismay of my mom who keeps asking me for a photo (it's only been a year and a
half...get off my back Mom; just kidding). Thanks to picmonkey.com; I finally have some of my photos edited (I just learned
about this program and I love it). I have spent my Valentine's night watching
love stories on the Hallmark Channel and editing wedding photos...perfect! Joe
is coaching a basketball game tonight. He gave me my Valentine's Day gift yesterday at
school (my favorite things) and for our Valentine's date night we scouted a high school basketball
game and then ate Subway.
Here is the first installment of wedding photos. A few things to
note: Joe and I had our wedding in the middle of a drought. I had grown all the
flowers for our wedding; but the drought killed them all so we ordered flowers
from Sam's Club. They come in big bunches and you have to make your own
bouquets but since that is what I was planning on doing anyways it didn't
bother me that the bouquets were not professionally done. My mom and brother
did the flowers and I think they did a great job! You will notice that a lot of
the flowers look kind of droopy and that was because as I mentioned in an
earlier post there is an amazing (as in powerful) breeze at our house. Even
though our area was in a severe drought it actually rained (sprinkled) the
morning of our wedding making it hard to decorate before I had to leave to get
my hair done. If I could do my wedding over again I would have chosen a
different hairdresser that was closer. I will not share my experiences with the
hairdresser because it is the one bad spot in my day and I don't want to spoil
this post with negativity.
This was at the entrance of our driveway showing our guests the
way.
More signs helping guests
find their way.
I watered these every day to try and keep them alive in the
drought. We had to do a lot of watering that summer and most of it was in vain
since most things like my flower and vegetable garden ended up dying.
This was our memory table. Those are pictures of our family
members that couldn't be with us on our special day. I wish I would have made a
sign for it so people knew just exactly what it was. I painted an old desk that
I found in Joe's parent's garage. It is not set up exactly how I wanted it and
I wish there were some flowers on it for more color; but I wasn't there to set
it up since I was getting my hair done.
Guestbook station. I had some of my high schoolers be my guestbook
attendants. My friends and I made a bunch of scrapbook pages for people to sign
and write their advice to the bride and groom. The wedding guests stood in
front of the quilts and got their picture taken. I later placed the pictures on
the scrapbook page they had written on. I will post pictures of the scrapbook
pages later. This was a cute way to do the guestbook; but I kind have wished I
would have done a regular guestbook too because a lot of people did not want to
get their picture taken and kind of just skipped over this section. I think if
you have a younger crowd at your wedding this idea would work much better.
Gift
Table. I made the card box out of an old case I found at a flea market. I lined
the inside of it with cardboard pieces that I had wrapped in burlap. Then I
made the "cards" banners using some cute fabric I found. I used
pinking shears on the fabric so it wouldn't fray.
This is what our guests first saw of the ceremony area. The tall
green plants are supposed to be sunflowers; but because of the drought they
didn't flower or get as tall as they should have by the day of the wedding. I
think the first sunflower actually bloomed two days after our wedding. I
watered those flowers everyday...Joe's family even helped water them. When our
spring started to run dry Joe's brother and dad filled the water tank from the
well at Joe's parent's house and drove it to our house to try and keep the
flowers watered. Everyone tried really hard to try and have some color and
vegetation at our wedding.
The cutout of the carriage came off of the shutters on our old
farmhouse. We fixed up the outside of our house so it would look nice for our
wedding. That is what we spent most of our wedding money on...but it seemed
like a practical thing to spend money on since we were planning to live in the
house for a while. I will post pictures of the amazing farmhouse transformation
at a later date.
We borrowed the straw bales from a farmer in the community so that we
didn't have to purchase them. The tree stumps down the aisle were also
borrowed. I was lucky that Joe knows everyone in the community and knew who to
ask for what. It was amazing how many people in the community were involved in
our wedding and were willing to help out in various ways.
I will post the ceremony and reception pictures in
another post. Hope you enjoyed looking at the pictures! Let me know your
thoughts or if you have any questions.
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