Hi guys! I haven't posted much on here, but I absolutely love these forums, and getting to see everyone's bams. And now it's my turn! I've been dying to post pictures of my dress on here, but because hubby and I share this account (he loves the checklist and guest list tools), I wasn't able to until now.
I guess I'll start with how the day went. It was amazing! Of course, something is always bound to go wrong, and a few little things did, but nothing even close to being able to ruin the day. The main thing was hubby's poor mama was 20 minutes late to the wedding because she put the wrong address into her GPS and headed to my sister's house, where we had our rehearsal dinner the night before, and that is the opposite direction from the hotel as the chapel. Oops!
The weather was absolutely gorgeous (if a little windy), which made it nice going to and from each place, lol.
We had a dry wedding (please no judgments!) with coffee, tea, water, and pink lemonade, and while I did have one person tell me the only reason they didn't dance was because they were sober, we still had a vast majority of guests on the dance floor all evening, which made me so so happy.
So we got married in McKinney, Texas. We invited 184 people, got 82 yeses, and had about 75 show up. So, not too terrible, considering it was Friday afternoon before Memorial Day weekend.
Ceremony venue: Bella Donna Chapel
Reception venue/Caterer: Stonebridge Ranch Country Club
Dress: Allure Bridals #9619 (purchased from Pence & Panache in Burleson, TX)
Hair: Sara from Hello Gorgeous in Allen, TX. She's my sister's usual hairstylist, and she did an awesome job on me and my girls!
Makeup: my friend Heather, who refused payment and did mine and almost all my girls' makeup for fun.
Tuxes: Men's Wearhouse
Bridesmaid's dresses (minus groomswoman's outfit that she got on Amazon): Dillard's
Photography: Randal Stewart Photography (seriously probably the best decision we made besides deciding to get married!)
Cake: Cakes by Design (owner Tabitha Ballard)
Limo: Prime Limo
I'm sure there's other vendors I'm missing, but I'm doing this while sitting on my bed away from my paperwork and these are the main ones I can think of off the top of my head, lol. Also if I missed saying some info that you want to know, don't hesitate to ask! I'm home and both hubby and I are back at work so I'm already back to lurking the forums, so I'll be able to answer you pretty quick. Plus I haven't gotten tired of talking about the wedding yet, but my family sure is! I need new people to talk to about it!
All righty! Time for the best part: pictures! It was so hard to narrow it down, but I tried my best.
Probably my favorite picture out of all 700
The chapel
My shoes and flowers!
I seriously love our photographer
Randy is the best!
My ring and flowers
My handsome hubby being all distracted
Hubby and his guys (minus his groomswoman who came up with me and the girls)
One of my favorite pictures of hubby; he almost cried, and almost made me cry
The first kiss!
Ringing the chapel bell
Us and our WP! (I had two bridesmen, and he had one groomswoman.)
Me and my "girls"!
Him and his "boys"!
The chapel had the coolest throne-looking chairs
Our reception venue! (we had the run of the whole upper floor!)
Not a lot of decoration, but still very pretty
Our "groom's cake" was a candy bar!
Our cake! With our Aristocats cake topper and my bouquet to add more color to the table.
The guys waiting for the girls to figure out my bustle and kindly holding my flowers for me.
The shoe game! Idk what the question was but we obviously didn't agree on the answer, lol.
Everyone in this pic graduated from Baylor University, so our DJ played our fight song.
Dance time!
My sister even managed to drag our mom onto the dance floor!
Us and our mamas.
The Cupid Shuffle
Have I mentioned that I adore our photographer?