So to celebrate I figured I show a bit of the day.
We got married on September 4, 2011, in Littleton, Colorado. We chose CO because it is where I'm from (so we'd have my mom in the area to help, thank goodness!). And also because it's awesome. Beautiful and full of unique settings and backdrops, I just love it. Of course we did have to choose our date carefully to avoid snow, which can start as early as late September. Also we had to be prepared for the brief downpours of rain that CO loves in the summer. But the weather cooperated and the biggest issue was that the sun was right in the eyes of my bridesmaids and I during the ceremony. See the squinting?
We had an outdoor ceremony followed by an indoor sit-down dinner and dancing at the same location. It turned out to be a nice mix of formal tradition and a more relaxed playfulness. I wanted to have the "fancy" bits because, well ... when else will I get them?? We're not exactly formal sit-down dinner party people so I jumped at the chance to go all out. Well, a restrained and budgeted all out.
My incredible mom did the flowers (all of them, with very little help. She also did my veil, other decorations, and stayed sane. Love you mom!). I was crazy picky about stuff and more than a little neurotic (though I think I mostly avoided being a bridezilla) but everything turned out fantastic. My biggest advice would be to pick what's important to you before looking online and at magazines. If the napkin color and china pattern never crossed your mind before you started planning, don't let it become a huge deal just because you saw a really cool idea that someone of the internet did. People on the internet have lots of ideas and it's really easy to get sucked in. Not that that ever happened to me...
Here's more pretty pictures now. Note that we had bubbles (this was on my "must have" list before planning ever started).
Yep, pretty gorgeous!
All the pictures were taken by Kara Pearson Photography who I highly recommend. Honestly it was hard to pick which ones to show here because I have literally hundreds of amazing pictures (and this is coming from someone who usually hates how she looks in pictures :P)
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