I have done a ton of posts today and yesterday with a bunch of our wedding photos so make sure you keep scrolling down to see them all! I love all of our pictures, it was hard to decide which ones to post. Major thanks to my sister, Colleen, who did all of the pictures. Check out her website at
http://www.colleendonovanphotography.com/, she's amazing!
We had so much fun on our wedding weekend, it was very busy but Michael and I had 6 days off together which I don't think has every happened before. The days before the wedding were spent picking up the tux, rings and food items. We rented an suv to make it easier to get everything from our house to the church and while we were at the airport to pick it up there were two fighter jets doing practice runs, it was amazing to watch, I will have to post those pictures, too. They gave us a brand new suburban, it was huge. While we were busy with last minute stuff we also had lots of time to just relax. We went to lunch, went to a nursery to look at trees we're considering planting and just spent time together. That night I went to the airport to pick up my good friend and my first college roomie, Sidney, she flew in from Michigan. It was so good to see her and she did an awesome job of keeping me sane for the next couple days! Friday morning we did get up early because we were doing our pictures with Colleen. We went to a lot of places around Bend and did the majority of our pictures. It was so fun and the weather was perfect. After that my mom, Kayte and I went to get pedicures, who doesn't like a foot massage? We were supposed to get into the church around 2pm in order to start decorating but due to some missed communication we didn't get into the church until about 8pm. It was a long night and I was so tired because we had gotten up really early that morning, but we got the church decorated and it looked great. We were very greatful to have all of the help that we did, even if Michael did make the comment "If your mother tells me to 'snap to' again, I'm going to snap something". Haha, let's just say everyone had a long day. :)
I had to planned to make the cake on Friday night but since we had the issue with the church I had to do it Saturday morning. At first it wasn't going the way I wanted it to and was having some problems with the fondant but once I got the bottom layer done the rest came together pretty easily. And with a few strategic flowers, you couldn't tell I had messed up in a couple places. After that we went back to the church for a bit to fill up all the candy jars for the favor table, deliver all the food and put the finishing touches on everything. Then it was time to get ready! We were doing all the family pictures before the ceremony so all of my and Michaels family met and headed to a really pretty park for those. Once all the family pictures were done Colleen took some more of just Michael and I. We even found a snake to take pictures with, but it peed all over Colleen so we let it go. Ha! At one point Colleen had me go back into this little field area with a bunch of trees, it had been raining off and on the past few days so the ground was pretty wet. Well, when I walked out, I looked at the train of my dress and it was covered in mud spots, big ones! I think Colleen had a little panic attack, haha! We headed back to the church where Colleen and Kayte washed the back of my dress in the bathroom sink, all of the mud came out so it looked great for the ceremony. The ceremony was perfect, short and sweet. Our bishop hadn't done many weddings so I think he was a little nervous. Once I walked up to the aisle and Chad handed me off (I'm sure that was the highlight of his life! :) ), usually they would tell everyone to be seated. But the bishop forgot, so everyone stood for the entire ceremony, good thing it was short! We had so much fun at the reception, we were able to see some people that we hadn't seen for a long time and it was so fun to celebrate with all of our close friends and family. After the wedding we helped clean up and headed home, it had been a long day! The rest of our days off were spent just relaxing and hanging out with our puppies, who had been feeling neglected for the few days before. :) This picture is towards the end of the reception, it had started raining outside (which is good luck!) and there was a rainbow. How romantic...
