Monday 23 September 2013

Formals

 
Here's the last little bunch of wedding pictures.  I've shown you the pre-ceremony and ceremony pictures, and these ones today are the "formals".  We got some pictures of my grandparents who looked fabulous!
 
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Such a good looking couple!
 
Then, something I wanted was a generation picture of my nana's, my mum's and now my, wedding rings...
 
 
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We took a few pictures of the wedding party who clean up quite nicely!
 
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We thought it would be fun to have a picture of the girls lifting Darryl...
 
 
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Nailed it!
 
There is an entire series of pictures of the whole process of them dropping him which makes us all laugh, but eventually they got it...
 
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Darryl killing some time...
 
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Darryl couldn't be the only one having fun, so I hopped up for a fun pic too.
 
 
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Luckily I was not dropped!
 
 
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Some detail...
 
 
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My hair...
 
 
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Nearing the end of the picture taking stuff, we were both starting to feel a little delirious, in need of food, water, and a chance for our cheek muscles to relax...
 
 
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So there we go!  That's a little peek into how our big day was, one year ago.  It was the most special day I've experienced in my life so far and I love looking back and reliving it through these pictures. 

Again, thanks so much to my cousin, Shelagh, for taking our pictures!

Sunday 15 September 2013

Ceremony

 
Here's a few pictures of our ceremony.  The walk across the property, the bridge and then to the area where the guests and Darryl were was nice, long, slow and peaceful one.  I thought for sure my Dad would whisper something and get me blubbering before hand, but he was good lol.
 
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The groomsmen
 
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The Bridesmaids
 
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Darryl and I.  I had been so calm all day...
 
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And then Darryl teared up and got me crying too.  I had no clue what the minister had asked me to repeat, so I asked him to repeat what he'd just said, hence the cry-laugh
 
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The exchange of rings
 
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Signing the papers and making it legal!
 
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Taking a moment together
 
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Being presented as husband and wife!
 
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I wish I could remember what he said to make us laugh 
 
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So there's a look at the ceremony, it was such a special day, and actually my most favourite part of the day, so I'm loving looking back at it all...next will be the formals.  
 
Thanks to my cousin, Shelagh, for taking our pictures!

Saturday 7 September 2013

Pre-Ceremony

So after a long blogging hiatus, I went back through a few posts and was reminded that I never, over an entire year, shared some wedding pictures with you.  So in light of our anniversary week (I call it that because last Sunday was our first wedding anniversary and tomorrow is our 12 year anniversary of being together), I thought what better time than now to reminisce over our wedding day.
 
Since there's quite a few to go through, I've decided to do them in categories, today's being Pre-Ceremony, then Ceremony, Formals and maybe a few bonus ones at the end.
 
So with that, here is a little of what was going on, one year ago, before the ceremony!
 
Where guests would be seated and where we would stand for the ceremony...
 
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If you were a guest, sitting in the above photo, and turned around, you would see the venue, and the bridge I would cross to get to the ceremony...
 
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As I walked from the venue, this is the view of the bridge I had - so pretty! - and a little peak of guests before they would see me...
 
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Another shot of the bridge towards the ceremony...
 
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For many bride and grooms a limo is the usual way to arrive at their wedding ceremony.  For me, the quiet family ride in our family car felt perfect.  It actually wasn't supposed to be in this car, my dad was going to drive his Cadillac as it's a little more fancy, but as we walked to the garage we realized that the Cadillac was blocked in with no car keys on hand to move the blocking car haha.  To me, I didn't care how I got there, I just wanted to be married.  In the end, it felt even more perfect to have driven our family Jetta.  As I sat in our car in "my spot" and looked to my left at my sister, my best friend, in "her spot" and my parents in front of us, it just felt right.  Like the many family drives we had taken in our lifetime together. 
 
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Very excited getting out of the car!  Being very careful to hold the dress up so as to not get any car grease on it.  I love how it looks like my mum's got some walkie-talkie to connect with the bigwigs inside the venue...
 
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Fluffing the dress out...
 
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Upstairs in the bridal suite, taking a quick glance in the mirror...
 
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Darryl chatting with our minister, Norm...
 
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The bridge...
 
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Darryl's boutonniere, which we now have enlarged and framed in our living room...
 
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So there's a few shots of what things were like before the ceremony!

I remember feeling so calm all morning, and then nervous once we got to the venue at the thought of so many people staring at me, and then calm again once I got to Darryl.  Such a range of emotions to feel all in one day!

Thanks to my cousin, Shelagh, for our pictures!