I’ve saved my favorite element of our wedding for last:  Photography!  We funneled any would-be videography budget all into photography and I’ve never had a second doubt!  Photography is the element of your wedding that captures every other piece and freezes it together with all the other details forever.  All that planning and energy and effort you put into all …

My last two posts of my week-long wedding recap are mostly photograph-based.  Not that I don’t love gabbing about our wedding incessantly, but I think the pictures speak for themselves when it comes to little itty-bitty details (and when it comes to my last post: my favorite photographs – obviously).

I will say this… the details made our wedding.  Even if …

Considering that the whole entire purpose of a wedding is… (wait for it)… to get married (!!! who knew, right?), it was shocking how little focus there often is on planning the ceremony that actually binds two people together.  Of course, we were no different – waiting until what felt like the last minute to really get down to the …

Ah Food and Drink… that’s what everyone comes to a wedding to do isn’t?  {Besides exclaim over how the lace pattern on our invitations matched the lace inlays on my dress, obviously.}

I’ll start with the beverages… we were very lucky to have picked a venue that let us bring in our own alcohol.  We saved a pretty penny by buying …

Pretty Maids All in a Row:

Oh bridesmaid dresses.  AKA, Bane of My Existence.  We had quite the time choosing dresses for my seven lovely ladies, partially because I was a bit of a Color Fiend, and partially because I really wanted something that wasn’t so… well, bridesmaid-y.

Color – I knew I wanted the girls in a deep raspberry color (or …