Wedding pictures

Alright, I promised you pictures so...here are just a small handful of my favorites of the 300+ pictures Honey took over the weekend!

The setting. This photo was taken from the terrace at the clubhouse in which we had the reception. Most of the formal bridal party photos were taken straight ahead towards the beautiful fall foliage.
This is the rehersal bouquet I made for Lindsay. Tradition says a bridesmaid should gather the bows from bridal shower gifts and make them into a faux bouquet for the bride to use during rehersal. It's supposed to be made through a paper plate but I found an actual bouquet holder with styrofoam in it, typically used for silk floral arrangements. But I just put all the bows on floral craft sticks and stuck 'em into the holder. Voila! Lopsided-beauty!
Here's Robert and Susie, Pete's second cousins from Topeka. We all gathered at the Rio for the rehersal dinner and these two were almost as cute as the bride and groom! When I saw 5 year old Robert back in August, he pointed to Sally and then to himself and matter-of-factly said to me: "Me and her. Twins." LOL No kiddin'!
Here's my Honey and me at the rehersal dinner. I had some trouble creating realistic eyebrows as I practiced doing my own makeup before the rehersal. Clearly, it didn't work out so I decided to let the pros that did the rest of the bridal party's hair and makeup take care of my face on wedding day. You'll see the result a bit down the page.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan! Honey did not take pictures during the ceremony so the rest will be from the reception. She was such a beautiful bride! Click on the picture below to see it bigger/close up.
Here are Frank and Carolyn after the ceremony. Isn't this a cute candid shot of the two of them?
And now the entire bridal party, including ushers, flower girl and ring bearer. Honey read aloud a piece from The Alchemist during the ceremony but he was never quite sure if he fit in the category of "bridal party" or not. I was glad he got in on this one with me!
We must've been reminiscing our own wedding day in this picture. Can you tell it's dusk? The lighting gets a lil wonky at dusk. (why do I keep typing duck?!?!)
Way early on in the wedding planning process, even before the serious planning talk began, John and his pals came up with the idea of an entire Super Mario Brothers' themed wedding. Pete and I joined in the fun as we shouted out more ideas to make it perfect. That is, until Lindsay scolded and reminded me that I'm supposed to be on her side. So I had to stop with the talk of her dressing up like Princess Peach and John dressing as Mario and when they each said "I do" they'd have to jump up and twiddle their feet below them really quickly like they do in the game. At least John got to have this adorable Mario Mushroom as his groom's cake!
And then the bride's cake was amazing! It looked like layers of what I thought was an aspen tree, because that's the only tree trunk that I know of in those colors. And boy did it ever taste good! Mmmm!
Pete urged John to smash cake all over Lindsay's face but it's a good thing he didn't listen! Just look at the look of fear he has just because she had a smidgen of frosting on her cheek! Hehe Eventually, he wiped it off gently as a sweet husband should do for his bride.

Finally, here's a picture of me, my dad (and his fluffy mountain man beard), and his girlfriend Carol to his right. We were standing among the crowd of Fairbanks so also in this picture are Aunt Marti on Carol's right side, and Katie and Sally over there on my left side. We were watching people dance from this side of the groove floor.I just loved the color of our dresses! Not only was the shade of olive green gorgeous, but the irridescence and how it would change from green to blue to brown, depending on how I stood was truly mystifying. And the style...well...Lindsay and her mom kept telling me that I picked out the dress but my chemo brain prevents me from remembering that! I remember trying on about a zillion dresses for Lindsay to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to and I remember feeling strongly about not having strapless dresses. Aside from that, I cannot take the credit because my memory fails me! They sure are pretty, though. I think I'll wear mine to the next fancy party I'm invited to (which probably won't be until I'm 40!).

There you have it, wedding pictures! If you want more, click on that Flickr slideshow at the top right of this page in a few days and maybe I'll have put more up there.