Our Wedding: The Reception {Part 1}

After the slightly traumatic arrival to our wedding reception, we were MORE than ready to get the party started! The girls bustled up my dress and they took out my veil and swapped it for a pretty comb, all while I drank out of a bottle of Prosecco.

 

Hey, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to calm down on her wedding day!

 

Our parents & bridal party were introduced to the reception and they danced into "Can't Stop the Feeling" by Justin Timberlake.

 

And then it was our turn!

 

Our first dance was so incredibly special to me. We shag danced to "With This Ring" by The Platters and y'all, it was the greatest dance ever. Well, to us at least.

{judging from our parents' faces & reactions in the background, I think we had just successfully pulled off the "around the world" move...}



All of our crazy shag dance lessons and our sunroom practice sessions had paid off - we had so much fun dancing our first dance with one another. We also kind of looked like we knew what we were doing, too.

 

Patrick handed me off to my dad for a dance {"Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison}

 

& he danced with his mother. Their dance... was anything but normal. I'm not even sure what all they did out on the dance floor but you could tell they were having a blast.

 

My dad then took the mic, gave us a funny, sweet toast {that got some people... ahem my husband... to tear up a little} and then handed it back to the band to get things going.

 

From there? I have no idea what happened.

 

The entire night was a whirlwind of awesome.



Patrick and I kept losing each other and circling the room to talk with friends, take pictures, and to soak it all in.



Our planner grabbed us pretty early on to cut the cake.

 

Cutting a wedding cake {or having one at all} was not something that Patrick nor I particularly wanted to do. We tried to completely ditch the cake, actually. But it was requested so we agreed to a small, one tier cake. That morphed into a three tier cake somehow.

 

Luckily, my husband and I were on the same page as soon as we saw the sweet little bride and groom Blue Flour Bakery cookies sitting next to the cake. Sure. We'll cut the cake. But that doesn't mean we're gonna eat it! Pretty sure that's a look of fear on my wedding planner's face because she has no idea what we've just plotted with that high five.



We cut the cake and immediately went for the cookies.

 

Immediately after that, we played a game with our guests. All the married couples went to the dance floor for a dance. One by one, each couple was called off the dance floor based on how long they had been married {one day, one month, one year, five years, etc} until we were left with just the couples who had been married for 40 years. Like my parents. We kicked everyone off the dance floor but them at that point so that I could give them a toast for their 40th Anniversary.

 

 

Speaking in front of a group of people isn't my thing. Unless it's my wedding day. I was pretty nervous about giving them a toast until I got up there with the mic. It's so easy to talk in front of everyone when you know them all.

 

... and then the party REALLY started.

 

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Venue: The Hall at Senate's End

Band: The Extraordinaires

Photographer: Jessica at Jessica Roberts Photography

Florist: Something Special

Planner: Melanie at By Invitation Only Event Planning & Design

Caterer: Dupre's Catering

Dessert Cookies: Blue Flour Bakery

Wedding Cake: Publix Bakery