delightfully married: I Got a New Last Name!

April 20, 2012

I've just realized that I never did a proper update (with pictures) from our wedding. Many of the people who read my blog come from facebook so I know that you've already seen the massive amount of pictures I posted (sorry about that. I couldn't choose my favorites so I posted them all!). But, I hope that you will forgive me for displaying them again and end up enjoying the story behind them! So...here we go!

The night before the wedding my sister's and I stayed at the Contemporary Resort at Disney (you can walk to the Magic Kingdom park it's so close). Sam will be the first to tell you that she absolutely loved the rooms, especially the pillows on the beds (ha!). The guys stayed over at the Pop Century Resort (where both of our families were) and I'm actually not positive if they did anything together. They all did come over to our room to watch the fireworks at the Magic Kingdom (we had a perfect view from our room!), but after that they left and I have no clue what they did. The pictures of the girls were taken in our room at the Contemporary and the boys pictures were taken at the Wedding Pavilion.

The next set of pictures are from our ceremony. I was really scared it was going to rain that day, but we lucked out and had beautiful sunny weather for our ceremony. Unfortunately, the weather was not so nice for the bride who got married after us.

I wasn't nervous at all beforehand. In fact, I just really wanted to go in the chapel and get married. As soon as the doors opened and I saw Chris everything else disappeared. We were both just so excited and happy that nothing else mattered. He also told me later he was really glad I was laughing throughout the ceremony (when I'm excited I tend to giggle a little bit!) because that kept him from crying. It really was the most perfect day.

The next few sets of pictures were taken after the ceremony ended. They consist of our family and some portraits of Chris and I. Chris's favorite (of us) is the bottom left out of the four pictures on the left hand side. You can see the castle behind us and it almost looks like a painting instead of a picture. Pretty cool!

I'm going to leave you with these last few sets of pictures. They're from our time at the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa where we ate our cake, danced, and of course...took more pictures! You can't tell from these pictures but Sam started crying during her speech (which in turn made me cry...thanks, Sam!), and Greg wrote his speech on his android phone (gotta love technology). All three speeches were very sweet and we definitely felt the love in the room!

Disney provided us with an awesome violinist that played our first dance song (the theme from Beauty and the Beast) and serenaded us with lots of other great tunes! My favorite was when he played the theme from Pirates of the Caribbean (it couldn't have anything to do with the fact Chris and I got engaged in front of that ride, could it? ha!) and Sam loved that he played "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic (yea...I felt like it was a little depressing too...). Oh...and I didn't ask him to play the Titanic song; Sam did. It's her favorite movie.

Anyways. Enjoy the rest of the pictures!