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Texas Wedding Recap: D.I.Y. Details

Posted on June 14th, 2011 by Michelle. 1 Comment

Michelle
Wedding Date: November 10, 2010
Bio: I'm a teacher, reality TV addict and avid theatre nerd. My fiancée, Deborah, and I met during a production at a local theater a little over three years ago. She pretty much tap danced her way into my heart. We are planning a slightly off-the-wall but mostly traditional wedding in our hometown deep in the heart of Texas.

In my final recap post (sniff! sniff!) I wanted to highlight some of the DIY projects we did for the wedding and give you some basic instructions on how I made them all. Crafting projects can be daunting and a little overwhelming at times, but I am so glad we powered through and got most of our original projects finished for the wedding.  I believe it made it that much more personal to us and our guests.  It was also hella fun having crafting parties with our bridesmates and random wedding folk!

The Ring Book

The front of the Ring Book

We wanted something our ring bearer could carry that was large enough to actually carry (and not just hold).  It also needed to have some kind of thing that detached so the rings could be passed around for our guests to bless the rings during the ceremony. In the end, I bought a cardboard book from the craft store Micheal’s, some scrapbook paper and pulled out my handy-dandy modge-podge glue. Voila! In about two hours time, I had our ring book. For the detachable part, I cut some styrofoam and covered it in leftover fabric.  Then I modge-podged a tinier box (with a tinier section of fabric covered styrofoam inside of it) for the rings themselves!

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Texas Wedding Recap: The Details

Posted on June 7th, 2011 by Michelle. 7 Comments

Michelle
Wedding Date: November 10, 2010
Bio: I'm a teacher, reality TV addict and avid theatre nerd. My fiancée, Deborah, and I met during a production at a local theater a little over three years ago. She pretty much tap danced her way into my heart. We are planning a slightly off-the-wall but mostly traditional wedding in our hometown deep in the heart of Texas.

*pokes head around corner*

Hey there!

*timid steps into the blogosphere*

Remember me? Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth for a little bit! I sort of fractured my tailbone and ended up on all sorts of crazy medications, missed work for a week and then had a terrible reaction to the steroids they put me on.  It has been an unpleasant month.  But I’m back! And not only am I back, I am back with pretty pictures!

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Texas Wedding Recap: The End of The Evening

Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Michelle. 2 Comments

Michelle
Wedding Date: November 10, 2010
Bio: I'm a teacher, reality TV addict and avid theatre nerd. My fiancée, Deborah, and I met during a production at a local theater a little over three years ago. She pretty much tap danced her way into my heart. We are planning a slightly off-the-wall but mostly traditional wedding in our hometown deep in the heart of Texas.

Most of the typical wedding traditions were accomplished with much bravado! We only had one thing left to do– the bouquet toss. Now, I know some folks think the bouquet toss is a little antiquated. Some people think watching women fight over a bouquet in order to secure their marital status is weird. We do too. No, honest! However, we do enjoy watching people grapple with each over in a knock-down drag out for an inanimate object. So, we upped the ante…

Not just single ladies were invited to participate in our bouquet throw.  We wanted anyone and everyone who wanted a piece of the action.  And we told the crowd the whoever caught each of our bouquets would win a very nice bottle of champagne.

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Texas Wedding Recap: The Reception!

Posted on April 22nd, 2011 by Michelle. 3 Comments

Michelle
Wedding Date: November 10, 2010
Bio: I'm a teacher, reality TV addict and avid theatre nerd. My fiancée, Deborah, and I met during a production at a local theater a little over three years ago. She pretty much tap danced her way into my heart. We are planning a slightly off-the-wall but mostly traditional wedding in our hometown deep in the heart of Texas.

1. Amazing day full of love, happiness and support (Check)

2. Get Married!! (Check)

3. Eat amazing food and have some cake (Check)

4. Get the sword.

Wait.

What?

Oh yes, I said sword.

Why a sword? Well, when cutting a Croquembouche (also known as a French wedding cake) it is tradition to cut it with a sword.  Well, cut isn’t exactly the right term. You have to slice it with a sword. Which is exactly what we did.

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Texas Wedding Recap: Married and Ready to Party!

Posted on April 18th, 2011 by Michelle. 5 Comments

Michelle
Wedding Date: November 10, 2010
Bio: I'm a teacher, reality TV addict and avid theatre nerd. My fiancée, Deborah, and I met during a production at a local theater a little over three years ago. She pretty much tap danced her way into my heart. We are planning a slightly off-the-wall but mostly traditional wedding in our hometown deep in the heart of Texas.

We did it! We are married and ready to celebrate! To be honest, the whole ceremony was pretty emotionally draining (see: recurring theme of tears). Deborah and I jumped back in the car and looked at each other, filled with joy and love and said “So… naptime?” But no naps for us! While guests were being ushered through to the back for our entrance, we took a few moments to take some more photos with our wedding party and our officiant.

Now it was time to make it 100% official and sign our wedding certificate. It was a fantastic feeling to sign under ‘bride’.

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Texas Wedding Recap: Our Ceremony, part 2!

Posted on April 14th, 2011 by Michelle. 6 Comments

Michelle
Wedding Date: November 10, 2010
Bio: I'm a teacher, reality TV addict and avid theatre nerd. My fiancée, Deborah, and I met during a production at a local theater a little over three years ago. She pretty much tap danced her way into my heart. We are planning a slightly off-the-wall but mostly traditional wedding in our hometown deep in the heart of Texas.

My first recap ceremony post was focused on our readings and the beginning of our ceremony.  This second post is about the second part of our ceremony.   After our first two readings, we said our vows.  They began with our officiant saying, “Will you each promise to take pride and joy at seeing the other continue to learn and grow, and when your partner’s life grows in one direction, will you try to bend and grow together?” and we responded We Will! We then said our vows.  We didn’t want to use traditional vows and agreed that writing our own vows wasn’t really for us.  Instead, we chose e.e. cummings poem “I Carry Your Heart With Me (I Carry It In My Heart)“. We chose this poem for two reasons:

1. It is gorgeous, beautiful and so well written.

2. It has a sort-of call and response that worked for our vows.

During our vows, our rings were being passed around through our guests. I have heard this called a blessing of the rings and a ring warming.  You can choose whatever term you like! Regardless of what it is actually called, this was one of the most special components of our ceremony.  It was so special to us to include all of of friends and family that had gathered with us to celebrate our marriage.

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