Wedding Day Recap - Decor & Cakes

So I actually meant to do this post yesterday, but some laziness happened, and I just never got around to the whole blog thing. But that's a-ok, because today is "Wedding Wednesday" anyways, so it fits perfect, even if I'm not even getting to it until almost 6pm, after work and everything... 

This is the last of the posts that I had pre-setup with all the pictures and stuff, so that means this weekend I need to throw a few more together to share family pictures, and then some of the actual wedding ceremony and reception. And then maybe eventually we can scoot past the wedding stuff, and move on to the honeymoon in Cancun!

This bike was my mom's old Huffy cruiser, from like the 80's or 90's or something. I used to ride it all around St. Augustine during college, but it was like bubblegum pink. And I liked it then, but we decided to fix it up and use it as decor for our bike-themed wedding! We sanded it (a lot!), the spray painted it this awesome turquoise color. It got new tires, a new chain, and new handle grips - and it looks so stinking cute now! It was perfect :)

We got our cake made at Publix, but my florist did the beautiful cascade of flowers. And it was perfect! It turned out exactly how we wanted it, and I thought it was just gorgeous. And it was of course delicious! It was vanilla cake, and the top & bottom tiers had a layer of raspberry filling. The icing was a subtle lemon flavor, and it just tasted so fresh and fruity! I made that little pennant banner, and we ordered the bicycle topper from this shop on Etsy.

Jeff's groom's cake also came from Publix, and they did a great job bringing his vision to life as well. It was perfect for him - bikes, Lego's and superhero's! He absolutely loved it. Oh, and this cake was yummy too.

We collected a variety of jars over the months before, and bought a big bunch of flowers from Hobby Lobby to make the reception decor ourselves. We filled the jars with white sand (bought from Lowes), and then arranged the flowers in each jar/vase.

We also collected and bought old, vintage books over the summer, and used stacks of books and our jars of flowers as the centerpieces for the reception tables. Oh, and we made "naked" books by ripping the cover off a paperback, then tearing all the pages off the binding. Then you simply tie the pages back up, and it looks really stinking cute!

For our wedding favors, we stuffed little take-out style boxes with bags of one marshmallow, two graham crackers, a piece of chocolate, and a match, for a take-home-s'mores kit! We also hand-stamped each box with a little bicycle stamp, and tied on cute little tags that said, "Sending You S'more Love." And yes, we got the idea from Pinterest :)

That beautiful photo-book from Shutterfly was our guest book, full of photos from our whole relationship!

 There were six of these giant windows in our reception room, and we made six of these yarn tassel garlands, one for each window. We did it using a super easy project from one of my favorites, Kaitlyn @ Wifessionals! And we liked them so much, we kept them to hang up in our house after the wedding :)

I wrote our ceremony out on a this giant chalk board, rather than printing up programs no one would read or care about. It saved us money, and it was good for the trees! :) I started out using a regular piece of chalk, but that really wasn't cutting it, so my bridesmaid Jenni and I flew to Michael's 10 minutes before closing in order to grab some chalk markers. And they worked like a dream. I did all the writing, and then Jenni did all the cute little embellishments around the borders. 

We kept things cute and simple, and it ended up looking so great. I loved every little bit of it, and all of our homemade projects were so sweet and personal. I just loved it all!

Wedding Day Recap - Bridal Party

I'm not so sure that y'all are still interested in all these wedding photos I'm posting or not, but the thing is I don't care. (Said in the nicest way possible.) It was my wedding, and I loved it, and I personally want to put it all on my blog, so that's what I'm going to do! Hope that's alright with y'all :)

Anyways, we took all of these group photos right after the ceremony, and I think you can really tell on mine and Jeff's faces how utterly excited we were at that point! I mean, we were just pronounced husband and wife! Isn't that such an awesome feeling, all you other married ladies? It definitely was for us, and I'm glad you can see that in these photos.

I think the lighting and the trees behind us are all just so pretty, and I think these pictures turned out really good. In fact, these are some of my favorite of the day - partially because of how gorgeous they are, but also because of all the people we love so much in them with us!

Dear Megan, Jenni, Bridget, Adam, Greg & Brad - thank you all so so much for being apart of our bridal party. Each of you means so much to both of us, and we're so thankful for such amazing people supporting us and our marriage. We love each and every one of you, probably more than you know. Thank you again!

Wedding Day Recap - Groomsmen

Hey there friends and fellow bloggers! How about we do another wedding photo recap today - yes or yes? (I got that from my friend Dani, and I think it's cute and silly, so I want to adopt it too...) So today I'm going to share a few pictures of Jeff and his groomsmen! 

And since I haven't gotten a chance to introduce them yet, I'll do a little of that first. (And I'll be using the first pic below to reference who's who...)

Far Left - my handsome hubby!! :) Sadly, he forgot his superhero shirt for this one...

Next to him, Adam/Batman - his best friend and college roommate, who lives in Atlanta, GA

Next, Brad/Captain America - his younger brother, who lives in Warner Robbins, GA (close to Macon)

And on the far Right, Greg/Green Lantern - his older brother, who lives in Nashville, TN

I love this picture of them the best, I think! Jeff just looks so cute here :)

My super cute husband picked some great and good-looking men to stand beside him on our wedding day. I was thankful for each one of them, and the special part they played during our ceremony. So glad each of them were there, and especially that they were the groomsmen!

Wedding Day Recap - Bridesmaids

For the past week or so I've been pretty absent from the blog-world, and I'm still not quite ready to jump back in with both feet yet. So I'm going to use one of my wedding recap posts to just wade back into the water this morning :) So these are the pictures of my bridesmaids and I, and I love them all soooo much. The girls and the pictures, that is!

If you want to see the other wedding recaps I've done so far, check out getting ready and the first look.

L to R: Bridget, duh that's me, Megan (Matron of Honor) & Jenni

This was us telling Meg to hurry up and get over here...

Oh and look, now she's arrived!

I loved letting them each pick out their own dresses, and I think they all ended up looking great together. They all did a great job of finding the perfect color too, and I loved each of their dresses. And since they each had a unique dress, all of their bouquets were unique too, and I think those looked great as well. Our flowers were done by At Last Florals, and I would highly recommend them if you're in the area! Especially if you're doing it at the beach or at Wakulla Springs like we did, because she's actually located in Sopchoppy.

Maybe this quick little post will help wet my appetite for blogging again, and I can jump back into it tomorrow like usual! Happy Tuesday folks :)