Our wedding morning dawned bright and early. Which was rough, because I am SO NOT a morning person. I kissed Hubs goodbye and raced down to Christophe's Salon to get a full morning of hair and makeup done.
On the bright side, I was the only person there at 9 am besides my stylist Eric, so it was nice and relaxing. After I settled in with my cup of tea, he asked me for a picture of how I wanted my hair done.
Um. Oops? Was I supposed to research that ahead of time?
So I told him I wanted a fifties hairstyle, with the curls. My exact words. And he was magical and French, and it took him no time at all to make my hair look beautiful. Whew.
Then came makeup, and a woman whose name I can't remember right now asked me what I wanted done. So I told her to match the hair and whatever she did I'd be happy with. And I was - so it worked out.
The minute my makeup was done I had to rush to the chapel for the 11 o'clock wedding. I got into the bridal changing room and couldn't stop shaking. I was ridiculously nervous. My sister finally came in to get me into the dress, and I tried to hold it together. At one point the minister tried to drop by and got a full view of my fancy bride underwear as we were tying my corset. After that people started knocking. Hahaha!
Fifteen minutes after I arrived, the ceremony was ready to begin. As the wedding planner brought me into the hall, I ran into my mom and my mother-in-law, who were waiting to walk down the aisle to light the tapers for our unity candle. This almost made me cry, but I held it together and a got a quick hug from each of them before they began the ceremony.
After the moms walked down the aisle it was my turn to make my big entrance I had decided to walk down the aisle alone, because my brother would have been the one to give me away. In honor of him, I walked down the aisle to "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" by Israel Iz KamakawiwoʻOle, which was one of his favorite songs. It was really nerve-wracking to walk in all alone, and I have several pictures of me making awkward faces while I enter because I was terrified. But then Hubs met me halfway down the aisle and helped calm me down a bit.
I was still shaking so badly that Hubs held my hands the entire ceremony, and it didn't take too long before I was holding back tears as we said our vows. I'm a huge sap that way though. We lit our unity candles to the Beatles song "In My Life" - which was a nod to spending the night before seeing the Love show with our friends and family, as well as the lyrics which we felt had amazing meaning to us both. Seeing Hubs smile at me when he heard the song start was a moment I won't ever forget.
The ceremony was brief but meaningful, and if I hadn't been so emotional I probably would have winked at my sorority sisters as the minister recited First Corinthians - a nice surprise! After the rings and the kiss, Hubs and I walked down the aisle as Husband and Wife to the theme song from "Friends". Totally "us", absolutely perfect.
Before we could say hi to anyone we were whisked away to our photography session, which was part of our Hollywood Glam package through the chapel. 30 minutes later, we were finished and ready to meet our family and friends who were waiting outside...
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| It's official! Hubs and Wife! |
We took dozens of pictures with friends and family, and enjoyed post-ceremony cocktails. All the nerves were absolutely gone as I got to talk to the girls about what they thought of the look and ceremony, and the boys bonded over 32 oz margaritas.
Our reception was at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant in the MGM, and it was absolutely amazing. They had a private area in the back of the restaurant set up for us, and we had picked a menu we thought everyone might like - Caesar salad, salmon or chicken, passion fruit cheesecake, and of course - the cake! The servers were adorable, and when they heard that I only like sweet wine, kept on bringing me Riesling instead of the Chardonnay everyone else was drinking! The two hours flew by, and we took full advantage of the open bar and delicious food. I got to spend a little time with everyone who'd come to the wedding, and I felt like a princess the entire day. I was so excited to give out our wedding favors too!!! They were playing cards with our names and wedding date printed on each card - they turned out so cute and I was thrilled everyone seemed to like them.
After we cut the cake and got wine to-go, Hubs and I went back to our room to relax and take naps. We got a great surprise before that though- one of my friends had come up and put a "Mr and Mrs" banner on our door, and there was champagne and strawberries waiting for us in the room.
We ended our wedding day with karaoke night - apparently a local favorite, as we were some of the only tourists there. Most of our friends met us out at the random out-of-the-way casino and we waited forever with ridiculous rules to get our chance to sing karaoke, but the company couldn't be beat! By one am, we were all exhausted again and ready to call it a night. We stumbled back to the hotel and collapsed - and we still had a full day in Vegas left!!!
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| One of my favorite pictures from our photo shoot. |
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