Wedding Recap: Grooms Cake

So when it came to the groom's cake I knew two things......1) I wanted it to be a surprise and 2) I really wanted to do something soccer related because that is hubby's favorite thing

(besides me, hehe)

I asked my cake vendor about doing a soccer ball cake and they came back with an outrageous estimate that was actually more expensive than our actual wedding cake. They told me that it was because of the ball shape it would be really hard to do, that's why it was so expensive.

That's when I decided it was time to get creative. Now hubby also happens to have an alter ego that's kind of a super hero, yes you heard me right, a super hero. This super hero came about right after the movie Nacho Libre with Jack Black hit the theatres.

While I was trying to think of what I could do I had the thought of a doll cake, you know the doll cakes with the dome like skirt and the doll sticks out of the top? Well my sister in law happened to have one of those cake pans so I told her what I wanted and I provided her a doll and the pictures below are the end results!!!!!

This is a text pic that my SIL sent me while I was getting my hair done at the salon. It had turned out great! You can kind of make out the soccer ball.

I'm showing it to my MOH.....

And the end result............

TA-DA

I wanted it to look like the 'super hero' was jumping out of the soccer ball haha....He loved it and the guests got a kick out of it.

And if you don't believe that my hubby really thinks he has an alter ego super hero, down below is the proof......

Yes friends, I married that......for the rest of my life........let's just say there is never a dull moment when my super hero is around.......haha

(can you just imagine what our kids are going to be like with a daddy like that?!?!)

uh-huh, yup, forever and ever. amen.

Wedding Pics: The Details!

Hello Loves!! Flying to Scotland day after tomorrow so I wanted to leave you with another wedding recap before I go! I promise to get back to more regular posting and commenting on you blogs when I get back!!!

Me (obviously) holding my beautiful Kate Spade flute! ;D
Send off Sparklers and matches....I got a couple of frames and put little messages in them telling the guests what to do with them...

Our favors! The CD's were made by the Best Man who happens to be a grafic designer! They turned out great!

Gift table! LOVE IT!!

Our Cake...was great!

I got our cake topper off of ebay, it was very appropriate!

I loved the look of our cake server and knife...I was definitely going for a classic look.

Kaste Spade Flutes! : )



Our books that our guests left messages for us!!


And that's it friends.....for now......next up the groom's cake!! Have a wonderful, fabulous week friends and I'll be sure to take a ton of pics in Scotland to share with you when I come back!!!

Wedding Recap: Picture taking time!

Hello friends! Okay seriously this no work blogging thing is just driving me crazy! Okay now that I've got that out on with the wedding pics....these were taken right near our apartment and I just love the coblestones and knew that I wanted to get lots of pics on them! So here we go....

The picture above was pretty funny, the photographer handed up these frames and told to do something funny, didn't really know what to do, but it turned out cute!

I love the affect that she put into this picture (she got a lot of pictures of us walking away because she was following us)

This is my favorite picture from the whole wedding, I just love it! It's so romantic and I love the fountain and the way he's dipping me!
I love this picture, I actually jumped up on this ledge....it was pretty high, especially in my dress! But I like the way it turned out!



Runaway bride! haha!



Me and my girls!

Him and his boys!

This is my SIL boyfriend haha, he was such a trooper, while we were taking the picture SIL handed him her purse and bouquet to hold.....what a guy!

We're walking to the reception....it was right up the street : )

Looking lovingly at my husband....eeee, husband!

I saw this on a wedding website (it was a recreation of a beatles cover I think) and absolutely loved it and wanted to do the same so we tried it (a couple of times, my favorite is the other one)

I like this one better!

Yay! Onto the reception!!!

Next up......reception details! ;D

Back to the Wedding Recaps: Ceremony

Good Morning lovelies! As soon as I said I have spring fever, what happens?.....we get hit with a foot of snow! Go figure!! I took some fun photos that I'll post once I get them off my camera!

Went and saw Taken on Sunday afternoon and it was awesome!!! Very edge of your seat movie!! And then when we came out of the theatre and everything was covered in snow!!! It was very exciting!

So on to the recaps......Here is our piper!

My daddy and me at the end of the isle.....he doesn't look very happy.....

No explanation needed here....



This is one of my favorite pictures because the look on hubbys face is priceless....he's putting the ring on my finger and it's like....HA I got you now!!!! haha
Lighting the Unity Candle
Helping me down the steps
The kiss....hubby decided to be cute and lift his leg up as we kissed....he grabbed my arms and I knew what he was doing because he put some of his weight on me and everyone started laughing! Unfortunately the photographer didn't get it but don't worry it's on tape!!!
Hubby getting a discreet high five from someone!


My sweet Grandmama, she's 86 and she kept saying that she wouldn't be around for the wedding and I kept telling her she would. I was so glad that I was right! I didn't get emotional about anything up until that point and you can see it on my face in the next picture.

Hugging my Daddy

Hello I'm back with more Wedding Recaps!

Hello friends! I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day! Mine was good, dinner was wonderful and the weekend was very nice and relaxing....didn't want it to end!

So onto the wedding pics! Here is a picture of the sanctuary before the ceremony nice and empty!

And here is a picture of it at the end of the ceremony, we really filled it up!

Here is a pick of the programs that my mom and I made. I created the template and then bought the paper from Office Max for like $12 and then bought the ribbon on ebay for I think $8...they turned out great! My sweet mama tied all the ribbons on, it was a labor of love!

Here is a picture of the tartan ribbon that I bought and gave to the florist to create these beautiful bows for the first four rows! I love the way they turned out.

Here's a pic of the flower arrangements that were at the front of the Church! I absolutely was in love with them, they were exactly what I had envisioned and I couldn't have been happier!

Okay here is, hands down, the bargain of my wedding! I knew I wanted to incorporate the unity candles into the ceremony, I just love what they represent. Well for some reason this was a detail that I kept to the last minute and didn't really put a lot of thought into it. So a couple weeks before the wedding I was in Wal-Mart and went to the craft section......and there were these unity candle sets on clearance and I think I paid $5 for the the two side candles and the main unity candle!!!! Seriously $5!!! And the stands were just stands that I had bought at Target probably 5 years ago!!

(I'm for hire if you'd like me to find serious bargains for you as well!) ; )

This is a picture of one of my flower girls baskets that I got from Michael's for $7 (on clearance) and my pearls that I wore and my earings that Hubby had made for me!

Here's another picture of the girls baskets and my garter that my mama gave me at my second shower, along with my pearls.

*note-we never actually got to the garter and flower toss, the night got away from us, but in the end it wasn't a big deal at all.

Here's my guest book that was at the ceremony, another gift from my mama, I believe she gave this to me the Christmas before we got married.

And that's all for this recap.....hope everyone is having a great Tuesday!