Keeping Up With Us!

Since we're no longer in the midst of planning a wedding, we've gone radio silent on the wedding blog.  But there are other places to keep up with us at.  Check out this blog to stay up on our adventures!


Pardon My Planet

Prettied Up Pictures!

On Friday, I got the disk from our photographer of prettied up pictures.  We already have the originals (one of the many reasons Christy is awesome), but she retouched about three-hundred pictures.  There's still a few more photos I'd like to retouch myself and share with the world (including the one of Cody getting his foot caught in my dress), but all of the pictures she retouched are now posted on our Shutterfly site so we can start working on designing our photobook. 

http://andthepeasantsrejoiced.shutterfly.com/

See a picture you'd like to have?  They aren't all of us!  We gave our photographer specific instructions to wander around photographing our guests.  You can download full-resolution pictures from the Shutterfly site.  Here's the directions, written especially for my mother who apparently didn't read them the last time.

I'll be posting them to Facebook...eventually.  In the meantime, if you post them online, please make sure to credit Christy (http://www.facebook.com/carpediem.ky).  A lot of photographers are a pain-in-the-butt about digital rights, so it's nice being able to post the images online for everyone, but she still deserves to be recognized for her work.

Download Instructions

1.  Click on an album.
2.  Click on the picture you would like to download.
3.  Move the mouse over the picture.
4.  A menu will appear on the right-hand side of the picture.  Select "Download."

The Wedding

...was a total blast!  Although eloping would have been much easier (minister, photographer, license, done!), I'm glad we decided to have a wedding.  In addition to the opportunity to see a lot of people we hadn't seen in quite awhile and catch-up, a big part of what made the wedding so great was how a lot of our family and friends jumped right in and helped us pull the whole thing together.  Thank you to everyone that brought things, made and put up decorations, ran to town for forgotten items, and just generally helped get this whole thing put together!  It wouldn't have been nearly as fun or enjoyable without your help!

The Procession (Photo by Christine Williams)

A few people really put in a lot of work to make our wedding day special.  Susan, in addition to fulfilling the normal duties of a henchwoman, made all of the 218 cupcakes for the wedding herself (not to mention scones for the wedding day breakfast).  She wants to open a bakery in the Seattle area someday and, based on my extensive "research" of her creations, I think she'll be very successful.  Emily, also a henchwoman, did my make-up (convincing me that, yes, I did have to wear mascara) and brought all the materials to decorate the cupcake display.

Yummy Cupcakes (Photo by Christine Williams)

My outlaws received all of the random shipments we sent to them (cake toppers, photobooth backdrop, mustache straws, wine, etc.) and brought them up to the wedding.  My parents brought up a bunch of other random stuff for the photobooth and food to feed the wedding party.

Photobooth Fun!

My sister served as my social butterfly and event organizer and her boyfriend provided IT support for the photobooth.  The groom's brother/best man (after some convincing) brought the beer from across the state and made our cool wedding sign (with help from his grandmother).

Our Cool Wedding Sign (Photo by Christine Williams)

The whole wedding party, family members, some guests, and our photographer (in addition to photographing the rehearsal dinner, set-up, wedding and reception) helped put together our paper lanterns, make the LED lights for them, and put them up.

Paper Lanterns (Photo by Christine Williams)

In short, we had lots of help in putting this wedding together and we're very grateful for all of our friends and family that helped make our wedding day so special.  It wouldn't have been nearly as wonderful without all of your contributions!

Wedding Party (Photo by Christine Williams)

Photobooth Pictures!

Everyone seems to have had a great time using the photobooth at the wedding.  Since there are still a few of our guests that are Facebook challenged, I've posted a copy of all of the photobooth pictures here on Photobucket.

To Download A Picture:

• Go to our photobooth album on photobucket
• Click on the picture you want
• Move the mouse over the picture
• Move the mouse over "File" which should appear in the top-left corner of the picture
• Click on "Download"
• They're proportioned to print on a 4x6, if you'd like hardcopies

Feel free to download as many pictures as you want!  Some of them might make good blackmail!

Married!

I'll be posting many more photos upon our return (our photographer downloaded almost 3000 pictures onto our computer), but here's one picture from the wedding day.

Photo by Christine Williams

Check out some more pictures on the Carpe Diem Photography page!