Wedding Events Schedule

Just so you know, this part of Nebraska happens to be in the Mountain Time Zone, so make sure to factor that in if you're coming from the East.

Saturday

5:00 PM               Procession and Ceremony Starts

Unless the groom, the bride or the minister are missing, it will be starting on time.  Please gather at the general store and we'll all walk down to the ceremony site together.  Wear comfortable shoes or bring someone willing to carry you quite a ways.


6:00 PM(ish)       Reception Starts

Right after the ceremony, the wedding party will stick around and take a few pictures.  Once that's through, we'll head over to the reception site (on the other side of the campground) for dinner and more.  There will be dancing, a photo scavenger hunt, a photobooth, and even some board games to play.  We may also get a campfire started.

Sunday

9:00 AM               Goodbye Breakfast

A last chance to say goodbye to our friends and family before we fly off on our honeymoon and then back to North Carolina.  The menu is biscuits n' gravy, scrambled eggs and fruit.

Photo by Sweet.Eventide (Creative Commons)

Photo Scavenger Hunt!

Bring your digital cameras!  One of the activities at the reception will be a photo scavenger hunt for our guests, including prizes.  A box of sea salt caramels will go to:  the guest with the best picture overall, the guest with the best pictures in all five categories (one guest with the best five photos), and the guest with the most pictures from the list (if there's a tie, we'll go by quality).

Bride & Groom

• the bride & groom when they think no one is looking
• the bride & groom arriving at the reception
• the bride & groom acting silly
• bride & groom cutting/eating the cake
• first dance
• father/daughter & mother/son dance

Wedding Party & Family

• wedding posse on the dance floor
• wedding posse member fixing their sash/tie
• bride or groom's parents
• groom's grandparents
• bride & her sister (maid of honor)
• groom & his brother (best man)

Guests

• cutest couple
• best/worst dancer
• couple dancing together
• messiest cake eater
• laughter
• someone taking a picture
• guests playing games

Details

• favorite decoration
• the cupcakes
• someone signing the guestposter
• fun with favors
• artistic shot of food

Fun

• you & another guest (friend, family member, partner-in-crime, someone you just met, etc.)
• photo of any group (your table, school friends, couples, cousins, people wearing blue, etc.)
• clinking glasses
• silly faces
• kisses

We'll have a computer at the reception for you to download your photos onto before you leave or you can upload them on our shutterfly site or our Flickr group!

Photo by Samantha Decker (Creative Commons)

Meet Our Photographer!

Our photographer is actually someone I've known for quite a long time.  She was in my sister's class from elementary school and spent quite a lot of time over at our house.  Because of the magic of Facebook, I happened to see some of her work and that she was doing photography professionally.

Christine Williams of Carpe Diem Photography

In addition to being our paparazzi for the day, she will be doing her best to capture guests being...well, guests at our wedding.  Dancing, talking, playing games, laughing and generally having a good time (or so we hope).  So, if you see her sneaking up on you at the wedding reception with her camera, just continue with that embarrassing story you were telling or goofy move you were showing off on the dance floor.  These are the types of memories we want to keep and treasure for years to come.  Yes, including that stupid face you make when you laugh.  Don't worry, we won't post the really embarrassing ones online.

Reception Menu

We've finally found a caterer and worked out the menu.  No guarantee it won't change a little between now and the wedding but here's what we have so far.

Food

Smoked Pulled Pork

North Carolina BBQ Sauce

Kaiser Roll

Baked Macaroni and Cheese

Coleslaw

Green Beans

Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs.

Drinks

Sweet Tea

Unsweet Tea

Lemonade

Adult Drinks

North Carolina Sweet Wines (Old North State Winery's Starlight White and Afternoon Delight)

Microbrew Wheat Beer (NBC Infinite Wit Beer)

Microbrew Dark Beer (Empyrean Third Stone Brown Beer)

BYOB*

*Because the campground is private, guests have the option of bringing in their own beverages.

Take the Reception Drinks Poll and let us know what your preferred form of social lubricant is!