Post-wedding!

[littlelotte]

This post is not even CLOSE to dial-up friendly. Around 30 of my favorite photos so far from family and friends at our wedding on Saturday in Kalamazoo. I really can't believe that it's finally come and gone. The day was insane.

Comments

[amelia_petkova]

Congratulations! Everyone and everything look amazing. Bonus points on having a wedding dress that looks comfortable!

[littlelotte]

teehee...thank you! It was definitely comfortable! The only problem with it was that when I hugged one of my friends pre-wedding I stepped back onto my hem and heard a *riiiip*...one of my bustle ties ripped and I was stuck with a train the rest of the night because the safety pins didn't want to hold it. :-P Ah well.

[chasmine17]

Congrats!!! You were beautiful! It looks like you threw a great party ;).

[littlelotte]

Aw...thank you :-) I hope we did! Our goal was to be as relaxed as possible, and to cut down on some of the traditional stuff. People seemed to enjoy themselves :-)

[littlelotte]

Thanks! It was definitely comfortable. I used silk flowers and did them all myself. The blue ones are roses because it's one of our "things." Not long before I started chatting with him online I was Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Laura is pretty much the central character in the play, and there's a story within it about how Laura's big crush in high school would call her Blue Roses. Well, Tennessee Williams was Dan's favorite playwright (his screenname in chat was Brick_6363--Brick from TW's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and 63 from his old football number back in middle school, and doing that play had had quite an effect on my life. I would occasionally use a handle in chat that referenced the nickname and character. It's something that's always kind of stuck as part of us, and so I wanted to incorporate blue roses into the wedding :-)

[diatryma]

I like silly wedding traditions. My department's is a gas can full of some alcoholic concoction. I'm not getting married any time soon, but I'd like to have it anyway.

Congratulations to you both!

[littlelotte]

hehe...that sounds like an interesting time! I don't think I even mentioned the broom dance, did I? His family has a tradition where one of the women makes a broom (Broomhilda, of course!) in the wedding colors, and then there's a dance with it. It usually starts with one of the single guys on their side, and it always starts with a polka (typically the Beer Barrel Polka). The broom then gets passed around for cutting in with other people's dance partners. It's a lot of fun and usually ends up making appearances throughout the rest of the night...lol

Thank you :-D

[dramaturgca]

So many congratulations! You look lovely.
Be well. Blessed be.

[littlelotte]

Thank you :-D