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On Saturday, April 13th, James and I got married at a state park near our house. We kept everything small this time around and are planning to have a more formal reception next year (gotta save that $$$).

The only photos I have from the day so far are random cell phone and Polaroid shots taken by friends, family, and a random stranger at a hot dog stand (true story). We had an amazing photographer at the ceremony and kept her around to do some couple portraits but we haven’t received the edits yet. Even though she has a two month turnaround listed in the contract, I still can’t stop from checking my email multiple times per day. I can’t wait to see them! Our photographer does have a sharing policy so once pictures are available, I will be emailing the link to friends and family with instructions on how to view and share them. We did get to see a few preview photos and they’re GOOD. We really like our photographer and ideally we’d love to have her photograph our wedding next year (…I wonder if she’d be down to come to Ireland too…) so I don’t want to make her mad by sharing the photos in an improper way!

A quick review of the day…

I woke up bright and early with only Lilly for company (James slept at his aunt and uncle’s house) and started in on my make up. I met my mom at the salon so we could get our hair done and then we came back to my house so she could zip me into my dress. Matt (our roommate/ordained minister) drove the flowers to the park and I drove the dog.

Once we got to the park, James was off with the photographer getting some pictures taken and prepping for the first look. There’s a covered bridge in the park that we knew would make a perfect first look location because he wouldn’t be able to see me walk in from the parking area. James always looks great but I don’t really ever get to see him dressed up all that often so seeing him in a suit and tie was extra special! We did a bunch of photos in the bridge and then joined our families over by a waterfall for the ceremony.

After the ceremony, we did a bunch of group photos and then sent our families off while we did more photos. It was a gorgeous day and our photographer had us get in the water – it was freezing but it made for some amazing pictures!

When James and I were done with the park, we were STARVING. When wedding planning stress was getting to me earlier this year, I kept saying that we should just go to a courthouse and then go to Taco Bell after. I was mostly kidding. Mostly. As we were driving home, we passed a hot dog stand on the side of the road and knew we had to stop. A few people were there and one lady was in complete disbelief that we had JUST gotten married. She took a picture for us AND THEN TOOK ONE ON HER OWN PHONE. So now some random lady has a photo of us on our wedding day. Cool.

Of course knowing me and my (incredible lack of) luck, it wouldn’t be my wedding day without a 911 call. On our drive home, we came around a rather sharp curve to find a telephone pole broken, dangling above the road, AND ON FIRE. We pulled over further down the road and called 911 and it was the weirdest call of my life. We barely had any service so they couldn’t find our location and when we tried providing our location (we gave the intersection of where we were at which were two main roads), the dispatcher still had no idea where we were. We left the scene uninjured and I didn’t see anything on the news about it so I’m guessing nobody else was injured and that it was repaired relatively quickly.

At night we went to the bar where we met and joined friends and family for some food and drinks. We had a Polaroid camera for guests to take photos and leave in the guest book…they are my favorite things of all time. I forgot how great it is to actually HOLD pictures. That camera will definitely be making more appearances at future events (it’s already made the trip to Nashville!).

So now that we’re married, what’s next? Well, every lady over the age of 50 is hoping for babies but that’s not on our radar just yet. I honestly don’t even think I could handle another dog right now! We’ve started planning some upcoming vacations and this summer we’re going to take a stab at planning the Big Wedding. I’m really bugging James to go to Disney for our honeymoon but that won’t be until after the Big Wedding so we have some time to decide plan.

Until our next adventure!