We are back! The wedding has come and gone. Pictures from our guests are starting to pop up on our Flickr account (link to the right in the blogroll as well).

The Wedding was fantastic! Even though it rained and pictures and the ceremony had to be moved inside, it didn’t matter.  In fact, the ceremony may have even turned out better because of it.

I woke up at 6am with a knot in my stomach.  I was nervous and terrified.  I couldn’t eat.  I woke the Bridesmaids up around 8:15 a.m. by playing “Somebody’s Getting Married” from the Muppets Take Manhattan on my laptop.  Half of them were NOT pleased. We headed to the Inn around 9am.

The Ladies from Hey Good Lookin’ Salon arrived at 10am and the beautification was underway.  Manicures, Pedicures, Hair and Makeup took until 1:30pm to complete.  We kept me busy with a plain un-toasted bagel and some snapple, and the Wedding Crashers on DVD.

The flowers and the photographers arrived around 3pm and we got ready to take pictures.

They set Mitch up at the end of a hallway and I walked up behind him photographers in tow.  The moment he turned around that knot in my stomach went away and I had a great time from there out.  It started raining so pictures were kept inside.  At 4pm I made the call to just move the ceremony inside.

I honestly thought I would be more upset about having to move the ceremony inside, but I wasn’t.  It barely even phased me. I was in the dress. This thing was happening indoors or out. I really think it turned out beautifully.  There we stood in front of a fireplace filled with candles, with pictures of our parents and grandparents set up on the mantel and all our family and friends squished in around us.  I’m not sure that outdoors would have been “better”.

The night continued with a lot of dancing, dinner and make your own ice cream sundaes! Mitch and I made sure we took the time to get a sundae.  That was the big thing we wanted to have at the wedding and I think it was a hit.

It was hard to spend as much time with everyone there as we had wanted, and I feel like Mitch and I were off on our own for most of the night trying to divide and conquer.  It was great to have everyone we cared about in the same room. Our family and friends made that day awesome!

The reception ended at 11pm and the party continued at the Inn’s bar until 1am.  I’m pretty sure some people partied even longer, but we decided to head to our room at that point.  The morning came pretty quickly and we headed down for breakfast.  Mitch and I stayed until everyone had checked out and headed home.

I have to admit I was sad to see it end.  Everything went as great as we could have hoped it would and to see all this planning play out in front of us was amazing.  It truly was a fantastic day.  I wish we could do that every year, but as Mitch says, It wouldn’t be as special if people did this all the time.

So, to those of you reading who attended our wedding, we thank you.  Our family kept saying how great our friends are and our friends kept saying how great our families are.   All of you are correct.

We couldn’t be happier.

…well maybe if we didn’t get some terrible bacteria in the Dominican, but that’s another post for another time.

Also coming up – Vendor Reviews.

-Molly