Wedding So Cal''s wedding pics

[so cal girl]

Okay, most of you probably know nothing about me, since I pretty much just lurked on this board the entire time I was engaged. This had mostly to do with me simultaneously planning a wedding, working 60 hours a week, and trying to finish up grad school. Well, I graduated May 16th, got married on June 14th, and now have lots of time to actually post!

I wanted to post some of my wedding pics, because I loved looking at other people''s pics, and I thought I''d throw mine in. I''m going to tell you up front, I LOVED everything about my wedding, so I might go a little crazy with the pics. Just bare with me.

The first one is of our rings, since I know that is what PS''ers really want to see.

Let''s see if this works...

 

[so cal girl]

This is my champagne toast with my girls while we were getting ready. We had no champagne glasses, so we just used plastic cups.

 

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Here is me and my mom before I got dressed. As you can see from my face, I am EXTREMELY nervous. I didn''t calm down until I actually saw my husband at the alter.

 

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Here is my dress before I put it on. I absolutely loved it. It was very "me".

 

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I also bought a belt to go with the dress. Here is a close up of the detail.

 

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Me getting ready...

 

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I really enjoyed having the flower girls. They were sooooo cute.

 

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Here is me with all my girls. If you can''t tell, one of my bridesmaids was 9 months pregnant. She ended up having her baby five days after the wedding. I was so honored that she still wanted to stand up with me in my wedding.

 

[so cal girl]

Love this one of all of the girls.

 

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Here is my hubby with his twin brother. I think a bunch of people went up and congratulated his brother before hubby showed up at church.

 

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This is a great picture of the guys.

 

[so cal girl]

At the church we got married in, the flower girls were not allowed to throw petals. So they handed out daisies to people as they went up the aisle. It was very cute. Also, my two year old ring bearer decided he didn''t want to go down the aisle right before the wedding, so my sister had to grab his older brother to stand in.

 

[so cal girl]

I had both of my parents give me away. I really wanted to emphasize that both of them are equally important to me and have had a huge significance in my life.

 

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Us saying our vows.

 

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For some reason, I love this picture.

 

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A great picture of me and my dad.

 

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One of the first pictures of us as husband and wife!

 

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Our wedding party.

 

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Here are my girls and my hubby. They were all groping him, trying to get him to laugh.

 

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I tried to incorporate that we were at the beach with a whole shell theme. The place cards didn''t come out as great as I hoped, but they were ridiculously cheap.

 

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Us walking in for the grand entrance.

 

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Our first dance.

 

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You can see the lighting effects we had behind us here. They were a little larger than I expected, but still nice.

 

[Shoopy]

What a beautiful bride

Everything looked great!

 

[so cal girl]

This was my first dance with my dad. I must have said something to make him laugh. It doesn''t take much, he''s a pretty jolly person.

 

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Our cake, which was fantastic.

 

[Skippy123]

Hi and glad you joined Pricescope! I am a Stephanie too! hehe You and your hubby are a beautiful couple! I loved your dress and the bridesmaid's dresses, oh yes, and the adorable flower girl dresses! I like their dresses because they were the typical all white you usually see; very cute! Great colors too, the orange gerber daisy's and navy dresses! Many congrats on graduating and the gorgeous wedding!

 

[so cal girl]

This picture absolutely cracks me up. My husband and I definitely broke out some dance moves for the wedding. Neither of us are very good dancers, but we figured it was our wedding, so who cared if we looked like idiots!

 

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Me about to throw the bouquet.

 

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Hubby about to throw the garter.