The Reception: Part II
August 2nd, 2007 @ 5:24 pm by Mrs. Plum
Our lovely dance floor gobo (designed by the lovely Sarah of Truly Smitten and produced by Switch Dallas Lighting Company)
taking a few pictures with our guests
Our Vera Wang Love Knots toasting flutes on the cake table
my bouquet on the table….
champagne for toasting and to drink with the cake
(yes, I did change my dress to a short dupioni silk ABS dress at the Friday reception - I couldn’t foxtrot in my big poofy wedding gown!)
us cutting into the WRONG layer of the cake aka the styrofoam layer….
(if you look closely, you can see the hubs wearing his wedding gift!)
the hubs contemplating whether or not he should smash cake in my face - this is right before I threatened him! 
doing the linking arms drinking thing…
Toasts:
Our First Dance: <to “It Had To Be You”>
the dance ended with him seating me back down and giving me a kiss on the hand
Time to get this party started!
the band - we used Third Party Live - they were great!
being silly with my sister…
time to slow it down….
dancing together as hubby and wife
slow dancing with my sister while the hubby goes to enjoy the open bar with his buddies
time to toss the bouquet!
check out my sister! LOL - she claims that she was trying to push one of our other friends into the front to catch it, but the photo evidence suggests otherwise!
garter time! (funny story: MIL asked the hubs later on why he got it with his hands rather than going to get it with his teeth!?! crazy mom!)
Our guest favors were small birds nests filled with chocolate truffle robins eggs - both from Williams-Sonoma.
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12 Responses to “The Reception: Part II”
i still am in love with your cake, but your reception dress is fantabulous!
oh your party dress is adorable!
That dress is to die for. Everything looks gorgeous!
Love your shoes–can I ask who makes them and where you could get them? Love your reception dress by the way!
Your sister is so cute and funny!
Ooooooh! Everything looks gorgeous… You look great! 
it looked so beautiful and a lot of fun! i loved the toasting flutes!
Hi Mrs. Plum, I love your wedding posts! This is off this specific post topic but it is in regards to a previous post you did earlier. The Nine West shoes you bought for your bridesmaids was one I just bought in gold for my bachelorette trip to Vegas next weekend. Just wanted to see if your bm’s made any comments regarding if they really hurt their feet or not. Any info you have would be great. Thanks!
Everything looks wonderful. I am lovin the birds nest and truffle eggs.
haha i’m cute! and funny! =)
hey shannon- the nine west shoes, while super cute, were instruments of torture on our feet. seeeeriously. after two days of wearing them and constantly being on our feet, i swear to you that i could not feel the last two toes on both feet or my big toes for about 4 days. haha i’m not trying to scare you, but they really did a number on my feet.
maybe it’s because we hadn’t really broken them in yet, but i definitely would advise against wearing them around vegas unless you already can’t feel your feet– in which case, go for it!
Hi Miss Plum! Love your posts. If you are willing to sell your ABS reception dress I will buy it from you in a heartbeat. I’ve looked all over for it and can’t find that dress. Totally a serious buyer let me know. Thanks and congrats on your wedding!
Mrs. Plum, Dallas
Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin
Engagement Date: December 31, 2004
Wedding Date: June 29, 2007
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens
About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
nice party! everything looked really great. i love your toasting flutes.