Weddingbee Blog

A few photos by the phenomenal (I’m starting to run out of superlative adjectives to use for her!) Jane Heller of the ceremony site, and around the house, from right before the ceremony while I was getting ready.

The house that morning, with the ladder still up from when my psycho-helpful friends were hanging the glass bottles in the tree.

The aisle runners from Pearl River with the view beyond.

The chairs for the parents & elderly. The caterers originally set up the white garden chairs that we used for the reception here, as I had asked them to, and like an hour before the ceremony (I think I already had my makeup on?) one of them stumbled across me all by myself dragging garden chairs out of the way and pulling dining room chairs out of the house. She was…a little shocked. But quickly offered to remove the rest of the white chairs and arrange the dining room chairs for me! I’m really glad I made that decision though, I feel like this looks so much more natural and fits with the setting, whereas the white chairs just looked like normal white wedding chairs, and didn’t add anything to the “character” of the site.

A not so great shot of the arch my dad and uncle built that morning from two trees they cut down in the woods. My mom then attached a sprig from a white flowering bush along the top. (We call it “siringa” but everyone who calls it that is fairly certain that’s not actually the correct name…)

A close-up of the view that day. One of my main disappointments with the wedding is that the view doesn’t show up in ANY of our ceremony photos. It’s just one of those tricky lighting situations where either you can see us or you can see the view, so the sky is all washed out and white behind us in virtually every shot, even though it was spectacular in person.

The dining room table after all the chairs & buckets of flowers have been removed.

We had two guestbooks: one “normal” one for us, and the guestbook for the house. The original house guestbook was started in the 1870’s, and a lot of the really old signers drew pictures and wrote stories with theirs! The current book starts in the 1960s, shortly before my parents’ wedding, so all the guests from their wedding, as well as my brother and sister-in-law’s, are all listed in the book. Here I am writing “Wedding of Miss Bluebell & Mr. Bluebell June 23, 2007″ across the top of a fresh page for everyone to sign.

 And now people are starting to assemble! Here’s a supercute picture of my brother taking a picture of my sister-in-law. They got married at the same house, just a year and two weeks before us!

My dad used to be a big cigar smoker but has essentially stopped these days. That is…until my friend who’s a Marine stationed in Cuba showed up with some Cubans…

 My sister-in-law slash last-minute-DOC handing our DIY programs over to my little second cousin for her to pass out. These are some of the baskets we got supercheap from Jamali Garden.

 Cutest program-passer-outer EVER!!!

A shot from the arch looking back out at everyone assembling.

Mr. Bluebell & his dad, finding their places.

Getting one last dab of lipgloss from my ceremony reader before we head out!!!