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Mrs. Bluebell Mrs. Bluebell, New York Age and Occupation in 07: 26, Finance Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Playing with the cat and/or Consulting Engagement Date: December 25, 2005 Wedding Date: June 2007 Venue: Bride's family summer home in the Adirondacks About Me: Trying to find the perfect balance between family tradition (marrying at the house everyone else in my family gets married at), making our's modern, interesting and different from everyone else in my family's, and incorporating some Chinese tradition for my Chinese fiance. I really have no idea what it's going to end up looking like! Also, I picked Miss Bluebell for my name because I have blue eyes and I'm a loser like that.
 
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Mrs. Bluebell, New York Age and Occupation in 07: 26, Finance Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Playing with the cat and/or Consulting Engagement Date: December 25, 2005 Wedding Date: June 2007 Venue: Bride's family summer home in the Adirondacks About Me: Trying to find the perfect balance between family tradition (marrying at the house everyone else in my family gets married at), making our's modern, interesting and different from everyone else in my family's, and incorporating some Chinese tradition for my Chinese fiance. I really have no idea what it's going to end up looking like! Also, I picked Miss Bluebell for my name because I have blue eyes and I'm a loser like that.
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After Dinner

October 5th, 2007 @ 12:26 pm by Mrs. Bluebell

<all photos by Jane Heller.>

When I was dancing with my dad (in the background), Mr. Bluebell danced with my adorable little cousin!! (You’ll see lots more of her, don’t you worry!) We didn’t have an official father-daughter dance, and Mr. Bluebell’s mom preferred not to dance at all, so my dad just stepped in at some point to whatever song happened to be playing then. After everyone staring at us for…the first thirty seconds of our first dance, I was more than happy to not be the center of attention again!
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My uncle, from rural South Carolina, loves to sing (and has done some local musical theatre). So when he saw Mr. Bluebell’s great aunt, the professional Chinese opera singer who sang during our ceremony, after dinner, he couldn’t resist a duet! Despite the language and musical-style barriers, they settled on Moon River as a song they both knew and it was awesome to see them sing it together!!!!
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Awww aren’t they the cutest?
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We had a bonfire just a ways outside the tent for anyone who got cold or just wanted a bit of fresh air. People were gathered around it all night!! We had a few tree stumps around it as well, so people could sit if they wanted.
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You can’t really tell in the night time pictures, but the lanterns were pale blue, red, and pale orange. There were 12 blues and 6 each of red and orange, so we alternated them blue, not blue, blue, not blue so that the blue would tie them all together but they still had a casual festive look.
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My awesomely cute cousin decided that we should play Copycat - where she does ridiculous dance moves and everyone has to imitate her. I would guess that at least 30% of our guests were copying her at one point or another throughout the night!!
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More Copycat!
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Even the older relatives were gettin’ down!
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After a good bit of Copycat, my cousin started challenging people to DANCEOFFS!! One of my bridesmaids accepted every DANCEOFF challenge, and got quite competitive. The only truly important rule in a DANCEOFF is that the person who is not dancing at the moment has to cross their arms in front of them and look sassy.
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One of my cousin’s awesome DANCEOFF moves!!
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Haha we don’t even know what this one is! (Back to Copycat now)
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A little husband-wife-crazydancingcousin bonding.
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Mr. Bluebell hand-crafted all of the playlists for our wedding, and did all the wiring etc himself too! It worked out really well and he only occasionally had to pop over to the laptop to adjust anything. Behind him is my cousin that got CRAZY HIGH by chugging many many bottles of our maple syrup favors. Oh man, he was out of control. shocked019
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Oh yeah, you know it’s another DANCEOFF!
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A quiet moment by the bonfire as the party winds down…
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…and back up the lantern-lit path to the house we go!
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[a separate post about my surprise (!) bouquet toss coming soon…]

8 Responses to “After Dinner”

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Emma says:

That looks SO FUN! I hope my cousins are that cute at my wedding.

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Miss Kiwi says:

Awww… the wedding looks so pretty. :) That shawl matches perfectly!!

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Mrs. Emerald says:

Hahaha I LOVE the idea of a dance off, too too cute!

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Lisa says:

I agree with Emma - your wedding definitely looks like it was a blast. Dance-offs! How great is that?!

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Angel says:

Hopped up on maple syrup isn’t pretty. :)

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Angel says:

Oops…forgot to add:

But your reception sure is. And I bet everyone is going to remember your cousin!

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bearbride says:

That is SO cute to see! Looks like your guests all had a wonderful time.

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sillyinphilly says:

everything about your wedding has looked so fun and amazing. and your little dancing-machine cousin is the cutest!


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