Wedding Blog

After we had a little time with our friends and family outside the church, we led a processional of all our guests up the Church Street Marketplace. Fun fact: downtown Burlington, VT was designed by the same people who designed downtown Boulder, CO (known as Pearl Street Mall).

You can see video footage of the walk up the marketplace taken by a friend in a previous post. It was actually less than 400 feet from the church to the restaurant!

At the end of our short stroll we arrived at our reception location.

We had our cocktail hour downstairs on their “patio” and then moved upstairs for our dinner reception.

In the center of the patio was a table for our wish bowl and card box. We also rested the bridesmaid’s bouquets and my bouquet on the table which added to the decor. Does the galvanized tin full of white tulips and purple tissue paper look familiar? Yup, those were our pew decorations from the ceremony!

I printed a tent card (placed flat so it didn’t blow away) with one of our lovely monograms explaining the wish bowl inviting guests to write a note, wish, memory or thought for us and to place it in the bowl.

This lovely card box which I purchased for under $10 at a home goods store now holds all our wedding memories — a few of our invitations, programs, CD’s with photos, our video DVD, wish cards etc.

A sample of the yummy cocktail hour food I ate hardly any of as there was so much going on! I did have one piece of this chicken though.

Early on during our cocktail hour our wonderful florist, Dana Barrow, who runs her own company, scooted by with a box of flowers that she had picked up from the church and was bringing upstairs to finish the reception tables (all of our ceremony flowers were used again at the reception — great money saver if you can manage it)!

We were so thrilled to run into her and ran upstairs with her to see the reception space all set up.

We had a few moments to chat with her and thank her for all her hard work. I would highly recommend all couples take a few moments to look at their reception space before everyone else enters so you can really take in all your hard work. Once people start arriving you won’t have a chance to really take this all in.

Next time…back to the cocktail hour and a clown juggling swords!

Photos: Daria Bishop Photography
All flowers: Fresh Floral Design Studio
Location: Adrianas Restaurant, Burlington, VT
My Dress: Romona Keveza from Mark Ingram’s Bridal Atelier
My Shoes: Cynthia Rowley Trilogy
My Veil: Two tier elbow length from Rose’s Bridal, NYC
Mr. Onion’s suit: Alan David Custom
Monograms: Creative Montage