Weddingbee Blog

Previously in the Toucan Recap Series…
1. Getting Ready
2. Getting in the Door
3. First Look and Tea Ceremony #1
4. Get Me to the Church on Time!
5. The Ceremony and Something Almost Missed

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When I last left you, Mr. Toucan and I finally got the kiss we almost missed. Yay! We’re married!
The thing that we didn’t prepare for was what we were going to do after we finished recessing down the aisle. We walked all they way out of the church…

And our whole wedding party followed us… err… Now what?!

Turns out everyone else followed them, which lead to this:
An impromptu receiving line. We didn’t plan to have one, since we thought it’d take up too much time, but hey! We just got married, and went with it!

Our flower girls went back inside the church to wait for our formal pictures.

How FREAKIN’ cute!

Finally, we finished our receiving line, and I got to get out of the sun and back into the church!
As I mentioned before, our wedding day was REALLY hot! Mr. Toucan had to frequently wipe his face from sweat.
Actually, in the above picture, we were telling the best man about something that happened during the ceremony. Poor Mr. Toucan was sweating in a hot church fully dressed in a tux. He motioned over to his best man, and pretended to pat his face - indicating of course that Mr. Toucan wanted a towel to wipe his face. The best man gives Mr. Toucan the “Oh, right!” look, proceeds to pull out the towel from his pocket, and then… wipes his own face! We clearly all thought it was funny. Mr. Toucan… not so much.

Anyway, it was on to the formals. I’ll only show you a select few, because we took A LOT. First, here’s the one with the wedding party - look at the difference when we added the kids!

Our wedding party was doubled when we added the kids!

Formal photos are nice to have, but most are pretty generic and boring. Look even the groomsmen look a little bored!

Ok. I lie (Bad, Toucan, Bad!). I just like this picture and I wanted to show it to you.

Anyway, only one more formal photo I wanted to show you. This is just my dad’s side of the family.
We took a couple of shots per group, so when we got our proofs back, we had a couple of family shots to choose from. I originally chose the above photo to get prints for my dad’s side of the family… until my sister pointed out something in the picture that I had missed. Do you see it?!? (you can click the image to enlarge)

After formals were finished, it’s off to the reception!
Next up: Tea Ceremony #2!

*Please credit all photos to Robert Mirani Photography.