Weddingbee Blog

So, it’s not Pi Day, but it was just Valentine’s Day, and that is a month away from Pi Day… thus, I bring you The Post of Pies.

You may recall that for our wedding, we opted out of cake and instead decided we wanted community-contributed pies. We didn’t solicit everyone: only people who wanted to make pies were responsible for the pies, and our awesome caterers took care of making it all look pretty. My fabulous sister/MOH made sure there were little signs available so that everyone knew what each pie was and whom it came from. This felt like another really fantastic way for the people of our community to be involved. We are absolutely not organized enough to pull off a pot-luck wedding, but potluck dessert? Sounds good. (AND! A couple of awesome bees even mailed us some pies!)

We had about 45 people at our wedding, so our caterers suggested 6-8 pies. In the last couple of weeks before the wedding, we found out some people weren’t interested in contributing; others just couldn’t make the logistics work. So you can imagine our surprise when we ended up with 20 pies. That’s right, folks: that’s about half a pie per person.

You can bet picking which slice you wanted was not an easy task.

Now bear with me here: I’m jumping out of order, but before our first dance and the pies were offered to everyone, we did engage in an age-old tradition: cutting the cake together. Except we cut a pie, and let me tell you, it is much harder to cut a pie (and probably a cake, too) with someone else and while a whole lot of people are watching you.

We were clearly nervous about this, but pulled it off successfully!

And then, onto our first dance! Oh, you guys, so many people keep saying they’ll be sad when my recaps are over, and I can tell you that I’m realizing I am going to be one of them! I thought that I would be ready to be done with this whole wedding thing—and in many ways, I am. I am so grateful that it’s all over, that we are just married, living our life—but I also love that I can come back to little pieces of it every couple of days and relive it through telling you all about it. Thank you for being here to listen.

being married vs. getting married still means DELICIOUS BRUNCH

I admit that by the time it was Pie-time, I was so full from the amazing brunch that I only had a bite or two, but our guests all assured me that all of the pies were absolutely amazing, and I was really pleased to have another way that people felt like they were truly a part of our wedding day. Plus, we had leftovers: on New Year’s Eve we ate the Southern Sweet Potato Pie from our wedding, which felt like a wonderful way to end the year and ring in the new… and our Anniversary Apple Pie (the whole thing!) is still waiting patiently in the freezer.

Did you have pies? Cakes? Community-contributed deliciousness?

Before this, we:

• Had a chaotic evening before the wedding and an early morning rehearsal.
• Got ready together, got ready some more separately, and then had a first look.
• Watched our family and friends process in and met each other in front of all of our guests.
• Listened as our minister welcomed our guests and some of our best friends gave some lovely readings.
• Watched our rings traveled among our guests while more poems were read.
• Said our big words and were blessed by the universe.
• Breathed a sigh of relief as our rings returned, not only unscathed, but also blessed, and we exchanged them and heard another reading. Oh yeah, and then we danced up the aisle.
• Were for serious married! We took off in a canoe and returned for family pictures.
• Took pretty and seriously fun pictures with our bridal brigade!
• Ran off into the woods together and snuggled.
• Listened to some of our closest family say the most heartwarming things about how wonderful we are (thanks, family!).
• Ate food and declared even more of our wedding The Best Part.
• Had a magical first dance to some hauntingly beautiful music.