Wedding Blog

Or married.

Well that’s it—the whole shebang. We planned, we wed, we partied and we survived. The whole thing was very surreal. Some days it was too real and other days I felt like I was living in a dream (and sometimes a nightmare).

After we left Cairns, we headed south to Brisbane aboard the Sunlander Trans-Queensland train. We wanted to see more of the Australian landscape but knew we didn’t have time to do any driving ourselves so we boarded the train for a 24-hour trip.

So after the after party, Mr. Joey and I enjoyed a lovely Sunday with our families, spent Monday packing and opening presents, and on Tuesday jumped on a plane to Australia.

I was a little worried Mr. Joey wouldn’t make it. My flights for works average about 22 hours one-way, so Australia wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle. He thinks trips to see his parents in South…

After the wedding was over I thought, ‘Well, that’s that. No more wedding planning for me.’ My sister is already married and most of my friends are, too. I figured I’d be done with planning, but you know what? I’m not. Guess what? Remodeling/building a house is like wedding planning. Who knew?

Well, someone did. My coworker joked that remodeling his kitchen was like wedding planning…

Did I ever say that we LOVE Jay-Z? I secretly think Mr. Joey lived in Brooklyn near the Marcy St. subway station because he lived near there once. I have seen Jay-Z worked into his US History lesson plans, too. Hmm…

Anyway, like the song says, after the show it’s the after party, and an after party it was! It wasn’t crazy, but it was the…

There weren’t just a few kids at out wedding, there were A LOT of kids at our wedding. And with a lot of kids comes A LOT of really disgustingly cute kid pictures. There are so many pictures that the kids deserved their own post.

OK, get ready to want kids!

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Even though we didn’t have a full-on dance ‘til you drop reception, we did have dancing and we did have some dancing machines.

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I know that this is controversial, but we had a money dance. We were on the fence about it for a while but then everyone started asking us if we were going to do it. I don’t mean just my family where the money dance is tradition, I mean Mr. Joey’s family and our friends. When I realized that Mr. Joey’s family had done the…

I loved seeing the cast of Glee do Young MC’s Bust A Move.

Anyway, before I got distracted by Glee, I was talking about busting a move. With whom? Papa Joey.

Instead of doing the traditional slow dance with my Dad, we decided to do the twist and Mr. Joey and MIL Joey joined us.

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After we ate and mingled a little, it was time for the toasts. I have to say, the toasts were one of the highlights of the wedding day. I’ve been to weddings where there were 7-10 toasts that were really intimate/personal that I sometimes didn’t understand.

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NOM NOM NOM Butternut squash with saffron cream

We exited out of the kitchen into a room of people we loved.

Look at the goofy look on my face! I had that same face in a school picture when I was 7 years old.

While we were away getting our pictures taken, our guest arrived at Lake Union Cafe and were greeted with a drink and some DELICIOUS appetizers.

While our guests were enjoying a few beverages and some of Mama Joey’s homemade lumpia, Mr. Joey and I snuck out to take a few more pictures. We ended up a few blocks away from our reception site on the shore of Lake Union.

Here are some of our favorite shots:

A little saturated color?