Wedding Blog

After we departed our reception location, Mr. Powder Puff and I made our way over to Grand Rapids, where my dad had reserved us a room at the J.W. Mariott. Swanky, yo! We took the elevator to the top floor, and entered our beautiful room, where I proceeded to sit on the bed and wail. I cried my little eyes out.

My new husband, thoroughly distressed,…

After the cake, it was time *jazz hands* to dance! From years of research at other weddings, I had determined that the most fun was had when the bride and groom didn’t leave the dance floor all night. So, I decided that that was exactly what I was going to do—dance the night away.

And boy, did we dance!

Mr. Powder Puff looks like a sexy dancing…

Papa Powder Puff is not really a dancer. He tries, bless his heart, but dancing is not really his thing. So when I was looking for a song for us to dance to, I wanted something short, cute and upbeat. After choosing “Sweet Pea” by Amos Lee, I felt confident that Dad would be able to pull the father/daughter dance off without too much trouble.

But…

After the toasts and dinner were through, it was time to dig in to our yummy cake!

Now, for all you curious souls, I have to tell you, there was absolutely no way that Mr. Powder Puff and I were going to be partaking in the cake smash tradition. In the months leading up the wedding, I had regularly schooled Mr. Powder Puff on the reasons…

After the lovey-doveyness of the first dance was out of the way, we opened up the floor to toasts!

My dad kicked things off with a really sweet welcome.

After the cocktail hour was over, we sat everyone down and made our grand entrance. And it was grandly awesome, to say the least! Our bridal party took it upon themselves to organize hilarious, individual entrances.

Some went with a paparazzi theme…

Before we get to the really fun stuff (i.e. the rockin’ reception!!!), I thought I’d show you all a few details from our day. Some of these things I’ve blogged about, and some I haven’t. This Powder Puff has still got some surprises up her sleeve!

My beautiful bouquet. This was a surprise to me on our wedding day, since I had basically given no direction…

After the ceremony was over, we removed my birdcage veil…

bustled my dress…

When we last left off, Mr. Powder Puff and I had just gotten ourselves hitched, and we were basking in the newlywed glow. Which is fabulous. But in order to understand the proper placement in time of these photos, you need to take a little trip back with me to before the newlywed glow, and to more of an, “OMG! We’re about to get married!!!”…

Ed. note: Mrs. Powder Puff is on her honeymoon, but she really wanted to participate in this series, and wrote her post on her blackberry and sent it to us! That’s dedication!

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I first heard about blogging back in college, circa 2004. Sitting in a classroom at the beautiful Michigan State University, my professor was discussing new innovations in journalism (my undergraduate degree) when he mentioned…

So, we last left off when I had reached the end of the aisle. I was so happy to have all of our guests there to witness one of the most important days of our lives, but Mr. Powder Puff and I could have literally been in front of a crowd of thousands and I wouldn’t have noticed. All I could see was him.

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OK, so I know I said that bridal party portraits would be next, but I’m just too excited to share our ceremony with you! So I thought we’d take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to skip ahead to the ceremony, and talk about the bridal party pictures a little later, mmmkay?

Our photo shenanigans had left my dress a little dirty, so we tried…

Immediately after our first look, Mr. Powder Puff and I took a good long time to pose for some portraits.

We left our story last with this handsome man waiting to view his bride for the first time.

Hark! There she is, rounding the bend!

When the girls and I arrived at our venue, it was a little like a mad dash. Our photographer was ready and waiting, and we still had a few last minute projects to set up. So while Sam photographed some details of the day, the bridesmaids and I ran around the venue making sure everything was ready.

After a few rushed moments, everything was perfect, and…