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While we were inside finishing up our quick posed portraits, most of our guests were outside getting their wedding wands and awaiting our exit!

And I had to make a quick costume change, of course!

Take it away, Stevie Wonder!

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Our fabulous friends sang this song for us; please play it as you read this post if you can:

Now Kate and Dan would like to invite two very important people in their lives to sing a song together that elucidates the feelings Kate and Dan have for each other, “Come What May”.

And two of our favorite people in the world, my Maid of Honor and…

Well, folks, we’ve now come to my favorite part of our wedding ceremony: the promises and the bling. Since we both decided to write our own vows independently and not share them until the big day, the thing I was most looking forward to (even more than drinking wine and eating chocolate!) was hearing what Mr. Star had written as his marital promises. And let…

After the very moving Circle of Love, we made our way back up onstage and continued on to what would be considered the “marriage address”, in traditional ceremony terms.

What it really was for us was a short section written mostly by Momma Star and my Stepdad about what marriage meant to them, and it included a reading from Madeleine L’Engle that I really wanted to…

Something that I wanted to incorporate which has become quite popular in wedding ceremonies these days is what’s called the “declaration of support”, or the section of the ceremony where the officiant asks the wedding guests to promise to support the couple in their marriage.

I loved the idea of getting our wedding guests involved like that, but wanted to make it a little more powerful…

Way back when, I told you all about how I was writing the entire ceremony from scratch. I promised to share the end result with you, in the hopes that it might help some of you who are as overwhelmed as I was by the whole process, and also as a way of thanking you for your input and influence on our wedding ceremony.

I’ve decided…

Dear hive — please play the following song as you read this post, if you are able. I promise it’s a worthwhile listen!

Thank you, Lifehouse.

Now that all of our besties had their moment and were standing onstage waiting patiently, there was only one person missing (well, two, if you count my Dad!): the bride!

I went back and forth on what music I wanted to walk…

Hive, do me a favor and play this song while you read this post. It’s the song that played during our bridal party processional and I think it really helped set the mood we were going for:

Thank you, Amy Seeley…

And so we had an “audience” full of our nearest and dearest friends and family, who were all gathered there in this edgy little Lower East…

Like I’ve mentioned before, there were many times in my wedding planning when I caught some flack for forgoing the traditional wedding day limo ride, in favor of a more affordable and more authentic New York taxi, which is where the inspiration for this set of photos came from:

I just really wanted that iconic yellow in the background of some of our photos.

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Or “An Inspiration Board based on a Star Wars Christmas Tree Ornament”

I hope you don’t mind me taking a brief break from my recaps to share with you my take on the Christmas ornament inspiration board!

I searched through Etsy, my go-to spot for unique items, for the perfect ornament to use as a springing off point for this series. Inspiration did not strike. However, I…

While the ladies were mugging it for the camera and playing around in the streets, the boys were hard at work downtown, setting up the minimal ceremony decor that I had painstakingly boxed and labeled and sent with them the night before.

Because we had two venues and not a whole lot of time in either one (in New York, time is money!), our wonderful DOC…

I’ve been looking forward to sharing these pictures with you all that it took me an extra long time to write this post, so I apologize for the delay! These are some of the most “New York” pictures from our wedding and I adore them, although the Grand Central ones where Mr. Star finally gets to get in on the photo action are fun, too.…

I wonder if, just like every set of newlyweds thinks their wedding was the coolest and most fun wedding ever, every bride looks at her bridesmaids and her female family members all done up and thinks, ‘Wow, I really have the most beautiful set of ladies there ever was.’

I don’t know if that’s the case, but if it is, then call me a stereotype, because…

So, this was it: we were all prepped and beautified, my ladies were already dressed and ready to go, and my lovely dress was just waiting to be donned.

You know all those lovely, ethereal pictures of wedding dresses just hanging gracefully, looking as though they’re dangling from a cloud? Yeah, I didn’t get those. Which doesn’t particularly bother me and wasn’t anyone’s fault, it’s just…