One Sweet Day: Setting Up

Wow - I promised recaps, didn't I? It's been almost three months since our wedding, and the memories of that perfect day I've tried to hold very intimately close. As the days pass I'm finding that, grasp as I may, they are very slowly slipping away since my days are not consumed with decisions on wedding invitations, rentals, reception music and wedding day accessories but focused now on building a strong foundation for our marriage, finding a church to call home, house projects, puppy love, new hobbies, you get the drift. On top of that, putting in to words one of the happiest days of your life is not an easy thing but I promise I will do my best to give it every bit of justice. So with a glass of red wine in hand, I'll begin to tell the story of our beautiful day...

The morning of our wedding, my girls and I arrived to the ranch where in a few hours, husband and I would be exchanging vows.

One of my bridesmaids showed up with tasty treats in hand!
It looked like there had already been lots of work done, since the pig was already cooking, the pastures were clean, and Gloria had surprised me by putting together at least a dozen centerpieces of home-grown peonies!
My girls and I very quickly got to work on putting together our bouquets with the beautiful peonies from Bridgewater Gardens.

While us girls were busy playing with flowers (and my mind was going a bajillion miles an hour), the groomsmen and some of my college besties helped set up tables, chairs, centerpieces and the sound system.

It was pretty windy that morning, so we had to put all the centerpieces on the ends of the table to hold down the linens until the wind had passed.It was during this time, I started getting a lot of questions about how we wanted everything laid out and I decided it was a perfect time to go hide inside and work on our cupcake trees :)

all photos by guests