A Glimpse into the Reception

I have talked a bit about our reception but I thought I'd give you an idea of how the day went down!

So it started out with me getting my hair done. This time I didn't have an entourage watching and taking photos. I took this one myself to share with/scare Ryan:

My friend Marie did my makeup after my hair was done...because I figured I couldn't luck out two times in a row with doing my own makeup. {No pictures of this: no one to take them.}

Then I hauled my dress out to the car and drove down to the reception site to meet Ryan {who was running around filling up all the coffee pots with water}. We sneaked him into the women's restroom and he helped me get into my dress at which point I realized my underwear was showing right through my dress. SUPER. So I had to put in an emergency call to my sister to go pick up a slip from our house so I could remedy that. Good night, nurse!!

Rachel Ashley, my dear friend and former student worker, showed up to take the pictures I'd wanted at the prayer chapel...which I already told you about....but here's another one:

After our photo shoot, it was time to get in gear for the reception. This involved the following:

Calming down:

Giving instructions about the food. Apparently this brings out a lot of passion in me:

We arranged our reception to begin at 2:00 with a traditional entrance of the wedding party. My brother-in-law read a little bit about all of our party members and they entered...and then we entered!

Then we sat and watched our wedding video; we didn't just have it play in the background while people mingled...we did an official showing of it so everyone could watch the entire wedding and feel like they were there with us! {You know. Minus the sand and the 82 degrees.}

We got hot. So I stole a couple cards out of the gift basket and we fanned.

After the wedding video, Jeff prayed for us and we put another stone in our family altar...the one we began at our wedding:

Then we cut cake...and did our linky arm drinky thing...

And then we set people free to eat ice cream and we mingled!!! We loved every moment of it - such fun to celebrate with so many!!