Tuesday
Aug032010
Wedding recap: the reception v.3
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 02:02PM
By about 8ish, about a third of our guests had left already. The only survivor from Mike's family was his mom, all of my grandparents and all but one of my aunts/uncles had left, as well as a few friends. But it was about that point that Mike and I got to sit down and enjoy. Sort of. Seemed like every few minutes we were called away for something, but we did get to sit and relax a little.
I gathered up some friends and we had a little pow wow in the yard, talking and laughing. But by a little after 9, most of those people had left, too, and it was down to the precious few, the real troopers. This included my dad, stepmom and their young kids, all but one of my siblings and their kids and spouses, Mike's mom, my (always true) friend Jessica and her boyfriend, and my dear Aunt Mary.
Our photographer was gone by then, too, so I don't have any really awesome pictures from this part of the night. Just amateur ones from others' cameras, like the ones above. This time on the deck was the first time we really chilled. Everyone was drinking and chatting, and we ended up playing some silly games, like "name the movie" and whatnot. It was nice to look around and see the people who were really there for us. These were our peeps.
After it got dark, several other people took off, and the stragglers encouraged us to open our gifts. We were hesitant, because um, awkward. I hate having an audience for such things. But they thought it would be fun, so we played along.
The kids were very eager to deliver the gifts to us from the gift table, so we arranged a little system. They each brought us a gift, one at a time, and then they took the previously opened gift back to the table with them. You'd think they might get bored with this, but gift after shiny gift, they waited their turn.
Only Kyron needed a little extra entertaining at one point, and he took care of that all by himself.
My sister Emily entertained herself, as well, by taking pictures like this one on my camera.
After gifts, we had a feeding frenzy in the kitchen. All of a sudden there were 8 people crowded in there making tacos and sundaes and eating cupcakes. I scarfed down a few tacos myself, and I swear to god those were best tacos I ever had. After a long, tiring and exhilarating day, I could have eaten 15.
Then someone started a bonfire outside. By then it was after 11, and Mike and I were beat. The hardcores in my family were ready to party some more, but we had to peace out around midnight. Even the kids were still awake when we left!
We packed up most of our gifts, but left a big mess at my dad's house. Thank god my parents were cool about cleaning up after us even after everything they had already done. It was a long drive from the middle of nowhere (dad's house) to our hotel downtown, but it was worth it. We got a killer deal on a suite at one of the nice hotels in the city, and as soon as we got there, we crashed on the plush king-sized bed.
And that was it. Our wedding day. Pretty fucking awesome if you ask me.
I gathered up some friends and we had a little pow wow in the yard, talking and laughing. But by a little after 9, most of those people had left, too, and it was down to the precious few, the real troopers. This included my dad, stepmom and their young kids, all but one of my siblings and their kids and spouses, Mike's mom, my (always true) friend Jessica and her boyfriend, and my dear Aunt Mary.
Our photographer was gone by then, too, so I don't have any really awesome pictures from this part of the night. Just amateur ones from others' cameras, like the ones above. This time on the deck was the first time we really chilled. Everyone was drinking and chatting, and we ended up playing some silly games, like "name the movie" and whatnot. It was nice to look around and see the people who were really there for us. These were our peeps.
After it got dark, several other people took off, and the stragglers encouraged us to open our gifts. We were hesitant, because um, awkward. I hate having an audience for such things. But they thought it would be fun, so we played along.
The kids were very eager to deliver the gifts to us from the gift table, so we arranged a little system. They each brought us a gift, one at a time, and then they took the previously opened gift back to the table with them. You'd think they might get bored with this, but gift after shiny gift, they waited their turn.
Only Kyron needed a little extra entertaining at one point, and he took care of that all by himself.
My sister Emily entertained herself, as well, by taking pictures like this one on my camera.
After gifts, we had a feeding frenzy in the kitchen. All of a sudden there were 8 people crowded in there making tacos and sundaes and eating cupcakes. I scarfed down a few tacos myself, and I swear to god those were best tacos I ever had. After a long, tiring and exhilarating day, I could have eaten 15.
Then someone started a bonfire outside. By then it was after 11, and Mike and I were beat. The hardcores in my family were ready to party some more, but we had to peace out around midnight. Even the kids were still awake when we left!
We packed up most of our gifts, but left a big mess at my dad's house. Thank god my parents were cool about cleaning up after us even after everything they had already done. It was a long drive from the middle of nowhere (dad's house) to our hotel downtown, but it was worth it. We got a killer deal on a suite at one of the nice hotels in the city, and as soon as we got there, we crashed on the plush king-sized bed.
And that was it. Our wedding day. Pretty fucking awesome if you ask me.
Reader Comments (3)
Looks like it was an altogether lovely day!
But I have to ask...did someone get you a hatchet as a wedding gift? And did you ask for it?
Haha yes! We registered for a hatchet because we were registering for a few different camping items. Hatchets are handy!
We got a machete as a shower gift. Mark put that on our registry when we were registering for camping stuff. Pretty sure he still hasn't used it.