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So ... I got married a few months ago now, but I was sooooooo happy to be (mostly) free of wedding-related tasks that I've hardly visited Weddingbee for a long time! But I missed y'all and have been reading again lately.

Our wedding was really lovely, the weather was perfect, and everything more or less went to plan - though I did manage to forget my bouquet! Crazy huh! I was about to walk down the aisle with Dad and suddenly realised there was nothing in my hands ... oh well. I wouldn't be me if I let this 'being organised and onto it' thing go too far ;)

Anyway, I wanted to share some pics of the day. Well, a lot of the pics, because they tell the story of the day.

And two hilarious photos that I love - my moment of 'eeeek!':

And Mr Velveteen's moment of 'OMG' (he says he doesn't remember feeling so desperate, but I think this photo says it all :-P )

**Ok - editing to add that Mr V just walked in and read my caption and indignantly insisted that he posed for that, he wasn't that anxious at all! Regardless, we both love this photo! **

More - the ceremony:

I cried through my vows! I couldn't believe it. I was so sure that Mr V would cry (he gets sentimental) and that I would not, but the reverse was true. Lucky I had bullet-proof make-up!

My parents looking on:

After we'd signed the license thing, and our witnesses were signing, I asked Mr V for a quick make-up check (was a bit worried after all the tears), so he helped soak up tear-tracks for me.

Note the 'L' (learners) plates we're carrying! Mr V's aunt gave them to us right after the ceremony:

I love this photo because it is of my mum (in the middle), my dad and his partner. It means a lot to me that they get on and are fine together (danced together at the wedding etc).

A few more, for anyone who's wading through them :)

We went to a local park (anyone who lives here will recognise it in the next few photos!), and there's these big seating terraces above the cricket ground. So we tramped up the stairs and communicated with our photographer (who was on the far side of the huge cricket grounds) by calling each other on our cellphones. There was even a cricket game going on at the time! Thankfully noone was sitting on 'our' side. This looks amazing in full-size but you'll just have to imagine it as I resized these tiny!

A little closer (I love the trees at the top).

One of our favourites - simple, but it's us and we're happy. This photo made me realise that the artistic photos that are so common now (and which we got our share of) aren't the most important ones. I wish I'd gotten more photos with family and friends (I haven't posted those here).

We also have this one printed on canvas:

The boys - look at that backdrop! It looks painted, it's so perfect and beautiful. But we went to the gardens where Mr V proposed (different location to the photos above), and this is just what the trees and pasture looks like :)

Last lot of photos, and there's not many!

The beautiful cake that my aunty made. It was so gorgeous, she was so good to do it (and then transport it 3 hours to the wedding!).

Such beautiful pics - go Pukekura hehe!

Beautiful!!! Absolutely gorgeous ceremony! Looks like you had a fantastic day. =]

These are some of my favorites I've seen on the board in a long time!  Beautiful & so different... especially the cricket ground! 

Great pictures, I really enjoyed viewing them!

Beautiful!!!

Thanks, Valhalla :)

clarebee and TheFutureMcBride - always happy to post more!

Photos where you can see more of the dress (it was a Moonlight one):

My bouquet that I forgot to carry down the aisle!

I loved how my dress bustled :) AND, when I twirled, it spun out really nicely!

More, just because:

My dress was so tight that I could hardly eat anything the whole day. I was running out of energy halfway through photos so we stopped for a quick snack :) (It's sad looking at the photos of the food now as it looks so good, but I could hardly eat any!)

Talking our way through the first dance. We more or less got through it! Haha. We just ran out of time for dance lessons.

Our processional was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kllZlF6mB2s, our recessional was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb74yLia72E and our first dance was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B0tiLMhJjo (which I think is the most perfect first dance song ever! So dancable, and lovely but not soppy lyrics).

One of my favourite parts (that you can't really see in the photos) were the centrepieces. I got lots of big, cut-glass vases, put 4 hydrangeas in each, silver netting over the top, and bare tree branches in the middle. Our place-settings were green cardboard leaves with a hole in the end and a loop of silver ribbon tied through - we had pens on the tables, too, and guests wrote their message on the leaf and hung it on the 'tree' on their table. And we had some small candle scattered around the vase. It looked really nice and I liked it a lot better than a 'normal' guestbook. Very symbolic :) Plus no guest book queues. I forgot to ask the photographer to get photos of that, though.

On the bridal table we had lower, wider cut-glass vases/bowl thingies, filled with hydrangeas and with the silver netting.

It was very, very cheap as I borrowed most of the vases and bought a few cheaply. The hydrangeas were free as I (and friends) had a large supply of them, and the branches were free (we just went and chose nice ones from the dead trees in the bush nearby). Only had to buy the silver netting and the candles (in bulk, they were about $40). I think we would've spent *maybe* $10 per table? So I was really pleased with that!

Anyway, enjoy, and thanks for the kind words :)