Wedding Thoughts and Photos

As readers of this blog no doubt know, I recently got married. If you would like to look at the best 139 of the more than 500 photos that our photographer took, here they are.

The wedding was really great. The weather was pretty bad in the week leading up to the wedding and we were getting really worried about the wedding being rained out. We decided it would be best to get a tent for the wedding. There was a wedding being held at Kramer Vineyard the day before ours and we were able to split the cost of the tent with them.

The weather that day was actually not to bad. It rained all morning while we were setting up decorations under the tent, but by the time we started taking pictures the rain had all but stopped. We spent a couple of hours with the photographer getting our pictures taken around the vineyard. Some really great photos came out of this.

After the photos Megan went into the winery owner's house and I stayed out by the tent and greeted people as they arrived. About 45 min before the wedding was to start I decided to try and memorize my vows. I had written the vows a month earlier and hadn't really looked at them since.

The ceremony went well, even if my little brother (age 3) was by the musicians. I remembered my vows and Megan remembered hers. What was most amazing about the vows was how similar they were. We had purposely not read each others vows and in the end they were so similar that most people thought that we had written them together.

The reception was awesome. We provided BBQ chicken (skillfully cooked by my Uncle and a friend) and wine from Kramer, while the guest all provided delicious side dishes and non-cake desserts. The Kramer's gave us a wonderful magnum of their Pinot Noir, of which Megan and I only had a glass of.

After dinner we had some great toasts from my best friend Eddie, Megan's sister Rebecca, Megan's Dad and my Mom. The highlight of the toasts was no doubt from Megan's best friend (and wedding Mistress of Ceremonies) Lista. Lista regaled us with letters that Megan had written her during there junior high years and they included some hilariously bad relationship advice.

After the toasts, Megan's sister performed a great fire dance with her boyfriend Nick. He also played a bit on his didgeridoo.

Megan and I then cut the cake. We got a few questions about the figures on top of the cake. They are a skeleton bride and groom and definitely look a bit "non-traditional". Megan and I both wanted them because they are in the style of traditional "Day of the Dead" decorations from Mexico. Besides our love for Latin American culture, these were also significant since we were engaged on a vacation to Mexico during "Day of the Dead".

After the cake cutting we danced our first dance and then the father/daughter and mother/son dances. After a bit more dancing we had everybody light sparklers and we left under a archway of light to an awaiting car that was to take us to Portland.

I have been happy to hear from many of my friends and family that they had a great time at the wedding. For Megan and I two of our main objectives of the wedding were to make sure that we had a good time, and to make sure the guests had a good time. We seem to have succeeded.

I hope you enjoy looking through the pictures as much as I do. I was so great to get the photographs back and have them be of such and excellent quality. I feel like they really captured the mood of the wedding.

Posted by Noah Brimhall at October 27, 2004 11:55 AM