Wedding Recap: Reception

Honestly, this is where the wedding day really really becomes a blur. People told me I wouldn't remember my wedding day because it would happen so fast- but this part? I don't remember a bit. I'm thankful we had our family and friends with us to celebrate, and that was had amazing people take amazing photos so that I can "remember" these moments!

You can't have a pi day wedding without pie! The "<3 Pi" sign was painted by my mom the night before the wedding. Not even joking. When I say that I leave things for last minute, I mean, we were painting and wrapping bouquets the night before at midnight. But, that's just how I roll, and I'm happy that my family just rolled with it.

On our first date, T showed me a picture of a zombie cake and asked me what I thought of it/if I'd be totes cool with it. Obviously- I said yes. A few months later (okay, a month later), we were engaged, and I decided that I really wanted a "nice" wedding cake with a Willow Tree topper. So, the zombie cake was downgraded to a groom's cake. Originally, T planned on baking and decorating his own multi-tier cake (I should probably mention that he'd never baked brownies, let alone a cake, at this point). I got him to make a super simple box cake mix in a sheet pan and told him to practice icing and decorating it (with his airbrush kit...). One brownish-black cake later, I told him that there was no way on earth that I was putting a cake that color in my mouth, much less on a day when I was wearing an expensive white dress. So, a trip to Publix later, we had a zombie cake made by the pros that was much more size appropriate for our reception, and it wasn't too black-brown. :)

Originally, I planned on baking my own cupcakes. Then, a week before the wedding when I decided to test bake, we had what I shall refer to as "The Cupcake Fail/Cupcake Fire Incident" when I dumped my cupcake into the flaming hot oven as I was removing them from the oven and they caught fire and all I could do was yell to my mom "Cupcakes!" and "Fire!" and "My cupcakes!" (I'm apparently useless in disaster situations. And yes, the cupcakes did catch fire. There were flames.) So, the Monday/Tuesday before the wedding, my parents gently "offered" that we get a local cupcake place to cater the cupcakes. I think it was an awesome idea. My dad made our tree stump cupcake stands, we added some burlap and baby's breath- and I got the vintagey vibe I was going for.

 If you know me, you know I had an obsession with Harry Potter. I was pretty much convinced that HE would be my husband from the ages of 11 to about 21? So, I thought it'd be cute to pay tribute by opening up the sixth book to the chapter entitled "The Unbreakable Vow" and sitting it on my cake table.

 Yes, I gave my little brother a selfie stick and told him to use it at the wedding. We got super cute pictures and I think it added a ton of fun!

 Some of the shots we got:

Our "guestbook" was a painting that T painted and we had our guests sign and leave us messages on. My favorite is my dad's- "Leave room for Jesus"- he's so funny. ;)

 And then, we did the typical wedding reception festivities- the cake cutting (we cut the groom's cake and ate our cupcakes later- I wasn't really hungry for cake), and garter and bouquet toss!