7 Quick Takes Friday - August 31, 2012



Tomorrow, Collin and I celebrate eleven years of wedded bliss! In honor of our anniversary, I'm treating y'all to quick takes of some of my favorite wedding memories. Aren't you lucky?

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These were my "wedding tennies." I flatly refused to wear heels; I wanted to be comfortable on my wedding day and not spend the entirety of my dance with aching feet. My mother bought a $10 pair of white canvas shoes at Wal-Mart and decorated them with beading, lace applique, and tulle. They were so comfortable!

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These were the centerpieces on our reception tables. My mother borrowed the rose bowls and mirror tiles from a friend of hers whose daughter had recently married, so they didn't cost us a thing. She decorated them with tulle and I bought white floating candles shaped like roses to put in them. We had little wedding bell favors on all the tables as well.

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My wedding dress! It was $250, and I paid $50 dollars for alterations. It was actually my second choice because I couldn't afford my first choice, but I was still pretty happy with it (and even happier with the price!).

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The first song we danced to as man and wife was Elvis' "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You," but this is what I consider to be our real wedding song:




The deejays played Don McLean's "American Pie," but Collin and I and all of our friends spontaneously started singing the Weird Al lyrics instead -- and each one of us knew every single word by heart and were singing in unison, complete with dramatic gestures. It was quite a performance.

My, my this here Anakin guy
Maybe Vader some day later, now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Saying, "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi."


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Our cake was actually made of styrofoam. Only the top was real cake. See, we had a dessert reception with cheesecakes and a topping bar, so wedding cake would have been rather redundant, and I'm not a big fan of buttercream cake frosting. We did save the top to eat on our first anniversary, but it was disgusting. :P

The topper is a blown glass blue rose. I couldn't find a topper I really liked anywhere, and then I ended up getting the rose as a shower gift and thought it was perfect.

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These glasses were my favorite wedding gift, given to us by my best friend and college roommate, Rose. They're called "Arthur and Guinevere" goblets. A funny story about these - Rose had purchased and shipped the glasses to us weeks in advance so we could use them at the wedding reception. I unpacked them immediately after they arrived, and it's a good thing I did, as the company had accidentally sent us two Guinevere goblets! I called the shop and explained that our wedding was not, in fact, a same-sex union, so I'd need an Arthur to replace one of the Guineveres. :) They were aghast at the mistake and sent us an Arthur right away.

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This is a big group shot with Collin's entire family (siblings, parents, and maternal grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins). For whatever reason, we hadn't had time or hadn't been able to take a picture with them before the ceremony, so we did it after -- and it ended up being one of my favorite group shots of the whole day! Collin's grandparents used it for their Christmas card that year.

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11 comments:

  1. I absolutely love this!! Happy anniversary!!!

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  2. Happy anniversary, Joanna! :) Beautiful pictures! I love your shoes and the idea of a cheesecake bar.

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  3. The "real wedding song" is hilarious. We all learned so much about you reading this set of QTs! Nicely done!

    Why, oh why, didn't I think of a dessert reception? YUMMMM!

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  4. Congratulations on 11 years!

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  5. Sorry, Elvis is still the wedding song for me. The other one was just the most fun song of the night. :)

    I love you more every passing year, darling. You've been the greatest earthly source of joy in my life and lifted me to a nobler state than I ever thought of. I look forward to growing in Christ with you for the rest of our days.

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  6. happy anniversary. Are cake topper tasted great on our one year. sorry that yours did not. looks like you had a lot of fun. I also wore tennis shoes it was awesome and so much more comfortable then high heals which I do not even wear now. Congratulations on eleven years. have a fun and safe time.

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  7. Happy anniversary! I love the pics. You guys are so awesome.

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  8. You're going to laugh but the first thought I had was "it must have been a Midwestern Lutheran church". They are an interesting architectural style and almost all of the country ones are pretty interchangeable.

    Happy anniversary.

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    1. Yes, Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Hillsboro, ND :)

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