Eat. Live. Play.: Mr & Mrs...

Here is a post I started months ago that I am finally getting around to posting...I'm back for real this time. I promise.

N&K:Wedding

After going from plan A to plan Z and back again, hours of paper flower folding, and an almost crisis with our photographer (we ended up have the amazing Michelle Celentano do most of them and Megan Wantz took a few as well since she was feeling better), our wedding was more beautiful than I could have imagined or tried to plan.

[photo by Michelle Celentano]

Because of the waves that life brings, we had many versions of this day planned, however the heart of it all stayed the same. More than anything we wanted our wedding to be not only a celebration of our marriage, but of the community and family that have supported us and loved us. Because of this, the final result was even more than we could have imagined or tried to plan.

[photo by Michelle Celentano]

We did all of the details ourselves and used the gifts and talents of our friends and family to make it happen. In the end, everyone that attended took some part in the process which made it that much more special for us and our guests.

[photo by Michelle Celentano]

It really was a family day because not only are our families really good friends but our younger sisters played a major part in setting us up when we were in high school. We didn't have a traditional wedding party. Instead our match making sisters were the "Sisters of Honor" escorted by N's best friend and our youngest siblings were the flower girl and ring bearer (yes they are both high schoolers now). The older two even made a speech before we cut the cake reminding all of us that really this day was about them because they were the ones responsible for us meeting and getting married in the first place.

[photo by Michelle Celentano]

In addition to my dad walking me down the aisle, N's parents walked him down at the beginning of the ceremony and read the passage in Genesis about man leaving his family to become a new family with his wife. Our youth pastor married us because he and his wife were mentors to us both through high school and our first year of dating (our senior year).

[photo by Michelle Celentano]

Ceremony Details:
Down the Aisle: Strawberry Swing by ColdPlay
Communion Worship Song: Revelation Song by Kim Walker-Smith (sung by Miss Megan Wong & Kristen Brizendine, guitar by Kendal)
Back up as Mr. & Mrs.: Marry Me by Bruno Mars