Our Wedding Part 2

MR AND MRS BARNARD...OHHHH YEAAAAAAAH!!!

Let us first start with the decor.  Apparently I have a beer taste with a beer budget.  When I was showing Diana all the pictures of the flowers that I wanted, she let me know that I liked weeds.  Which happen to be way cheaper than flowers.  Pretty awesome right?!  Those are some good looking weeds :)

Then we had the issue of the head table.  I couldn't find anything I liked on google or pinterest...I guess I should have tried bing ;).  Then I thought well, we can incorporate the paper flowers into the head table.  All my paper flower ladies basically said hell no.  (I guess 700 paper flowers was more than enough for them...)  But then I saw this beautiful sequin table cloth in a pic and was instantly inspired.

I forgot about our toasting glasses until the night before the wedding.  So I went to target and purchased a silver pearl Christmas Tree garland thingy and some champagne glasses and started hot gluing.  Diana had the idea to use her awesome real candle sticks!  And take a look at that arrangement.  I am not sure who mastered that one, but I know Andrea was doing A LOT of arrangements so I'll just give her the credit.

Next stop is the FLOWER WALL!  I am seeing this everywhere now, but originally I had seen it on a clip of a Chanel fashion show.  When I told everyone my idea they looked at me like I was crazy.  (Not William though, what a babe!)  But eventually they came around and actually took my idea to a whole new level.  I have to thank Diana, Grandma and Grandpa Murphy, William, Diana's cousin and everyone else who made the flower walls possible.  700 paper flowers were designed, folded and hot glued.  I was the only victim to nerve ending loss in the finger due to the hot glue thank goodness.

And then there was the cake and cupcakes.  Gabby and Jacky Flores made the cake and cupcakes.  As well as a few cake tastings (William's favorite part about planning the wedding)  Not only did they look good, they were "scrum dittily umptious"

And now for the festivities...

My Dad toasting :) If you know my Dad than you know a microphone is a dangerous thing.

I think this pic was taken during William's Dad's toast. 

And the Father/Daughter Dance.  I love my Dad.  He raised me to pick the PERFECT MAN.  

And the Mother/Son Dance

William picked her up and spun her at the end.  It was so precious!

Our first dance

Anytime I tell anyone that William doesn't like to dance he gets mad and says that he does.  But he doesn't.  And the following pictures are proof.

And for the send off/bouquet toss.  The vision I had stuck in my head was that I would toss the bouquet as we ran to the car.  For some reason it just seemed really romantic to me.  My mom wanted the whole traditional line up the single ladies and throw the bouquet.  But that isn't even real.  I know a lot of people who caught the bouquet that are as single as a dollar bill.  Anyway, I won the argument and my romantic scene was about to begin.  And we are running to the car and I look back right before I toss the bouquet and I throw it.....and it lands right in the middle of the bushes.  Pretty lame.  Anyway I think Brother Glen ended up with it the last I saw :)

(Oh and I just had to shout out this picture of my twinster Brooke, she is a rockstar!)

I will upload pictures more picture of all you party animals at the reception, but I will have to upload it on a separate blog entry so I can delete it in a couple months (I always run out of memory space on this dang blog!)

And if you made it this far, you are a true friend and should know that we have something big coming soon...you think you know what it is, but you have no idea...this is the blog of william and rachel (said like the interlude of the real world)