Day 18 - My Wedding

Ok. So I know I didn't exactly finish this project by the end of October, but we kind of had a week long trip in there and then a couple of illnesses that came through and wiped us out. I'm going to do all the prompts, I promise.

This one comes at an interesting time since my cousin is in the beginning stages of planning her wedding and recently asked a handful of questions about how we did things when we got married. So I had to go hunting for things...and I actually referred to our budget, which we still have because we have a problem with getting rid of stuff.

Anyway...We got married in Gettysburg in September of 2008. At the time, we had been together for 6 years. Tim was 24 and I was 23. Both of our birthdays are in September...I thought it would make it hard for Tim to forget his wedding anniversary:P
It was a fairly small wedding. 80 people even. Close friends and family. The ceremony and reception were at the Links at Gettysburg, which is actually closer to being in Maryland than it is to being in Gettysburg. Tim's brothers were his groomsmen with my brother Dan and our friend Wayne served as "ushers". Susie (my college roommate), Rachel (my best friend from high school), and Elizabeth (my cousin) were my bridesmaids.

The ceremony was meant to be done outdoors on the patio, but it stormed off and on the whole day, so I made the decision to move it indoors. It was just as nice. Their grounds were beautiful. I laughed when they told me during a tour that they'd have to let the golfers play through. Like I'd care about some guy putzing around in a sand trap during the ceremony. As long as he shouted fore so we could duck, I didn't care.

 

 My brother walked me down the aisle:)

We were married by a friend of Tim's parents who is the pastor of a church in Waynesboro, PA. We had to do the marriage counseling long-distance because Tim was living outside of Philly at time. So he sent us work books to complete, personality tests to take, and a very nice letter when we were done saying he'd be more than happy to do the honors. 

After the ceremony, we did some portraits, but not too many because it started raining on us again:P This is one of my favorites.

And then we headed in for the reception. There wasn't a lot of dancing or partying, but that's fine with us. It was a morning wedding and alcohol would have been expensive in bad taste, so there were slow dances and a couple of lead dances (like the Time Warp and the Cha Cha Slide) which only Rachel, my college friends, and I participated in. We did a bouquet toss, but no garter. And we were done and out the door by 3:30 so the next couple could come in and set up for their wedding.

And because we had some extra time with the photographers, we headed up to Little Round Top and the surrounding battle field to get some more portraits:)

After that, we went back to my mom's house, changed out of our wedding clothes, opened all our cards and presents, and then set out for our cabin in West Virginia. Our first dinner together was from the drive through at Wendy's and our first breakfast was at the McDonalds in Bath, WVa. :P But it was good to be out of reach for a week after all that chaos...

ALL photos in this post were taken by Kylene Krotzer Photography.