Wedding

May 30th, 2015 

So I haven't posted in awhile and that is because I was getting ready for my wedding, then I was out of the country for a month!  I am just getting back into the swing of things back in Omaha, so I decided to do a post with some updates!  This post will mainly be about the wedding.  I will do a following post about Europe.  The wedding was absolutely PERFECT!  We had been getting so much rain in the month of May, I was getting nervous for the wedding day because it was an outdoor wedding.  Anyone that knows me well, knows that I spend as much as my free time possible outdoors, so I really wanted an outdoor wedding.  The day ended up being gorgeous.  The sun was out and shining with no cloud in sight and it was in the 70's with a slight breeze.  Getting ready was so much fun!  Alli brought mimosas while we all got our hair done at the salon, then we finished getting ready in the castle.  (We got married at the Joslyn Castle)  The ladies we given the master bedroom to get ready in, and the boys had to get ready in what used to be the servants' room.

Getting ready

The Ring Puggle

The ceremony was so much fun and it went by so fast.  I guess our minister forgot to tell the audience to sit down so everyone had to stand for the whole thing.  Whoops.  Good thing it was only about a 20 minute ceremony.  Toby (our dog) was the ring bearer.  We called him the ring puggle.  He looked so handsome in his pink bow tie.  When Chad was getting the rings from Toby and handing them to Cory, there was a mishap and the rings got dropped.  It was pretty funny and very typical for something like that to happen in the wedding.  After the wedding we did our pictures, and then headed off the the reception which was at the Marriott in Regency.  We pre gamed a little bit in a hotel room and then had our grand entrances.  Everyone did so good on theirs! They were all super funny.  Cory and I tricked everyone else out by entering in through a different door than the rest of the bridal party and we danced through the whole reception.  At the end we met with the rest of the bridal party and had a dance party for the entire song.  Our song that we came out to was the Space Jam theme song. (awesome, I know) Then we did the typical reception things like the speeches, cake cutting, father-daughter dance, mother-son dance, and our first dance.  My dance with my dad was "I Believe I can Fly."  When I was a kid, I used to make my dad dance with me in the living room to this song during the credits of Space Jam.  Can you sense a theme here?  Cory and his mom's dance was Mamma by Boys 2 Men, and mine and Cory's first dance was Leather and Lace by Stevie Nicks and Don Henely.  

Dropping the rings.... oops

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The rest of the reception was a bunch of dancing and then some karaoke.  That pretty much turned into a dance party with Cory having a microphone singing all the lyrics.  We also had a photo booth at our reception which everyone loved.  Cory and I only got to go in it once because we were having so much fun dancing.  It was an open bar so I think its safe to say everyone had a good time.  Cory and I had a honeymoon suite which was very romantic.  If I had one advice to give to future brides, I would say don't stress about anything.  That is exactly what I did and I had the time of my life.  Which is the way it should be.   The next day we hung out all day with Giz and Chad (maid of honor and best man).  I actually ended up having to take Cory to the ER because he had an infection that was spreading so its safe to say I had to put my wife duty to the test right away.  After we got back from the hospital, we relaxed then we got ready for Europe! Everything was absolutely perfect and it was such a happy day filled with love.  I'm going to try not to bombard this post with wedding pictures, but its so hard not to! Here are a few of my favorites! Hope you enjoy them!