Life has definitely been a bit chaotic in the last month between the wedding, honeymoon, and subsequent reintegration into the real world. While I can't say I'll have all my thank you cards out by the one month mark, most of them will be done so I'm going to take that as a victory. May 11 was our perfect day, everything went off without a hitch and turned out beautifully. After all the agonizing about the little details and irrational worries, I can now sit back and be perfectly content with the wedding we had. If I had to give one regret it would be that due to the rain in the beginning of the afternoon we had to do our first look pictures inside the church instead of in the courtyard near the fountain. Luckily it cleared up in time do some some outdoor pictures after the ceremony so I'm looking forward to seeing those. Our photographer, Kristin at
KLP Photography takes the most gorgeous natural light shots so I really wanted to get those when possible. I do wish we could have gotten more outside, especially some of the family pictures, but such is life. That said, I'm still tempted to put on our wedding clothes again and do another shoot with her sometime but I'm not sure if the pictures would really have the same meaning. Here are a few pictures from our sneak peek (naturally all photos via
KLP Photography)
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| First look! |
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| Walking down the aisle |
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| Trolley on the way to the reception |
Unfortunately I don't really have any pictures from the honeymoon at this time since we completely forgot to bring the camera. We did snap a few pictures with Eric's phone but both of us haven't bothered to upload them anywhere. We spent a week in Montego Bay, Jamaica at Sandals Royal Caribbean and it was amazing. The resort was a little smaller than I expected but I was pretty happy with the food and drink selection. We really wanted to get an adults only all-inclusive since we're not very active vacationers and just wanted to take it easy for our honeymoon. We did do a dolphin encounter at Dolphin Cove which was amazing, especially since while we waited for our timeslot we could explore the rest of the park which had several animal encounters and other activities like kayaking. We love stingrays so Stingray Bay where you could hold a stingray and then snorkel with them was a big favorite. Back at Sandals we did a couples spa package in a cabana by the ocean which was extremely decadent and relaxing. I'm starting to see the appeal of spas now.
Coming back to Omaha after a week in a tropical paradise was definitely a jarring change. While I missed our pets dearly, real world is not nearly as much fun as being a beach bum. As it stands, our house still looks like a wedding exploded in it. Thanks of the generosity of our friends and family, we received many wonderful gifts which we are now realizing we didn't plan space for. Everything will find a home but I think I'm going to have to reorganize the entire kitchen to do it. We've been enjoying playing with some of our new appliances this week but still haven't figured out where to put them. I thought we had a lot of counterspace until I actually started unpacking things. Our back room is probably going to look like a Bed, Bath, and Beyond for awhile while we get everything reshuffled.
