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Hi and welcome to my bio! My name is Joanne and I married Steve on Saturday, October 9, 2010. Our wedding was everything I dreamed that it would be!
Steve and I met in April 2007 when we were at Air Force officer training in Montgomery, AL (Steve is still in the USAF but I've recently separated). As you can imagine, the USAF
is full of men but Steve ended up catching my eye because of our very similar interests and personalities. We were stationed in different bases [I was at the Pentagon in Washington, DC and Steve was at Cannon Air Force Base (AFB) in Clovis,
NM] so we dated long distance for two years before Steve proposed on September 5, 2009. It was long and hard at times but we were able to really establish a good friendship to base our relationship on. This makes it so much easier to
be married to my best friend now :)
My family is from Seattle and Steve's is from Boston, additionally due to the military we have friends literally scattered all over the US so we decided to get married in Las Vegas for
a two main reasons: (1) hotel and transportation for guests is much easier and (2) since most guests had to fly to our wedding, they could have fun outside of our wedding without us. So, much like our dating years, I planned our wedding from a
distance. How poetic, right? We decided on an evening garden ceremony on Saturday, October 9, 2010--Columbus Day Weekend so that guests could make the most out of a weekend trip to Vegas. I know what you're thinking, why not
10-10-10 right? It was just too hectic and not worth the novelty.
While planning I knew that I wanted my/our wedding to be beautiful, stylish, fun, and memorable. Our wedding colors were green (my favorite color) and blue (his favorite color)--I
definitely didn't allow the season to determine our colors! I decided to keep the ceremony simple and romantic (hence the candle light) but the reception to be a party (hence the bold and explosive lighting). My girls wore floor
length green B2 gowns with electric blue heels hidden underneath--I love pictures of the girls revealing their shoes! They also wore peacock fascinators that I designed and beautiful tanzanite Swarovski earrings (my gift to them). I wore
a fitted mermaid lace gown by Pattis bridal, gorgeous green shoes by Poetic License, crystal Swarovski earrings, a pearl statement necklace, petite birdcage veil, and a fascinator that I made by hand. Steve wanted his James Bond moment as
much as any bride wants to wear a white gown so we bought his slim Hugo Boss tux and even tied his own skinny bow tie! I hope to take anniversary photos in our wedding clothes as we age :) My bouquet was made of white calla lilies and
green cymbidium orchids. To match, Steve's boutonniere was made of a single white calla lilly. The FG and BM pomander and bouquets were made of white roses,
green orchids, blue orchids, and purple calla lilies. To match, the groomsmen had boutonnieres to made of single white roses.
Since our wedding was in Vegas we probably didn't have too high expectations going to our reception...however, I'm happy to say that they were very pleasantly surprised! Our
reception decor began with blue uplighting surrounding the ballroom with a few green images of trees (to pay homage to our garden ceremony). The table cloths were brown so that they could stay muted against all of the color in the room and the
centerpieces were tall brown wrought iron trees with three pomanders, hanging votives, and white rose petals and more votives at the pomanders were made of the same flowers as the FG and BM pomanders and bouquets. Since our wedding was a
destination wedding I was limited in my DIY projects but you could see all of my hard work at our guest sign-in table. First, I made the small card box and signs. I bought the "sign-in" tree poster from a vendor on Etsy. I also
made the boards and butterfly place cards by hand. The guests could place the butterfly place cards on the rim of a champagne flute and they were color & pattern coded to the different meals for dinner, of course :) Our ten guest
tables were split evenly on each side of the dance floor and our sweetheart heart table was positioned in the middle on a small raised stage--with all the wedding events, it was nice to have some alone time!
We had a fabulous photographer who took all of my must-haves, candids, and intimate moments--including first look and first moments alone :)
Posted on 10/26/2010 at 09:32 am | 7 comments
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02/07/2011 at 06:18 pm
beautiful pictures and wedding...your dress was amazing! |
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02/08/2011 at 08:28 pm
beautiful wedding!! FI and I were also in the military, I separated from USMC and he just re-enlisted in the Army. We originally planned a destination also but due to my family all being in Chicago, we decided to have it there. Now I'm second guessing vegas!! |
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02/15/2011 at 07:34 pm
Congrats on your wedding. Not sure which of these 4 shots is my favorite... they're all fabulous! And the one of your hubby kissin you... *sighs and melts away.* |
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04/13/2011 at 12:39 pm
beautiful pics. Congrats to you and DH |
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06/25/2011 at 04:31 am
Beautiful pics! I'm also in the Air Force and my FI is in the Marine Corps, we eloped in Vegas before he left for his deployment and will have the big ceremony when he gets back :) |
Can't wait to see your pics!