Ultimate Wedding Week: The Reception!

 I am so excited that today's installment of The Ultimate Wedding Week is THE RECEPTION! Today I'm linking up with Natasha to talk about everyone's favorite part about a wedding, the party! 

As I mentioned before, our theme was modern typography, so we knew we wanted the colors to be bright and bold. We chose purple linens that matched the girls' dresses, with white napkins. I designed green menu cards that were placed in the napkins for a pop of color.

We hired a coffee barista to do lots of fun drinks since everyone in my family loves coffee (except for me!) We also had Ritas Ice come and serve our guest three of our favorite flavors. (Jordan's extended family owns a water ice branch in NJ, and he worked there growing up which fueled his love for water ice in the first place!) We also rented a photo booth which was a huge hit! I'll post pics of these items in the details part of this link up for sure!

We had a DJ who did an amazing job at getting everyone out on the dance floor! Our bridal party walked in to "Dynamite" and we walked in to "Party Rock Anthem", which was a blast. Since my dad's side of the family is Italian we did a traditional Italian dance which most of my cousins have done at their weddings too. Those are the pic of us all in a circle holding hands, it was so much fun!

It was seriously the best night of our lives. We had such a great time and loved every second of it. Enjoy the party!

I can't wait to post pics of the details from our big day, our photographer did a great job at capturing every aspect of our wedding from every angle! Also, I've decided I'm going to do a future post on our fabulous wedding videos. Our videographer was AMAZING and I can't even tell you how many times I've watched our videos :) 

Happy Wednesday!

-JK

Ultimate Wedding Week: The Ceremony

Sorry I'm a little late posting this, I've been out all day! I am excited to link up with Natasha for another part of The Ultimate Wedding Week! Today is of course the ceremony!

I am so excited to share picture with you all from our wedding ceremony. Let me just give you a little background as to what was going on the week of our wedding. There was a huge hurricane that hit lots of New England, causing LOTS of power outages in the area. We had friends and family that didn't have power for 5 days. That being said, guess which town was struck the worst in the state of CT? Yup, you guessed it...the town of Branford, CT which is where our wedding was! I can honestly say that I did not get stressed at all leading up to our wedding, except when I realized that our rehearsal dinner restaurant, the church and our reception venue all did not have power. We were basically planning on doing everything via candlelight, since we had chose to have a later ceremony and reception. Now this is where it gets crazy...the day of our rehearsal dinner, I got a call from the church secretary telling me that the power had been restored in Branford! I can not even tell you how excited I was, and how thankful I was that everything was going to be okay. I was blown away, knowing that God did hear our prayers and was truly looking out for us. It's crazy what prayer and faith can do, especially when it's regarding NO POWER! :)

All that being said, we wound up having a wonderful ceremony with the lights on! A church friend offered to play piano for us, and he played various hymns as guests arrived. I had my girls walk do to Ben Folds "The Luckiest" and I walked down to "Canon in D" (of course!). My older brother did a reading of Philippians 2 and my sister sang "Only You Can Love Me This Way" as my brother-in-law accompanied her on the guitar. We also did a congregational signing of "Be Thou My Vision" which is one of our favorite hymns. We wanted the ceremony to reflect who we are as a couple, so we chose to write our own vows to each other, which was totally my favorite part. I was just so excited during the whole ceremony, because it was so special to us in so many ways. It was such an honor to have all of our friends and family witness the day we dedicated our lives to one another before God.

Here are some of my favorite from our ceremony, hope you enjoy!

-JK