Last wedding post- I promise! I just had to share all the details- the things I spent hours crafting & decorating, organizing & packing. I had bling in my bouquet, a coordinated box with sand from the beach of Puerto Vallarta as a ring box & some beautiful vases for our sand ceremony.
I made all of our programs with the ceremony order, a note to our guests, the wedding party lineup & the verses we read during the ceremony. We took little bags to be stuffed with rose petals for the recessional back up the aisle & we used all of our engagement photos to make a guest album where everybody left us advice.
Although it was February, it’s still pretty warm there at times in the sun, so we took some decorated palm fans for the guests to cool off while waiting for the ceremony to start.
Yes- I hauled all those decorations down to Mexico, including our table centerpieces. I’d decorated some candles, used some colored tea lights & assigned guests to a table themed after one of the trips together witih a card telling the guests about the photo on the backside.
All sorts of aqua & white decorations- these candy dishes were too fun!
Cake was yummy! I loved having the roses between the layers & chocolate cheesecake was so delicious!
Colored XXX lights added ambiance once the sun went down, each guest had a tealight with their name & one of our travel destinations for a seating assignment, and I decorated a regular cigar box to house our Godiva cigars for the ladies (since the men had real hand rolled cigars).
I never really considered myself crafty, but I really enjoyed making all these wedding things. I loved how our programs and dinner menus turned out.
Although it was extremely stressful to make everything, including our invitaitons,
I was so proud to have done them & they ended up being exactly what we wanted.
One more gratituos post about us at our wedding. We opted for a “day after” photo shoot, so H put on his black suit (which I LURVE!) and we headed down to a rocky beach & into downtown Puerto Vallarta for a few more shots.
All professional photos courtesy of the amazing & wonderful Trista Lerit of Orange County, CA.
GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: Thanks for strolling with me down memory lane as we went back to visit Puerto Vallarta in real life & after lots of photographer drama before my wedding, I’m so BEYOND BLESSED to have had Trista capture our wedding weekend with such amazing shots.
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