As far as our reception goes, I really wanted to have a fun reception so during the planning process we really put an effort into the reception being fun. I wish I had better photos of the reception but I think our efforts paid off because everyone still talks about how much fun they had at the wedding, GOAL ACCOMPLISHED!!
Above is one of my favorite pictures of us from our reception only because it is just so typical of us! I am the one posing and smiling for the picture and Mr. A is eating and making a crazy face, as usual! Not to mention the fact that we both were starving at the reception but when the time came to actually eat we were so overwhelmed that we hardly ate a bite! We stopped at McDonald's on our way to our hotel later that night!
Here we are being introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Alford. You can't tell from this picture but everyone there was laughing because me being the sneaky bride I was, I wanted to add a little suprise in the mix for my husband for putting up with my OCD for the last months of the planning. See he is a farmer and works for a farm equipment company in sales. So for the introduction of our bridal party we played I'm Your's by Jason Mraz. When it came time to introduce us, I slipped in something. If any of are country music fans you would appreciate this. I changed us to be introduced to the song "International Harvester" so as the DJ starting saying our names a revved up tractor was playing in the background. Mr. A couldn't believe I had done this and you can see in the picture his suprise! I had some doubt if this would be too "redneck" for some but everyone seemed to get a big kick out of it!
This pictures is only about half of our wedding party lined up, we had 14 attendants, 4 ushers, 2 ring bearers, 1 junior groomsman, and 1 flower girl for a grand total of 22 people plus the bride and groom!!
You can somewhat see in the top of this picture the lights that we had draped from the ceiling. The pictures turned out really dark but I was really happy with the lighting effect we had. I really like candles and lights, I think it puts off a really romantic atmosphere. You can't tell very well in the photos but we had a black and white theme with red accentend throughout. The chairs were black and we tied white satin bows on all of them. The tablecloths were black and we had mirrors on all of the tables with a mixture of glass bowls with floating candles or glass hurricanes with tall candles and all tables had many small votive candles all over them. Luckily we had no fires! I was really disappointed with our photographer that he didn't get any photos of the centerpieces especially considering the long list of DEFNITE photos I wanted to get. So needless to say I dont have a single photo of a centerpiece! Oh well, it's over now though right!
Here are some more random photos from the rest of the reception:
For those of you who havn't seen it before, here is the link for a sneak peak at our wedding video:
I will leave you with my favorite picture from our wedding (although it is not from the reception) and then a few from our honeymoon:
I loved this picture just because I thought it was so cute! My little cousin in the front covering his eyes cracks me up everytime I see it!We went on a wonderful cruise to the Carribbean for our honeymoon:
So there you have it, our reception, in a nutshell! We had a blast at our reception, especially since the stress of the day and everything was behind us! We hope that everyone that attended did as well!
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