THE Wedding of the Year

Since I promised to give a little update on the major event (wedding) Rene and I attended on Saturday here goes. When I say that this was an “event” it really was. The wedding was for friends of ours who live in Dallas and we met through Rene’s job with Deloitte. The husband works at Deloitte as well and the wife owns a small boutique here in Dallas for breast cancer survivors.

The couple are 100% some of the most genuine and fun people that I know so please don’t think that when I tell you about the amazing wedding that they are stuck up or snobbish in any way shape or form!

The wife is from Longview,TX a town of around 80K in east Texas and her family in involved in lumber sales. Apparently the family is very well known in the town and this wedding was the event you wanted a ticket for – Rene and I were lucky enough to get invited.

I only have a couple of pictures because my camera wasn’t doing very well in the dark reception venue but here are a couple of the key points:

Guest count 600+

The church was packed and the reception was held in the Convention Center!

The catering was done by I think every local restaurant so there was something for everyone (Chick fil a, pizza, salmon, Diary Queen, and alcoholic sno-cones!)

It’s the first and only wedding I’ve attended that started on the dot at 7pm and finished up as the clock struck midnight—oh yea with a wonderful firework show as the new Mr. and Mrs. drove away!

An ice sculpture that of course the bartender poured your selected martini down to chill it before serving.

Add to that an amazing wedding cake, and flowers….

On yeah and the grooms cake that was a horn frog (TCU graduates!)

Best wishes to Crystal and Kelly – it really was an amazing wedding!

Recap #10- The Wedding Party

After the first look it was time for some group shots and pics of me and my wonderful maids of honor and bridesmaid before the ceremony.

First up was a fun veil picture with my ladies! I am so glad that I went with the cathedral veil!




These 3 girls are amazing and I am so glad that there were able to share our special day with us!






And the whole group! I love the fact that we went with the vibrant blue colors of the ladies dresses it made for some great colors for all of our pictures! We had the most amazing group of people for our wedding. The each played such am amazing role and it would not have been the same without each and every one of them.
(From Left to Right) Andrew proved to be the life of the party, Matt added to countless laughs the entire trip. Kelly (MOH#1 ) proved to be the sentimental one of my side, her heartfelt words will be long lasting. Laura (MOH#2) was so calm cool and collected the entire trip that it put my mind at ease about everything! And last but not least Katie, though Rene will tell you she is the Grooms woman for the event since she had been through the wedding events about 7 months before she knew exactly what I needed even before I did--including the bobby pins when the wind did a little damage to my hair. Thank you all for making the cruise so amazing for us. One of the best things about a wedding on Disney Cruise Line aside from the gorgeous backdrop was the bright colors and fun places around the ship to get some great pictures. Up next we took a stroll down Route 66.

As we were heading up to the overlook of the lobby for some family shots I was greeted by an unexpected "creature"....Stitch!

He then continued to "eat" my flowers...

We also took this time to get a couple of pictures with just my side of the family.

Me and Mom

After we did a little mini-family photo session we went down to meet up with the guests to go down to the ceremony location. I wasn't worried about people seeing the dress before hand, I guess I figured if the groom had been me what did it matter for the rest of the guests? Plus it was nice to get to mix and mingle a bit with everyone....even if it felt rushed!
Up next....the first look at the ceremony location. I must say a big thank you to Jenn and my Mom for going down to take a look at everything all set up.

Need to catch up?

Day 6 Paparazzi-Bride and Groom Pics
Day 6 The First Look
Day 6 Becoming the Bride
Day 6 Getting Ready to Say I DO
Day 5 Our Last "Single" Night
Day 4 The Civil Ceremony
Day 3 We board the Wonder
Day 2 Orlando and Cocoa
Day 1 in Orlando

Recap #9- Paparazzi!

Ok well maybe not to that extent, but the next thing up on our wonderful wedding day it was time for the Bride/Groom portraits. I of course had been stalking different photographer’s websites and searching through 100’s of different photos to get my inspirations.

Before the wedding I had no idea what Jenn would have in mind after seeing the “palate” that she had to work with on the ship, and it had been so long since I had been on board one of Disney’s ships that even I was having a hard time trying to think of great photo locations.

None the less, I had provided Jenn with these photo inspiration boards during our planning time all created at Style Me Pretty

As you can see from the first sets of pictures I have posted from getting ready and the first look Jenn completely went above and beyond my expectations! You can see from my boards a few of my photo ideas had been captured already--but what was yet to come for these bride/groom portraits were much more than I had ever expected!

These two are some of my favorite close ups, the way the wind was blowing around worked out just great when it came to getting some amazing photos!

I can not say enough about what a beautiful day we had while in port, it made for such amazing backdrops and vibrant colors!!

As if these are not gorgeous enough, check out what Jenn did in terms of effects on a couple of the pictures--I am generally not much for altering pictures or changing the color from anything but color/B&W/Sepia but I fell in love with these!

After this we headed down towards a spiral staircase to grab some cute shots, again with the amazing background and just a side note the fish eye lens has become me new fave photography trend!

Next up it was time to head over to the smoke stakes on the ship to get some Disney themed bright shots, along the way Jenn just kept on snapping pictures along the way.

Here is where we got some fun shots with the smoke stacks, the best part is there was no one around when we were getting these which made for some perfect images.

I loved out portraits of just us as you can see, and these are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we have to choose from! I can't wait to see what they look like in print around our apartment!

Next up, photo time with the wedding party.



Need to catch up?

Day 6 The First Look
Day 6 Becoming the Bride
Day 6 Getting Ready to Say I DO
Day 5 Our Last "Single" Night
Day 4 The Civil Ceremony
Day 3 We board the Wonder
Day 2 Orlando and Cocoa
Day 1 in Orlando

New Year Changes

With a new year comes new changes! This morning I had the chance to get an update about Jenn's blog on my Google Reader, and low and behold she has changed up look of the site. I think it looks great, but I might be a bit biased...

Rene and I have two of the photos on there which are 2 of my faves! Be sure to check it out!
Jennifer Werneth Photography

Adding to that, I am so glad to pass along referrals to other brides! From that Jennifer has booked her 2nd Disney cruise bride!! Karen is a member of the Dis Boards which my mom is also a part of and she saw some of the photos my mom had posted and contacted me about Jennifer's work. I am so glad that Karen was impressed by the work the Jenn did on our cruise that she contacted Jenn to join them for their wedding in November 2010!

Karen and Daniel's Wedding Website

Here's hoping for a great year for Jenn in expanding her work to more Disney Cruise line and Disney Fairytale Wedding Brides! As well as a "happily ever after" for Karen and her soon to be Mr!

Up next I will be sharing the portrait session of our fabulous group prior to the ceremony!

Gallery of the Day

I must admit yes the wedding is over, but I still keep watching a couple of my favorite wedding blogs--I am a bit addicted to the dresses, the flowers, the pictures--pretty much all of it....

So today I was checking the daily blog updates and found our photo smiling back at me for the Gallery of the Day on Weddingbee

It brought a smile to my face as I realized tomorrow will be our "Month-versary"

Check out the posting of us at : Mr and Mrs Disney Say I Do on the Disney Wonder

We've been Blogged!

I could not be more excited to write this post! Our amazing photographer has put up more of our images on her blog!!

Click here to see her AMAZING WORK!

http://jenniferwernethphotography.blogspot.com/2009/12/megan-renes-wedding-disney-cruise.html

I know it's Thanksgiving but...

I could not help but share the sneak peak the photographer Jennifer Werneth sent me via e-mail today! I was so excited to find these in my mailbox after our Thanksgiving day feast! I can not wait to see the rest!

Wedding Photos to Come Soon!

I am so excited to see that people are uploading their photos to our group room on Snapfish!
www.snapfish.com
The one downfall that I have found is there is now a way for us to download the photos we have to actually purchase the prints.
That's ok with me thought! Last night I ordered a total of almost 300 photos from those posted by 3 friends and family so far! And they only cost us $30 with the printing and shipping!
That being said they will get uploaded to the blog soon!

I am going to try to get the video up this weekend but I don't want to promise anything just yet! Keep Checking back!

What Am I Forgetting?!?

Well it is getting to be that time, I only have about 6 or 7 more hours in the office **fingers crossed I am not stuck here late**

Then that is it! No more work til the 17th of November....which means the trip starts FRIDAY!!

While we are both excited about the trip and the upcoming cruise and wedding the one question that is of course on my mind. "What am I forgetting?"

All of my appointments here in Dallas are confirmed for tomorrow--minus nails, I need to squeeze that in between a couple of things since all of my beauty services are not at the same location (which is such a pain!) oh well....we are pretty much all packed, kitty goes off to PetSmart PetHotel on Thursday evening..HMMM....

I guess all that remains is to take care of the bills for while we are gone, stop the mail and clean out the fridge...or at least I hope that is all.

I guess I still have half a day at work and all day tomorrow to think about it.

Even more exciting though is tonight I get to speak with our photographer Jennifer Werenth to go over the final agenda and timeline for the wedding day photos! I have been stalking her website and blog for over a year and I can't wait for us to finally meet face to face instead of all of the over the phone and email conversations!

It is getting so close--but at the same time it still has not set in!