bliss

June 26th, 2011 I got married to the best, most beautiful, and absolute funniest man I've ever met. Here are the details and the photos to prove it. We had a family-union/re-union and it couldn't have been more perfect.

The highlights:

First, we rented Cobblestone Farms in Ann Arbor (2 barns for the price of one!)

Then, I printed my own invites at Pistachio Press' place and used her gorgeous stationary for thank you notes (below).

Buy them here!

Instead of RSVP return cards we got ourselves a wedding website through onewed for RSVPs.

We rented everything except stir sticks and thrifted frames/lace.

Next, we spent decades making drink tags, printing magnetic poetry sets, painting frames, folding favor toppers, making guestbooks, and designing cootie catchers.

I hand lettered roughly one million chalkboards.

(If you do this, use chalkboard paint and a chalkboard PEN!)

We went to the farmer's market for flowers and my former-florist/current-mother-in-law made our bouquets day-of.

We trusted our photographer, Holly Green to document the day.

And left our simple cake to a (paid) friend but stole the idea for our cake topper.

Then the day was upon us! Eighty one of our favorite people showed up and one Bible reading, one Darwin reading, and NINE MINUTES later... we were married!

Next, we ate and ate gourmet pizza from Pizza House. 

SO GOOD.

And a friend (who we hired as day-of coordinator) made salads for each table following these awesome guidelines.

 

We (all) did  The Twist.

 

We talked and drank (thanks to Ann Arbor Brewing Company, wine.com, and wineshopper.com)

Then we talked more and drank more (the Snickerdoodle flavored coffee was a hit)

And then we left! Whew!