wedding wednesday

Not going to lie, I sat here for a bit this morning and wondered what to write about for today's edition of wedding wednesday. There's a bit of a lull between arriving at the reception and starting all the fun stuff, you know?

So today I'm giving you my two cents on how to have a fun wedding reception. Take it as you may.

FIRST - be there for all four hours of your reception. This sounds dumb, I know, but hear (see? read?) me out. Originally we were going to be married at 7:30 that night, but with the hour and fifteen minute ceremony + pictures, we would likely only be at the reception for two and a half hours - the country club closed at midnight. This is seriously the only reason we did the afternoon wedding. Wedding at 2 and reception started at 3:30 - we arrived around 3:45 and had a blast until 7:30.

Oh, and then have an after party. And go to it. In your veil. But more on that later.

SECOND - Let people come to you.

I was so glad that they put this little seating area out and that we took advantage of it. We hadn't really had an "us" time yet until this. And you know what? People that wanted to talk to us, did. We could have walked around the whole room for hours, but we didn't. And yet we still talked to everyone at our reception. Whether they talked to us at this time or when we were dancing, we talked to everyone and still had the fun we wanted to have.

 my kindergarten and second grade teacher on the left, my favorite teacher ever and I'm so blessed she was able to come to the wedding

THIRD - Eat the food that you paid a ton of money to have there. Even if it is just a plate full of mac and cheese. Hey, I hadn't eaten that stuff in MONTHS.

LAST - Hire a kick-ass band/DJ and dance the night away.

Even if you are the only ones on the dance floor for a while.