Ta daa! The perfect day!!

[Rube]

What can I say? It was perfect! If anything DID go wrong, I was too oblivious to know it.

Like Mrs. njc, I have only a couple of photos, but I''ll add more when they come!

Yay to weddings!

 

[Rube]

A little note for JCJD: I forgot to put on any type of pantyhose at all! Oops!

 

[MelissaSue]

awww. you look so lovely .. and SOOOOOOOOOOO happy!! I love how you are both smiling and laughing in those pics. That is how I hope to be on my wedding day. (I''m not really optimistic though, since I can be a tad of a bridezilla..lol..) Anyway.. congratulations! Show us more pics soon!

 

[JCJD]

Hooray!!! Congratulations!! Thanks for the early pics, can't wait to see more of your happy day and your cakes! Good job RE no pantyhose

 

[kaschmir]

rube, you both just look like you've had a BLAST. good job (and you look adorable in your dress btw)!

i hope i'll enjoy my wedding day as much as you did... and what a beautiful ceremony site! thanks for sharing and posting pictures so quickly. i enjoy looking at all these photographs soooo much.

regards,
kaschmir

 

[BrightSpot]

Yay, Rube! Congrats on a perfect day! You look beautiful & soooo happy!

 

[teebee]

Congratulations Rube!!! You look so beautiful & happyhappyhappy!!!

 

[lmurden]

Nice pictures!

 

[Rockchick]

yaaaaaay

You two look so happy!!!!



Congrats!

 

[qtiekiki]

Rube - Congratulations!!!

You looked so happy and radiant on your wedding day, and the cake turns out great - I really like the biege color. We want more pictures.

Rockchick - the bride flashing her diamond ring smiley face is just too cute.

 

[Rube]

Well, I don''t know if I have any more photos that are interesting just yet, but I can tell you all more about the actual wedding weekend!

Thursday, one of my HUSBAND''S(!) friends came back to Kansas City, and my mom and step father flew in. I was too tired to utter much more than ''Hello.''

Friday I was (thankfully!) off work, had breakfast with then FI, mom and step-father, then went to the airport to pick up one of my highschool friends who came to town early to help out. Luckily, there wasn''t much to help out with though, so we went to the mall, had our nails done, and ate at Pretzel Time. Yum! At this point I was not so concerned about eating too much salt and blowing up like a balloon. There was pleanty of room in my dress to eat anything and everything- which I did.

That evening I went out to dinner with my dad and some relatives I hardly knew (until now) and met up with more family and friends trickling in.

Saturday comes around, and the REST of my family and friends arrive (this is my husband''s "growing up place" and most of his friends and family live here). By lunch I am so tired I can hardly believe it. Everyone was so wound up! I admit I loved it, but it''s way more social interaction than either of us is used to. FI escaped to his mother''s house.

That evening we hosted a dinner in our studio (working studio- art- not living space) and almost ALL the wedding guests showed up. So, about 30 people made new friends. And, everyone got along REALLY well.

After the dinner, I went back to the hotel where my friends were staying to play Euchre. So much fun! But I really had to go home and sleep. Sunday was our 10am wedding FAR away from home.

 

[blueroses]

Congratulations MRS. Rube!! You and your honey look just radiant and beautiful

I must have missed the backstory on the cake? Looks fabulous!! HOORAY!!

 

[kanne]

YAY! Congratulations Mrs. Rube, I''m so glad that you had a fantastic day!! You looked radiant in your dress!! Post more pics!!

I agree 100%- yay for weddings!

 

[Blue824]

Congratulations, Rube!!

You & your new husband look so happy, and your Tikal cake looks yummy

 

[icekid]

sounds like it was a wonderful time all around... and you look BEAUTIFUL and absolutely radiant. congrats

 

[LollyBear]

You look lovely (as we all knew you would). It''s wonderful to see a fellow PSer so happy.

p.s. you''re cakes look awesome, very unique and edible

Yum Yum

 

[HOUMedGal]

Congrats, you looked radiant!!!!

 

[saturn]

Wow, you look so beautiful and happy! Congratulations!

 

[AmantdeChat]

Great pictures! Is that the Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs? It sure looks like it. My fiance and I were just down there a couple of weekends ago and thought it was gorgeous. Congrats!

 

[Rube]

Thank you all for your wonderful comments! I will add some more pictures when they come my way.

AmantdeChat- The chapel is actually by the same architect at the one in Eureka Springs, but this one is at Powell Gardens in Kansas City. It was (is) so beautiful!

I think I have some more photos on my computer of the chapel...

 

[AmantdeChat]

Cool! I have a friend from work that got married there a couple of years back. Should have recognized it, but it obviously looked familar!

So I take it you''re a KC gal too?! Me too! Nice to "meet" someone from the area!

 

[Rube]

The chapel at Powell Gardens:

 

[Rube]

AdC- Hi from KC!

 

[curlygirl]

Oooh, congratulations Mrs. Rube!!! You look so happy in your photos--you are absolutely glowing!! Your church looks beautiful too. Sounds like everything went perfectly!! Yay!!!

 

[JessesGrl]

You are a beautiful bride and your chapel is gorgeous, congrats!!!!!

 

[MissAva]

You look so happy!

 

[flopkins]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww you look so happy!!!!!!

and those cakes are awesome! are you the one who had the special cakes made bc your DH studies mayan history or something like that? I forget.... hehe.

 

[Buena Girl]

Many congrats!!! You look absolutely radiant!

 

[njc]

Hey there Mrs. Rube!!!

You look so beautiful and so happy!!! I am very glad everything went well for you too!!! LOVE the cake and your chapel is just amazing! Everything looks like it was a fantastic time and you werent stressed out! YEA!!!! Congratulations... cant wait to see and hear more!

 

[Rube]

Thank you again EVERYONE! We had such a good day. It was funny, because all of our guests commented on how I couldn''t stop smiling.

I smile all the time anyway it seems, but I guess this weekend I was showing more gum than usual.

flopkins- both of us study Mayan history... in fact we just got back from our first dig in Belize a couple of weeks ago. Too fun, really! We even made it a point to go into Guatemala for a weekend to see Tikal again. The cakes were great to see completed! (A little history lesson: Temples 1 and 2 at Tikal were built by Jasaw Chan-K''awil... Temple 1 for himself, and Temple 2 for his wife.)