Carly and Kyle's Wedding TR!!! ~ 01/08/09 ~ WP/GF - Wedding Day!!!

[thatdisneygirl]

I love it!! One of my biggest fears is laughing during my vows. Some people cry, shake, whatever, when they are mega-nervous, scared, or upset....I laugh. (I refuse to go to funerals!)

I laugh at funerals too! It's horrifying...

 

[adisneygal]

I laugh at funerals too! It's horrifying...

Me too!!! I laugh at everything and it is horrifying....

I hadn't even thought about this and now I am worried about doing this during my ceremony

Your pics are gorgeous and I am throughly enjoying this TR!

 

[Tink_Kel]

laugh at funerals too! It's horrifying...

Me too!!! I laugh at everything and it is horrifying....I hadn't even thought about this and now I am worried about doing this during my ceremony

Listen to us! We'd be a hoot at a funeral together! We'd get a lot of this

Seriously though, Carley, I don't see anything wrong with squeeling with glee...it shows your spontanious and honest.

 

[thatdisneygirl]

Wedding Day - Our Ceremony

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of God and in the presence of these witnesses, to join together Kyle and Carly in holy matrimony; this is an honorable estate, instituted by God. It is therefore not to be entered into unadvisedly, but reverently, discreetly, and with the approval of God. It is into this holy estate these two persons come now to be joined.

I require and charge you both, as you stand in the presence of God, before whom the secrets of all hearts are disclosed, that, having duly considered the holy covenant you are about to make, you do now declare before this company your pledge of faith, each to the other. Be well assured that if these solemn vows are kept, as God’s Word demands, and if steadfastly you endeavor to do the will of your heavenly Father, God will bless your marriage, will grant you fulfillment in it, and will establish your home in peace.

Do you, Kyle, knowing of this woman’s love for you and returning it, realizing her strengths and learning from them, recognizing her weaknesses and accepting them, take Carly, to be your lawfully wedded wife?

I do.

Do you, Carly, knowing of this man’s love for you and returning it, realizing his strengths and learning from them, recognizing his weaknesses and accepting them, take Kyle, to be your lawfully wedded husband?

I do.

Would the parents of the couple please stand?

Kyle and Carly have asked me to publicly express their love and appreciation to you, their parents, for all the love and guidance you have given them. It is through you, they have learned the meaning of the words “respect,” love” and “honor”. These gifts that you have bestowed upon them - they will now come to share and exchange with each other. It is a tribute to you that they now stand here before us. For your support that has brought them this far in their lives they say thank you...and I say thank you.

Carly and Kyle, you are now taking into your care and keeping the happiness of the one person you love the most. You are agreeing to share strengths, responsibilities, and love. As husband and wife you will be each other’s best friend, confidant, lover, teacher, listener and protector. As your relationship grows it will deepen and enrich every facet of your life. Your happiness is fuller, your memories fresher, and your commitments will be stronger.

You will indeed experience marriage to be one of life’s greatest commitments, one of life’s greatest blessings, but also one of life’s greatest challenges. So, be mindful of this; every effort to preserve love with one another by demonstrating patience, by holding each other gently, and by lifting each other up, will go a long, long way in guaranteeing a wonderful and happy life together.

I, Kyle, take you, Carly, to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, as long as we both shall live, this is my promise to you.

I, Carly, take you, Kyle, to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, as long as we both shall live, this is my promise to you.

May I have the rings?

May God bless these rings and the two of you who wear them. May you always abide in His peace and continue in His favor. Amen

With this ring I thee wed
So the world may know my love for you
I pledge to honor you with all that I have
And all that I will become.

Kyle and Carly have asked me to share the traditional Apache Wedding Blessing.

"Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years. May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth."

Heavenly Father, Thank you for Carly and Kyle as they begin this, their journey through life together. Walk with them each step of the way giving them the faith, and the wisdom, to face together whatever the future may hold. In your name we pray, Amen.

Forasmuch as Kyle and Carly have consented together in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same before God and this company, and thereto have pledged their faith each to the other, and have declared the same by joining hands and by giving and receiving rings, I pronounce that they are husband and wife together, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Those whom God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Amen.

You may kiss your beautiful bride.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with the greatest of pleasure I present to you for the very first time, as husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan.

 

[torsie24]

Awww, I'm crying again!!

 

[tiggersam00]

awesome update, beautiful ceremony Carly. You both look so happy and relaxed...

 

[Tink_Kel]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your vows with us!

 

[MegKate]

Awww, I'm crying again!!

Me too!! BAH!! + = (happy tears!!)

 

[thatdisneygirl]

 

[thatdisneygirl]

Wedding Day - Part 8

My memory of the thirty seconds directly following the ceremony is incredibly choppy…I don’t remember if people clapped as we exited the chapel. I suppose they must have, since they all had to stand up. It would be weird if we just ran down between a punch of people who were standing around, looking at us. I think there were also fake bells being played, even though Kyle didn’t hear them, because you can hear them on the video. What I do remember is Marion opening the doors for us and then telling us to go into the bridal room across from the chapel. We ducked into the tiny little salon and were silent for about five seconds before there was a complete explosion of talking…

“Oh my GOD, how weird was that?”
“So weird, so weird…did you even see my face?
“Did you even see my eye? It was twitching like crazy!”
“I can’t even believe that, that was so weird.”
“It just started twitching and I was, like, glad it’s on this side and not the other because of all the pictures.”
“I don’t even know if he said everything. Did he say everything?”
“I think so, but it felt like everything was out of order. Do we both still have our rings?”
“I’ve got mine.”
“Mine, too. Oh, did you see that seagull? It was freaking out!”
“No, but did you see our parents? I thought everyone was going to cry and I was, like, we totally should have gotten those little packets of Kleenex.”
“There wasn’t time to cry.”
“Do you think anyone is crying now?”
“Oh, like, because it just caught up to them?”
“Yeah”

The door burst open suddenly and Marion popped her head in. She smiled at us and told us that they were lining everyone up outside…and then she said, “So have your special moment” in her cute little Scottish accent and then she was gone.

Kyle and I looked at each other. It had just dawned on us that we were supposed to be having an amazingly romantic moment, instead of a caffeine-fueled friendly chat. There was a little bit of silence while we both tried to think of something to say. Finally, Kyle smiled and…

Marion came back in and ushered us out into the rows and rows of bubble-wielding wedding guests. It’s bugged me ever since! I have no idea what Kyle was about to say, but I have the feeling that it would have been sweet and wonderful...

 

[disneygal922]

Carly, what wonderful updates! once again, everything looked gorgeous (especially the bride of course)! Congrats again!

 

[Racey]

I was laughing my socks off at your little chat and the way you explained it .... so funny

 

[Mrsdisneyb2b]

awww So I am crying now sitting at my desk... what beautiful pictures, how exciting! Dd you ask him what he was going to say?? I want to know! lol

 

[thatdisneygirl]

I want to know too! He says he doesn't remember...

 

[adisneygal]

I want to know what he was gonna say too! This is like getting into a really good show only to have the network cancel it on you, never to find out the ending....


Yes, I am throughly sucked into your TR...

 

[princess22]

Oh my gosh, i got so far behind on your TR. 30 minutes later and several tears (yes I'm a crier) I have finally caught up. Everything looks beautiful so far. I love your TR, lots of pictures and you're an awesome writer! I'm ready for more!!!

 

[thatdisneygirl]

Wedding Day – Part Ten

Our staged exit from the wedding pavilion was well-planned out. I had given Marion and all of her assistants detailed instructions on what was to happen. I even sent Nathan and Jensey a little blurb about how the exit was to go down. That’s how into this exit I was.

The game plan:
1. Everyone lines up outside.
2. We come down the walkway amidst a shower of well wishes.
3. We lead the whole wedding party to the beach in a happy procession.
4. We get a big group picture on the beach with the castle in the background.

How awesome does that sound? Yes, well, like many things that I planned out, the exit probably needed to be a bit more thought through…

Problem Number One:

Bubbles. I really didn’t think the bubbles through. See, a few weeks before we went down to Florida, it occurred to me that “come down the walkway amidst a shower of well wishes” needed to be a little more concrete. Were people going to clap? Were they going to throw rice? Wave ribbon? Release butterflies? I was at a total loss…everything seemed both cheesy and overpriced. Then, in a stroke of luck, I found a box of 50 bottles of wedding bubbles on clearance at Michael’s Arts and Crafts for only $2.50. It’s true that they had little plastic butterflies on the top, which I wasn’t overly thrilled with, but I figured most people weren’t going to notice what was on top anyway and if I bought them I wouldn’t have to think about them again. Done and done.

Well, I should have thought about them harder.

As Kyle and I walked out of the bridal suite, we could see all of our guests lined up on the pathway leaving the pavilion. For those of you who haven’t been there, the path is pretty long. It’s actually a long bridge and then a long sidewalk, so Kyle and I had a bit of ground to cover before we got to anyone. It was sort of odd, because I feel like we should have been running or something, but we just walked hand in hand toward everyone, stopping underneath the wedding archway to steal a kiss. (awwww)

As we moved into the crowd, I felt a ton of love and happiness surrounding us. And then I felt something else. Bubbles. Millions of really, really cheap bubbles.

The bubbles might have been on clearance for a reason, because they were the stickiest, slimiest bubbles I’ve ever come in contact with. The bubble-blowing increased in intensity as we were enveloped by a throng of well-wishers. The only thing slightly worse than having a bucket of gooey bubbles dumped on you is when the bubbles are interspersed with the spray of someone who is overenthusiastic about the bubble-blowing and therefore is simply blowing the syrup at full force right through the butterfly-shaped hole in their bubble-blowing wand.

As we reached the halfway point, we started to really come unglued. Kyle grabbed my hand and I tried to duck behind him for cover. In the wedding video, you can actually hear Kyle say, “Enh, this is unpleasant!” while I simply utter a high pitched whine. We made our way quickly to the end of the pathway as our guests blissfully continued to shower us with soap, where I paused to silently reevaluate my love of clearance items.

Problem Number Two:

Despite being slightly sticky, we were still surfing the we-just-got-married-high as we moved away from the wedding pavilion. The weather was gorgeous, our guests were in high spirits, and it was almost time to party. My high quickly dissipated, however, when I realized that everyone was following us and we had only the vaguest of ideas as to where we were going.

Either Nathan or Jensey had said something to me about how you couldn’t really see the castle from the beach and we’d have to do the group picture somewhere else, but I admit that I wasn’t really listening…I know, I’m a bad bride. I was very much in the que syrah syrah mindset while we were taking pictures. You know, getting zen and all. I wasn’t really thinking about silly things like “details” and “gameplan”.

So as Kyle and I started to lead our procession of 60, we both realized that we didn’t know exactly where we were going. In my head, the pavilion was surrounded by a beach that was easily accessible from the walkway. In reality, the beach is removed from the walkway by large, rolling, grassy hills. Kyle was not worried about this, because his job for the day was done. Marriage? Done. Wedding celebration details? Wife. I, on the other hand, started to panic. I knew that everyone would follow us for as long as we walked, but at some point we were going to have to stop and take a group picture. I racked my brain for whatever it was that the Roots had suggested and came up totally empty. So I stopped and went right.

Yes, I made all of my wedding guests climb those grassy hills to get to the beach, including the four guests who were in wheelchairs. Off we went like the Von Trapp family, holding each other up, struggling to make it to the other side…and we were successful!

However, success only meant that we were on the beach, not that we had made it to any recognizable, designated Kodak Picture Spot. The Roots were right about not being able to see the castle from the beach. In fact, there isn’t a lot you can see at that beach, except for trees and more beach. With the sun directly overhead us and the fact that everyone was walking around in sand wearing their dress shoes, it was sort of a bust. But, we had made the climb, so we got the pictures.

I actually love the pictures, even if we’re shadowed and tiny in them. The best thing about them is that there are two different backgrounds, even though the group didn’t move. I don’t know how they did it. Photographer magic. So, I suppose the photos were worth all the trouble of getting everyone on (and off) of that beach, but if I was to do it again, I’d probably pick a better spot…

 

[tiggersam00]

Ok, I had that exact box of bubbles in my hand on Saturday and put them back at the last minute thinking "do I really want people blowing soap on me?" Sorry you got covered in soap on your wedding day... your pics came out incredible though, gotta love a good group shot!

 

[torsie24]

Love the group photos!! Shame the bubbles were slimy but they sure looked good in the pictures!

 

[thatdisneygirl]

Wedding Day - Part Eleven

After the group picture, the vast majority of the people headed over to the Whitehall room at the Grand Floridian to enjoy the pre-reception cocktail hour. The wedding party stayed behind to do our pictures, which somehow ended up being just a giant line of people in black standing around on the beach.

Since there were 17 of us (18 counting the baby), it was about as hard to direct everyone as it was to direct the giant group...

...so we split the party down the middle, with me taking my people off to the side to get photos and Kyle keeping his people to take photos…a process that included all of my people scaring the birds off of the beach…

I love the photos that I took with my people, but Kyle’s photos came out a little bit awkward. Honestly, my husband is awkward and uncomfortable about 25% of the time, but I think it’s adorable. It just doesn’t photograph that well…

After we got our pictures finished, we headed back over the grassy hills to make our way towards the Grand Floridian. Some of my dad’s family, who I hadn’t had time to catch up with, were waiting around for us, so it was nice to sneak in a few overdue hugs.

We all made our way to the GF, with Kaitlyn and I leading the procession…