"And they lived happily ever after"

so i guess this will be my last post on the journey to getting married. its kind of a relief that its all over now. not that i didnt have a blast getting to this point, but i'm just so ready to start my life.

after the ceremony was over we literally sped through pics. we finished a lot earlier than the photog had expected. shes pretty awesome (yay lynn michelle!) and it was hard to really keep up with what was going on lol. but after all that madness we got to just relax and have fun the rest of the evening.

after our grand entrance, anthony and i went straight into our first dance. we are not sappy people in the traditional sense so it didnt really make sense to have a traditional sappy dance. so what we asked our dj to do (shout out glenn roush) was to come up with the cheesiest love song ever. they kind when you hear it you groan. and then switch to our real song... "if youre wondering if i want you to" by weezer! and we started acting a fool and just having fun with a song that was just so "us."

then we caught up with the guests and actually got to eat!. we catered from pappadeaux! and the food was soooo good. we had an avocado bar where you got half an avocado and got to stuff it with all sorts of wonderful. i decided on the shrimp ceviche. yum. and we also had fresh crab cake balls. they were AMAZING! i wanted like 8 of them lol but i restrained myself and only had 2. what was even more awesome about this was that because old red doesnt have a kitchen, most places pre made the food but pappas actually set up shop outside and fried things up for us fresh! then for the main course we had crawfish etufee and chicken Dijon. yum thats all i have to say about that. just thinking about it now is making me hungry for lunch... at 7 am!

after schmoozing with all the tables, we cut the cake! i think our cakes pretty much rocked. best cake ever was anthonys grooms cake that was sculpted to look like tom servo from mst3k. cake was delish even thought the brides cake didnt turn out looking the way i really wanted it to. but oh well.

after that we did toasts. javed gave one that was on the funny side, then kyles 2 page typed speech was very touching, zainabs was short and sweet and dads made me cry...(not cool dad). from there we started our father-daughter dance to "butterfly kisses". i know i know so cliche... but its one that my dad sung for me when i was little and always made him sort of emotional so it was really my only choice. since we did get married on fathers day... 1/2 way through the song we invited all the other father-daughter pairs to join us. this opened the floor which was hot for a couple songs until people decided that it was just too damn hot with all the windows unshaded to get down.

when the dance floor died we decided maybe it was time to call it a day. so we called party animals who was in charge of bringing our horse drawn carriage to see if they could come earlier. they told us at that point that there was a city ordinance that didnt allow horses to be out on the street if it was about 100. and that they were "pushing for 730" seriously... you werent gonna tell me that when we booked you. its freaking june in texas chances of it being over 100 are high! so we decided we'd do plan b and the boys left to pack up kyles car. when they got back up to the hall we did the bouquet toss and my cousin yasmin who has been dreaming of getting married ...well allher life caught it. and thent he garter toss ... ryan actually dove for the garter! lol guess he REALLY wanted it ;).

our last dance was to another one of "our" songs... "strangers int he night" by cake. after that all of our family and friends ran downstairs to get their flower cones (see DIY post for pics ) and we were just about to walk out when kyle told us that our carriage was here! yes really. so we walked out to a shower of rose petals and rode off into the sunset.

after we got to the W hotel where we were staying for the night we ran around downtown with our wonderful photog to get some pics of just the two of us. it was a lot of fun. the whole process was a pretty fun ride. but now im ready to start the real adventure. and i couldnt have asked for a better partner to share my life with. i love you anthony!

signing off.... MRS METZ! :)