indiana: steph's wedding!

congratulations to stephanie & ryan!! i know a few of you have been reading steph's blog and have offered her ideas/support (jen) and even health consultation (sarah mac) along the way. the wedding was a very happy affair (how can you not be happy when bridesmaids are wearing yellow?) and we are very excited for the newlyweds.

the setting: joe huber's family farm in starlight indiana:

favorite parts of the wedding:

• seeing steph beaming and all stunning (though she's always gorgeous!)
• kick ass cake(s)!! their friend ashley made the wedding cake and the groom's cake and brought it all in from cincinatti.
• [sounds bad that this made my list:] that a bridesmaid fainted during the ceremony ...
  
• and that a groomsman fainted seconds later!!!!!!!!!!!
  now that IS friendship!! that TWO peeps went down completely provides one of those wedding stories that they can tell for the rest of their lives!
  
• playing flippy cup with ryan's friends.
  

and ...

• that i was text messaging our crazy cabbie friend bobby about what time to pick us up.*

*bobby said if he took us to the wedding, he promisded to pick us up again after the wedding, which was almost 20miles away from louisville. and we 'southern' trusted him. mind you, if he didn't pull through we would have no way to get home from starlight, indiana!

• that bobby asked if he could bring his little brother!?! who turned out to be 1) like 40 years old and 2) WASTED at 5:30pm.
  
• that we went to the WRONG wedding first, at a different pond, had no idea where we were supposed to be, and no way to get there because bobby didn't get cell reception with his cricket phone service!!!
  
• that we, very narrowly, DID NOT miss the ceremony!!
  
• ... that we did view steph's wedding from a completely different perspective than anyone else -- from under a low hanging tree, across the pond, kind of facing everyone!
  
• that bobby actually found us in the dark, dark, farm roads not even too much past our pre-agreed-upon meeting time to take us back to our hotel!!
  

more photos, click below!!

as i mentioned above, we were dropped off at the wrong wedding and had to find stephanie's while the clock was ticking. so while wandering the farmland and trying to find the wedding (and believe me, there was some bickering at this point!), we rounded an orchard and BAM, there it was! the processional had started. there was live music, arranged by their friend, which was beautiful. but we were on the wrong side of the ceremony and couldn't walk into the wedding late from behind the altar!! so we dove under a tree. once we were in the shade and cooled off a bit, we felt much better from our frantic, stressy, wedding-hunt!


this is where we landed:

thank goodness for two things:
1. microphone system
2. zoom lens

it was hot and sunny out.
the ladies wore sunglasses.

aflac.
tell me if you get it.

ahh, it was air-conditioned in the barn, but also dark in there by this point, so had to do some adjusting to get the photo to show. i wore the headband les sent me!
it was purple and my dress was pale blue, but in this photo the two appear a little too matchy-matchy.


congratulations ryan & steph!
we had a great time!