It’s been fun and interesting to hear about the wedding from our family and friends’ perspectives. I haven’t had a chance to speak with everyone yet, but the more I talk to them, the more I laugh about things that they have told me. When it’s your own wedding, you can never be aware of every little thing happening around you.

One thing I had no idea about that I learned of tonight during a Google Hangout session with two of my bridesmaids was that during the ceremony when Chris and I were giving our personal vows that we wrote, the girls said that almost every female in the audience was tearing up and dabbing their eyes, and even a handful of males were. All three of my bridesmaids were getting emotional and trying hard to keep it in, with two of them sniffling the whole time. And during Chris’s speech at the reception, when he revealed the meaning behind the table names and Ed’s symbolism, one of them cried almost the whole time. These are all the things I had no idea about because I couldn’t see them myself.

We just got back our full set of professional photos, and I didn’t really see any of this represented, which concerned me a little. It would be great if we could see this documented via photography and would be sad if it were nowhere. We banned photography from the ceremony in hopes that it would help make everyone more present  and in the moment, and so that the photographers wouldn’t have any distractions.