David & Emily Get Married!

Saturday morning started early with wedding set-up. Emily's best friend, friend's sister, and friend's mom have helped out with other weddings before, and did a great job at decorating for this wedding. It started sprinkling in the morning, but stopped around lunch time and left beautiful weather for the wedding that evening.

My two grandmother's enjoying each other's company

The food was catered and served up on the deck.

The wedding theme was peaches in Tuscany, and they had so many cute touches to make this wedding absolutely beautiful!

The cake table had pictures of our parents and Emily's parents on their wedding days.

They spray painted an old chandelier and hung it from a tree high above this stone patio in the yard. It was beautiful!

And what a great idea to have a door frame to walk through at the entrance of the garden to signify the entrance of the wedding area!

Emily descended from the "Bridal Suite" upstairs, and looked absolutely beautiful!

David and Emily decided to take all their pictures before the ceremony, so had a private moment for their first viewing of each other.

I didn't take any pictures during the actual ceremony, but it was beautiful and went off flawlessly. Brylee did great walking down the aisle, (although was a little more confused and had a harder time finding me because there were so many more people there than compared to the rehearsal!)

After the ceremony, all the guests enjoyed appetizers on the tile patio while these tables & chairs were quickly set up on the grass.

We also used that time to change Brylee from her "ceremony" dress of tulle to this slightly simpler dress that she could spend the rest of the evening in a little more comfortably (what flower girl has TWO dresses!)

The Happy Couple!

First Dance

Cutting the Cake

Brylee loved the cake!

And loved playing with her daddy!

At dark, the happy couple made their escape...

...in a fancy golfcart...

...to head across the street to the neighborhood clubhouse for the "after party!"

Many of the guests followed them over there for dancing and drinks.

And it was so nice to get to catch up with this fun couple, the Garretts!  The Garretts were some of our good friends from church who just moved to Alabama. John also happened to be one of my brother's roomates in college.

The dancing lasted a couple of hours...

...and the bride and groom made their escape to Jamaica for the following week. Our family is so thrilled to officially have Emily as a part of our family! Congrats!