TBT: Wedding Two!

The part of our wedding that Joe and I were most looking forward to was seeing our friends and family all together in one place, socializing and enjoying each other. We were lucky enough to have lots of people travel long distances for our event and we were excited to catch up with people we hadn't seen in a long time. Unfortunately, our reception was cut drastically short for reasons that most of you already know. Since we both left the event while dinner was still being served, we felt we had lost the "party part" of our special gathering, the part with the music and drinking and dancing and fun. We decided right away that, especially because we'd be away for the next year and our wedding was also a sort of going-away event, that we would host a second celebration with whoever could join us before we left for Europe.

On August 10, 4 weeks after our "big wedding" we celebrated "Wedding Two" at the newly-opened Stone Brewing World Bistro at Liberty Station (Point Loma, San Diego). While this event did not include the dancing part that we missed during our reception, it did satisfy our desire to spend healthy, happy time with our friends and family before we left on our big adventure. We are grateful to all the people who came out for the second (or third or fourth) time to celebrate our marriage with us. We are now, officially, super-duper married.

For the more casual space, I wanted a relaxed feel with more informal decor from our big wedding. We pulled out our 6 timeline panels as our main decoration, rented a few table runners, and got our wedding florist (Bethany at Splendid Sentiments) to do some miniature versions of our centerpieces. Plus a Sprinkles Cupcakes tower with the leftover stripe-pattern stickers and bookmarks added to the festivity. 

We reserved the entire bocce ball courtyard for the afternoon.
It was the perfect size for our event of 30+ people.

Many of us put our wedding day outfits back on - what other bride gets to wear her dress twice?

A healthy, happy, sociable groom!

a calm, happy, sociable bride (who's willing to drink red wine)!

Joe and his Best Man, Matt

Groomsman John with his girlfriend Vanessa, the bride and groom

yeah, my bustle totally broke at wedding one and our rigging only last 20 minutes at wedding two... oh well, guess I'll just walk around like this:

Classy!

The ribbon wraps for our napkins at wedding one became a sort of symbol
during the days afterward, like Livestrong bracelets or breast cancer ribbons.
Luckily for us, our situation was not that serious and everyone is healthy now.

 

We got to do our toasts! (Unfortunately, my Maid of Honor couldn't make it out from Arizona, so Alicia stepped in. Since I was MOH for both of their weddings, it still seemed appropriate.)

And we got to do our cake cutting! (Although some people are still annoyed that we didn't announce this moment, so it was just us and our photographer, Cheryl.)

Six of the ten members of our wedding party were able to join us again, a pretty good turn out for short notice and people who live all over the country.

our moms

Stone Crew 

Newlyweds (again)

A beautiful, calm, San Diego day