Category: Wedding

Straight after the ceremony, the guests went out onto the terrace and enjoyed a cocktail or glass of wine (or juice) while we were whisked off on a golf cart for photos by the Las Vegas sign across the road. Cassie put this playlist together to be played during the cocktail hour. I’m not a… Continue reading Wedding Music – Cocktail Hour

In the script, you can see a space for a statement from Cassie to me. Here it is – Taylor had it printed on a nice card Matthew, I can think of many words to describe you: kind, funny, intelligent, generous, handsome, and sweet. But when I try to describe myself there’s only one word… Continue reading Ceremony – Cassie’s Statement to Matthew

In the script, you can see a space for a statement from me to Cassie. Here it is – Taylor had it printed on a nice card, so I could read it. Cassie. In the four years we’ve been together, you have turned my life upside down and that’s why I’m head over heels in… Continue reading Ceremony – Matthew’s Statement to Cassie

This is it – the point of all this palaver. Making promises to each other in front of our friends and family. The ceremony was not going to be a standard religious one. We had our own thoughts on what we wanted to say, and the officiant, Taylor, was going to be a big part… Continue reading Ceremony – Script

This was the music that was played as we walked down the aisle, and then as we walked back. The first tune was reprised in our first dance, and the cue for the strums of the acoustic on the second tune was the moment when we kissed, and apparently it was quite the good effect!… Continue reading Wedding Music – Processional and Recessional

The idea for a wedding program came from a couple of ideas. The main one was a desire to include my parents somehow. There would be guests who didn’t know where they were, so I wanted a way to explain it all and commemorate them at the same time. We also wanted to get some… Continue reading Ceremony – Program Booklet

We wanted to have a room drop for our guests at their hotels. This is when the hotel leaves something in each room – a bouquet perhaps, or a gift, or a folder of information for a conference delegate. We decided to leave a bag of goodies for everyone. The hotels all agreed, and some… Continue reading Before – Welcome Bag Room Drops

Taylor Peck, Cassie’s old high school friend, and our officiant at the wedding, owns and runs Taylor’s Tonics. I’ve written about them before. As a lovely gesture, he brewed up a couple of special limited edition sodas to celebrate our wedding. He slipped a bottle of each into the guest room drop bags. There was… Continue reading Before – Taylor’s Tonics Special Editions

We ended up using The Knot as our “wedding management tool”, and for the most part it was very good. But we had some issues with the guest list feature – which is arguably the most useful part of it. It’s very powerful, in that you can arrange your guest list into parties, for example… Continue reading Before – Guest Lists