Loxed and Loaded: Our Video

You’ve seen our day in pictures from start to finish. But if you were with me when we were planning, you might remember that video got to be a huge sticking point for us. At the time, I was lucky enough to find Christina Keane. She is a talented videographer and photographer, and we were lucky enough to book her to do our video in a nick of time. Last time I checked (which was admittedly not very recently), Christina was no longer shooting wedding videos, so I count myself incredibly lucky to have snapped her up before it was too late.

I love this video so much. It was worth making room in the budge for this. And I’ve never, not even for a second, regretting hiring Christina and having a video keepsake of our day.

So now, without further ado, here is our wedding video. 🙂

Are you planning on having a videographer for your wedding day?

Miss a recap?

• Loxed and Loaded: All the Small Things
• Loxed and Loaded: We did it!
• Loxed and Loaded: The Fauxtobooth
• Loxed and Loaded: How Sweet It Is
• Loxed and Loaded: Just Get Dancey
• Loxed and Loaded: Come What May
• Loxed and Loaded: It’s a Beautiful Day!
• Loxed and Loaded: After the Ceremony
• Loxed and Loaded: Surprise!
• Loxed and Loaded: The Ceremony
• Loxed and Loaded: Journey of a Lifetime
• Loxed and Loaded: And We Wait…
• Loxed and Loaded: Safely to Shore
• Loxed and Loaded: It’s the Little Things
• Loxed and Loaded: Don’t Mess with the Dress
• Loxed and Loaded: Our First Look
• Loxed and Loaded: Dressed At Last
• Loxed and Loaded: Guys Get Gussied Up
• Loxed and Loaded: Hair and Makeup
• Loxed and Loaded: First, There Was Chaos
• Loxed and Loaded: Setting the Mood

Loxed and Loaded: All the small things

Like many a bride before me and since, I was all about the details on our day. And while you’ve been seeing them as we went along, I know one of the things I’ve always loved most are the posts full of the lovely details that made someone’s day special. So all through my planning, I’ve been looking forward to writing this for you.

I was very lucky that our photographer understood how important these details were for me and took extra time to make sure they were captured forever. For me, and for you. So, without further ado, my muchly awaited (even if only by me!) details:

I love a gorgeous hanger shot, but didn’t want my name on mine. So instead, I had this.

One of my favorite details of the entire day was my flowers. Oh how I loved those gorgeous flowers. I never get tired of seeing them.

I had envisioned this sweet background to our ceremony of vellum hearts, hanging at varying lengths behind us as we got married. However, due to the weather forecast that weekend (humidity!) the vellum didn’t hold up as intended. Instead, it looked like a soft romantic cascade of petals behind us.

An important part of our ceremony was our toast and drinking of the wine, and also a wine box and love letters ceremony. The details for each along with our rings were waiting patiently on a table in our ceremony space.

And this is a great shot of our ceremony space. You can see the tissue paper flowers on the ceiling, the tissue paper and small round pomanders, and the flower petals down the aisle.

And because I loved them so much, here is a good close up of the tiny little paper lanterns that were strung up around the pavilion like garland.

On the way into the ceremony, guests were asked to take a stone with them.

And on the way out of the ceremony, the guests wrote something on their stone and left them for us to keep forever.

We also made sure our guests were hydrated during the ceremony by having bottled water available for them.

At cocktail hour, there was our escort card table. Also on the table were our guestbook papers and some of our engagement pictures.

I was especially proud of the last minute escort cards we devised and the set up I threw together for them.

Also at cocktail hour were… well, cocktails. Okay, beer and wine actually, but cocktails was more catchy. At the last minute, I wrote up a sign for the bar so folks would know what their options were.

I loved the way our reception tables turned out. Here you can see our centerpieces and photo sharing cards. We also supplied the napkins.

Here’s a closer view of the centerpieces from the front.

And the centerpieces from the back, with the photo scavenger hunt card.

Our cake table may not have been super elaborate, but I really loved our cake.

And who could ever forget how much I loved that cake topper.

Our fauxtobooth props definitely felt the love throughout the afternoon.

Some of them even might have escaped and romped around outside of our fauxtobooth too…

And finally, our ribbon wands, waiting for their big moment.

All signs designed by Gator Bride Designs. All photographs courtesy of Chad Lippiatt Photo.

What is/was your favorite wedding day detail?

Miss a recap?

• Loxed and Loaded: We did it!
• Loxed and Loaded: The Fauxtobooth
• Loxed and Loaded: How Sweet It Is
• Loxed and Loaded: Just Get Dancey
• Loxed and Loaded: Come What May
• Loxed and Loaded: It’s a Beautiful Day!
• Loxed and Loaded: After the Ceremony
• Loxed and Loaded: Surprise!
• Loxed and Loaded: The Ceremony
• Loxed and Loaded: Journey of a Lifetime
• Loxed and Loaded: And We Wait…
• Loxed and Loaded: Safely to Shore
• Loxed and Loaded: It’s the Little Things
• Loxed and Loaded: Don’t Mess with the Dress
• Loxed and Loaded: Our First Look
• Loxed and Loaded: Dressed At Last
• Loxed and Loaded: Guys Get Gussied Up
• Loxed and Loaded: Hair and Makeup
• Loxed and Loaded: First, There Was Chaos
• Loxed and Loaded: Setting the Mood

Loxed and Loaded: We did it!

We got married, we took pictures, we danced, we ate. While in some ways it seems like it was all a happy blur, on the other hand I know I was present in every moment. And I love being able to remember that all this time later.

However, all good things must come to an end, and eventually our party was drawing to a close. To echo my walk down the aisle, our final song was Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ as performed by the cast of Glee. I grabbed Mr. Lox and we tried to figure out how to dance to it.

 

As we danced, our guests started trickling out of the pavilion and past our coordinator and her assistant who were holding the ribbon wands I’d made for just this moment. Each person who’d made it this far grabbed a wand and lined up outside the gazebo in the late Sunday afternoon sunshine. And eventually, the song was over, and we followed the path out to where they were all waiting for us.

And as we rounded the corner and stepped into the gazebo, there they were. Our friends and loved ones, still every bit as excited as we were and sending us off with love.

 

And so we walked. We walked down the aisle for the very last time on our wedding day, still surrounded by joy and love.

 

 

And as we made it nearly to the end of the aisle, we shared one last kiss full of the joy we were feeling that day.

 

 

And that was it. It was the end of our day, but just the beginning of our love story. We did it!

 

*All pictures courtesy of Chad Lippiatt Photo

This may be how our day ended, but it isn’t the end of what I want to tell you, dear hive. I still want to show you the details of our day, and our gorgeous video. So our ending isn’t quite yet.

How did or will your wedding day end?

 

Miss a recap?

• Loxed and Loaded: The Fauxtobooth
• Loxed and Loaded: How Sweet It Is
• Loxed and Loaded: Just Get Dancey
• Loxed and Loaded: Come What May
• Loxed and Loaded: It’s a Beautiful Day!
• Loxed and Loaded: After the Ceremony
• Loxed and Loaded: Surprise!
• Loxed and Loaded: The Ceremony
• Loxed and Loaded: Journey of a Lifetime
• Loxed and Loaded: And We Wait…
• Loxed and Loaded: Safely to Shore
• Loxed and Loaded: It’s the Little Things
• Loxed and Loaded: Don’t Mess with the Dress
• Loxed and Loaded: Our First Look
• Loxed and Loaded: Dressed At Last
• Loxed and Loaded: Guys Get Gussied Up
• Loxed and Loaded: Hair and Makeup
• Loxed and Loaded: First, There Was Chaos
• Loxed and Loaded: Setting the Mood