January Wedding was Like a Spring Day
Woman in the Middle | October 10, 2014Planning an outdoor wedding in January in Inland So Cal can be a bit risky. January starts our rainy season, drought or no drought. It can also get cold and windy, or it can be beautiful, like a spring day. Happily, when a young couple we know married in January, it was the last one. January 18th was warm and sunny and perfect for a wedding. The bride is the daughter of one of Hubby’s oldest friends, from back in Boy Scout days. Happily, we are now wonderful friends with him and his wife, and we were very excited to share in April and Evan’s big day!
The wedding was held at a ceremony venue called Tennessee Gardens, which is located in Redlands, California. The area where the ceremony was held was right next to the reception area, which made it one stop for the wedding guests, so convenient! The ceremony was held under a white tent which had a gazebo at one end where the bride and groom stood with the minister. You can see from this photo what a lovely day it was.
The happy couple, now husband and wife, walked back down the aisle to the theme from “Empire Strikes Back,” which was a fun surprise for all the guests. That also helps explain the huge grins on the faces of the bride and groom. That and relief that the hard part was over!
The bride and groom both work at Disneyland and each table at the reception was given the theme of a different Disney movie couple. We sat at the Lady and the Tramp table. Each flower center piece was different, too, which was a nice touch. We were seated out under the trees enjoying the wonderful weather.
Continuing the Disney theme, the cake looked like something out of Alice in Wonderland. The cake topper was two pairs of wedding themed Mickey Mouse ears. The bride couldn’t find a Disney themed cake topper that she liked so the bakery offered to make the Mickey ears. Aren’t they cute?
The groom wanted to turn the garter ceremony into something memorable. so he did a take off on Indiana Jones (there is an Indiana Jones themed ride at Disneyland). That explains why the groom is wearing an Indiana Jones style hat while he is taking off the garter. It was pretty funny and imaginative.
Now that you have seen the three weddings we went to this year, did you notice the ONE thing that was the same at each wedding? Here are my posts for the other two (Hint, look at the brides.)
http://womaninthemid.com/2014/09/29/another-beautiful-wedding/
http://womaninthemid.com/2014/07/24/a-beautiful-wedding/
Answer below…..
All three of the brides wore their hair off to the side, the right side!
Oh how I like weddings
I was going to say that they all wore white dresses – LOL!