Finally, the Reception...

I know I know... I'm a slacker... let's just move on and enjoy this lovely reception in Santa Fe, shall we?

The reception was at Roy's place and this was the lovely view we walked up to...

The Garden Cocktail Hour I just love the simplicity of the all white decorations against the gorgeous natural backdrop!

Do you see the hanging ribbons on the right? Big chunks of ribbons were just casually hanging all over the place, and flowing and blowing in the breeze. It was amazing. So simple. yet so elegant.

More beautiful ribbons surrounding Megan's mom, Sally. I love dear Sally. I have many of her recipes that I make often! Growing up I always loved her cooking! In fact, she is the master mind behind the morning cookies!

Here we are anxiously awaiting dinner! I mean the arrival of the bride and groom! (doesn't Ty look handsome in his seersucker jacket? remember it was his anniversary gift from me!)

Here's the garden, all full of guests in white. Lovely.

Mr. and Mrs. Bride and Groom

I know, she really should be a model somewhere. But then I might be intimidated of her. So maybe I'll just call her my "model friend" but I won't let her actually be a model.

A mariachi band played throughout the cocktail hour and then led the parade of guests over to the tent!

The wreath welcomed us into the reception.

Wow.

And from another angle. It was a LARGE tent. Full of White EVERYTHING!

These displays greeted us at the entrance.

Each table had 3 vases on it. Each vase was full of 1 type of white flower. But every vase was different from the one sitting next to it. I loved it! Simplicity is so underestimated! But it is just gorgeous! Here's another table with a different combo of flowers. Megan and Roy walked in and immediately had their first dance. It was super cute, she was singing to him, he was singing to her. They were seriously "alone, in their own world" on that dance floor.

Here's the crowd of onlookers. Now honestly, I know you first read the words "all white wedding" and thought to yourself, "I'm not too sure about this." But you see a picture like this and think, "when can I throw an all white party?"

Am I right?

Megan's dad welcomed the guests and gave a quick speech. Mr. McMonagle was my first soccer coach. Over the wedding weekend, he told me how thankful he was for my long friendship with Megan and what a great influence I'd been on her. I just said "WHAT? I mean, thank you." So if you know some bad influence things I did, please don't tell Mr. McMonagle. Thank you.

The Cakes.

Yes- that is a cake. It is a spice cake made to look exactly like Roy's adobe house. Remember the wheelbarrow full of birds seed in his garden? Well there it is in the bottom right corner.

Here's the delicious and beautiful white cake.

The couple cutting the cake.

Did I mention the adobe house cake also lights up on top, just like Roy's house?

The white cake was lemon with raspberry filling.

Spice cake with chocolate icing. I think this was my favorite. but it was really hard to decide.

I didn't take a picture of dinner. But we had buffet style delicious food.

Buffalo Tenderloin

Chicken stuffed with Cactus (yes seriously. and it was good and soft)

Potatoes

Grilled Veggies

Rice

Salad

I can't really remember.

This is why I should have taken a picture, even if people thought it was weird.

The band was incredible!

I am a terrible dancer, and Ty gives me funny looks. So normally we don't dance much. But a storm came through after dinner started and the temperature dropped about 40 degrees. Okay maybe only 30. So we did dance some to keep warm. But I am soooo self conscious that dancing is painful.

We had fun.

Then it was time to go.

They gave out delicious trail mix from Santa Fe - kinda spicy really.

And we all grabbed handfuls of rose petals.

And they ran down the stairs through the sprinkling rain and the showers of petals.
And they drove away in this. I mean seriously, so much class all night long- and then just keeping it real. I love it.

They hosted a departure brunch the next morning. And then took off for 2 weeks in the South of France. Well Roy had a business meeting in France on the 1st day of their honeymoon, so they just HAD to stay there for the remainder of it. Tough life.

It was so fun. unreal. and delicious.

Update... they decided to extend their stay in Europe and are in Florence until November 3rd. I am officially moving into their house here and taking all of the clothes that Megan left behind. Please don't tell anyone.