So one more article about Emma’s wedding and I think we’re done!

Photos are so important! I’ve told you about our family photographer, Kim, we love her! She always gets the best out of our family when it comes to pictures and I think she has a great eye. When it comes to things like a wedding you really want to have some beautiful pictures, but you also want to have some fun. It’s a day of memories, and we may all get to that point when we’re so old we can’t remember yesterday let alone the day

For almost all of us, when planning anything as huge as a wedding, budget is a big honkin deal! The bulk of our budget was to be food and of course the candy bar, so decorations needed to be very cost effective. Now my daughter in law Christie said something that I thought made perfect sense, “If you don’t want your reception to look like it’s in a church, don’t have it in a church!” Well we were having the reception in a church and with a tiny budget. I wanted to spread color around, have it

One of Emma’s biggest requests for her wedding reception was to have a candy bar. I don’t know where she had seen one, but she thought it was fabulous! As her wedding got closer and she attended some friends receptions she saw a few candy bars, but they were more or less just a few bowls with candy in them on the ends of the food tables. What Emma wanted was a table full of her favorite candies with the ability for her guests to take a bunch home with them.

My sister found some great jars at

Emma doesn’t like cake. Emma was getting married. Wedding usually have a wedding cake. Emma doesn’t like cake. Well I didn’t have a huge problem with not having or serving cake, Emma said she wanted pie, so I thought we could make mini pies and serve them. However I thought we still needed a cake stand in or representative. Emma did want a cake topper, had a cute one picked out, but if you don’t have a cake what do you do with a cake topper? I couldn’t figure out how to put one on a pie.