Winery Wedding- Jess & Chris

I'm super tired right now, but I needed to keep my posting streak up, plus I'm enjoying the daily posting myself. I'm tired today because Brandon and I went to our friends Jessica and Chris' wedding in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. It was held at the Grand Pre Winery and it was a perfect setting for their perfect day. The weather turned from a grey day to a beautiful sunny afternoon. I took over 150 pictures, so here are just a few fav's from the day!

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I should let you know, the day wasn't all smooth sailing for us, we arrived at the ceremony 10 minutes late because we took one stupid wrong turn, it was a combination of bad moves on both mine and Brandon's part and we lost about 20 minutes from our time getting to the wedding. Let's just say both of us have a STRONG dislike for Sackville, if you get off the highway it seems to be almost impossible to get back on. I was very bummed I missed Jess' grand entrance, but I made it for the rest of the ceremony, so I can't complain too much. Standing actually allowed us to have a good view and take some great pictures!

This was the picture we walked into at the beautiful winery, the terrace was all stone and they were surrounded by vines and plants, it was perfect. The wedding colors were perfect, I love the brown and green and the boys and the blue on the girls. Jess has some awesome wedding style!

They are ready to be pronounced husband and wife, look at the love that both of them have on their faces, it was so wonderful!

The priest marrying them almost forgot to give them a first kiss, but they made sure they got it in... don't they just look picture perfect!

making their exit as Mr. & Mrs.- they looked so great

Glad I was there to catch the shots as they walked down the isle

Brandon and I were lucky to get to spend some time with the girls from the B.Ed program. Brandon took this shot and it turned out really awesome. These are the girls, minus the bride, wish we could have gotten her in... Back- Krista, Aleah, Amy, Julia and Andrea. Front- Meg and Me!

After the ceremony they had a cocktail time, with drinks and delicious appetizers, we had to be careful not to fill up on them too much. I enjoyed the brushetta the most, it was so fresh and light for the summer, delicious!

We ventured up with Meg and Andrea to look at the growing grapes, and take some pictures, I thought this one turned out nice of Brandon and I in our shades!

Me and my two red head B.ED girls, they are both so funny and sweet, glad I was able to spend some time with them!

I LOVED the boutiner that the guys wore, they were made of material, so they guys can keep them, instead of having real flowers that just fall apart and die. Jess had a similar flower in her hair... such an awesome idea!

we ran into the happy couple while they were finishing up their photo shoot, so we stayed and took some too... just beautiful!

seriously this location was amazingly beautiful for pictures

I loved the wooden arches and trellis' I had to get a picture of this table of beautiful ladies!

Brandon was in his glory... so many dates for him!

The tent where the reception was held... it also looked awesome with all the lanterns in their wedding colors

The beautiful bride taking in her reception

Me and the Bride... she is probably my best friend from the program and I'm so glad I was able to celebrate her special day with her. Love you Jess! ( Yuck why do I look so fat!)

The food tonight was AMAZING! Brandon and I started with this root salad with horseradish which was very different but delicious. They they served this little scoop of gelato, that was grape and tea, with fresh mint, to clean the palate, which was delicious... the mint made your breath amazing. They we had Beef with vegetables, which was so delicious, Brandon said it was probably the best beef he'd ever had. Then there was an apple tart for dessert. We didn't get to try the cake since we had to leave early :( But it looked delicious as well!

Chris and Jess had a little table for two, and then their wedding party and their significant others sat at tables on either side of them... thought that was a great idea! loved their little banner too!

This was one of the best ideas I have ever seen for a guest book, and wish I had of done it, they used an actual book as their guest book, a story book, I don't know which one, but it was a cartoonish type book, and the guests wrote at the beginning and end. Laura I thought of you for this one... you could have a pictorial nova scotia book and a washington one, and have guests sign them, and then when you are living in Utah you have a memory of both! or something similar to their idea- LOVED it!

Jess and Chris cutting their cake, loved that they used barrels as tables- so creative- the seating chart although I didn't get a picture was made up of all corks to continue the winery theme, I don't know if they made it or if it was provided... either way it was cool!

The Bing's enjoying the reception

They played the cute game where they hold up the shoe to answer a question- there was some great laughs from this game.

Jess being so sweet, made sure that our seats didn't have wine glasses, since we don't drink which I thought I was super cute. The servers forgot towards the end and brought everyone at the table these glasses, I didn't drink mine, but I thought it would make a great picture!

The delicious dessert, seriously check out the presentation... the little flower is a beautiful added touch

Brandon had to work tonight so we had to leave the reception early. Where the meal was a four course meal it took a little longer, and so we didn't get to see the first dance, which I was so bummed about, I told my friends though to snap lots of pictures, I hope someone did. This was on the drive home at about 9:15 pm, we were driving into some thick fog.

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I didn't post the picture but Jess' parents got up and spoke, and her dad did a beautiful job, he spoke about how his children were his best accomplishment, and how he and he wife joked when they got married that they would have a basketball team, which they did when they had five children, Jess' dad continued on to say, that since he is a good coach, he knew that they needed one more person on the team, a spare person for substitution, so they had to complete the team and have one more child... he was much funnier telling the story, I'm not doing it any justice.

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One other funny comment was that they were talking about how Jess and Chris have been together since 11th grade, and that they were high school sweet hearts, and that they have a lot in common, Jess is the oldest of six and Chris is the oldest of one... it was a HOOT!!

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To make the couple sing tonight you had to sing a song about love, all the tables were really getting into it which was a lot of fun. Being a table of teachers plus two of Chris' friends, we felt a Lion King song would be appropriate, so we sang the Timone and Pumba version of Can you feel the love tonight... it was awesome!

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I'm sure that there is more to share, but I'm just so tired I can't think about it. It was a beautiful day for an amazing couple. They are off on Monday on a dream honeymoon to France, Italy and somewhere else. They'll have a blast I'm sure! I'm hoping to get all the other pictures posted on facebook tomorrow so check them out.

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One last thing before I go to bed... loved the world cup today... watched the live Uraguay Korea game which was awesome.. Uraguay won 2-1 and had some awesome goals. Was shocked to come home to find out the Ghana beat the US 2-1, I really thought the US was making it through to the next round. I have to say though, the US had a sweet free kick, the goalie was no where near the ball, the kicker (Donovan maybe?) had such a nice curve on the ball, it sailed where he wanted it to, hit the post and went in- it was perfect!! England plays tomorrow, I do love them, so fingers crossed. My main team is Spain though with Torres!! Anyway off to bed, I can barely keep my eyes open.