{Wedding Recap} Reception 2.0

After the dances we were immediately ushered to our sweetheart table where we said grace. Before I could say "Man, the food smells good!" Our caterer, Mrs. Judi Bunch, came to our table and personally brought our plates to us. I thought that was an amazingly sweet touch. She always made sure the two of us were good...

Ladies...when they tell you to eat on your wedding day...listen! I doubt we sat at our table longer than 5 minutes at any point during the reception-definitely not long enough to really enjoy the food. Every few minutes someone was stopping by to chat or take pictures, which was expected...but man...the food was calling us! LOL!

Our faces here say it all...

The food...for once, I'll be a woman of few words.

I'll let the photos do the talking.


The food was so good that our caterer got a standing ovation.
A. Standing. Ovation.
Yes...

Next we moved on to the cutting of the cake. I remember saying:

"You better not smear that on my face, boy!"

& a great shot of the grooms "Tigger" cake, which I heard was dee-lish-us!


Mister Mr. and I slipped to the bridal suite as I got dressed in my reception dress & he chatted it up with his guys/family in the hallway. My MOHs came and helped me as well, which was such a fun time! I was so excited!

Then it was time to "re-introduce" ourselves. We walked in to Jay-Z "PSA'
The first line says:
"Allow me to re-introduce myself!"

We immediately got busy...Mister Mr. is a great dancer so I just kind of went with the flow!

& then I called the bridal party on the dance floor!

Soon the dance floor was packed!

Our Flower girls showed OUT!

& so did Mister Mr.

Great dancing times! :)

My flip-flop baskets? A complete success. I went to get a pair and they were ALL gone!

More dancing...

My brothers-in-law acting crazy...

& me and my god"baby" (12 year old phenom!)

Then came the toasts....

MOH "K" got choked up (of course)!

More toasts...

Both of the Best Men toasted as well as my mother....then came the show-stopper: my mother-in-law!

From day one, my MIL has begged us to let her sing at the wedding. Mister Mr. has always said no...I, on the other hand, didn't mind. Mister Mr.'s mother is a phenomenal-and I think that's putting it lightly-singer; but Mister Mr. just didn't want it to be too over the top.

So during her toast she said "I know y'all didn't want me to sing but..."

& She broke out into a standing-ovation-worthy song.

& everyone was shouting! Whew! Go MIL!

Mister Mr., myself and our photographer, Ron, snuck out for a few intimate pics!

Then our guests lined up and prepared for our sparkler send-off!

Mister Mr. and I posed for a few more shots before heading back to our suite!

& just like that we were off to our suite!

Up Next: Day-After-BBQ!