The Big Day
For those following my Twitter feed, you already knew that @ShayWade and I got married last weekend. But since it was such a Big Day in my life, I thought I would record more of it here than just “Married!“.
Everyone’s definition of a big wedding is different. For us, even though we had less than 100 people, we still went through all of the planning exercises of a wedding twice the size. And its a strange feeling, an event you have been planning for a year really ends (with the ceremony) in less than a half hour. Then once you’ve posed for photos, and you sit down at your reception table, there is this hush where you wonder what you should be worrying about next. After so many weeks and months of worry, the wedding happened perfectly and now its done.
But more on the wedding: KidWonder was amazingly well behaved. He ran up to me right as my groomsmen and I were about to walk down the aisle, breathless: “Daddy! Daddy!” “What?” “Flower!” pointing at the flower pinned to his tux. That sort of thing brings you right down to earth.
KidWonder, looking dapper and with flower:
It was great to see that so much family that could make the trip. MomWonder and I live in New York, and our families mostly live in Massachusetts and Missouri. It was really nice of so many folks to go out of their way to share our Big Day with us.
A funny moment for us came when our emcee was concluding the ceremony. He was reading from a piece of paper he had folded to be of a more discreet size, and due to the folding, skipped over the “i now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride”. 
(we immediately corrected that error, and kissed a few times to make sure!)
The reception went well, if a bit fast. We spent most of it getting pictures taken (most of which we haven’t seen yet), then going through some traditional reception stuff (cake cutting, bouquet throwing, garter throwing, etc). Apparently I didn’t take off the garter in an alluring fashion, so was asked to do it again, which I obliged (some people!)
All in all it was a great day. It is an amazing feeling when you look around a big room and know that everyone came because they know YOU. A parting shot from the happy couple:
We’ll be sure to post more pictures when they are available.
