Our Pawfect Wedding: Buca-Bound!

Ok yes, I suck. But the draw of the easy Wordpress photo upload makes me loath the amount of time it takes me to do a wedding recap, heavy with photos. It's so time-intensive and hands-on! Booo blogger photo upload.

We left off with the completion of our formal portraits. At this point, my new hubby and I left for Buca with Best Man Dan. We parked in a garage downtown, and as you already know, hopped in a photobooth. Best moment of the whole wedding weekend... bliss at being married, happy to be goofy and just let go.

Meanwhile, Erin was at Buca getting ready and taking pictures!

This was our room: (I die. LOVED it.)

Laura, my friendor, was setting up the cake display.

She made us some pug wedding cookies...

And she added our cake toppers that I made...

Our wait staff for the night prepared for the evening. I love this pic!

And of course, I also loved the Italian/Jersey-ness of the room.

Cake topper close up:

Buca wine:

Here are the cupcakes Laura made for us! I seriously was in awe of the awesomeness.

I asked her to do a black m&m on the white frosting to emulate the anemone flowers I had in my bouquet.

Love the little pug tongue!

Buca's wine are actually really good.

At last, we approached!

If you can, make these pictures bigger by clicking on them (sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. So just try.) Below, Dan strikes a pose...

B and I posed in front of the restaurant for a while, using the great natural light.

I love these next few!

We were hungry, but happy to pose for pictures before eating!

MY FAVE!

The Happy Newlyweds!

And what's a wedding without more fisheye?

We were going for the Jersey gangsta look.

Foot pop!

And of course, a little smooch!

Honestly, I wish my dress was more bridal- people were looking at me like they were confused. But I couldn't find a white short dress! (Now, of course, they're everywhere!) But I still had a blast and FELT special.

Next up... our dinner guests arrive and enjoy!

Wedding Tragedy...

I got the pictures! And will post more recaps for tonight or tomorrow. But I wanted to really bring everyone into what's important...

I'm sure everyone has things that would make their wedding "horrible" like a guest wearing white, or your parent getting too drunk and telling embarrassing stories.

Yesterday, here in Indianapolis, there was a true worst case scenario that changed a would-be happy wedding day.

You can read about it here or here, but I'm typing the text in from the IndyStar.com version, in case the link dies out eventually.

Despite sorrow, bandages, bruises and cuts, the wedding party persevered, with the couple exchanging vows later in the day in a conference area of Methodist Hospital's emergency room.

While they made the best of the situation, those at the wedding said they did not want to dwell on the tragic crash and death with the media.

A shuttle bus from Mavris Arts & Event Center carrying the bridal party was westbound on South Street when it collided at Delaware Street with a northbound Chevrolet Yukon with an Ohio license plate about 2 p.m.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said that one driver failed to stop for a red light, but police still were investigating late today to determine who was at fault, said Lt. Jeff Duhamell, an IMPD spokesman.

The crash caused the bus to spin to face east and tip to the side, landing on the northwest corner of the intersection. At least 16 people inside the shuttle were transported to Methodist and Wishard hospitals.

James Douglass, 29, died in the crash. He suffered severe head trauma, Duhamell said. It could not be immediately confirmed his community of residence.

Police by late today had not yet released the names of the drivers or of those injured. Blood samples will be taken from both drivers and tested for intoxication, which is protocol in a fatal crash, Duhamell said.

The bride works in IMPD's crime analysis unit, Duhamell said.

The wedding had been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today at Mavris, 121 S. East St. After the hospital wedding, the party did go there for a prayer service and dinner.

At the wedding, nurses transformed into wedding planners, gathering cookies and punch, setting up chairs and using hydrogen peroxide to get bloodstains out of dresses.

Carrying gerbera daisy bouquets, the bridesmaids and bride all wore hospital-issued socks, captured in a photo by the wedding photographer.

About 100 teary-eyed guests gathered for the short ceremony, where the bride and groom exchanged vows, rings and received a standing ovation when they kissed.

‘‘We got their medical needs tended to, and we found out they wanted to get married here,’’ said Kelly Owens, an emergency room nurse.

Owens’ husband went to pick up a replacement tuxedo for the groom while security officers from Methodist went to Wishard to pick up the best man and rings.

‘‘I’ve been here 10 years,’’ Owens said. ‘‘I’ve seen one or two brides come in, but this is definitely the first time we’ve done a wedding. It makes the best of a bad situation.’’

The bride’s father Chuck Magee, Dublin, Ohio, called the nurses ‘‘angels in blue’’ because of their blue scrubs.‘‘The ER staff has just been compassionate, professional and considerate,’’ Magee said. ‘‘Everybody seems to be in as good of spirits as can be expected.’’

I really cannot imagine losing a groomsman on my wedding day. This story should give all brides, and really all people, something to think of and put weddings in perspective.

All text in italics from IndyStar.com's "Wedding goes on -- at hospital -- after fatal crash" By Gretchen Becker, linked above.

I interrupt the recaps...

...to show you our one and only picture of us from THE day to be in Indy, INDY 500 DAY!

We went white trash. Our whole crew (about 60 of us!) really white-trashed it up with jorts, ripped shirts, and hats. It was a great time.

Unfortunately I dropped my camera and the battery and memory card fell out. I could only recover the battery (since I didn't realize the memory card fell out til later) and lost all photos from this weekend!

If you aren't already, you should be following my new blog, Ordinary in Indiana. More info about the race and everything else will be there.

Recaps will commence when I get pics I'm waiting on. I wanted to post some pics of the time at the church before the ceremony, and one of my friends has a ton! Once I get those posting will continue.

Thanks for keepin' up with me blog friends!

Our Pawfect Wedding: Mr P & His Dudes

We started out the monument pictures with my (then, soon-to-be!) Hubby. I married a hunk!

Seriously, Mr Pug is just the cutest.

Here he is lookin' studly...

You might recognize this location... we did some engagement pictures here!

Mr P was probably laughing since we were all being goofy during his photo shoot.

Mr P's bout was a single ranunculus and some hypericum berries. I wish it had been a little more... oomph? Like a nicer-sized ranunculus flower? But I liked that his was different than the other dudes' bouts.

This is one of my absolute faves... Best Man Dan wore super cool aviators and you can see Mr P and his other Best Man, A, in the glasses.

That was the beginning of their Mr P & Best Men photo shoot... D cracks me up (on the right)

A serious one...

And then D takes it to a less serious level again!

Here's Mr P and his wedding party dudes! His brothers J & A, Best Man Dan, Mr P, Best Man A, groomsman Z, and brother S.

Here are their bouts... SO awesome looking! A+!

J, A, Mr P, and Best Man A.

Mr Pug got some time with my gals as well. Here he is with L, H, M, R, and A.

I like these bunchier ones much better than the super formal pictures.

Don't my gals look so cute? I think the pashminas really made the look work.

We were instructed a few times to do these kiss-blowing pictures...

Brian looks overcome with blown-kiss gratitude...

...but then kiss-blowing got too hard for my gals. Check out the looks on their faces!

After Mr P's portion of pictures were finished, the two of us did a ton of pictures with the pugs... coming up soon!