The Ceremony

We couldn’t have asked for better weather for our day, though the ceremony was a little sunny. The leaves were changing, but muted enough for our liking. The sky was clear. The temperature was just right.

As we move into the ceremony photos, you may see yourself in one (or more…) of the photos! If you don’t like how your picture came out, apologies, but you made that face and now you’ll just have to own it. This may also be the start of a fun challenge: every time you see a guest stare straight into the camera, do something. We don’t condone making this a drinking game, mostly because by the reception photos, you’ll be pretty toasted.

Now that all of the ceremony photos are up, we’ll give you some behind the scenes and secret lore:

Yes, it was incredibly sunny. No we did not account for it. We were expecting partly cloudy weather that day with much more shade - sort of akin to the first few photos of the waiting ceremony area. Unfortunately the late October sun had other plans. So sorry you had to watch the procession while glaring into the sun.

Did you notice the songs playing during the entrance? A medley of songs from Cowboy Mouth played while the men entered and while we waited, specifically “Crazy Bout Ya” and “Run to Me” - both are from a well-loved playlist of ours. While Alex and Meg entered, “A Thousand Years” played, partially because it’s beautiful and partially because both of us have read the Twilight series (yes, both of us) and it’s one of Grace’s guilty pleasures. Grace walked in to an instrumental of the Jurassic Park theme, partially because Brian loves it, but partially because she’s like a velociraptor (a clever girl).

The order of events had to be changed! We mentioned it at the beginning, but there were initially supposed to be three bridesmaids and three groomsmen. Things happened, but we adapted. The run-through that we had really barely practiced wasn’t exactly as we planned, but Alex really stepped up as a Maid of Honor and Gary did well pivoting as a Man of Honor. We love them both for it.

Even though we love her, Alex almost skipped our vows! She wasn’t initially doing one of the transitions, so she almost skipped straight to the hand fasting. That’s okay, since Grace went into work mode and got the ceremony back on track. Speaking of the vows though, Grace kind of tricked Brian into writing vows, which he did within the last three days before the ceremony. We had discussed writing personal vows, then never actually got around to talking about it again until the week before the ceremony. Grace wrote up something and hoped that it wouldn’t be too similar to what Brian said. It wasn’t, but in typical Tresnan fashion, both were full of references to favorite media and Brian’s was gratuitous to the vendors that made the whole day possible.

Grace lost her veil! At the very end of the ceremony we did a mid-aisle dip for a photo-op. Brian grabbed Grace’s veil in the process of of the dip and pulled it straight out of her hair. Thankfully, good old Uncle Mike (Bradley, on Grace’s side… There’s a lot of “Uncle Mike”s around) picked it up and Grace’s Aunt T delivered it after the recessional.

Speaking of that recessional - it was “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”. Was it because we love the song or was it because we wanted you to watch us walk away? Who knows!