Hastings of Harrington Lane: Our Wedding Day Continued...

After our beautiful wedding ceremony in the St. George Temple, our fairy tale of a day continued with a wonderful wedding luncheon at the Bell Tower...

It was a great time spent with all who attended the wedding. It included wonderful food....

wonderful toasts from family and friends...

and some particularly awesome toasts from my brothers...I think Jon's, all about how we should always keep our marriage "hot" and let our problems run off like "snot" was the crowd favorite.
Seeing Nate cry a little at the luncheon wasn't bad either... I love my boys!

After the luncheon, we had some time to rest a little and prepare for the reception later that night...there were so many wonderful helping hands.

I enjoyed getting ready in both the Temple bridal room and the Bell Tower bridal room...Unfortunately, pictures can't be taken inside the temple, but here are some fun ones from the girly bridal suite in the Bell Tower...

Thanks again to my fabulous friend, Lindsay, who made my dream 'do a reality....

and to my amazing Mom, bridesmaides and sister-in-laws for helping me with all of my bridal needs...from fastening 200 pearls...

to fluffing waaay too many layers to count...

they were amazing. Thank-you.

Speaking of amazing...what do you think about this handsome groom?

I think I got pretty dang lucky!

Then, we were able to have a quick pre-reception photo session with our wedding day photographer and long time friend, Kaitlyn, of SimplyKaits Photography. It was her first wedding and we just loved our day of results!

My friend from Utah e-mailed me and said she saw our familiar faces in Brigham Young University's Bridal Guide Magazine...we were so excited to hear that and be able to get see one all the way down in Brazil!

The first picture below was one featured, along with a couple of others you can see in the slideshow on the sidebar to the right. The first pictures in the slideshow were from our "Groomal" shoot with Jimmy Bishop of Gideon Photography the night before the wedding day, while all of the others were captured by Kaity on the big day. We are so happy with all of the captured memories.

The Reception was everything I could have wished for...it took place in such a beautiful setting (I don't think we could have built our own reception center that would have suited my tastes more)...I loved the tables and the beautiful floral arrangements made by my mom and her floral designer friends...yummy food (you can't ever have too much chocolate, right?!)...amazing people to help us celebrate...and an abundance of ambiance to make the entire evening wonderfully romantic.

Jordan's sweet cousin, Sondra, made our yummy and pretty cake. It was made with strawberry, lemon poppyseed and pumpkin chocolate chip layers. She even made the BEST white chocolate cheesecake for us...but it never made it to the wedding. With the help of my family, we scarfed it down the night before...Heaven on Earth!

Did I mention the details....I just love details...

This was part of the gift table. My Mom and I found this great iron manikin that my Dad cut a hole into to use as a card holder. The veil was from my mom's wedding!

Every table had an arrangement, candles, a picture of us and these awesome little note cards where guests wrote words of advice for our new adventures in marriage, funny stories, or honeymoon advice...they were pretty entertaining to say the least!

This was our 3 White Dresses table. In our church, the girls get the opportunity to wear white dresses for the sacred events that take place in our lives. They include our blessing dress at birth, baptism dress at 8, and our wedding dress when we get married! I was pretty excited to get to wear the third dress!

I was so lucky to have my adoreable nieces and nephews in the wedding party...

My two beautiful nieces, Madelyn and Aubrey...

And my four little blue-eyed mini-men, Joshual, Andrew, Carson and Cole...

The evening was full of fun events such as cutting our cake...

and "nicely" feeding it to each other...this was one of Jordan's two requests for the wedding. He was so great about letting me do my thing for so many other areas of the wedding, I figured I could bare it and wait to smash cake in his face some other day...

We had our romantic first dance...

Jordan danced with his sweet Mom...

And I got to have the traditional Daddy-Daughter dance with my Dad to "King of the World"...

I loved this tender moment...

The rest of the evening was filled with dancing, eating, singing and visiting with some of the most wonderful people in the world!

Kara and Schyler can really cut a rug...

and as always, Jordan was quite a hit with the younger ladies... ;)

My Dad entertained us all with a rousing rendition of "Room Service"... he gave us great advice for our honeymoon in the form of a barbershop song...what a Dad!

it was pretty dang funny...

and it was great advice!

One of the last events took the place of the traditional bouquet and garter tosses. We wanted something a little different that honored all of the couples that have inspired us with their own exemplarary families and relationships throughout the years. We had all of the married couples in the room get up and dance. Couples were asked to leave the dance floor according to how long they've been married, starting with one day (us) and ending with the longest married couple. It was so much fun, and my good friends, Al and June Harris, took the prize! They have been a wonderful example of eternal marriage, along with all of the other lovely couples on the dance floor!