Wedding preperation/ceremony...
The day began at 4:00 A.M. Arlene and Marlou were arriving to start on hair and make-up. Both moms, Girlie, Kristi and I were getting hair and make-up done. Kristi and I didn't start our sessions until 6:00. So we just sat back for a couple hours laughing and talking with everyone. Arlene and Marlou are so good at what they do! They made us all look and feel so beautiful! The day before Marlou asked if me and Kristi wanted fake eyelashes. And Kristi said "Yeah, if it doesn't make me look like Bambi". Living in Hawaii, Marlou doesn't see deer like we do in Idaho and responded "What you don't want to look like a stripper". Haha! So the next morning we joked about having eyelashes like Bambi... the stripper, not a deer.
My shoes and earings were found online after intense searching. The shoes came from somewhere international and smelled so funny when I got them. I loved both of them! The garter... such a weird thing to me. Rillz wanted to do the whole garter toss thing so the day before the wedding I went and got one. Odd concept to me. Oh well.
Our rings in the awesome pokey flower!
My wedding dress in the hotel lobby. The photographer had the hotel staff hang it for her.
Girlie getting her face put on by Marlou
Doesn't this picture look like Kristi... The first time I looked at it I had to re-look. It is me, not Kristi.
But here is Kristi with Arlene getting her prettied up
Girlie all done and waiting. She was crackin me up!
My mom looking like death at this moment. She was a 4 a.m. appointment. Barely awake
Getting the dress on...
My mom already to go! Doesn't she look beautiful!
For some reason I like this one...
The guys were getting ready and I heard from my photographer that they were pretty funny! As you can see, they were busy putting each others shirts on and on backwards. Davy happened to have those goofy glasses in our wedding colors for each one of them to wear.
I happen to think Rillz is handsome :)
Why do boys have it so easy to get ready. It's light out and they get to just chill for a while. The girls started getting ready when some of the boys just got back from the bars.
Elmer getting ready...
Rillz spending time on his hair. I wonder how nervous he was ?!?
The hotel is about 5 minutes away (in car), in a normal city, from Kaka'ako waterfront park (the ceremony place). But, when there is a huge floral parade that morning and a farmers market at Kaka'ako, that we found out about the night before, it could take a good 45 minutes. Yep, took about 35 minutes to get there. And luckily the farmers market was nothing to worry about.
Thanks to Davy, we had a live guy playing the songs we chose during the ceremony on acustic guitar. That was SO beautiful!
While guests waited he played: A Simple Love Song by Anuhea
While the bridal party walked down he played: Better Together by Jack Johnson
While I walked down he played: E Ku'u Morning Dew
When the ceremony was over he played: I honestly can't remember right now. Haha.
The ceremony was nice. Reverand Michael Nelson married us. He had kind of a weird vibe. When he started saying his speal he said "Thanks for all being here for Aurelio and Cindy on their special day". Yep, Cindy. He didn't think it was very funny when I looked around and said "Am I at the wrong wedding? Anyone here named Cindy getting married today?" I thought it was HILARIOUS! It's his fault he didn't know who he was marrying at his 9 a.m. appointment and deserved to be embarresed. That sounds mean on my part... but it was still funny!
Exchanging rings
Elmer and Kristi
Davy and Girlie
Brent walked my mom down
So happy!
Just Married!
It's the reverend marrying Aurelio and Cindy... haha
Me and my dad walking down. (Obviously these pictures aren't in the order that everyone actually walked down).
Gracie, the flower girl, walking down with mom and dad Rivera
Brecken, the flower boy, walked down with Jeff.
Nana and Nan walked down together
The aisle decoration
Hooray for being married now! We then took pictures... and more pictures! It was a lot of fun. Our photographer was found on Hawaii craigslist. At an awesome deal I must admit. Of course coming from craigslist I was quite skeptical. We met with her, Lora, a week before and after meeting we were way excited. Lucky us, she really turned out great! Our reception started at 12:30 so we figured we had lots of time between to do all sorts of pictures. Well, time ran out FAST. At 11:30 we were getting phone calls saying "get your butts headed back to the hotel". The parade was in full swing and the exact route we needed to take back. We didn't hire a driver or anything so we actually rode back with the photographer. Haha. It took an hour to get back! Yep remember the "should be 5 minute drive in a normal city" thing. Driving in Hawaii 85% of the time sucks!
So we got back to the hotel and then the reception started...
I wanted to post a bunch of other pictures but loading pictures on here sucks and takes forever lately. Everytime I try I get a whole 4 pictures in an hours time. This will never get posted if I keep trying. Now to start the endless hours on the reception details. Enjoy! :)
2 comments:
Everything looks so beautiful! HAH- i laughed at the cindy thing. My goodness! That's something you want to make sure you get right. Your funny. That one picture I totally thought was Kristi. Everyone looks so pretty. I'm so happy for you :)
It does make me laugh how that picture looks so much like me. Creepy! I warned you that the minister man called you Cindy before the ceremony but then I started questioning myself whether I heard it right or not. That was the best moment. He was not too thrilled with the jokes but then again he should double check his names. It was funny. I wish we could have gotten ready like the guys, in the daylight and like 10 minutes. 4am was really early and we even went to bed somewhat early at 11pm. No more weddings for our family. :)
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