Saturday, December 16, 2006

All the Beautiful People

I've been meaning to write about a great wedding I participated in. Now every wedding that I attend I am surrounded by so much beauty, but this one was just exceptional. There was something like 600 guests so perhaps it was just the enormous amount of beautiful people around me that made it so overwhelming. Or maybe it was the locations... the ceremony was held at the chapel at Iolani school, I'd never been here before and in case you are wondering it is GORGEOUS, and the reception in the Grand Ballroom at the Hyatt in Waikiki. Whatever the case I felt I just had to show off some of the pictures from the beautiful wedding of Ruthie and Kevin.

Ruthie had to hide behind a sheet because the chapel is all windows. It was very cute.












Did I mention that there cake was made of Krispy Cremes?!







Wednesday, December 13, 2006

In the Backyard

Thanksgiving weekend was so much fun because I got to participate in Heather and Sean's "Simple Backyard Wedding". Simple except for that it was the multimillion dollar backyard on Kailua Beach of a close friend of their's! It was a stunning setting for a small and intimate ceremony and reception.

Heather and Sean are friends of my boyfriend, Gabe, and all his diving buddies (Check out http://kaimanadivers.blogspot.com/ to find out more about his scene). So, I was friends with a lot of the guests..an added bonus. The best part of this day was how relaxed everything was...no timelines, everyone was comfortable hanging out in the backyard by the ocean or kicking it in the house, Heather was laughing about how girly she had to be (nailpolish, agh!) while she hid from Sean in a room upstairs.



The ceremony was beautiful with the ocean behind them as they said their vows (tears and laughter from everyone). Afterwards, Heather and Sean and I headed around the corner to an awesome spot for couple pictures--huge waves crashing against lava behind them!


Then back to the house to kick back, eat food, and throw cake at each other! Best cake fight I've seen yet--Way to sneak it in there Heather! But Sean got you back pretty good though.



A good time was had by all...