Wedding Collage

I finally printed all of my wedding photos. I made a collage of our photos to frame our marriage certificate. This is a low-quality picture to give you an idea what it looks like:

I'm so excited to have it displayed in our home for years and years!

Wenatchee Wedding Reception

We had a reception in Wenatchee on July 30. This was our thrid (and final) open house. It sure felt good to be done. This was the first reception with a wedding cake. You can see how excited we are to be cutting that cake! Boy oh boy. We also did some dancing. Mostly only small children joined us, but we did convince one older couple to come cut the rug.

The cutest part was probably when I threw the boquet. All the girls (my cousins, mostly) lined up to catch my boquet. After my cousin Sarah caught it, my cousin Hannah handed the boquet back to me insisting that I throw it again (top right picture). I did, and aimed it specifically at her. She smiled to pose with me for the picture of when she caught it. It's an adorable smile that is much closer to a grimace than a smile :). I told her it was her turn to throw the boquet. She managed to send it straight up into the air. It was pretty adorable.

Seattle Open House

So I discovered that I poke kids in the head. I had no idea that I was doing this. :)

(I'm poking my nephew Max in the head.)

The Merrill family went down to Carkeek park the next day. You can see all the kids on the bridge. I like to pretend I'm running on top of the train while it's running under me.

Then the Merrills went to Dicks for lunch. This is my grandma enjoying her burger and shake before coming to our open house.

I was kind of sad that I missed all those fun activities, but I was otherwise occupied.

At our open house, we had a waffle tower instead of a wedding cake. Hollis spent a couple of days drying out the waffles and buying the topper. It turned out AMAZING!

My dad and I started off the dancing with the daddy-daughter dance. He had requested "Butterfly Kisses" and we cried almost the entire dance. I don't know if you can see, but I'm actually laughing through my tears.

Then Hollis and I danced, and then we started a dance party! Hollis really pulled out some awesome moves (he always does).

And then there was the traditional Crapo brother muscle-arm pose. They all have quite the guns :)

(L to R: Kevin, Jay, Ammon, Hollis, and Marc)

Wedding Day Pictures

The first set of pictures are the large group pictures. I realized after I made this collage that I included the Crapo sibling pictures in the "large group" instead of "siblings" category, but that's just because there are so many! I love it.

Top to bottom, L to R: extended Merrill guests, Crapo siblings and spouses, entire family and friends, both sides, friends and family waiting to greet us outside the temple (B&W), and Crapo siblings.

These are some of our favorite sibling pictures.

Top to bottom, Left column first: Crapo brothers, Hollis and Brian (my brother), Brian and me, the Merrill siblings, Merrill siblings and Hollis, Crapo brothers.

And now for some adorable parent pictures:

And then came a very long and hot period of time where the photographer followed Hollis and I around. My mom and sisters stayed to help.

All of these beautiful pictures were taken by Angie Penrose.