From Miss to Mrs: You Are My Fire

After our first dance, I had planned for the boy and I to say a few words welcoming everyone to the reception. And by planned I mean I knew, but the boy, not so much. Either I told the boy and he forgot, or I never told him because I assumed he would forget, which ever way it was, he had nothing planned. Which is somewhat amusing considering his words sounded rehearsed, in compared to myself who seemed to have no idea what to say.

The Boy: We're glad you could drag yourself away from hurricane recovery and/or brave the traffic from various airports. We thank you for attending our wedding this evening... hot, maybe too much outside... we appreciate that.
Shoshanah:Thank you all for coming!
The plan from there was to go right into our cake cutting, although there was a bit of miscommunication on the timing. Since we didn't have a cocktail hour, we had our first dance earlier than scheduled. I guess not everyone assumed we would also be moving up the cake cutting. Our photographer hadn't taken detail shots of the cake yet, and they hadn't put out knifes for us yet, but it still worked out fine. Although it did mean by the time we were cutting our official song ended, but it still went over well with the crowd. As for our official song, none other than the Backstreet Boys' I Want it That Way.
Originally the boy had argued for no Backstreet Boys music. But since he hates desserts anyways, the cake cutting was really just for me. So didn't it also make sense to have the cake song be just for me too? That finally convinced him, at least as long as that one song was the only time BSB would be played at the wedding.
We were nice to each other feeding bites, although I did make sure every crumb of cake went to good use.


Lucky for you, there's video of how most of it all went down, from my awkward welcome to our guests cheers once they realized what song was actually playing.

Personal VideoAre you a fan of cake smashing? Or are you more worried about making sure you get your bites of cake?

All photos in this post courtesy of Sabree Hill Photography.
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