Sam and Harmony's Wedding

Hello blog world! Did you know Ashley could be pretty persuasive? Well she can be. So I begin my foray into blogging with an actual event which is much more thrilling than my normal life. Matt and I traveled to Fortuna, California for Sam and Harmony's wedding. It was beautiful but quite a far drive, like five hours far. It was fun to see Northern California and the wedding was awesome. Harmony did a great job pulling together her theme and like I told Matt "she has picked up an issue or two of Martha Stewart's wedding". I'll let the pictures do the talking...

Goodbye Bay Area , thanks for driving Matty.

Two signs you are getting married in a small town are:



1. There is a civil war reenactment across the street from your hotel. It was very cool by the way. I mean come on they had real horses and cannons. It made me miss the south, is that weird?

2. One of the hotels on your hotel block welcomes your wedding guest on their marque. How fancy is that?!

We clean up nice don't we?

Harmony provided parasols for the ladies.


The rich purple was beautiful. So were the flowers and butterfly napkin rings.

gazebo ceremony location

Some tables had tissue flower poms instead of butterflies. And a flower arrangement shaped like a box. The yellow flowers popped off the purple linens.


A shot of the dance floor.

photo booth

Sam waiting for his bride!


Adorable flower girls. They dropped the petals exactly on top of the petals that already lined the aisle. It was too cute.

Harmony was so pretty.

beautiful train on her dress


first kiss as husband and wife!

"Meant to bee together"

fancy personalized wine


Harmony also had fedoras for the guys. I can be a hipster too!

Good food: yummy panzanella salad














Signature drink: don't remember the name we called it purple goodness!



















Beautiful butterflies that we released during the wedding ceremony. They were still a little sleepy from being frozen so we let this one hang out on our table arrangement.




















Go Harmony! Smash that cake in his face.














The live band during the reception was terrific. Matt and I were waiting for a slow dance and the first one they played was my and Matt's song. Hello kissmet!




We had such a wonderful time in beautiful Northern California. See Ashley you asked for a blog entry and I gave you a long one (that's what she said).