The Big Day - Part V

Party Time... The Reception....

It was finally time to let loose and relax and enjoy the big party with all of our friends and family. We started the evening off with cocktail hour. They let Mike and I into the room first, it was amazing to see it all set up,it looks beautiful! Then came ALL the food and there was a ton of it. Unfortunately I feel like I didn't get to taste all of it but did manage to get a few bites in here and there while saying hello to everyone. Thanks to the help in part of my amazing bridesmaids I did manage to get in a glass from the martini mashed potato bar, it was awesome, I wish I could have some more of that right now!

We did all our introductions, the bridal party came out to Justin Timberlake, Sexy Back, and Mike got to have his fun and pick our song to come out for. I don't think anyone saw him do it, he made the baseball signal for a pitcher change before we came out to "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, which also represents the song played at Yankee Stadium (when the greatest baseball closer of all time) Marino Rivera comes into the game.

The only thing left to get through at this point was our first dance. For our first dance we chose the song "Only You Can Love Me This Way" by Keith Urban. We practiced our dance for weeks but I was so nervous about it, Mike knew our dance much better than I did, it seemed to go by so slowly and I was so nervous about the steps, the dance floor felt so much smaller than it had in practice with everyone crowding around watching us. Of course they don't know what steps we missed or didn't do, I was glad when it was over and we could just relax, Mike even ended the dance with a kiss!

We had tons of good food to eat the entire night, although I don't remember much of it. I only got to have one of my mushroom ravioli's I had requested. I did however order two dinners, I wanted to try them all, I even took the leftovers home with me. I can't even remember how the cake tasted, but we had fun feeding each other, I guess we'll find out next October when we defrost the top of the cake, such a strange tradition to eat year old cake, I wonder how it will dance.

And of course there was LOTS of dancing. I don't think I have ever seen so many people on the dance floor for so long and dancing to everyone. There was dancing to old songs and new songs and a whole mess of people on the dance floor the whole time. The DJs did a fantastic job mixing the music. The end cap of the night was Sweet Caroline with everyone in a huge circle around the dance floor.....

So many happy memories and such a fun party! I couldn't believe how quickly it was over, just like that, the whole reception had flown by. It was def everything I imagined it would be and then more. I had the most fun in my entire life and just starting my life together with Mike.