The Proposal! It was a perfect night! We were throwing a Halloween Party at our home with friends and family. I was dressed as Morticia Addams, and he was dressed as Gomez (of course!). He caught me completely off guard! He started with addressing the party and thanking everyone for joining us. He then got down on one knee and asked me with the most beautiful ring I have ever seen! I screamed "YES!" and then a few of the guys popped about 4 of the confetti canons. I was finding confetti for months afterwards! Yet, every little piece I found put a giant grin on my face. ☺️
The Big Day! The wedding was incredible! We are both Star Wars fans and we decided to do a full "Darkside" theme and just have fun with it! My dress was black and silver to resemble Darth Vader. My ladies wore full length red dresses to symbolize the Red Guard. My husband was in a full black on black tux with his men in black tuxes with red vests. We all wore black cloaks walking down the aisle. The gentlemen removed their cloaks once I reached the archway. Due to it being a little chilly and sprinkling rain, myself and the ladies kept our cloaks on. My father walked me down the aisle dressed as Darth Maul (minus the mask). My oldest son dressed as Luke Skywalker, my middle son was Kylo Ren, and they walked directly in front of me. My youngest, our ring bearer dressed as The Mandalorian. Our flower girl wore a black and white dress with silhouettes of various Star Wars Characters.
My brother officiated and included "Sith Lore" throughout the ceremony. During the "If anyone has a reason these two should not be joined...", our DJ (dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi) came RUNNING down the aisle yelling, "This union is an abomination!" At which point my youngest, who was standing next to me, "shot" him with his Mando gun, saying a very cute, "pew, pew!"
After the ceremony, the wedding party went down to the beach to take pictures. Because it was rainy and muggy, the esthetic was PERFECT! The back mountains had fog rolling down and it was just barely sprinkling so we weren't getting soaked.
After pictures, we returned to the party for food! We did a taco bar for food which I highly recommend.
The wedding was absolutely perfect! The one piece of advice I have is, if you plan on doing pictures after the ceremony like we did, say hello to as many guests as you can before you go. I was so wrapped up in everything that I didn't take into account that there are many guests that only come for the ceremony and not the reception. Because of this, by the time we came back from doing pictures, half of the guests had left and I hadn't been able to say hi to most of them.