After the wedding

Sorry about my last couple of blogs, not sure why they did that. After the wedding and all the pictures we headed to a restaurant called the Indigo for some lunch and of course a few more pictures. They were not warned that a large group was coming in so there was only one guy on duty and 23 people. We had to wait awhile but we got some good conversation time.

After lunch it was time to say Goodbye to my Dad, Step-mom, Chris and Rick! Once again a little bit of a teary occasion for Matt and I. Papa Bear taking care of us once again let us know that there was a great look out he would take us to instead of us paying to take a gondola ride.

Random wedding pics

Here are some random pictures we took after the wedding!!!

wedding day part 4

Following the wedding ceremony we had sparkling cider on the beach with all of our guests. We were so blessed that we had 21 people attend our wedding. My sister Angela and Ray and Patti, Matt's bosses all gave us a toast to wish us well with our future. Matt decided that he wanted to toast everyone and say Thank you to all those who made it, but I think we all ended up in tears after Matt's. Unfortunately Matt's family could not attend our wedding and it was defiantly a very hard moment for Matt and I. We are understanding to their situation but they were greatly missed that day. Matt shed a few tears knowing they were not there and knowing that it was hard on them also.

We took pictures with all the groups of people that were there for our wedding. Along with one group picture to show everyone. Then it was family pictures for quite sometime till we let everyone loose to do what they wanted while Matt and I tried to smile pretty for the camera.

wedding day part 3

We arrived at Megan's Beach looking for a purple balloon where Colleen would be waiting. She had taken care of a few things for me such as Matt and my flowers and bringing glasses for our sparkling cider. I had been keeping in touch with her through emails and a couple phone calls so I had no clue what I was really looking for.

Collen did a wonderful job picking out the flowers!! She gave us a quick walk-thru of what needed to happen and then we were onto the wedding.

The waves were crashing that day so even though my brother was holding a radio playing the song I chose to have us all walk to you couldn't really hear much. Matt chose his best friend Aaron VandeHoef to be his best man. I of course chose to have my two sisters stand for me. My dad, step mom, stepsister Chris and her husband Rick were all at the beach waiting for us since they were not on the cruise but were part of our wedding.

Aaron walked my two sisters down while Matt waited patiently for my dad to walk me down.

I have to say that I did good until the final hug from my dad then the tears came a little bit but I got it back together quickly.

Everything went awesome. This is one of my favorite pictures of me looking at Matt. I just pray that I look at him this way for the rest of my life. Our vows were awesome even though we are the only ones that heard them or said them since the water was a little load.

Our exchanging of rings!!

A few pictures during the wedding. Our first kiss after the ring exchanging.

Since we could not do a unity candle we decided on a sand ceremony. They say that unless you can separate all the grains of sand back to their original containers you have to stay united. Matt had a glass with black sand and I had one with white sand. I had the glasses all engraved. Matt's had his name and mine had my name then the one we both poured into has two hearts and the saying "two lives become one" with the date of our wedding (March 10, 2009).

The new Mr and Mrs Matt Kortus


Yeah, we are married!!!!