Maho Bay Wedding

I love this photo I snapped of the bride & groom exiting the aisle after their wedding on Maho Bay. The bride has a big grin on her face and the officiate has turned around looking at a boat that just blew a conch shell as soon as the bride & groom were pronounced husband and wife!

I really had to share more photos of her bouquet though. This is honestly one of my favorite bouquets of the year.

Just love everything about it. Soft, romantic... We also had a sand ceremony. As you know from my previous posts, St. John is becoming more and more strict on what we can and can't do on the beaches in terms of weddings. They don't really want us to set up tables on the beach for sand ceremonies or cakes and glass is a definite NO NO. With a little creativity, we can still make the sand ceremony a beautiful moment. Here we use shells instead of glass and we had the parents hold the shell for the bride & groom to pour sand in to - they act as the "foundation" of their lives together.

The bride loved the shells so much, she purchased them from us to take them home and put on her fireplace mantel! 

Goodbye 12/12/12! And two crazy weeks on top of that...

I realized today that my last blog post was on the 2nd. Oops! The last two weeks have been crazy busy around here - we have had weddings every day since November 30th! I actually have the next five days off and plan to get caught up on blogs, emails and getting my January in order so that I can enjoy the holiday season once my kiddos get out of school next Friday. It's such a magical time of year - definitely one of my favorites. I'm working from home this morning and as I look out over the ocean and the cloudy skies, it almost looks like winter! We've had a lot of rain showers this morning and if you squint, it almost looks like it's snowing. I'm thankful for some time off to get caught up and even MORE thankful that the rain held off until today and we were able to get through 12/12/12 with no showers!

I didn't really have anything planned to blog about today but I do have some ideas in mind for future posts. I want to start a "Helpful Hints" series that will go over various topics that I think will help brides through the sometimes stressful process of wedding planning. I'm hoping to get that started next week. For today though, I'll share some photos of some recent weddings:

Still one of my favorite set-ups: blue mason jars with flowers, bamboo chairs....

Not all of our weddings are at the beach. This wedding was at the Dutch Reformed Church which was all decked out for Christmas:

And on the deck of Sand Dollar Estates:

But lots of beach weddings of course! An afternoon ceremony at Maho Beach, St. John (the officiate is looking off at a ship in the distance that blew a conch shell when the bride & groom were pronounced husband and wife!)

Our lanterns in use at Secret Harbor Beach Resort (a nice shady spot for the guests!)

More to come over the next five days!

Gorgeous orchid bouquet...

First I want to thank Mike from Toes in the Sand Photography for sending me these photos:

I had forgotten to get a photo of the bouquet prior to the ceremony and my far away shot didn't come out nearly as nice!