A Day to Remember

A Day To Remember

The day I had always dreamt about as a little girl finally took place. Months of preparation getting the right ceremony place, reception hall, photographer, caterer, Dj, and decorations all finally came together. Most people think that the planning is too stressful. But we were able to do it without having any. Our day that we will never forget, took place out in a garden for the ceremony, moving to a reception hall for dinner and then finishing with dancing for celebration. Let me explain how our day played out.

Guests arrived at Olbrich Botanical Gardens and were seated on white wooden chairs in the large round Event Garden. The chairs faced the Rose Garden with the trickling waterfall. Surrounding the Event Garden were lush hedges with openings leading to all the other wonderful floral gardens. Beautiful instrumental wedding music played in the background. As the last few guests were seated, "Air on the G String," started to play. The five bridesmaids in their cranberry, chiffon dresses were escorted down the aisle by the groomsmen in their pinstriped tuxedos. Not too far behind was a two year old flower girl in a cream colored dress, with lavender roses placed at all the puckers and her escort a five year old boy in a tuxedo matching the groomsmen. Behind them was the spunky ring bearer, a seven year old boy, also matching in a pinstriped tuxedo. Shortly after "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," started to play the ushers rolled out a white cloth runner down the aisle. My father escorted me proudly down the aisle. As I walked down the aisle I smiled and fought the tears that tried to roll down my cheeks. My father turned and gave me a kiss on my cheek and gave me away. I could feel the sun's rays warm my skin as I stood facing my handsome love. My maid of honor came behind me to straighten my long train of my sleeveless cream colored wedding dress.

The sunlight glistened off the beads surrounding the lavender embroidered roses that followed the seam angling down the front of my dress then wrapping around the outer edge of my train. We exchanged our vows and filled a vase with white and red sand as "The Wedding Song," played. When we had finished the pastor announced us as Mr. & Mrs. Schellpfeffer. With our arms linked we strolled back towards the weathered wood trellis behind the guests. The wedding party followed and stood next to us. The ushers excused each aisle of chairs and the guests lined up to congratulate us. When the women each gave us a hug I could smell their different perfumes adding to the scent of all the blooming flowers around us. As guests left we had pictures taken in the Thai Garden, in front of a red and gold pavilion that overlooked a serine pond. Time flew by and the next thing we knew we were on our way to the dinner club.

At around 4:45 pm we arrived at the dinner club on the lake with the view of the capital. One of the ushers let the Dj know we were there. We walked down the stairs to the room where all the tables and guests were. The Dj started announcing the wedding party and then announced us at the end. We walked over to our cake. The cake was round with four sections stacked one on top of the other getting smaller as it went up. Along the bottom edge wrapping all the way to the top alternating were purple and white orchids. Set at the very top was a silver "S." We cut the cake and he smashed my piece in my mouth. I could taste the strawberry filling and the cheesecake. I wiped my face and sat down at our table. As I looked out in