Wedding Wednesday: Our wedding video!

I think this is sadly going to be the last post about my wedding. I've truly enjoyed sharing everything about it ever since J proposed on October 14th, 2012. I'm glad the whole thing is forever going to be stored here in my blog, so that even I myself get to look at it anytime! I've shared the proposal, our pre-wedding pics, our save the date pics, all the wedding planning, my bridal shower, and finally the pictures of our big day, not only in Barcelona but also of our wedding reception in Hong Kong! But life goes on, and now a whole new exciting chapter will unfold: parenthood! I'm looking forward to share this new stage with all of you. For this last post, I reserved a very special something: our wedding video! {the short version, that is!}

I cried so much the first time I got to watch this video, it brought back so many memories of one of the happiest days of my life... {My wedding ranked first on my list of happy days until the moment I saw my baby for the first time on ultrasound, that was... THE BIGGEST JOY I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED!}

Anyway, I loved the video a lot, and watched it over and over with J, crying all the time. Marrying J was really the best thing I've ever done, I had never been so happy in my life as in these 8 months since we got married. I hope you like the video, I still like to watch it every now and then :)

Wedding Wednesday: Our Wedding Music

Merry merry Christmas! I can't believe time went by so fast, and just now that I finished showing you all the pictures from our wedding in Catalonia, our Hong Kong wedding reception is coming up THIS Sunday, December 29th!!! Super excited!

You've seen the pictures from our wedding and by now you probably have a good idea how everything was. But there is a very important part of a wedding pictures can't show, the music, which has the power of making moments truly magical. Both J and I are not music junkies, but we really did enjoy choosing the music for our special day. Here is the list of songs we chose for the most special moments of our big day. I hope this list can help you if you're planning your wedding and looking for some music advice!

Wedding ceremony:

Groom's march in: Trumpet Voluntary - Bach



Flower Boy & Girls, Bridesmaids & Groomsmen march in: Only Time - Orchestra

Bride's march in: Canon in D major - Bach

End of ceremony: Recessional Finale from Water and Music suite

Rice and rose petals: A moment like this - Kelly Clarkson

Balloons: I do - Colbie Caillat

Wedding banquet:

Entrance of bride & groom to banquet hall: (I've had) the time of my life



Entrance of first dish: This will be (an everlasting love) - Natalie Cole



Entrance of digestive: Celebration - Kool and the gang



Entrance of second dish: Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the waves



Entrance of wedding cake: All you need is love - The Beatles

Toast: How sweet it is (to be loved by you) - Marvin Gaye



Entrance of dessert: Shout - The Isley Brothers



First Dance: (Everything I do) I do it for you - Bryan Adams

Now every single time I hear any of these songs I'm immediately transported to our wedding day. Each of the songs is deep within my memory of that perfect day, and they will always be. Wish me luck for this coming Sunday, hoping everything goes as smooth as in our wedding in Catalonia!

Wedding Wednesday: Our wedding banquet

Our wedding banquet had 10 tables for the 100 guests, including our presidential table of 6: J and I, and our parents. They were decorated with Baby's breath (Gypsophila Paniculata), as the rest of our wedding. All the floral arrangements, including my bridal bouquet, were made by La Flor, in Manresa, Catalonia. We chose pink napkins and pink candles for the occasion to match the whole thing: my wedding bouquet, my belt, my bridesmaids dresses... It was a white and pink wedding, my perfect combo! 

Our sitting plan was hanging from the wall on a rope :)

We used a heart-shaped sugar cookie to let the guests know where to sit. The ones for the boys were written in blue and the ones for the girls in pink.

We started eating really late taking into account that this was a lunch. If I remember correctly, we weren't seated until 5pm, and we finished around 9pm. There were several surprises during the lunch: we prepared some videos with our pre-wedding pictures, and also a video with pictures of when we were kids, and then another one of pictures with our friends. 

There were also some surprises FOR US, as my friends from college gave me a huge box with... the marriage recipe! A box full of little gifts and notes on how to achieve a happy ever after marriage, and... lots of coins on the bottom too, some made out of chocolate and some real ones, which made the box so heavy! I loved everything from this amazing box that my friends so gorgeously DIY-ed with so much effort!  

Details! The sitting plan for table 2, the floral arrangements for the guests tables, and the floral arrangements at the presidential table

After the dinner and before the dance, it was time to cut the wedding cake! I designed the cake myself, all of it, by drawing it and then working on it with our cake artist. The layer under the flower ball was made of red velvet, and we ate it for breakfast the following day! You can also see the custom-made bride and groom we ordered, which looked exactly like us, I loved it!

Then it was time for our first dance {I'll let you know which song we chose next week when I tell you all about the music in our wedding...}, and after that it was party, party and party until midnight!

I told you I didn't cry in the whole wedding. Well, I kinda lied. I did shed some tears at midnight, when I gave my wedding bouquet to one of my bridesmaids and BFF, Lea, wishing her a wedding proposal real soon! It was a very touching moment, too bad the photographer wasn't there anymore to take a pic!

Wedding Wednesday: Our wedding: Cocktail party

While the bride, the groom, bridesmaids and groomsmen were in the woods taking pictures, the other guests headed over to the covered terrace, where we had prepared a cocktail party before the banquet, with around 15 different appetizers {including a whole mouthwatering jamón ibérico ham} and several refreshments that the waiters kept passing around.

The most special part of the terrace was the photocall we prepared with real-size cardboards of J and I, dressed in the suit and wedding dress from our pre-wedding pictures. We bought some funny messages and masks for our guests to take pics with "us". We also DIY-ed the background, with around 20 pom poms we patiently set up on the days before our big day.

This last photocall picture is the one my friends uploaded on Instagram, and is definitely my very favorite!!! Super sweet!

Another great thing going on in the terrace was the live music. We hired Marta Trujillo, a very talented local artist, to sing for us during the cocktail. It was lovely to have her singing there, I think it made a huge difference and everyone was amazed by her powerful yet delicate voice.

As I told you on last week's Wedding Wednesday post, my dress ended up full of pine needles in the woods, but my flower girls worked wonders and just like little fairies got everything out while I socialized around the terrace! Here's the proof!

Next week I'll show you our wedding banquet! SO looking forward to share it with all of you!

Wedding Wednesday: Our wedding photography session in the woods

There's many things that made me fall in love with La Garriga de Castelladral, our wedding venue, as soon as I saw it for the first time. One of my favorites are its amazing landscapes. Our wedding photography session took place in their amazing forest, filled with long, majestic pine trees.

It wasn't particularly easy to walk in the woods with my long lace dress, but I managed pretty well! I got it all full of pine needles but my lovely flower girls helped me remove all of them during the banquet :D

We took some pictures with the bridesmaids and the groomsmen first, and then only J and I stayed to take some bride&groom pictures. That forest has a very special energy, it felt terribly romantic while we were taking our pics, I'm so glad we did it there!

A lovely picture with Soraya

The boys! Always posing :p

Every single picture is so delicate and special, as usual I could just select a few, but I truly love them all!

 

I hope you enjoyed our wedding pictures, next week I'll be showing you the outdoor appetizer we served before the banquet!

If you missed out on my previous posts, you can check out the rest of the pictures from our wedding day here.