It’s hard to believe that Julia’s and my wedding was over a month ago. We switched from wedding planning back to campaign mode so quickly, the past month just flew by with no time to sit back and reflect. Now that the election is over and things are a little slower, although unsettled, here’s the lowdown.
People often say that something is bound to go wrong on your wedding day. If that was the case for us, we completely missed it, because everything went very well and we were quite happy with everything from start to finish.
Our venue was the Minneapolis Central Library in downtown Minneapolis, with the event put on by Mintáhoe. We loved the library as a venue, and it turned out great. We had plenty of room to get ready, and even though the ceremony was shortly after the library closed, we didn’t feel rushed (only evening weddings are possible due to the library being open during the day). The food and beverages catered by Mintáhoe were very good, and the cake was beautiful.
We did our flowers with Simply State Elegance and they were amazing. Jeni met with us a couple times to put together a plan that had the colors and flowers we were looking for within our budget, and she did an amazing job. Many people complimented the bouquet and floral arrangements.
For our music, we had the Larkspur Trio perform instrumental music before and after the ceremony, and we had Lee Engele as our DJ. The trio was great and handled our requests wonderfully, and Lee kept people on the dance floor. We booked both of them through Macken Music.
Our photographers were Steve and Kelsey Holm from Holm Photo. They did both our engagement photos and our wedding photos, and we’ve been really happy with what we’ve seen so far.
Finally, we ended our evening with a lovely ride from the library to the W Hotel via Peterson’s Pedicabs. The weather that night was perfect, and we were happy to see zombies and various downtown revelers on our ride back.
One more thing: I bought some Motorola walkie-talkies for use on the wedding day. Julia made fun of me for it, but they did come in quite handy when everybody was running around. It’s a good investment.