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When two hearts become one.

13 years ago

As promised, here are the photos from Amanda and David Kaisers wedding. It was a perfect wedding, with even the weather being fantastic.

Now keep in mind I am not a photographer nor editor.

Here is a link that might be useful: Wedding photos

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blueiris24
13 years ago
I haven't been on the forum as regularly as I used to be, and I missed this completely! Annie, your daughter is beautiful, as is her dress, and the cake is amazing. Hope you had time to enjoy the day as well!
diinohio
13 years ago
Just as beautiful as I imagined it would be. Looks like a great time! Annie, you really out did yourself. Rest!

Thanks for the pictures pk.

Di
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mitchdesj
13 years ago
PK, you did great !! I love the black and red theme on the kids, everything
looks wonderful. The bride and groom are picture perfect.
caliloo
13 years ago
It looks like a fantastic time! Amanda is gorgeous, I love the chocolate and cranberry color theme and everyone is having a fantastic time. Exactly what a wedding is all about - sharing the good times!

Great job Annie and thank you for posting the pic, Peppi.

Alexa
mustangs81
13 years ago
Auntie Peppi-- you are the best! Thanks for sharing this beautiful day with us. I know you and Sherry were a great support for Annie.
claire_de_luna
13 years ago
Peppi, it was awesome that you took pictures to record the event. What a beautiful wedding, including the bride and groom, and mother of the bride! It looks like everyone had a great time. Annie, I don't wonder that you are completely worn out!
wizardnm
13 years ago
Thanks Peppi, great pictures, I wish I could have been there.
jessyf
13 years ago
Awwwwwww. I love weddings. Great job! Good looking spread!
lowspark
13 years ago
Thanks for posting those! I was looking forward to seeing the bride!
eandhl
13 years ago
Beautiful bride, beautiful wedding. Thank you for sharing.
loves2cook4six
13 years ago
Wow. Annie, you really made that dress?! Simple, elegant and gorgeous. And the cake - such smooth buttercream. I am impressed! And it looks like everyone had an absolute blast. What a day. TFS Peppi, so glad you could get such lovely pictures.
User
13 years ago
Looking forward to even more pictures of the bride and groom.

Amanda's dress is just beautiful. Beautiful colour theme.

Ann
tami_ohio
13 years ago
Great job, Peppi, thanks for posting them.
annie1992
13 years ago
Nope, LC46, I didn't MAKE the dress, I bought it on the internet from a place in Ohio, but I had to do the alterations myself. I thought it was lovely for a $300 internet special. I also hemmed my own dress and Ashley's, we are one family full of short women.

I didn't think I'd like the chocolate and burgundy color scheme, but it actually came out very pretty, and those chocolate brown dresses didn't show anything that the kids spilled on themselves, so they were actually perfect.

As for that buttercream, I took the top layer apart and put it back together three times before I quit, it had a strawberry chiffon filling that kept bleeding out through the buttercream, making it look like the cake was bleeding!

Annie
gellchom
13 years ago
It all looks so wonderful! I will show these photos to Thing One and Future Mrs. Thing One; they will get some good ideas.

Hey, where in Ohio did you get that gorgeous dress? I am in Columbus. I'm 5'1" and I need a long gown -- in GREEN. This will not be easy to find.

What a beautiful wedding. I like everything -- the clothes, the cake, of course the bride and the gorgeous woman in brown. But the best part is your happy faces. Look at those smiles!

Mazal tov to all the family.
doucanoe
13 years ago
Lovely! Amanda is drop-dead gorgeaous!

Annie, you did a phenomenal job on the cakes and all of the food looks delicious. I especially love the grroms cake! LOL

Thanks for sharing, Peppi!

Linda
annie1992
13 years ago
Gellchom, the wedding dress came from a place called Romantic Gowns in, I think, Dayton. They have an internet site, some of the dresses are "eh" but this one was just lovely.

My own dress came from Nordstrom's Rack, on sale, $69. I was happy since I'd been asked to wear burgundy or chocolate and with my red hair it wasn't going to be burgundy and I'd been shopping for weeks. Have I mentioned that I abhor shopping?

So, do you know how many chocolate brown dresses there are this fall? Like maybe one, and I bought it! Good luck on the green, everything this year is black. Sigh.

And best of luck to Thing One and FMTO, I know you'll be beautiful, find the perfect dress and it will all be divine.

That reception was the normal chaos and lunacy that my family calls a party. (grin) We tend to be very unstructured and everyone seems to enjoy that, so we just keep doing it.

I can't even SEE Peppi's pictures, I'll have to wait until I go home tonight, the county has photobucket blocked!

Annie
woodie
13 years ago
Very beautiful bride! And everybody else too :)
I really feel so happy for Amanda and the wedding was just beautiful, everything - the food, the people THE CAKE and so far I read no mention of anybody's leg getting peed upon or anything, right?
User
13 years ago
Lovely bride, handsome groom, drop dead gorgeous mother of the bride, beautiful cake, cute as he!! little girls, and a very good looking pig!

perfect wedding......sleep well tonight Annie.
lindac
13 years ago
*sigh*,,,,looks like a wonderful party!!
And wonderful cakes and beautiful bride...handsome groom...darling flower girls....etc etc etc....
Cant'wait for more pictures!
Linda C
riverrat1
13 years ago
Just as lovely as I thought it would be! Thank you Peppi for taking those pictures so we could all enjoy in the fun!
Amanda looks stunning! Such a beautiful Bride! David's not so bad himself! (grin) Makayla and the other girls are so cute in there BEAUTIFUL dresses! Ashley is as lovely as ever and YOU my dear look fantastic! That's a great picture of Elery...looks like he is bartending! LOL!

The food spread...well, let's just say that I would be standing next to the food the entire reception. YUM! Both cakes turned out so nice. I bet you will have many request from other people in your community to do one for their special event! Just what you need huh?

Looking forward to more pictures. Annie, I think you deserve some R&R now.
pkramer60
Original Author
13 years ago
RR, we made sure to sit right next to the food tables! Annie told me about the bleeding cake and I told her to stick a big knife in the top and start a Holloween theme.

I wish I had gotten a better photo of Annies dress, it really was as stunning as the wedding gown. Course, pretty women will make a burlap sack look good and we had them at this wedding.

Annie, if you are in contact with the people that did the pig, let them know how good it was. Dad took a tiny bit for Dilly to have with his dinner(I couldn't get a dog sitter so he came with) and for the first time he raided the trash can to get the empty baggie! He has never done that. He just stared at me for more.

Amanda will have wonderful memories of her wedding and even greater ones of her Mom.

And so everyone knows, SHerry and I checked out Ashelys date, Kevin. He has passed inspection of the serial ax murdering internet CF ladies. Plus he is really cute!

Hugs and many thanks for the invitation to share this special event.
annie1992
13 years ago
Peppi, thank you so much for those pictures, I didn't even think of getting one of the pig roasting.

We had rolls and pork, au gratin potatoes, potato salad, macaroni salad, home canned green beans, sauerkraut and polish sausage, a big pan of italian sausage. Appetizers were the habanero cheesecake, cranberry cheesecake, 7 layer dip, cheese dip, tortilla chips, fresh veggie trays and some potato chips for those hard core chip lovers. Desserts were apple pie, blueberry cheesecake, raspberry coconut bars, chocolate chip cookies, lemon shortbread, peanut butter cookies, peanut butter and chocolate fudge and the cakes. Mother also brought some cupcakes.

The cakes, as I've mentioned, were LindaC's carrot cake, Colleen's chocolate cake, and a strawberry chiffon which kept bleeding strawberry filling through the buttercream. The groom's cake was Beth's lemon cake. Amanda carried the handkerchief that SharonCB sent me as her "something borrowed", I have to remember to get that back for Ashley's wedding. I carried it in my wedding to Elery too, it's kind of becoming a family tradition, and it's my way of keeping all my CF friends there with me.

Peppi and Sherry were sure there with me when I needed them, what great friends. And Peppi didn't tell you that she informed Ashley that Kevin has a nice butt. Ahem.

Woodie, somehow I forgot to schedule someone to pee on the DJ. Darn, I thought maybe I could get a new family tradition going. Now, if you'd have come, I'd have asked you to do it, LOL.

And that little girl I was dancing with in the pictures wasn't Makayla, it was Linsey. Remember the little girl with the big heart problems that we prayed so hard for. Yup, that Linsey, dancing with the rest of us at Amanda's wedding. Life is certainly good....

Annie
sally2_gw
13 years ago
I looks like it was a beautiful wedding! Great job, Annie! Your daughter is one lovely person, and bride!

Sally
obxgina
13 years ago
Wow Annie, another outstanding job! Amanda is just beautiful, like her mom! What beautiful pictures on a perfect day!
No wonder you are exhausted!
Thank you for sharing such a happy time with all of us!
Any funny stories?
Gina
magothyrivergirl
13 years ago
Absolutely gorgeous gown!! Your food, the cakes, the little kids all dressed up, the big kids all dressed up...the perfect weather...all looks perfect!
Sounds like you have this week to catch a breath before the next one!
Thanks for sharing ~
pkramer60
Original Author
13 years ago
Hey,I told you we checked out Kevin. From all angles too! We may be getting older but we aren't dead.

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