The Reception

After Tracy and Jesse's beautiful wedding ceremony, all the guests headed over to another tower at the Hilton Hawaiian Village for the reception. The reception was going to be on the 25th floor and check out this view! The picture just doesn't do it justice! It was absolutely breath taking! It's almost a shame the reception was at 5pm because the guests only had an hour or so to enjoy it before it got dark. Nobody needed to look out at the view all night though, there was too much other stuff to do!

Next the wedding party entered, and then Tracy and Jesse had their first dance.

The speeches came next. Now, I public speak for a living so getting up in front of people is normally not an issue. But oh my goodness I was so nervous! My friend Wendy said she had never seen me so nervous to get up and speak in front of people! hahaha I only messed up once and I was in the home stretch, I'm so mad I messed up! I just got confused when I got to my final page and I thought it was the wrong page. Wendy video taped our speeches for us, so I will see if I can upload them to my blog.

After our speeches Tracy's dad came up and wanted to say a few words. I think Tracy was holding her breath the entire time! hahaha He was on his best behavior though and said some really nice things to Tracy and Jesse and all the guests!

Tracy hired a cake lady here on the island to make individual cakes for all the guests. She also had a small cake made for her and Jesse to cut as well. And he didn't shove cake in her face! Yeah Jesse!!! He gave the motion like he was going to and I kept thinking, she's going to kill him! hahaha

Tracy and Jesse were also able to have first dances with his mom and her dad. I guess though, neither Tracy or Jesse told their mom and dad that they would be dancing! hahaha They all did great though on last minute notice! Tracy's dad was trying to get her to do a waltz type move. She looked horrified since she didn't know what to do.....hhhmmm sounds awfully familiar to my dance with my father!



Now here are some random pictures from the night.

Well, that's all I'm going to post from the wedding. Of course we have a ton more pictures, so I'll have to have Lance put them on Flickr for everyone to check out! Tomorrow I will update with some Kaua'i pictures and stories. I've been blogging the last couple of days so make sure you read the posts below this one!

Love,
Suzanne