Honeymoon

Since we live in Tallahassee and got married in Orlando, which took a lot of traveling back and forth during wedding planning, we decided to stay in Orlando and have our honeymoon there. My Uncle Buster works at Universal and hooked us up big time with a discount on our room at the Lowe's Royal Pacific Hotel and with tickets to Universal and Islands of Adventure. We stayed out at Universal until the day after Valentine's! We checked-in the night of our wedding, me wearing my dress and Aaron wearing his tux, it was so fun to pull up to the hotel valet with our car all decorated and me shoved in the car in my wedding dress! We got so lucky when we checked-in because they immediately upgraded us for FREE to the honeymoon suite which was huge and gorgeous and on the club-level. So throughout the week we went to the parks a couple times, saw Blue Man Group, ate at the Hard Rock and Portofino, lunched at Margaritaville and relaxed.

My groom driving us to the hotel!

Right as we arrived in the lobby of the hotel, this is at about 2am haha!

Checked in, they gave us leis, and being silly in the elevator!

 

Walking to our room!

The bride just kicking back!

Handsome groom

Our view in the morning!

Wedding rings!

I'm Mrs. Druliner now!

Organizing my bridal stuff the day after

Aaron hanging out with my dress

Next few pictures are of our honeymoon suite!

Kitchen!

2 bedroom, 2 bath

Eating yummy dessert!

Drinking Butter Beer in Harry Potter world

at Margaritaville

Husband and wife!

 

About to go out for dinner!

World's Greatest Wife trophy!

World's Greatest Husband trophy!

Packing up to leave, my dress got its own bell cart!

The Cake

I knew from the start that I wanted our wedding cake to make a statement, and be a part of the decor of the wedding. I'm very happy with how the cake turned out! We ended up doing three flavors: Devil's Food with buttercream, Devil's Food with Peanut Butter Buttercream, and Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Icing. Delish!

I could show you tons of inspiration photos for the design of my cake, but this is a iPhone pic of the final sketch design for our cake after meeting with our cake designer (Anna Cakes)

The cake all set-up at the reception

Cake flavors printed

Our absolutely gorgeous serving set that I got at my bridal shower from my lovely Aunts!

Love the gold D!

Aaron's art as table numbers!

Another special touch for our wedding reception was Aaron's rendition of famous art pieces as table names and numbers. He painted renditions of pieces such as the Mona Lisa, Starry Night, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, etc... everyone found their table by the name of the art piece (the found their name on cards that hung from a crystal tree on the patio at cocktail hour), then at their table was Aaron's small rendition. I was so impressed by his work, and I think our guests really loved it too! Now we have the small art renditions framed in Aaron's art studio in our home

Aaron with his set-up working on the paintings

Aaron's rendition of "The Kiss" by Klimt

The artist at work on my favorite: Andy Warhol's "Orange Marilyn"

Close-up of Marilyn

And.... the final product on the table: this is "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" table

"The Mona Lisa" table. Each painting was placed on a gold stand and had a card next to them that I printed that had the name of the painting, the original artist, and a brief description about the work.

Wedding Flowers

I took the opportunity with our wedding flowers to put in a DIY touch. It was a pretty big risk, but I think paid off in the end. I made all of the flower bouquets and boutonnieres/corsages for our wedding, including my own bouquet. I hadn't seem them done very often, but enough to get some ideas... and it seemed like a unique way to bring it some of my own creativity into the style of our wedding. I used several different types of fabric in ivory, white, and gold mixed with vintage brooches that I collected for about a year. I'm love how they turned out and meshed perfectly with the style of our wedding. I made each of the girl's bouquets a little different with a slight different mic of flowers and especially different brooches for each so they were semi-personalized. And, the best part... I have my bouquet as a piece of decoration in my home office now on display and all my girls got to keep theirs! Sometimes taking a design risk, yields a big reward!

 

Start of the fabric flowers

Original trial run of the flowers with the brooches for the center, loved them!! Project is a go!

                

A finished flower for a corsage, I believe this was my moms

We had two ring bearers, my two little cousins Jack and Adam, and these were the pillows that I made for them to carry (side note: I look lovelyyyyy in this picture)

My bouquet starting to come together

The final product, my bouquet

This was one of the brooches on my MOH's, Crystal, bouquet

One of my bridesmaid's

Another bridesmaid

My favorite (and most expensive!!) brooch on my bouquet

Detail on the handle

Key to my heart...

One of my lovely bridesmaid's holding their bouquet (Lauren, I think!)

Boutonnieres

Flower girl pomander, and an extra pomander for a toss bouquet later

My bouquet with a few of the bridesmaid's

Me holding it, you can tell how big it was!

And, finally me posing with the beautiful bouquet