Paul and I's Wedding featured on Off Beat Bride!

So this is SUPER cool....
I submitted a few photos of Paul and I's wedding to Offbeat Bride last week and tonight/this morning I discovered this:

And then this:

Pretty sweeeeet, huh?!

Here's the direct link to my bride profile.

Thanks Ariel for featuring us on your site! Your book was really helpful and a great read - and your OffBeat Bride site was super inspirational. Nathan - once again - thanks for providing us with such kick-butt wedding photography!! And Justin - for all the beautiful portraits and reception photos. And thank you to everyone (especially friends and family for the countless hours of indentured servitude) for helping us with our incredibly offbeat and extremely memorable wedding! We love you all.

A Little Kiss

Just a little movie I created from Nathan's "burst-mode" photos of Paul & I at Stephen's Gap cave right after the wedding ceremony. I added the running water sound effect, multiply the sound 10 fold and you've got the real sound of all that rushing water from the waterfalls behind us.

Eat at Joe's

After our brilliant wedding ceremony at Stephen's Gap our little band cleaned up and hiked out of Stephen's Gap.

My wonderful hubby, Paul, and Michelle behind him, adjusting her ponytail.

Our resident cave photographer extraoidenere, Nathan and myself, Tommy and Lea in the back.

Tommy and Angela

What everyone expect to see hanging in a tree at Stephen's Gap - two formal dresses!

Angela was taking photos of wild flowers behind me, so we paused for a minute, allowing me to shoot this set of three. The last one makes me laugh.

Lea (surviving her first caving experience/wedding in a cave) showing off her jacks with Tommy in the Stephen's Gap parking lot.

Angela called in our orders and we enjoyed a wedding ceremony repast of most delicious pizza. We ate at Joe's - Joe's Pizza that is, off 72. I highly recommend it! (its marked on the map I posted on Feb 21st).


Mmmmm... pepperoni, olive and extra cheese.

The bride and groom's toast

And yes - and the tradition of feeding each other wedding pizza!

More photos of the wedding weekend soon...We're just getting started here folks!

Get Me to the Cave on Time!

Announcing the long awaited photos from the wedding ceremony at Stephen's Gap from the morning of May 1st, 2008.

My "something blue"

Angela starting the ceremony

Lea reading

Paul reading his vow to me

"You may kiss the bride"

Lea, Michelle, me, Paul, Tommy and Angela on the pedestal at Stephen' Gap Cave.

More kissing practice.

A long shot of Paul and I. You're looking at about 100ft of waterfall, then the pedestal hides about another 30 feet down to the floor.

The whole nutty crew: Michelle, Angela, Tommy, Nathan, Paul, me and Lea. All packed up and ready to hike out after a successful wedding and pit bounce!

I think all of us really had an incredible time at Stephen's Gap. The day was so mild, the timing and light just right, the perfect words exchanged and everyone was all smiles (despite getting a bit chilly while taking photos).

These are just a selected-selected few of the keepers. I have 8 CDs worth of photos from Nathan, so I'd be posting for days if I even tried to post 1/2 of them! I will post at least a couple more items from the ceremony - And then after that I'll have photos from the cave trip and reception when I receive them from Justin so check back in the next few days.

All photos in this post by Nathan Williams. (thank you, thank you, thank you!)

The Basics

Here's a little teaser leading up to when I'm able to post some of the professional photos back from the wedding which took place on May 1st at Stephen's Gap (Nathan) and then the Reception from May 3rd (Justin). Hoping to get some of them in the next couple days.

So lets review what it takes to have a wedding:

1. Love


(now I have "All you need is love" going through my head.. "love, loooove, love is all you need")

2. A letterpress invitation printed on our 1924 Chandler and Price press (Preston) to join in on the wedding weekend fun


3. A wedding license and an officiant to marry Paul and I (thanks Angela!)


4. A (slightly nutty) Bride and Groom who want to get married in a cave


5. A group of (equally nutty) awesome friends to help with the wedding-in-a-cave.
Including (but not limited to) sherpa-ing, marrying, reading, photography, rappelling, witnessing, signing and of course laughing about it all.

Lea, Paul, Sabrina, Nathan, Michelle, Tommy and Angela

6. A bouquet of the orange-est Gerbers I've ever seen, and boutonnière for Paul


7. A really pretty dress for the bride and a tux for the groom (We told the rental place it was an outdoor wedding .... oh if they only knew!)


8. An incredible venue - Stephen's Gap Cave - with perfect weather - complete with complimentary 100'+ waterfalls and an after-wedding 130' rappel.