Leftover Dye!

The extra benefit of dying my hair rainbow for the wedding - I now have a large quantity of lots of colors!

This week I went with Purple -> Blue -> Orange! Rawr! I did more blending rather than try and keep the colors separate so it went really quickly. 

The Reception!

The Reception: A Timeline with Pictures

We arrived at the beautiful Castle Unicorn at 1pm

Arriving early allowed us to set up the centerpieces, get dressed, and do copious amounts of drinking/jelloshots!

The wonderful Scarlett Crews, our photographer, arrived later in the afternoon. So we sneaked off and got some pictures of just the two of us since we never got around to getting engagement photos.

The castle is surrounded by a gorgeous forest area

The upper part of the castle is a giant patio with fantastic views! We got cat-called several times during our photos 

Then a bunch of family and friends photos! Here are my nieces that my mom made matching skirts with the leftovers from my dress!

Photobombed!

One last jelloshot before the party! 

It was beautiful, marvelous, and some of the best fun I ever had!

Cigars were smoked, s'mores were eaten, and we danced the night away...

The Rings!

Here are our rings! They are a bit.. non-traditional...

The 'engagement' rings are D20 spinner rings because we both share a passion for Dungeons & Dragons and tabletop gaming. 

Our wedding bands are Legend of Zelda song rings! Meaning they are an ocarina song from the LoZ: Ocarina of Time, in particular the Song of Storms. The inside of mine is engraved 'Wisdom', his is 'Courage', I will let you figure that one out.

Fun fact: J's ring diameter is three inches!

The Cake!

For the reception we had a Legend of Zelda themed cake done! Since our passion for the game series lead to our wedding bands, it only seemed fitting. The amazing Omaha Cake Gallery made it! Soooooo incredibly delicious.

I now present to you the Coolest. Cake. Ever.

The bottom tier features an 8-bit Link and Zelda on a background of the map of Hyrule from "A Link to the Past", which is J's favorite game. The middle tier is of Midna riding Wolf Link on a background of the castle from "Twilight Princess", my favorite game. The top tier featured the crest with rupees surrounding it. Topping the cake was the master sword and the Link and Zelda amiibos!

They added two SNES controllers coming out of the cake!

They also added rupees all over, an ocarina, a treasure chest, and the Hyrulian Shield!

The flavors were coconut on the bottom and top tiers, and banana cream in the middle. I am now convinced that I need to get a fancy cake for every special occasion!

It was so delicious and appetizing that my adorable niece couldn't wait for us to finish first piece and start sharing!

Thank you cards!

Life post wedding was exhausting and extremely stressful at work. So I have been late-coming with the thank you cards.

I am not good at writing or talking to people. So instead of having to write the same generic BS message over and over again I decided to take a different approach with the cards. I bought a few quick pretty packs of thank-you cards from amazon, then wrote a quick "Thank you! Love Ana + Jacob" in them. The meat of the card was each one has a picture in it of us (or the puppies) using the items that people gave us. Quick, painless and very personalized!

Pictured above going clockwise: J and I hiding in the garden wearing the two hanging planters as hats. J wielding the sashimi knife and cutting board while I readied for attack with my chopstick claws. Shots! And wooza, this one took a few tries because we accidentally kept standing in front of the shotglass display case (which was the present) and/or apparently J and I make really weird faces when taking a shot. And we wanted to be genuine. Took. A. Shot. Every. Time. Then a cool down after on the porch with margarita glasses (with J's amazing recipe). Needless to say, we were not very productive that night. 

Some other fun photos we took:

Zelda and Link amiibos which were our cake toppers.

Actually baking a roast beef! 

Sadly it was thrown away, due to J's cooking skills being on par with Bender's. 

This went to the wonderful people who gave us Target giftcards.

And this to the wonderful people who gave us cash. The dogs were really confused why I kept spewing Monopoly money at them. They were heavily rewarded with doggy bacon & peanut butter for their services. 

Kaikala shares my love of Alton Brown.

And of course what everyone needs after an incredibly stressful four months..