Last Wedding of the Year

On Saturday, September 1st my brother married the love of his life in a beautiful hawaiian inspired wedding. They got married outside on a warm late summer day surrounded by family and friends with hanging paper lanterns, giant purple and teal pinwheels and exotic plants creating the perfect setting for a magical ceremony. Walking down to steal drums, Holly looked truly radiant as she made her way to Danny, who looked dashingly handsome waiting for his beautiful bride to be. You could see in both of their eyes just how much they love each other and how they are truly meant to be together. I am not sure their eyes ever left each others throughout the whole ceremony, except for maybe the kiss! After the ceremony we were all off to the reception held at the very tropical and unique botanical gardens on the grounds of the Roger Williams Park. It was such a beautiful setting for a wedding with little ponds of fish, the sounds of really frogs and crickets hiding in the plants, the most beautiful flowers only found in warm climates and of course all of the little touches that Holly planned to make the day just perfect. 

What made this wedding different from the other four we went to this summer, was the fact that we were all in this wedding, including our always moving Owen. Because of this, it was very hard to get as many pictures I wanted to get (including any pictures with my parents/cousins/aunties and uncles/detail pictures/pictures of Owen all dressed up and of course family pictures... ugh), and I actually ended up dropping my camera mid wedding which broke it. Having Owen in the wedding was defiantly different and provided its own challenges, but he did look so handsome in his little tux and once the dancing started, you couldn't get him off the dance floor. He was a dancing machine. In fact, for how shy he is he even got in the middle of the dance circles all by himself to show off his moves. He is such a ham and certainly had us all laughing and smiling. 

Owen at the rehearsal dinner 

 Owen and Eric looking at downtown Providence 

 Alyssa and Louis 

 Holly and Mom

How pretty is her dress 

 Here shoes and Kingston dog 

 Back of the dress 

 Such gorgeous flowers 

 Holly getting into her dress 

 Seeing Dad for the first time while Emily finishes getting her in her dress 

 The beautiful bride! 

 On her way to become Mrs. Hartman 

 Almost all dressed up, but not sure about this whole wedding thing 

 Such a bugger... wouldn't pose with Uncle Danny on his big day :(

 Busy doing puzzles 

The following pictures are from my Auntie Laurie and I wanted to share them with all of you:

Eric and I walking down to the ceremony together ... this is the only picture of the two of us

At least Alyssa is happy ... Oh the life of toddlers... 

 Owen loved playing with the decorations during the cocktail hour 

 "What is it?"

 Still having fun ... yes this is how we spent the whole hour...

Okay, back to the pictures I was able to take

 Jamie, Ricky and Nik

 The next two ladies will always be like sisters to me

Me and Jamie 

 Me and Alyssa 

 Alyssa and Luise 

 The only picture I got of my handsome little man. He was on the move the WHOLE night

 So sweet 

 Danny and Holly

 And this is one of the million reasons why I love Jamie. She knows just how to make any kid smile :) Thank goodness she was at our table 

 Jamie and Nik

 All the Hartman siblings 

 Fish pond inside at the wedding 

 Those fishies are awesome! 

 Mother son dance

 Ut-oh Auntie Jamie got Owen! 

 The three amigos. Jamie and Cara made this wedding so much fun for O and I. I love them both soo soo much! 

 Me, Grammie and Owen (who was being a bugger and wouldn't turn around) 

 And the following pictures are post camera drop. They are blurry but cute so I wanted to post them anyway.

My little dancing machine needed to change into cooler cloths ... it was hot out on the dance floor! 

 Love these girls!

 Drink break 

 Near the end of the night, time to relax with Auntie Alyssa and watch some Mickey 

 This is the only family picture we got during the whole weekend and of course it was post camera drop 

 This would have been an awesome picture if it wasn't blurry ... grrrr 

We had such a wonderful weekend and are so lucky add Holly into our family. Congratulations Danny and Holly! We love you!