Ryan and I were so excited to be heading down to Edwardsville a couple weeks ago for RC and Andrea’s wedding! We were both looking forward to getting away from everything that was going on here, but more so we were excited to see the bride and groom and their families! Andrea is such a sweetheart and I just knew she was going to look absolutely beautiful on her wedding day. She spent so much time preparing for this big day I was looking forward to seeing how all the details came together! 🙂

Andrea and RC decided not to see each other before the ceremony so we got some pictures of the guys before, details, and the girls getting ready. Before the ceremony began. I started off snapping some pics of the wedding rings with Andrea’s gorgeous bridal bouquet! (Would you believe her mom put all the flowers together? They were just stunning!

I knew they didn’t want to see each other before, but I thought it would be fun to get at least a couple pictures together. So we found this lovely little hallway where they could stand “next” to each other without seeing each other. 🙂

Time flew by and it was time for the ceremony to start! Andrea could not have looked happier walking down the aisle on her dad’s arm to the man of her dreams!

And RC couldn’t have looked more happy to finally see his gorgeous bride!

Presenting Mr. & Mrs. RC Hettinger!

Sometimes with Catholic weddings the kiss gets left out of the service. So we set up this fun picture of the happy couple kissing afterwards. Before heading over to a nearby park for some more fun outdoor shots of the bridal party and  bride and groom! 🙂

There were so many awesome details in this wedding! Your table number could be found on a cute little tag hanging from one of these three trees!

There were custom centerpieces at every table and pictures of the happy couple (that we took at their engagement session).

I loved their tiered cupcake wedding cake! And that the red velvet cupcakes had their “H” on it! 🙂

And every table had a bottle of hot sauce with these cute little labels.  I just love all these details!

RC & Andrea! Ryan and I are so happy for you and feel so blessed that we got to be a part of your day and capture your special moments! We hope the day was everything you hoped it would be and that you have many years of love, life, happiness, and laughter together! Take care and stay in touch!

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So I asked Andrea a few questions about her big day! 🙂 Here’s a little bit about the details of her day:

• I loved your dress! It just fit you so perfectly and Ryan absolutely LOVED that there were pockets in it! He just couldn’t get over it! Where did you find it? I’m sure some of my brides would love to know! 🙂
I got it at David’s Bridal in Springfield. It was very inexpensive compared to some shops I had looked at previously! When the lady brought the dress to me, she didn’t tell me it had pockets until after I tried it on! I loved it!! And they called it the paper dress because the material it was made out of felt like really soft paper 🙂

• I loved that all your bridesmaids had different styles of dresses – where did you find them?
Since my bridesmaids ranged in size, I didn’t think finding 1 dress to fit them all would be work and I wanted them to feel good about what they were wearing! I took them each to David’s Bridal, starting with the Maid of Honor and let them try on whatever they wanted as long as it was long and satin and could be ordered in my color. Ironically NONE of them picked the same dress 🙂

• The guys looked quite handsome in their tuxes – where did you go for those?
Long time friend of the family Mr. Bill Waite just expanded Waite’s Dry Cleaners in Decatur and started renting tuxes. His tuxes are very affordable and he was so flexible with getting them early and letting us keep them for almost a week, due the travel time. He and his staff are AWESOME and anyone in Decatur planning a wedding should check him out for tuxes!

• Ryan and I personally love that the guys were wearing chuck taylors! Who’s idea were those?
It was actually my idea. I brought it up to RC and at first he was a little skeptical but once I showed him pictures, he loved it. We bought them all for the groomsmen as their gifts…they were a little shocked but loved them also 🙂

• Is there anyone you’d like to give special credit to for there help putting your special day together?
My mom and sister!! My mom did all of the decorations, flower arrangement, center pieces, bouquets, boutonnieres, she bought all the vases, she came down many time to meet with the vendors. She was truly amazing. Also my sister, who lives 5 hours away from me and is a full-time student but managed to squeeze me in! She made all of the Save-the-dates, invitations, programs, labels for the hot sauce favors, etc. She took many hours to help and get everything perfect for us! Also my bridesmaids, Corinne and Heather, helped put the placecards together and the hot sauce labels on. We spent many hours scraping hot sauce labels off!!

• Is there a detail of your day that you particularly loved or a moment that you will never forget?
The detail I loved was all the little details that everyone keeps talking about. Our family and friends were so impressed with the placecard pictures, the personalized place cards, the favor, the candy station, everything! They keep talking about it to this day! I will never forget all of the dancing, especially our first dance and they father daughter dance. My dad NEVER dances and he did for me 🙂 And RC is not a big fan of PDA and he was so loving and happy!! Makes me wanna cry thinking about it 😉
• Now that it’s all over, would you do anything differently?
Everyone tells you not to stress and how fast it goes by! I wish I wouldn’t have stressed out so badly! Towards the end, it wasn’t fun planning anymore! I would tell all brides to SERIOUSLY not stress! The things that come up, you can’t help and can’t do anything about so don’t bother trying to fix it! And I wish so badly I wouldn’t have been so nervous before I walked down the isle because I wish I could of watched all the girls and family walk down the isle, through the window. There were a lot of things that were a blur that day because everything went so fast!
• Any advice for future brides and grooms?
The advice I give is to ENJOY everything. RC and I had had a lot of bad luck the week before the wedding! My hair stylist forgot to book our appointment, RC got in a wreck and then got food poisoning…it was crazy! We both became very crabby a couple days before the wedding which wasn’t fun! So don’t worry about it, just enjoy the whole process! Lastly, pay attention to everything at the wedding and reception, so you don’t look back and forget all the fun things that happened :))

And before we close this post – here’s a quick pic Ryan took of me with this awesome couple! Love them tons! So glad I got to be there!

I hope everyone enjoyed the pics and that you have an awesome Wednesday! I’ll try to get another post ready for Friday! See you then!

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