The Poodles make it legal: This is it!!

So after running all over the beach, feeling like a superstar couple, because we were being chased by paparazzi (aka Groomsman, and family members) We gave all of the leis away to our guest and got ready to start with the ceremony :)

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J - Our leis modeled by FMIL}

That morning right before we left, Mr Poodle told me his mom wanted to talk to me, I was a little nervous but I rush her house. Since I had my  New and Blue =The dress (witch was more tourqueis than blue, but I didn't mind) she said before I should not worry for the borrow or old because she had the perfect idea.

 She had this little cute box for me when I open it I saw this:

{ Image by Mimi}

The ring belong to FMIL Grandma, it was her engagement ring. When Mr. Poodle's parents got married FMIL's mom gave her the same little box with the ring and a note on the inside, she used the exact same box and wrote me a note on the back of hers, I started crying the minute I read it... it was so sweet and I'm really happy I got to wear it on this day :) and use it again as my borrow and old for the April wedding.


We all gather together, and our friend and ordain minister Carl started the ceremony :)

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

I can not really remember all of his words, and I was so nervous that I forgot to let my bouquet go! I hold on to it every single second.

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J}

... and I laugh for like half of the ceremony, just because I was so nervous. But at the same time I'm really happy I we got to practice with this ceremony so that way I dont mess up our ceremony in April :)

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J}

Once we got to the vows I was a lot more calm and i got to enjoy all of Mr. poodle's words.

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J}

... it was really awesome to be there looking him on the eyes knowing that we are going to be together for good.

{ Image by Groomsman Will Carlson }

... But when my time came to repeat the vows, even tho I did pretty good most of the time by the end our minister got a little nervous and started to talk really fast and I GOT LOST!
I could not remember what he just said so I ask him to repeat, and since I didn't get it the second time either I just said "Everything he said..." 

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J}

I felt so dumb...  but it end up being the highlight of our ceremony and FMIL's favorite moment ever LOL

So after everyone stop lauging we moved to the sand ceremony.

{ Image by Groomsman Will Carlson }

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J}

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

We listen carefully to all of the words and got ready for the best part of all!

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

... the minister said "I now pronounce you Husband and Wife..."

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

"... you might kiss the bride!"

{ Image by Groomsman Will Carlson}

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

Ohh so excited!  - because we did not exchanged rings on this ceremony (We are saving all that for April) we decided to exchange carabiners, that both of us engraved with cute messages.

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

So after we seal our sand jar we were ready for hugs and more pictures!

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

Here with my new family! :) Mr Poodle's Parents

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

Our witness for the legal ceremony

{ Image by Groomsman Will Carlson }

Mr. Poodle's aunt, uncle and mom

{ Image by Groomsman Will Carlson }

Mr. poodle's grandma Mimi, what's wrong with me and the poses?

{ Image by Groomsman Will Carlson }

A group shot with all of our guest

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

And we are ready to go have something to eat!

{ Image by Mimi }

but before that a little shot of our married faces :)

{ Image by Groomsman Scott J }

after the ceremony we all went to Fratello for some Italian food, witch was pretty awesome.

{ Image by Mr. Poodle}

And after finding this:

{ Image by FMIL }

... all over Mr. Poodle's truck, we headed back home :)

I was an amazing day that both of us will always remember, and even tho it was not our actual wedding it felt like a cool rehearsal day, because now we know things we don't have to do and faces we have to avoid LOL

Our legal ceremony was so much fun, it was kind of crazy to see how something that it was supposed to be so just a four people kind of thing, evolved to our beach legal ceremony :)

And just to let you know even tho we are legally married, this ceremony was just to complete our Visa Papers. The April Wedding will be the one we will celebrate as our anniversary so that's why I will be Miss Poodle until then.


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The Poodles Make it Legal: Pre-Ceremony Pictures
The Poodles Make It Legal: Crafting and more crafting
The Poodles Make It Legal: Unexpected Gifts
The Poodles Make It Legal: The Dress
The Poodles Make It Legal: The Plan

The Poodles make it legal: Pre-ceremony Pictures

So after the last minute crafting, we finally made it to the beach :) We unpack all of our things, met with our friends and family and rush to the shore to have fun the Groomsman's cameras!

They said I could have all of their pictures if I let them have Mr. Poodle one weekend a month (Gosh they are so funny! ) and because I agreed... Here some of the pics!!

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

it was funny that I had to use one of my bouquet pins to attach Mr. Poodle's bout so each time I hug him or lean on him to hard, he got a pinch from the bout hehe

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

{ Image by Will Carlson aka Groomsman W}

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

FMIL B wrote our names on the sand so we could have cute cute pics :)

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

And of course I had to show some of the really goofy pics we are used to take

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

Ninja Bride got in to me for a few of my pics!

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

{ Image by Will Carlson aka Groomsman W}

The only one of my Bridesmaids that could be there was K, so we had our portraits...

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

... and played COOL on our way from the parking lot.

{ Image by Will Carlson aka Groomsman W}

Both our Photographers and Groomsman had their portraits with Mr. Poodle too! Pictures taken by Bridesmaid K and I

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

Well before the negotiations for the pictures the Groomsman wanted to have Mr. Poodle all for themselves, but I gave a really good fight.

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

{ Image by RimRunnerPhoto, aka Groomsman Scott }

After all of the pictures and the arrival of our last guest we set everything in place to start with the ceremony!!

{ Image by Will Carlson aka Groomsman W}

We had so much fun with the pictures, it definitely help us calm the nerves :) We were ready to start!
So stay tuned for the next post :) Our legal ceremony!


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The Poodles Make It Legal: Crafting and more crafting
The Poodles Make It Legal: Unexpected Gifts
The Poodles Make It Legal: The Dress
The Poodles Make It Legal: The Plan

The Poodles make it legal: Crafting and more crafting

With just two days until our legal ceremony, I had the (last minute) great idea of making leis for all 16 of our guests. My love for origami shined when we decided the kind of leis we would be making. It was kind of crazy to fold all of those origami flowers by myself so I asked for help from Bridesmaid K, since we were going to have dinner at her place anyway. So, I packed all my supplies and hoped she would help us.

{ Bridesmaid K, Groomsman W, Mr. Poodle, and in the far back Groomsman S }

Luckily, they all helped us! So we spent a few hours folding, drinking wine, and eating homemade ravioli.

I was really excited and even thought we could finish all of them that day, but Groomsman S invited us on a hike to the Hot Springs after dinner, and instead of folding, this is what we did:

It was a long hike, but totally worth it, because I knew we still had time to fold the next day.

But that morning, Mr. Poodle and Groomsman S went down the hill for a golf game, and what was supposedly going to be a couple of hours ended up being almost all day. I folded like a crazy woman because I didn’t want to give up on the idea of giving something to the people attending our legal ceremony, especially because it was to be an intimate ceremony with close family only.

I am so happy that after all of their “Bachelor” celebrations, Mr. Poodle’s friends came to our house and helped me and Bridesmaid K finish all of the origami flowers for the leis.

I think I’m even more thankful because by the time we finished it was 4:00 AM, and we had to get up early to travel down to the beach. We assembled them while we were in the car on the way to the beach, so it was a very last minute project! Thank you to my friends for slaving over the cute origami leis!

Another project we didn’t contemplate until the last minute was my bouquet. My FMIL and I went to a store the week before the wedding and asked for a simple small white rose bouquet, and the price was pretty scary: $90.00!

So, I forgot abut it for a while, and on our way to the beach I asked Mr. Poodle to stop at Stater Brothers. We ran inside and bought white roses at $9.99. That’s the kind of price I like!

I already had ribbon, pins and scissors in the truck, and after a few minutes and this mess…

I had my last minute white bouquet!

While I finished the bouquet, Bridesmaid K was working on assembling the leis. It was actually really funny that while Mr. Poodle drove, K and I were crafting as fast as we could!

A happy face after completing all of the leis!

After I finished my bouquet, I asked Mr. Poodle if he would like to wear a bout, and since he said yes, I crafted a really fast bout with the leftovers from the leis!

TA DA! We were ready for our legal ceremony!!!

We were really excited, and to my surprise I was really relaxed. Maybe it is good to craft up until a half hour before your wedding? NO! I’m just kidding! Please don’t try this. I now know that I don’t ever want to craft up until the last minute, EVER!

Stay tuned, because in the next post, we are going to be on the beach!

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The Poodles make it legal: Unexpected gifts

The day after I finish my dress for our legal ceremony, I went for the first time to Michael's witch was pretty awesome, I got all of the supplies I needed for the project I had in mind to give our guest at our legal ceremony (Stay tune because that’s my next post).

That same day Mr. Poodle and I decided to invite his family for Dinner at our house for the first time. It was funny because we don't really have a lot of things on our kitchen, we definitely didn't have a big enough pot to cook the 9 of us, so we had to ask FMIL to borrow several things.

Once the family started to arrive, we notice TONS of gifts! - Mr. Poodle's aunt and uncle decided to give us our wedding presents now, because they know we don't really have stuff on our kitchen and they didn't wanted us to wait until the actual wedding.

We thought it was really sweet of them and of course pretty awesome for us! because now we have pots, real glasses ( we had just red plastic ones :P ) and lots of goodies to bake and cook.

After I saw the pictures FMIL took I realize we make the goofiest faces when we are excited, I’m scared about our ceremony pictures now - LOL

And since this time we didn't needed the ribbons to make a rehearsal bouquet, Curly got to dress up on pretty ribbon :D

We could not be happier with all of the surprise presents :D So thank you Glasseys!

Right after we finish the amazing Corn Beef and Cabbage Mr Poodle cooked for all of us, our friend and Minister came to visit, so we could read our ceremony and make the changes we wanted. We didn't change anything because it sounded awesome!

We make sure no one else read it, even though FMIL was playing paparazzi!

I know our surprise face is not the best :P

This was an awesome day, we had so much fun hosting dinner for the first time!  and now that we have more kitchen goodies, we can’t wait to start having our friends over too.

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