The First Wedding
You may remember the blog entitled "Ring Bearers"...where I was TERRIFIED of the top hats they got to wear AND even more, the bench they would be sitting on.
Nutshell...The wedding was incredible and the boys were amazing. A wise person gave me the idea to buy them something they REALLY want. Let them pick it out and buy it. So we did that. They were dying for rockets...so that's what they got. Full size, 500 ft in the air rockets. They were thrilled. We then took a picture of each rocket, taped it to the park bench. We then told them that if their bottoms stayed on the park bench through the ENTIRE wedding, we would go shoot their rockets. If they did NOT, we would return them to the local Walmart.
OKOK, some might call it bribery...I like to think of it as setting goals and getting rewards. C'mon child experts, what do you think?? Is it bribery?? No...I don't want to know.
Here is a pic in their suits...
and their hats...
and with Ben, the groom...
When they saw Sarah, who was BEAUTIFUL...they thought she was a princess. They couldn't speak. it was so sweet...
Here they are posed with Sarah
Their were NUTS before the wedding. They raced down the aisle at rehearsal, they played chase before the wedding. I stayed on them and tried EVERYTHING and felt like this huge loser mom who couldn't control her kids. We gave them their hats only half an hour before the wedding so that they would not be messed up. They pulled them down over their eyes, threw them in the air...total hooligans.
I thought I would puke as they started down the aisle.
But it was priceless...Charlie, who my sister calls "the entertainer," hit that aisle and stopped to bow and tip his hat at everyone. Zach, the "Repeat" of "Pete and Repeat" started doing the exact same thing. It took them minutes to get down the aisle because they stopped so many times to bow and tip their hats. It was unplanned, unrehearsed, and perfect.
These pics are a play by play...
They did well on the benches (we sat 2 inches behind them) and got to shoot off their rockets a few days later. (That will be the next blog!)
Nutshell...The wedding was incredible and the boys were amazing. A wise person gave me the idea to buy them something they REALLY want. Let them pick it out and buy it. So we did that. They were dying for rockets...so that's what they got. Full size, 500 ft in the air rockets. They were thrilled. We then took a picture of each rocket, taped it to the park bench. We then told them that if their bottoms stayed on the park bench through the ENTIRE wedding, we would go shoot their rockets. If they did NOT, we would return them to the local Walmart.
OKOK, some might call it bribery...I like to think of it as setting goals and getting rewards. C'mon child experts, what do you think?? Is it bribery?? No...I don't want to know.
Here is a pic in their suits...
and their hats...
and with Ben, the groom...
When they saw Sarah, who was BEAUTIFUL...they thought she was a princess. They couldn't speak. it was so sweet...
Here they are posed with Sarah
Their were NUTS before the wedding. They raced down the aisle at rehearsal, they played chase before the wedding. I stayed on them and tried EVERYTHING and felt like this huge loser mom who couldn't control her kids. We gave them their hats only half an hour before the wedding so that they would not be messed up. They pulled them down over their eyes, threw them in the air...total hooligans.
I thought I would puke as they started down the aisle.
But it was priceless...Charlie, who my sister calls "the entertainer," hit that aisle and stopped to bow and tip his hat at everyone. Zach, the "Repeat" of "Pete and Repeat" started doing the exact same thing. It took them minutes to get down the aisle because they stopped so many times to bow and tip their hats. It was unplanned, unrehearsed, and perfect.
These pics are a play by play...
They did well on the benches (we sat 2 inches behind them) and got to shoot off their rockets a few days later. (That will be the next blog!)
posted by Stacy at
9:10 PM
2 Comments:
Stacy, Great post and the pics are priceless. The rocket show wasn't bad either. I will never forget the look on their faces as the rockets blasted into space.
oh my GOSH.
those pictures are way better than i even imagined!!
wow. :)
SO CUTE.
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