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Nicole and Shawn were married on a gor­geous, pic­ture per­fect, ama­zing, spec­ta­cu­lar, won­der­ful day. THREE months ago. And the Tale of the Delin­quent Blog­ger con­ti­nues. (Funny, the hea­der of their enga­ge­ment ses­sion starts with the same ‘sad song’, haha!)

Let me tell you folks, it has been one stu­pen­dous event after another here at MKP and I’m so thri­lled and pri­vi­le­ged to be able to share these sto­ries. I just wish there were more hours in the day to docu­ment them for you!

And with that, back to Nicole & Shawn!

I met up with the girls as they were get­ting dres­sed and Nicole made a grand entrance into her beau­ti­ful gown.

Nicole, her 2 sis­ters, and her mum are full of per­so­na­lity and hila­rity, but this par­ti­cu­lar moment while Casey pin­ned on her cor­sage, I think mum found her­self reflec­ting on how her three little girls had grown into such ama­zing women.

I love the trend of little per­so­nal touches being added to the bou­quets — broaches, loc­kets, memo­ries of loved ones you can hold on tight to!

We all took a school bus to the cere­mony on the beach. It was all fun and games until we got a little clo­ser and the actua­lity of the day stra­ted to set in. I don’t think Nicole expec­ted to get quite so emo­tio­nal <3

The set­ting was abso­lu­tely pic­ture perfect.

And Shawn loo­ked right­fully in awe when he at last saw Nicole making her way from the gazebo.

one ringy dingy, two ringy dingy… S.W.A.K! (omg, do you remem­ber that from middle school?!)

And then this hap­pe­ned. And it was awesome.

I loved the subtle yellow of their dres­ses and Shawn’s snappy navy jacket!

sweet faced girly!

And then it was time for ever­yone to get back on the bus and head to the party!

I won­der if they coör­di­na­ted the color to the bus or if that was just coin­ci­dence Also — they get the award for best snarky favor ever: “Nicole & Shawn got married and all i got was this damn koo­zie” I got one and it lives on my desk in my office and holds my drinks as I edit pho­tos. I love it.

After the ‘team’ sig­ned the game ball -

They made their grand entrance!

And chee­red on the newly­weds as they sha­red their first dance.

And then THIS hap­pe­ned. And I laughed out loud — I have an almost iden­ti­cal wed­ding pic­ture of my Nichole & I doing the same thing during OUR first dance. It’s the 7^th grade dance all over again!

Then came the parent dan­ces. Nicole and her dad had all of us, inc­lu­ding them­sel­ves, in tears.

And Shawn dan­ced with his beau­ti­ful mother.

If you haven’t figu­red it out by now, these two love to have fun, and love to just be silly. It made for some fan­tas­tic photo ops

I really thought this one was going to be a smasher — but they were inc­re­dibly sweet with each other

And then they dan­ced the night away, hardcore.

As I was pho­to­graphing the dan­cing, someone came up to me and said, you know there’s a cake eating con­test going on in the back cor­ner, right? Um, NO!? Thanks for the heads up! I arri­ved to a table divi­ded, each con­tes­tant with a piece of cake, in a down to the last crumb relay!

Who’s that? None other than Sarah & Jason! Sarah was kind enough to refer me to her cou­sin, Nicole (and going back through their blog entry, I spied Casey on their dance floor)

Bas­ket­ball team is right — Nicole caught some serious air here!

I’m 100% posi­tive this crew par­tied into the middle of the night and pro­bably for a few days more.

Thank you to two for having me along for this fan­tas­tic ride. I wish you all the best!