I cracked up when I saw this on their kitchen whiteboard….apparently there’s already been some discussion about when to start a family!

Both of Christie’s Pup’s were ready to roll, although Jack wasn’t so keen on being relegated to the upstairs once everyone was dressed

Every groom says “Oh I’m fine, not nervous at all, just excited and ready for the big day (and they’re all lying!)”  It was really refreshing that Charlie admitted “Yeah, I’m a bit freaked out right about now!”  Although you wouldn’t know it from this picture….looks pretty cool….

After their ceremony, we hopped across St. Charles’ Fox River and headed to Pottawatomie Park and the timing couldn’t have been better for their wedding and bridal pictures.  The cool thing about using Pottawatomie Park for wedding pictures is the large tower and pavilion make it possible to take pictures there even if the weather doesn’t cooperate.  Fortunately the weather more than cooperated for Christie and Charlies pictures, and we were lucky to get there just as the sun was setting (which by the way is the beautiful thing about fall weddings….as soon as the sun is gone…it’s time for the cocktail hour to start anyway.  So even though you might not have a ton of daylight for your pictures….you’ve got the best light of the day!)

This was awesome.  Neither Christie or Charlie are really into wedding cake (or cake in general I guess), so they decided to hire Cold Stone Creamery to provide an ice cream bar instead of serving wedding cake!  So there was no cutting of the cake, just a scooping of the first scoop!  Kinda cool when the first major decision of your marriage is what type of candy topping to put on your ice cream!……

…..mmmmm, come here caramel goodness….get down with your bad – self on that waffle bowl and vanilla ice cream!