After getting ready at our hotel this morning, we drove to the bed and breakfast a few miles away with our photographer, Zach, following in his car behind us. There was a bit of a hiccup when we got lost, made a wrong turn, and had to turn around, all with Zach struggling to follow, but we eventually made it.

When we got there, we met the owners of the bed and breakfast, Don and Deb Morelock, with whom we had been communicating via phone and email in the weeks leading up to our trip. Deb had prepared a fresh bouquet for me, and she showed us over to the stone archway where we planned to have the ceremony. It’s beautiful day, and it was so nice to have our ceremony outside among all the trees and surrounded by nature. Don officiated the ceremony based on a script we had put together. He was a very good speaker and really made the meaning and emotion of the words come to life.  When it came time to exchange our vows, Kori and I were both very emotional and choking up as we read our vows aloud and declared our commitment to each other. After we had read our vows and exchanged our wedding rings, we were declared married!

After the ceremony, Deb showed us to where there was a mini bottle of champagne and pie ready for us. We had told her ahead of time that we preferred pie to cake, because it is Pi Day after all. We toasted and cut our wedding pie before calling our parents and siblings to tell them we were officially married. After some difficulties finding cell service, because we are so far away from everything, we were finally able to call our families. They already knew we would be getting married, but we wanted to make sure they were the first people we told once it was official.

Once we had done all of this, we spent a few hours walking around the Morelock’s property and Zach took some candid and posed pictures, so we’ll share some of those once we get them back from him in a week or so. [EDIT: Full wedding day gallery here!]

-Eileen