iphone pix from Tessa + Andy's wedding.

Without further ado .... pictures from Tessa and Andy's Wedding! I only took a few photos with my real camera since most of the day was spent Maid-of-Honoring (see: me following Tessa around a pear orchard with a San Pelligrino, a red lipstick and a giant white balloon.)  Which was really just fine by me because the day was one of the most memorable ever and it will live on in my mind and in the forthcoming photos from the official photographer/my dear friend Cassy Berry. So, I bring you the five pictures I quickly snapped on my phone! The rest of these are borrowed from the instagram of our friend and fabulous Day-Of Coordinator, Megan (of Mackenzie Events. I cannot recommend her highly enough!)

Tessa will be the first to tell you she has high expectations and it made my heart so happy to have everything exactly the way she imagined it. Here are some of the special details she dreamed up... 

1. homemade wedding cake + juliet roses. The night before the big day, Tess and I went over to Billy Jean's as she was baking it, and she put mint green dye into the frosting toothpick-tip by toothpick-tip to get the color just right. (And, Megan made the rose-gold bent wire "I do" cake topper.)
2. pizza party!! dinner was "fancy" local pizza, served on cake plates, from Solstice in Bingen, WA. 
3. venue: The Ruins at Springhouse Cellars in Hood River, OR
4. Andy, the groom, made a playlist on his iPod and we all danced the night away. The first song of the night was LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" and it was truly one of the happiest moments of my life. I met Tessa and Andy my first month in Portland, and dancing to that song at their wedding was one of those "wow" moments where I was just so filled-up by everything that has happened in the last four years. My life here has been better than I anything I knew to hope for.
5. I developed a gold foiling technique to make the signage, since Tessa was very adamant about her wedding "not looking like Pinterest threw-up on it"
6. the favors were heart shaped sunglasses and they were the cutest! It was so funny to look out from the alter during the ceremony and see everyone in the audience wearing them, including her grandpa.

I'll share my handful of film photos  (taken with a Hasselblad I borrowed from my friend Anu!!) when I get them back from the processor. They'll, of course, be accompanied by me getting all emotional on you about my best friend getting married and how being her Maid of Honor is a memory I'll cherish forever.

(photos) top, bottom, 5 and 6 with my iPhone | 1 - 4 by @megnmackenzie