Outdoor Estate Wedding

It's been a minute since we got invited to a wedding so we were thrilled to have 2 weddings on our calendar this summer.

We got invited to the loveliest wedding - two of Kevin's students were getting married in Cincinnati over the weekend.  We booked my parents to watch Leo because we knew he'd have the most fun with them at home which would allow us to have the most fun at the wedding.  Hooray for Mimi & Papaw!

We drove a little over 3 hours to get there.  It was a beautiful day for an outdoor wedding and the historic estate was so cool.  The kids kept calling it a castle.  We got to explore the main floor rooms and enjoyed all the special planning that went into the wedding.

Ari & Jessie were more than students to us - they were our kid's favorite babysitters for years when we lived in Terre Haute!  Olive and Fletcher couldn't wait to see them on their big day!  We got to see lots of friends and former students from ISU and it was just so much fun.

A sweet man sitting behind us offered to take our family picture before the ceremony. 

Best babysitters ever :)  They looked so happy!!

We love weddings!  Olive and I had so much fun strolling through the gardens, checking out the property, eating appetizers, getting drinks (Signature drink for me and a Shirley Temple Sprite for her), doing our nails, picking out dresses and admiring all the pretty wedding details.

The ceremony was outside under these pretty shade trees.

Signature Cocktails - Vodka Lemonade - YUM!

The kids hit the jackpot on seeing their favorite people.  Cara is another one of their very favorite babysitters!  It was so fun to see her, meet her fiance and we'll be headed to her wedding in just a few weeks.

Drinks in the garden :)

The kids had fun exploring during the cocktail hour. 

Silly boys.  Fletcher insisted he was a frog and that I needed to snap frog pictures.  He was a trooper for all the wedding festivities.  These pictures crack me up!! 

Yummy dinner menus.  The adults ordered and the kids had a special meal.

The bride's mom owns a dessert shop so they had the neatest favors!!

A Cookie Bar!!  I couldn't have loved it more.  There was a table full of cookies to choose from and personalized cookie bags for guests.  It was so much fun to pick out 2 cookies per person to take home with us.  This gives me some fun ideas for the future.

There was a traditional wedding cake and A TRUFFLE BAR!  We tried a few different flavors and loved them all.  I've never seen this at a wedding before.

Kevin & Ari.  Best buds.  It was really fun to meet all the parents and talk about how wonderful their kids were to our family when they were grad students.  We got to gush about how much we love them!

 I'm so glad we were able to make the trip to celebrate our friends!