Wedding Recap, Part II - Wedding Processional

It was very important to me that my wedding start on time.

After I stressed to guests SO  MUCH that the wedding will start on time, it would've looked bad if it didn't. To give people some leeway, we started the ceremony at 4:05p.

The garden where the ceremony was held is set up like an amphitheater with several ways to enter. This picture is right before the ceremony started. I entered on the right and the bridal party and everyone else entered on the left.

I was shuttled down to my side via golf cart and the bridal party, as well as the groom, entered under the arbor that was the top of the hill. The very first to walk down was my pastor who was officiating over the ceremony. He actually was unable to attend the wedding rehearsal the day before so I provided him a detailed timeline of the wedding day beforehand. It still didn't go completely as expected, but it is what it is.

We decided to have our parents walk down as well so that many of our guests could recognize who are parents were. The walk was a little long but everyone made it down just fine and the songs they came down on The Prayer by Donnie McClurkin and Yolanda Adams. My mother was the first down escorted by my first younger brother.

Followed by NaijaKing's parents.

Then my gorgeous groom came down on his own.

My uncle couldn't help but to shake his hand on the way down.

We finally started the bridal party entrance and they entered in on I Promise by CeCe Winans.

My flower girl was my very young cousin and my ringbearer was my nephew.

After everyone came down, it was finally my turn. I came in on the opposite end of the amphitheater and my walk was EXTRA long but that's exactly what I wanted. I wanted to give myself, as well as everyone else, a moment to take in my processional plus get as many pics as they wanted. One thing I find when I go to weddings is that I never get enough time to take pics of the bride walking down.

My father was the last person to walk down on the same side as the bridal party and we met on the second level of steps before entering the crowd of people.

After we met, we walked down together to meet my soon-to-be husband.

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Wedding Recap, Part I - Wedding Weekend