{"id":10495,"date":"2016-04-21T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vsiena2021.ave25.com\/wedding-talk\/?p=10495"},"modified":"2016-04-25T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:46:38","slug":"rebecca-steven-january-3rd-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/rebecca-steven-january-3rd-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca & Steven ~ January 3rd, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SWP_4722-Edit\"<\/a>Rebecca and Stephen originally met New Years\u2019 Eve. They married January 3rd, 2016. As guest arrived for the ceremony, instead of having them sign a guest book, they were asked to sign a balloon with their name on it.<\/p>\n

Rebecca was a beautiful bride in a gown with a corset-style lace-up in the back and rouching across the front. She wore a diamond headband\u00a0and had diamond drop earrings. Her bouquet featured white and watermelon colored roses. Each of her bridesmaids wore different styles of navy dresses and carried coral\u00a0colored roses. The groomsmen were dressed in grey tuxedos with piping, blue ties and vests and white shirts, while the groom wore a grey tuxedo with a blue vest, white shirt and a blue bowtie.<\/p>\n\"DSC_0152\"<\/a>\n

The ceremony involved braiding three strands of rope, gold, white and black with the reading \u201ca cord of three strands is not easily broken,\u201d from Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. The officiant demonstrated that marriage is not just about the union of two lives but is about having God in the center of their relationship and marriage. According to the officiant, marriage is about saying \u2018I love you,\u2019 at least once a day.<\/p>\n

During speeches, the best man told the couple that \u201cmarriage is not 50\/50, it\u2019s 100\/100 – each person must give their all to each other.\u201d He finished by saying that Becky was not his sister-in-law, she is his sister-in-heart. The maid of honor thanked the groom for treating her with dignity and taking her in. Rebecca\u2019s father told the newlyweds to be true to each other always, to be each other\u2019s best friend. And he ended by asking God to bless their marriage.<\/p>\n\"IMG_7000\"<\/a>\n

Before speeches were over, the bride\u2019s sorority sisters sang a song for her, which is a Tri Delta tradition.<\/p>\n

For the first dance the couple chose Always and Forever by Luther Vandross and My Love by Justin Timberlake. The father & daughter dance was to I Loved Her First by Heartland and then the mother & son dance to The Man You\u2019ve Become.<\/p>\n

The couple played the \u2018who knows who better\u2019 game. The wedding cake was an almond cake with almond butter cream frosting. The cake was decorated with beading along the base of each tier with pearl beads draped over the top. A Mr. & Mrs. Cake topper finished the cake. There was also a cookie table for guests.<\/p>\n

Favors were Hershey\u2019s Kisses. The night ended with a signature sparkler farewell. Congratulations Rebecca and Stephen. May your lives together shine like the stars above. We wish you the best.<\/p>\n

Photography by: Studio World Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

To view more photos from this wedding, please visit our Facebook <\/a>or view our Photostream<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebecca and Stephen originally met New Years\u2019 Eve. They married January 3rd, 2016. As guest arrived for the ceremony, instead of having them sign a guest book, they were asked to sign a balloon with their name on it. Rebecca was a beautiful bride in a gown with a corset-style lace-up in the back and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-ceremony-and-reception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10504,"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions\/10504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villasiena.cc\/wedding-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}