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Emily and Matt

When we started planning our wedding, I read about all of the fancy things we should do for it, but that really isn’t us. Instead, Matt and I wanted a fun, enjoyable wedding that illustrated who we are.

Football plays a major part in our lives, so after the ceremony, we stopped at our high school football field to take photographs. It was so much fun tossing the pigskin around and actually running routes. I played quarterback and called out plays. We were doing what we loved and having fun. The football came with us to the reception and made its way into the grand march and our photo booth. The photo booth was very memorable. Not only did our guests get to take a photo strip home, but we got to keep a copy with comments they wrote. One of our guests signed his name and said it would be worth millions some day.

The football theme was carried through in our décor and menu. We used mason jars as table decorations, washtubs as chip holders, and enjoyed tailgate-style food. Our meal was brats and hotdogs, the official food of Wisconsin-born children! For cocktail hour, we had a nacho cheese bar with a flowing nacho cheese fountain. Tortilla chips, pretzels, veggie straws, jalapenos, and salsa for those “watching their figures,” were placed in galvanized buckets with handmade lines. This was a fun way to entertain our guests during cocktail hour—and who doesn’t like nacho cheese? Though most brides eat like a bird on their wedding, I pigged out on the food, because it was what I love.

With good Wisconsin food goes good Wisconsin cake, which my grandma made. We had different kinds of sheet cakes and a three-tiered wedding cake. While it sounds like a lot of work for one grandma, she actually works as a cake decorator at Linda’s Bakery, making her and Linda’s the obvious choice.

Our wedding was amazing because it illustrated who Matt and I are. We didn’t worry about breaking any of the wedding “rules” we’d read about, we just found a way to bring everything we like together in one memorable night!

BUSINESSES: Linda’s Bakery (Cake), Mrs. B (Catering), Family Floral (Florist), Onalaska Omni Center (Reception), and Luann Dibb Photo