More Wedding Fun!

Our friends shared a slightly different perspective, here are a few more photos from their collections...


The shoes the Kehoes wear












Posing on our tractor













The survivors of the infamous jitney breakdown!














Not kidding! The rain clouds were moving in -














Staying safe in the rain

















Our programs and hay bales



















Our lovely flowers: sunflowers, dahlias, spider mums and roses


















Enjoying the tasty confections table














Another view of the car













The beautiful ladies













Another view of the recessional














A peak at Elizabeth under the tent














Something about an anchorman pose?













Megan and Josh tearing up the dance floor


























The Kehoes showing off some sweet moves!













Chatting with the ladies














And let the dancing begin!


























Is that my Dad?!


















The adorably photogenic Petris















Celebrating with sparklers!

Our Wedding

Happy Independence Day America! Here we are on the 4th of July celebrating our 3 week anniversary already!



We have safely returned from our honeymoon in Brazil and have been looking forward to revisiting our wedding and all of the wonderful moments of the weekend. Our cousin Molly is a great photographer and has posted a million pictures on her website: www.mollytippett.smugmug.com. Our professional photos won't become available for a few more weeks yet, but there are a few posted at: http://triciadewarphoto.blogspot.com/2009/06/kehoes

Our wedding was held on Saturday, June 13th at the Fluur family farm in Homestead, Wisconsin. The festivities were kicked off with bluegrass music, courtesy of our De Pere friends and their banjos, while guests sat upon haybales to view the ceremony. With the sun shining for most of the day, the scene was perfect. Our good friend and ordained minister, Jeff Nichols, organized a beautiful and thoughtful ceremony . Thank you again to everyone who played a hand in providing such a special weekend for us - we appreciate you all and love you!

Here are a images from our day ~

Our niece and honorary flower girl, McKenna, will forever be able to relive her happiness at our wedding with this one...


Dad Fluur led our ceremony by escorting the bride is his 1930 Ford Model A




Our bridemaids, bridesman and groomsmen







Our friends Jen and Kate read from one of our favorite books, The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo, followed by our bridemaids Joy and Laura who performed Annie's Song by John Denver on their violins during the ceremony. Each was a beautiful addition to our wedding.




As we became Mr. and Mrs. Kehoe the sun came out for just a peak! We were pelted by birdseed as we walked back down the aisle on our way to live our happily ever after...



Only by divine intervention did the rain hold off until the last of our guests were making it through the receiving line. It was amazing to see the clouds roll in - we are still in awe of how the sunshine and rain were timed just perfectly. The rain came down all night long which made the intimacy of the tent an even more perfect setting as we danced the night away.

Thanks to the help of our friends the Petris, another highlight of the evening was the photobooth created with goofy hats and mustaches. It was a hit! We couldn't help but laugh at the sight of a few of our more serious guests getting silly!

Love this photo of Mr. Kehoe and our officiant, Jeff.


And here are the lovely Jen and bride!


The Bob Marley fans that we are, we selected "Could you be Loved" as our first song to dance to. We took a few dance lessons to prepare for the big day, although I think we both got a little thrown off when it came to the big moment. We found our rhythm though and whirled and twirled!


Dancing with my 88 year old Grandpa Dewey, one of the other main men in my life...and he can STILL polka!


And then we just got silly!














This is just the first batch of pics that have been sent to us. We didn't have our cameras operating that night, so please send us any more photos from your collection! Thank you again to all of you who play such a special part in our lives. We had such a fantastic wedding thanks to each of you!



Happy to be married,
The Kehoes

Saturday, June 13, 2009

We did it! We are officially married! Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Katrina Kehoe! Wow. We are still revelling in the excitement of the post-wedding bliss!

Our wedding day was beautiful, and only by divine intervention did the rain hold off until just moments after the ceremony. By the end of the night we were all dancing in the rain and prancing around the lovely mud puddles - it looks like we'll be having lots of luck in our marriage! With the help of so many of our wonderful friends and family members, we had the help of a small army to pull off all of the details. We certainly could not have done it without you!

It means so much to us to think about all of our guests and how far they travelled...Seattle, San Diego, Denver, Austin, Florida, Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Atlanta...and the list goes on! The small city of Florence, Wisconsin has never seen so much activity!

Our wonderful photographer Tricia Dewar was wonderful to work with - she captured so many great moments and has already posted some up on her blog - here is a sneak peak of our wonderful weekend - http://triciadewarphoto.blogspot.com/2009/06/kehoes.html

More to follow as we travel through Brazil on our honeymoon!

Love,
The Kehoes

Congrats Master Michael!

Mike has graduated from the University of Minnesota-Carlson School of Management with a Master's Degree in Finance! Congratulations Mike! Now we are one step closer to finalizing all of the major changes that we have jam-packed into a one-month time span.

Next up: Katrina resigns from job, we get married, honeymoon, relocate to Milwaukee, Mike starts working at Robert W. Baird, Katrina applies to school and starts working at: TBD

June 13 will be here before we know it! Three weeks and counting until our big day!

One month and counting...

30 days from now we will be celebrating in post-nuptial bliss!

Planning a wedding at a remote Wisconsin location has certainly turned out to be, well, interesting. After receiving numerous questions of why in the world we are getting married in the far northeast forests of Wisconsin, we have begun to ask ourselves similar questions. A large portion of our wedding details were found far from Florence! At the same time, we have had such a fun time planning a unique, creative and personally meaningful weekend that we are sure we be will be setting the stage for a great time for everyone involved! (and most important, Grandma and Grandpa Tippett will be able to join us, when no other location would have been accessible for them)

We may have bitten off more than we can chew with all of the 'do it yourself' projects we have planned, but planning a budget wedding has forced us to be resourceful and we have such wonderful responses from all of our friends and family who have been able to offer their support for us.

The photo above is from a photographer we found on craigslist who offered to do 'engagement photos' free of charge for us, while she is trying to build her photography portfolio. She got some great shots, and fortunately, neither of us were hurt during the production of these photos!

Done: Caterer. Portable potties. Wine selection. Beer selection (yay for Spotted Cow!). Mr. Nichols is ordained. Rings ordered. Live music confirmed. Dress altered. Homestead farm is on the map. Photographer is paid. Dance floor/tent/electric generator booked. Online RSVP is a success.

Procrastination list: Tux not altered. Bartenders not found. Cake not decided upon. Flowers not selected. Play list still in progress. Centerpieces still waiting to be discovered. Vows not written. Honeymoon not planned. Travel visas not obtained... Oh no, this list seems to keep going and going!

We are so excited to experience our wedding and share it with all of you! We better get back to planning - see you in one month!

At the Copacabana!

We're going to Rio!

After contemplating several wonderful destinations, we have finally decided upon Brazil as our honeymoon destination! We'll be spending two weeks traveling around Brazil, flying into Rio de Jeneiro and ending up in Buzios, a romantic fishing village up the coast (as the Lonely Planet tells us).

Now that we have our honeymoon booked, we can hopefully refocus on the important wedding details, such as renting some nice bathrooms and figuring out the marriage license, but honeymoon details are so much fun!

On Wisconsin

We are officially moving to Milwaukee!

I don't really have any pictures that coordinate with this posting, so here is a silly picture of us last summer in Madison and Janice and Kris' wedding at the MMoCA.

So in an attempt to pack as many 'life changing events' (as my good friend Sarah Pease says) into our lives at one time, we will now add 'moving' near the top of the list.

Mike has officially accepted a position at Baird Financial in Milwaukee. He'll be finishing his MBA at the University of Minnesota in May! Yay! So now we just have to figure out the logistics of a wedding and a move all in the same month...is anyone volunteering to pack our belongings?

This is exciting news, as Mike will now enter back into the work world and now it is Katrina's chance to return to the books! We are looking forward to getting a little closer to family and friends (although moving away from other great friends) and hopefully, maybe just a little warmer than ridiculously cold Minneapolis?