Our Wedding Reception at Princess Place Preserve

A year ago today my now husband took me down to a frigid Vilano Beach to "search for sharks teeth," and he proposed! I can't believe that a year has already past and I am now his Mrs. Some of my best memories are from this last year. Love you Mr. Alvarado!

12/30/2012 Proposal - Vilano Beach, Florida

In an effort to close out 2013 and start the new year fresh, here is the last of our wedding photos. After getting married in Jamaica, we had our reception 3 months later at Princess Place Preserve.

My hubby designed us a corn-hole set and had it made up by Southern Cornhole, we served some amazing local BBQ, along with sides from our friends at Romano's. We set up horseshoes and had a tent right along the water at Princess Place Preserve. I loved it, so different from our island ceremony and so perfect.

Patty (my sister), My Mom, Me, Dee, Bob (my stepfather).

Dee, Me, Melissa (my stepmother), my Dad.

Esperanza (my mother in law), Carlos (my brother in law), Dana,

Dee's childhood friend Lindsey and her Mom, Sharon.

My Uncle Robert, Aunt Rebecca, cousin Amy Beth with us.

With our friends Martina & Ethan. Martina was a huge help with getting everything set up, I couldn't have done it without her assistance. Thanks again lady! :)

It was so nice to see our family and friends all together in one spot. So much love!

THE cake! We didn't have one on our wedding day, it was nice to include everyone in on the tradition.

Our cake was from the Publix bakery, and it was delicious. It was a carrot cake with cream cheese icing on 2 layers, and Dee wanted Cannoli filling as icing so that was the top tier.
Note to all brides: if he says he's not going to cake smash you, don't believe him!! Dee promised he wouldn't and he still got me.

Friends signing the guest book slice of wood Dee burned with two hearts.

We had our wedding video looping on the TV with a photo album out for the guests to flip through.

You're looking at a lot of DIY here. The gold frames were cheap black frames from the dollar store, I painted the "love" and the "A", we painted all the mason jars on the table and arranged the flowers ourselves, the cake topper was DIY, our guest book/wood plank everyone signed... It was fun though, I enjoyed the DIY'ing and everything came out great.