Postponing our reception… for a great reason!

After careful thought, we’ve decided to postpone our wedding reception and instead are putting our efforts towards building our family.

We’ll definitely have the reception at some point in the future, namely when the world has learned to responsibly live with covid so that our family and friends both in the US and overseas can confidently travel in to celebrate.

In the meantime, we hope to share good news on our family building progress soon. Until then, we wanted to share more about our small wedding ceremony from 2020.

It's not necessary, but…

Registry

Our Zola Registry

So many of you have been kind to ask whether we’re registered. Everyone probably knows that we have no need for a stand mixer, dutch oven, or coffee maker. If, however, you’d like to get us a gift, we’ve organized a registry on Zola.

Getting Ready

Normally “getting ready” photos are of suits and ties. In our case, we planned and catered the wedding ourselves – of course with the help of Catherine, Claire, and Kris, aka The Brickyard). And in true Brickyard fashion, this story starts with flowers and our to do list in the kitchen.

Claire and Jeremy preparing arrangements after a trip to the flower market.
Our dinner menu, pinned to a kitchen cabinet door.
Wide shot of table settings.

Setting Up

We had an intimate-yet-socially-distanced reception setup in the backyard for our eight guests (plus our two nephews!).

Tighter shot of the grooms place settings.
Candlesticks and floral arrangements on table settings.
Tight shot of menu on a place setting.

Actually getting ready…

Up until this moment, we honestly forgot that it was our own wedding! There’s nothing like photographers being present to remind you of that.

The grooms jackets hanging up in the dressing room.
Hans tying his necktie.
Jeremy helps Hans straighten his pocket square.

Our furry nephew Frank checked our outfits, while our non-furry nephew George straightened our ties.

Frank the dog!
Hans holding a baby.
Hans and Jeremy hold hands.

The Ceremony

Kris officiated our short rooftop ceremony. As you can see, our furry nephew Frank stood us up with how well Catherine dressed him.

Frank the dog, all dressed up!
Hans and Jeremy on the rooftop with the city skyline in focus.
Claire laughs with the grooms.
Jeremy laughs while holding hands with Hans at the front.
Jeremy and Hans right after saying I do.
Catherine holding Frank.

As the sun set, we had Lambrusco Blood Orange cocktails for a quick toast before our reception.

Cocktails!
Hans and Jeremy holding Lambrusco bottles.
A baby.
A view from above of the table settings.
Jeremy and Hans hold up their cocktail glasses for a toast.
A view from above of the reception with everyone seated.

Special thanks to our photographers Natura Collective for documenting our special day!

The Reception

We lucked out with great fall weather for our backyard reception. Our menu was full of our fall favorites – braises, mac & cheese, and brussel sprouts – followed by Jeremy’s favorite white cake recipe with marshmallow buttercream.

A full champange glass and open bottle sit on the table next to the dinner menu.
The cake.
Jeremy and Hans seated at the reception.

We made a cake for ourselves, plus mini cakes for each of our guests.

The personal sized cake for our guests!
Hans feeds Jeremy a bite of cake.