Jones-Hampel Wedding

This Saturday we were able to film Julie and Nathan's wedding day! It was a lot of fun from the start. The couple met on the WSU rowing team and the entire family is Shocker Fans. We walked into the rehearsal Friday night to find a sea of black and gold shirts in the pews waiting for the rehearsal to start! The theme carried over into the wedding day, with their colors being black and gold, the programs sporting stalks of wheat and real wheat stalks in the flower arrangements and the pew bows!

The wedding party met up on Saturday at the church to get ready, the ladies in classic black dresses and men in tuxes. The bride wore a strapless champagne gown with beaded bodice and a pleated waist, lace up back and perfect train. The flower girls sported black dresses with a gold sash and yellow roses on barretts in their hair.

The children were a huge part of the celebration. No official "flower girls" or "ring bearers" but a Parade of Angels instead.

The couple chose to see each other for the first time at the ceremony. The wedding was held at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in west Wichita and a full Mass was celebrated by Fr. James Billinger. The couple finished all their pictures afterwards with Tyffany and Jeff of T&J Studios. Then Tyff and I rode along in the Unifed Party Bus to the reception at the Airport Hilton where the newlyweds snuck into the room prior to the guests to check out the decorations. The guests in the meantime were indulging themselves with a cheese fountain. Yes, we said cheese fountain. You see, Nate and Julie are huge movie fans and everything at the reception had spashes of some of their favorite movies, The Wedding Crashes, Talladega Nights, etc. Quotes were set up around the room giving the guests a good laugh and even the photomontage that Nate made with their engagement photos resemblig "Old School"!

The couple gave the sign of approval to the reception hall and then mingled with guest prior to the grand entrance.

The cake was gold, napkins in black and gold, the grooms cake sported a Wushock on the top, with a replica rowing boat and diplomas, the sides decorated to look like the team rowing oars.

The couple was then introduced by Scott from Accent Mobile Music in the style of a sports team, including the bride and groom body slamming against each other after they entered! Then the traditional events, cutting cake, toasts, dinner and first dances. Although they put a twist on the tradition toast, and toasted with "Jones Soda's"! The kids enjoyed the "Cooperative Musical Chairs" game provided by Scott and everyone had a great time. Some of the wedding party exchanged tuxes for t-shirts later in the evening, but no ordinary t-shirts. You guessed it, gold in color with a Wushock on the front and "Nate and Julie 10-20-2007" on the back! Thanks to Tinley of Jubilations Events who helped keep the days events flowing!

Nate and Julie, thank you so much for letting us share in your day. We had a good time! Thank you for a fabulous dinner, we appreciated that very much. Your families are great and you guys are a lot of fun, keep smiling and laughing!