Tamara Shannon

April 18th came and went...so hard to believe it's over!  The wedding was so great!  Despite the early morning showers/clouds Saturday evening was beautiful!  I had such a blast at the reception...all the stress and tears paid off big time!  The candy bar, which ended up being more effort than ever imagined, was a hit (or so I was told, repeatedly).  Everyone seemed to enjoy the photobooth as well....Brent and I managed to get in there together, oh, once. We realized later that other than the tiny portion we fed each other, neither of us actually had a piece of our wedding cakes!....Brent took that pretty hard.   All that aside, the honeymoon was so wonderful.  We traveled to Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, for 9 days.  It was so beautiful!  The first 5 days we stayed on the north shore in Kahuku in an amazing 3 bedroom villa with a perfect view of the ocean from our balcony.   The first few days Brent was actually pretty sick, coughing, aching....so we stayed in day one just loungi...