Dream Wedding

My friend Carrin is getting married and so she asked all those who follow her blog to come up with some idea for a dream wedding so that she might steal one or two. I decided that this might be kinda fun so here goes.

Let me start by saying that for the longest time I said that I would never get married again. I was married once and it didn't last, some might say it was the biggest mistake of my life actually, and I didn't have my dream wedding then by far but I still didn't think I wanted to go through that whole ordeal again.
After some serious soul searching lately I realized that it wasn't the marrying that was the problem, it was the divorcing, so now I have decided that I will get married again when (if) the right man comes along and I am 150% sure that he's the one.

My dream wedding would be something similar to what I wanted the first time around but didn't get.
It would be outside if at all possible. The last time it was supposed to be outside and it started raining just before the wedding was supposed to start. We foolishly had no back up plan. Just when we had everything moved down to my future great uncle-in-law's bar (that's right, bar) it stopped raining, so I got married in a bar. The next time I would have a tent set up so that if need be we could move under cover and if nothing else the guests wold have a place to get out from the sun.
My dress would be simple but elegant, last time it was just simple. I found a dress one time when I was shopping with an engaged friend that I sort of fell in love with. It had a very medieval feel to it and I thought it would be perfect for an early fall wedding.
Flowers, this is where I would make the most changes. I would have real flowers and lots of them. I love flowers but in the interest of saving money my MIL and I hand made all the bouquets and boutonnieres with fake flowers from Micheal's Crafts. They were pretty but I want real Lillies this time, or maybe tulips, depends on the time of the year I guess.
The food could be from anywhere and I don't think I would do a sit down dinner this time either. Informal, grab food when you feel like it, pull up a chair where you find one is more my style and the majority of my friends style too.
I would splurge on a professional photographer. The last time mu aunt-in-law took the pictures and developed them as our wedding present, they were nice but not like the ones taken by a professional. I want the beautiful 11x13 to go above the mantel, assuming I have a mantel that is!
The first time I got married my Dad walked me down the aisle with my 18 month old son. This time around the kids would definitely "give me away" as well as being worked into the ceremony in some way because any man who marries me has to claim the kids too. that's just the way it works now, I'm a package deal, sort of a "buy 1 get 4 free" thing.

So, that is a snapshot of my dream wedding. Of course everything would go off without a hitch as they say and it would be the most perfect of perfect days. Everyone would be smiling and then we would leave for the most perfect honeymoon somewhere warm, romantic, and fun for at least a week, no kids (they are part of the deal but sometimes they need to stay home lol). I don't think I gave Carrin any ideas she didn't already have but oh well, it was kind of fun.