All photos in this post are from the incredibly talented and ridiculously funny Kelly Phillips. / Kelly Phillips Photography
One of the only drawbacks—and there were very few—of being married in November at the Mansion at Valley Country Club was that the reception would be held in the same room as the ceremony. An outdoor ceremony was out because of the temperature, and I?d never wanted an outdoor wedding anyway. But sharing that space was a concern for all of about 10 seconds; the mansion was just too beautiful to let a little thing like that scare us away.
And in about 15 minutes, the staff transformed the ballroom from a warm, glowing ceremony site?

?to a fun, glowing party space (paired with some uplighting we rented).

I was so thrilled with how different they made the same space look. Once guests were seated, members of the wedding party were called in. Again, because we had a somewhat nontraditional wedding party, we didn?t worry too much about the order everyone entered in. We didn?t have enough women for the men to escort, so we just paired guys with guys.
The parents:

The groomsmen, with A and B having maybe a little too much fun:

My bridesbros:

BM S and FG J?my new sister-in-law and niece!

And this giant group, with Puff?s BM T escorting MOHs A and R, plus A?s sons, the ring bearers:

The wedding party came in to ?Happy.? Then the music shifted to Stevie Wonder?s ?Signed, Sealed, Delivered I?m Yours,? and Puff and I entered.

We went r...