Speeches, Cake, & the Shim Sham || The Wedding

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The first band break was pretty busy as it included speeches and cake. We didn't want to draw out the speeches part too long, so we kept the list to Jay, since he's Kaleb's closest friend, and Tiana and Alina, my sisters.


First up we had Jay, who kept things short, but sweet.

He was followed by Tiana, who was very prepared and included the most amount of math.

Alina was up last. She didn't prepare anything, but she told the mayonnaise story. It got a lot of laughs.


Then it was time to cut the cake!



We didn't plan anything, we just kinda winged it. We did decide on not smashing it in each other's faces, which slightly disappointed Kaleb, ha!


When figuring out details with the band they could play a song for the Shim Sham at some point in the third set, so the first thing they played once they came back from the first break was T'ain't What You Do. Getting to do the Shim Sham at our wedding with all of our friends was super fun and one of those details that I'm really glad we included

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