When Attending a Wedding

I went to my first wedding this past weekend.  It was very exciting, there were a lot of things that I didn't know happened.  For example the man who catches the garter has to put it on the girl who catches the bouquet's leg.  Well I caught the bouquet without knowing this first.  You can imagine my surprise.  Luckily it was a friend of mine who caught the garter (to the left is a picture of right before he put the garter on me). 
Also, nowadays the groom takes the bride's garter off with his teeth.  This was very amusing to watch and came with a lot of hooting and hollering.  Also, I didn't know that the music that the wedding party walks down the isle to is not the wedding march, it is other music, it is only the bride who walks to the wedding march. 
Recently, many people have started having a small cake and a lot of cupcakes for the reception rather than the traditional big layered wedding cake (below to the left is a picture of one of the cupcakes as well). 
There is a new type of centerpiece they used at the wedding as well, its a flower submerged in water in a vase with a flowing candle on top (pictured below).  I really liked this, I've seen it all over Pinterest, I just think that it is very pretty.  Unfortunately in the picture our candles had blown out, but its still very pretty.  There was also a large candle lit with the two vases of flowers.  It was very pretty. 
It was a new and exciting experience. 

Review: Captain American 2: The Winter Soldier

So I haven't blogged in a while and I apologize for that, I've been very busy with school the last two weeks or so, but now I have time again.  So I'd like to do a little review of the new Captain America movie.  However there may be *SPOILERS* if you have not seen it or read the comics, I didn't put very many in, but there are one or two.  So please, if you are going to see it and you want to go in knowing absolutely nothing, please do not read the next paragraph of this post, skip to the one after it (starting with "The actors"). 


Has SPOILERS
I am an avid watcher of super hero movies, I absolutely love them, well most of them.  This one is in fact another one I truly enjoyed.  The story was very good, I liked that throughout the whole movie he not only faced the fight against the winter soldier, but he also faced an internal struggle.  Was everything that he was doing to S.H.E.I.L.D. really worth it, were they really doing what was right and just?  And who could he really trust?  With everything he was learning throughout the journey was he really doing what needed to be done for the safety of the American people or was he just a pawn for a bigger scheme that would go against everything he fought for?  As he also copes with the loss of a friend. 


Doesn't Have Spoilers
The actors do a fantastic job portraying the emotions of the characters as they go on the emotional roller coaster that is this chapter of their lives.  I always love watching a good fight scene and there are many great ones in this movie.  The fight scenes are very riveting and fast-paced with complex movement but are still easily watched without wondering what they're doing.  The effects were also very well done and it was all around a very good movie.  I hope that if you go see it then you like it as much as I did.