Photos photos photos!

My photographer – Erica from Photography by Arika Reed - published a blog post yesterday full of LOTS of photos from our wedding. If you’ve been dying to see pictures as much as I have (come on, isn’t everyone?), go check it out. And leave her positive feedback! We all know the power of comments on [...]

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Le coif

Remember when I freaked out about my hair? Well, in the end, it worked out beautifully. In fact, I was absolutely IN LOVE with my hair. Like I mentioned before, my sister Andrea decided to mess with it Friday night and came up with something I really liked. Loved, actually. So she recreated it on [...]

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Gifts to/from each other

The week before our wedding, I woke up everyday to a sweet gift from Mike. I’m going to Paris later this year with some friends, so he surprised me with a lot of fun things to get me prepared. Each gift was placed near my purse, where he knew I’d find it, with a sweet [...]

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Rehearsal… or whatever

I took the Friday before the wedding off, but Mike had to work in the morning. While he did that, I went grocery shopping with Des, my stepmom. We bought WAY too much food, as Mike has already detailed. By the time we got back to the house, Mike arrived with a bunch of borrowed [...]

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Final Unity Quilt

Just thought y’all might be interested in seeing the final product of our Unity Quilt project. This was one of the very coolest things we did. It took quite a bit of work, and I got worn out (and sloppy) toward the end, but it was so worth it. I love how it turned out, [...]

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Thank you “speech”

(Our photo booth shot.) Mike and I had every intention to give a little toast or speech of sorts at the reception. We wanted to thank everyone and acknowledge some special people who helped us out in a big way. But as we were driving to the hotel that night, it struck me that we [...]

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Gift table area type thingy

Most of the festivities at our wedding and reception were outside (hallelujah for cooperative weather!), but we had a few things to look at inside, too. After the ceremony, we displayed the Unity Quilt inside (more on the later), and we also set up a little gift table area type thingy. One of the best [...]

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Food, Glorious Food!

With pictures to come, let me describe the much anticipated taco bar. It was awesome. Oh…sorry, you probably want a little more detail, huh? First, I have to give props to my new step-mother-in-law (weird) and her preparation. The NSMIL graciously agreed to make her famous tacos, but then realized that it was for 60 [...]

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More decor

I’m sure my dear friend from Photography by Arika Reed will have some good shots of all the little details, but in the meantime, here are a few of the things we put together the Friday before the wedding. These are what we were calling the centerpieces, even though we really just put them on [...]

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Sneak peek

I’m still working on getting photos off my camera, and our professional photos will obviously take awhile, but here’s a sneak peek of the wedding thanks to some photos my brother-in-law posted on his facebook right away. I love this photo. We used my camera for the photo booth, so my pictures are all pre-wedding [...]

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