June 12, 2012

Today is my 2 year wedding anniversary!  The above pic is my favorite, so I decided to change the color a bit, make it an 8x10, and frame it.  A few weeks ago, I found the perfect frame at Michael's on sale for $20.  Yes, it took 2 years for me to finally hang up a wedding picture!  I love the way it looks in my hallway.

 

January 20, 2012

Fun fact - I stole Billy's wedding look from one of the Jonas Brothers. I can't tell you his name, but the one in the middle.

Not quite the same - no tie, since I wanted it more casual. But yeah, when I was searching for what kind of style I thought he should wear for the wedding, I came across that pic and thought it would be perfect. Thankfully he agreed!

January 19, 2012

Today's swatch is Essie Marshmallow. It's actually the color I wore on my fingernails for my wedding. I like it. It's a nice soft white. Even though Essie is easier to get ahold of now that they are sold at Walmart, I only have 2 - this and a light pink. Both seem kind of streaky at first, and then even out. Maybe I'll try another color one day.

Cake!

I love this picture! The cake was actually from Walmart so I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out, but it was lovely! And tasted really good, too! I'm glad we had enough cake for everyone to take a piece with them. Although, we made everyone assemble their own little cake boxes! No grooms cake, we had a grooms pie instead. Key lime pie from The Fresh Market. The flowers were a quick grab from Walmart when we picked up the cake that afternoon. Thank goodness they had my favorite - pink roses. We got the only 2 bouquets they had. I've already cut off the heads (eek!), dried and sealed them, and they're in one of the centerpiece vases on my coffee table. I also wanted to put a pic up of my thank you notes since they turned out so cute. I loved my invitations so much, that I decided to do my thank you notes in the same way. Pretty!

Before and After

Using green apples as my centerpieces turned out so pretty!

And using my centerpieces for dessert turned out delicious!!

Totally Me

I loved that I carried a Coach wristlet down the aisle instead of a wedding bouquet.

Fingers and Toes

Finally got some more wedding stuff out of the way today. License, rings, cake, centerpieces, and a few of the favors. I'm so ready to be done with this. That sounded kind of bad, but you know what I mean! It's fun and stressful at the same time. On to the pics!

My wedding ring. Love it. Mine's white gold. I'm actually wearing it as I type this. Maybe a channel set ring would look better, but I was really wanting diamonds set in prongs instead. So, I'm glad I got what I wanted! Looks absolutely lovely by itself.

Here's a bad camera phone pic. Hard to see the loveliness in this blurry photo.

Essie Marshmallow. I'll be wearing this on my fingers. I'm actually wearing it right now as you can see in the ring pic above. It's not a bright white at all, and I need something neutral because this is what's going on down below -

China Glaze Ruby Pumps. I'll be wearing this on my toes. Can you see the glitter? I think this is a pretty popular polish, but I have yet to try it. Think I'll do a manicure with this in a few days.

My Invitations

My dress may be BCBG, but my invitations -- Walmart. I happen to really like them, Billy on the other hand, thinks they're a bit cheesey. I just wanted people to have some pictures of us, that's all! The card looks better in real life. I think I just didn't take a very good picture of the front. The wording was what I wanted - just the facts, nothing frilly. I thought the price was good too - 25 for $38, and that included our address on the envelopes.

But, let's talk about the pictures! My sister did such a great job, it was hard narrowing it down to 4. She posted these on her site, but I'm going to add them here too.

My Dress!

I love it! And I'm excited that it's a BCBG! My mother came into town last Thursday and since I hadn't done any dress shopping yet and she was buying, we decided to stop in Dillard's and see if there was anything. There was! I didn't want her to spend that much, but I think she loves it just as much as me! I still need to decide on shoes, jewelry (if any), and how on earth I'm going to wear my hair. Less than 5 weeks to go!

27 Dresses

Well, not quite 27. I could probably post more pics, but I'll spare everyone and just post a few. I actually haven't tried on that many dresses yet. Kind of waiting for a few more pounds to drop, but eating better and exercising - not my favorite things.

Not a wedding dress, but I love it. It's Michael Kors. Anyone see it on The View?

I originally wanted something like this. Without the gold.

But I think I'm going for a halter dress now. This is actually a bridesmaid dress. So pretty. Wonder if I'd like the bow in real life?

Cute!

Definitely more of a traditional wedding dress than the others, but HOT! I love it!

Narrowing Things Down

I'm so relieved that I'm now able to check the date and place off of my wedding list. I'm planning a June wedding at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. I wanted something different and getting married in a haunted hotel is certainly different. I knew Billy would like the haunted part, but I love how beautiful everything is.

The Conservatory Room is where I'm having the reception. And you can see the gazebo where the ceremony will be. Lovely!

Best Birthday Present Ever!

I'm engaged! That's a horrible camera phone picture, I'm too lazy to upload good digital camera pics to the computer. At least I have pretty polish on - OPI Pink-o de Gallo.

Here's another pic -

So pretty. I've already tried on a few wedding bands and while the solitaire was easy to pick, I'm having a hard time choosing a band. Not to mention a dress, the cake, flowers, the date, and the place. But not the shoes!