The most important dress you’ll ever wear.

18Nov09

If you’ve read my blog for awhile, you’ll know that I went through some drama to find THE wedding dress. I bought a dress online. Didn’t love it when I got it. Decided I was going to be a short dress bride, then I didn’t love that dress. Bought two dresses online, and both were out of stock. That drove me to David’s Bridal three weeks before my wedding, where I found THE dress, style # 9E8787.

Not every bride is going to have that OMGILOVEIT moment where she tears up. I didn’t think I would, but once I found my dress, I did tear up. This is probably due to the huge amount of relief I felt having finally found the dress. I underestimated how important the dress is to the wedding. I’m not going to say it’s the be all end all, but I do think it’s an important part to feeling beautiful on your wedding day. My parents recently brought my dress to me and I took it out of the garment bag and just stared at it. I have such wonderful memories wearing that dress, and I’m so glad that it was the dress I ended up wearing on one of the happiest days of my life.

Here are some of my favorite shots of the dress! All credited to Forever-Yesterday Photography.

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment
Tags: recaps, wedding dress

In case you’re wondering..

06Nov09

I know I suck at blogging. I will do the recaps soon, even if for my own benefit, before I forget things!

The real reason for this post is to show off the pretty little note we received from the White House yesterday! So yes, send your invitations to the Obamas, they will reply! Or, okay, someone in the greetings office will reply with an auto-penned note, but we were tickled regardless.

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  3 Comments

The moment before it all began.

24Oct09

The five minutes before I walked down the aisle were pretty damn excruciating. I was upstairs with my bridal party and waiting to be called downstairs. Some of the guests wandered upstairs to use the bathroom, and I have to admit I was kind of annoyed at them seeing in my dress before I walked down the aisle, but I was too frazzled to say so.

Finally, unable to take it anymore, I sent my mother downstairs to tell everyone we were ready, so everyone needed to be seated fer crissakes. The next few minutes were a bit of a blur. When I went downstairs, my groom and groomsmen were no where to be found. I asked where they were. No response. I had my one moment all day where I lost it, and said “WHERE ARE THE GROOMSMEN?!” My DOC’s assistant told me to look out the window, they were all walking outside with the reverend. This was not how I planned it, but I didn’t care, it was nice. And a bit surreal, looking out the mansion’s windows seeing my groom and all our guests assembled.

Then my in-laws went down the aisle, then my mother. She almost face planted, and I saw everyone kind of reach for her, but I couldn’t process that at the time. Finally the girls went and the doors closed. It was time to go. And I started to cry as my music started. It was the one time all day that I actually cried. Then I looked down and saw that my father was stepping on my dress. I told him this, he stepped to the side, and then it was my turn to go.

Unfortunately I’d forgotten my sole-mates to keep me from sinking into the grass, and I was wearing flip-flops, which made the dress a bit too long. And I stepped out and almost face-planted myself. Freaked out, I moved so quickly down the aisle to avoid being the bride that fell down the aisle. We only made it through the first verse of the song before I was there.

During our pictures I kept saying “I CAN’T BELIEVE I ALMOST FELL.” Then my sister told me, “Mom almost bit it too.” And then I laughed. I was the bride who almost fell down the aisle, who had her mother almost fall down the aisle, who is now nick-named Firebutt for how fast I moved down that aisle. I’m honestly amazed I have any photos of me walking down the aisle where I’m not looking down, but here’s one:

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment

Can you tell I don’t read wedding blogs anymore?

20Oct09

I totally missed that one of our wedding photos was featured in Weddingbee’s gallery of the day last week. I need to pay more attention!

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment
Tags: recaps

If I’m to be honest…

19Oct09

I have to admit that I don’t have much desire to think about weddings now that mine is over with. I’ve dropped most of the wedding blogs from my reader, with the exception of Weddingbee (just to see how a few Bees’ weddings turn out) Accordians and Lace (which is more a marriage than a wedding blog now anyway) and the beloved A Practical Wedding, which I have no plans to stop reading anytime soon.

Some brides they feel sadness that their weddings are over. I felt glee. I was SO GLAD to be done with that part of my life, and I guess that includes this blog too. It’s not a feeling that I was expecting. I thought I’d really cherish doing in-depth recaps, but in all honesty? I just can’t be bothered. It was a wonderful day, and I plan on revisiting it, just not in the detail I’ve seen in some wedding blogs.

So, I’m planning on doing a few wrap-up posts with my vendor reviews and a couple re-cap posts. I know it can be annoying to read a wedding blog for months and then have the blogger fall off the face of the earth, so I didn’t want to do that.

I’ll end with another one of my favorite shots from the day!

Credit to Forever-Yesterday Photography

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  3 Comments

My photographer blogged us too!

09Oct09

I’m still feeling like a lazy blogger, but thankfully my vendors are picking up the slack. Now our photographer has blogged our wedding! You can check it out here!

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment
Tags: recaps

A sneak peek

07Oct09

I don’t have the energy to blog about the nitty gritty of the wedding yet, so I thought I’d be lazy and link to my wonderful DOC’s blog post here. She shows some of the centerpieces and other details.

Heidi is based out of Delaware but travels to surrounding states. Contact her if you live in the area and need a DOC!

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  Leave a Comment

It’s not going to be perfect.

06Oct09

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been married for over a week and I’m now back in the real world. I’m not going to lie to you, it’s depressing! The week of the wedding was pretty stressful, but now that it’s over, things are moving pretty slowly. I don’t miss wedding planning in the least, but I do miss the time it took up! That said, now that it’s over I have time to reflect on the day.

I have to be honest, my wedding day went really well. I had my freak-out on Friday, and I’m glad I got it out of the way because on Saturday? Things went well. Of COURSE there are going to be snags. Here are a few of them:

-I forgot my solemates and ended up wearing flip flops down the aisle as my heels were sinking into the grass. Because of this I almost tripped going down the aisle. Ladies, wear the shoes you wore at your dress fitting or you may faceplant!
-I felt horrible about almost falling until my bridesmaids informed me that my mother almost fell, so I wasn’t the only one!
-The best man dropped the rings. He almost dropped them in a bush. It was pretty damn hilarious.
-The woman working at our venue was annoying. I stood outside with my vendors for about 20 minutes until she arrived. Of course, I was told that the other woman that works weddings is laid back and doesn’t care who goes in the venue before she’s there. Just my luck. She also butted in where it wasn’t necessary, like telling my bridesmaids they were holding their bouquets too low. Ugh.

Honestly? That’s about all that went wrong. It DID rain on my wedding day, but it was like something out of the movies. We had our ceremony and portraits outside. Once we moved inside to eat, it rained. Once we were done eating, it stopped. Once we left the reception, it started again and didn’t stop all night.

We did have people leave early. Some of Jeremy’s family stayed for the ceremony and left, as they came a long way to see us and needed to head back. Our own siblings left early too-but this is okay. We realized long ago that our wedding was never going to be as important to our guests as it was to us. It’s important that people come to your wedding-not how long they stay.

No one really played the board games. But I figured that this would be the case. Everyone thought they were neat, and some people did play cards, but I figured most of our guests would talk-and that’s what they did.

Overall, everyone had a great time and many people told me how unique our wedding was, which is always great to hear! It really makes all those months of planning and all the hours spent on those little details worth it!

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment

We’re back!

03Oct09

We returned from Vegas last night, and when the plane landed, I saw that I had an e-mail from our photographer with a link to our gallery! I can’t believe how quickly she got the photos done, and how happy we are with them! We generally hate photos of ourselves, but there are a lot we like.

Here’s a teaser, I’ll be back next week to talk more about the wedding!

Credit to Forever-Yesterday Photography

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment
Tags: recaps, weddings

Well, this is it.

23Sep09

This morning I wrote my “last post as a single girl” on my local board on the Knot, and I teared up a bit. It seems like just yesterday I was starting my planning, and now the day is almost upon us. I’m….excited and tearful, I guess is the right way to describe it?

This morning I woke up at 5:00 am and I couldn’t fall back asleep because I was so excited. They’re throwing a shower for me at work, so I’m excited to see how that will go, and I’m also picking up the dress tonight. I’m honestly only a smidge worried about that. I called yesterday and they said it’s on schedule to be ready tonight, so I think it will be. I know won’t sleep much be had over the next few nights, what with my loved ones flying in and so many small things to be done over the next few days.

I know my wedding day won’t be perfect, I know I will probably have ugly cry face in several photos, some of the guests will probably behave in ways I want to kill them for, but at the end of the day we will be married, and my days as a bride will be over. I’m really looking forward to returning to my pre-wedding life!

So, I’ll be back in a couple weeks (possibly sooner) with pics and recaps! Thanks so much for all of you for following along with me on this journey.

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  5 Comments