Goodbye, Hello.

The wedding is over, and I know this will disapoint atleast someone, but I'm no longer continuing this blog. All new posts, wedding related or not will be at my other blog, Living On Sweet Tea. You can either come follow and move along with me or we can part ways.

Blogging through my wedding planing experiance helped in so many ways and I'm eternally grateful to everyone whos offered advice and support over the past year an a half. I'd love it if you guys would come check out the other blog and see how things turned out! :)

The Wedding: Before the Ceremony

Our Rehersal and Dinner

The rehersal started in the dead heat of South Florida and we were short two groomsmen so Frankie's sister had to sub in as a best man. Thanks Amy!

Afterwardswe had the rehersal dinner at my parents house where we proceeded to feed about 30 people with BBQ style food. There was also a lot of alcohol... well a little too much...

I drank too much wine, then mixed in shots of Jack when friends and family were toasting us.. bad idea..

Then a few friends came back to our house after the dinner for a few more drinks... so then i had some southern comfort too...

Neddless to say, I spent the next day puking my brains out until about 4pm... I missed the bridesmaids lunch and mani/pedi's!

The Wedding: Hair

There are certain parts of the wedding that the photographers did not get to shoot. These are the beginning of the wedding day where we are getting our hair done.

Priscilla

Jenn

Kimmy

Me!

and my big ole' Publix sub!

Ta- Da!

Our details Part I

So we've only gotten back from our honeymoon today and already I want to share some of the details of the wedding. We have not gotten any [rofessional pictures yet, so excuse the photos.

Here is our flower circle for the ceremony.

Our escort cards hung on the walking sticks.

The card box with our initial carved in top.

The cake stand we built, with the DIY carved pumpkins.

Again, DIY menu stands.

Bubbles! These were blown durning our first dance

 ( pictures to come)

 Most of the project for the wedding were DIY and we saved a TON of money. I'm looking forward to seeing the pro pics so that I can see how much better they really looked that night.

The new Mr & Mrs.

We did it!

 More photos to come!

Tomorrow

Just a couple more hours until its wedding day!!!

Tomorrow is it..

3 days to go

It seems as the wedding gets closer the less I post! This week has not been the best. I've taken this week and next week off of work to prepare for the wedding this Saturday. Sunday night I had planned to do a makeup trial at Jenns house and then hang out with my lovely ladies, but Sunday night my Mom had to rush to the ER because my grandfather wasnt breathing. There was nothing anyone could do, we'd lost him.

So my start to the wedding week hasnt gone so good. We buried my Grandfather yesterday.

And I'm getting sick. I've got a sore throat.

So hopefully there will be wedding stuff to come, if you get bored waiting ;) you can always check out my other blog, where this blog will be continued after the wedding.

In the news

The Sun Sentinel ( our local newspaper) may be at my wedding! Well not because they know me, or think im special, but because of where I'm having the wedding. The location of the wedding used to be a fancy resteraunt that a lot of people would go to for special occasions. It was even featured in a scene in Scarface.

The Long Key Nature center used to be called the Kapok Tree. It was renovated and reopened as a natural area and park just in recent years. The reporter who would like to do a story on us was looking for a family who had parents that went there and then the younger generation was also going there. He wanted a history of the place with a sentimental twist. Since my Mom had gone there, and now I'm getting married there, the reporter picked us!

He may be making an appearance and writing about the wedding in the newspaper! =)

Playing with sticks.

We are doing our own version of this photo stand. Instead of pictures, we are doing our escort cards, so we needed to find a way to D-I-Y it, of course.

First we got our pots out and mixed plaster of paris into them.

Once everything was mixed we put the sticks into the pots. Ironically my parents had carved walking sticks at the house that worked perfectly for this project. I'm sure you would be able to use any tree limb that was relatively straight though.

Once the sticks were in the plaster, we needed a way to set them so they would dry straight. All I did was punch a hole into the bottom of some small boxes and place them over the sticks so that they would hold everything up straight.

More pictures to come of the final!

The fall candy feast.

On Friday we got the candy jars back down to wash them, arrange them and see what else needed to be bought. In just under two weeks we get to see the finished product!

This is why we have MOH's

One of my MOH's text me last night and requested that I check out ourbestbites.com. She said there were these really cool mini mason jar pies that we could eat at the rehersal dinner. She was totally right, check these things out!

It's like mini goodness that you can make way ahead, freeze, and then bake the day of.

 You can also embelish them with this leaf shape cutter from William - Sonoma.

We are 1/2 way legal...

.. because we got our marriage licence this morning!

Sorry!

Lots of posts to come. we get internet in the new house on Friday :) Sorry!

Anti-Bridezilla

I'm now 20 days from the wedding and I'm excited but over it. Did anyone else feel like that? There is still somethings to finish up and details to go over but I'm not motivated to do them. Yesterday we lost a groomsman. Yea, 3 weeks before the wedding he bails. It works out for us though because Frankie had someone else he would have rather had as a groomsman anyway, so we are back to four.

I'm also glad I didn't do the programs early like I had wanted to. I have no clue about ceremony music, and since our bridal party just changed, it would have been a disaster. Maybe we just wont have programs. I'm not sure I want them now anyways.

All of the projects that I started so enthusiastic about and never started are going to stay in wedding dreamland. After buying the house and planning this wedding for a year and a half, I'm ready for it to be the day already. I'm not growing any more excited as the day gets closer, I've been excited for 15 months.

As it gets closer, people are asking me if I'm nervous. Who has time to be nervous when they know if they want to marry someone? If the person makes you happy, you're a team, and they understand you and support you there should be no reason to be nervous. Maybe I'm just naive and young, but I'm just not nervous. Is that such a bad thing?