What girl doesn’t enjoy weddings? From the time I can remember, I have always loved going to weddings. When I was a little girl I remember always wanting a seat on the aisle so I could see each bridesmaid walk down the aisle in their pretty dresses and watching  bride walk down with her dad, in a dress that reminded me of a princess.  As I’ve gotten older, I have paid more attention to details of each wedding I have the honor of attending.  I love everything from the dresses to the flowers, to the name cards/seating charts to the wedding favors on each table, to the DJ (dancing!!) to the linens, to the cake to the toasting flutes (yes, I look at these).  I am a wedding fanatic! Which brings me to my newest hobby: wedding planning.

When I planned my wedding, I planned it all with the help from Brian (I mean, he was the groom after all!).  I knew what kind of wedding I wanted to have. I knew who I wanted standing next to me and Brian knew exactly who he wanted to stand next to him. We planned each detail and I got a lot of advice and help from my parents.  My wedding coordinator was a friend of Sarah’s and I really couldn’t have gone through that day without her. I realized after my wedding that I thought maybe I could do something along the lines of coordinating weddings. Why not?!

Sarah and I were asked late last year by a good friend of my parents to coordinate her daughter, Kellyn’s, wedding.  We immediately said yes and started working on this dream day for Kellyn and Jeffery.  We were so honored to do this and got started on our checklists, meetings with the bride and groom and offering our support, advice and knowledge. 

Kellyn and Jeffery got married this past weekend in Lexington, Kentucky. It was a beautiful wedding and everything went perfectly. Sarah and I were so happy! The bride and groom even arrived early than they were expecting to at the reception, allowing them to dance a little bit longer!

Now, will I take this “hobby” elsewhere? I’m not sure yet. I wouldn’t and couldn’t do it without Sarah, so we shall see where it goes from here.  So if you know anyone that is getting married that needs a wedding coordinator, just let me know!

The only picture I have of Sarah and I from the whole day. It was at the end of night!

I found out today that we have until November 11th to figure out if we want to renew our website or get rid of it. It’s been a tough decision and I have a couple of weeks to figure out what we want to do. I’m really the only one that posts on here and there has been a lot to post about over the last 5 years. From proposals, new houses, weddings, babies, new jobs, vacation, fun activities, house projects, and most of all, those 2 cute black labs of ours. We share our life with the World Wide Web and for everyone out there to read about. Nowadays, it seems like we are throwing our personal life right on out there for anyone and everyone to read about. In a way, that freaks me out.

So the big decision is do we keep the website or get rid of it? I guess we’ll see!

So yesterday Brian & I were watching TV in the morning and the UPS man dropped off a huge package for us!  We had no clue where it was from.  We opened the huge box and there were 4 boxes of Waterford glasses.  We recieved 8 Waterford Champagne Flutes & 8 Waterford Marquis Wine glasses! When we went on our honeymoon we were offered 3 different prizes.   We chose to recieve the Waterford crystal.  4 months (to the day yesterday!! Where does time go??) had passed and we forgot all about the prize.  We didn’t know the prize would be Waterford DRINKING glasses!!  Yeah!!  So now we have 16 Waterford Champagne Flutes (we registered for the other 8 at Macy’s and recieved them as a wedding gift!)…anyone want to come over for some Champagne?????

Have I mentioned that I absolutely loved our photographer Steph Carson ?  We were to pick out about 25 pictures to put on her website so we could show our friends and family.  Instead, she put the WHOLE wedding on there for us!!  She’s the best!  Click on the link below to our 450 pictures from Stephanie.

Steph Carson Photography