Wedding Memories: The Venue

Tomorrow will be our four-year wedding anniversary! As we remember our fabulous day, I thought I would share some of our wedding memories with you. This is part three of my wedding memories.

Our wedding reception location was fantastic! Jesse and I looked around at several locations before we saw this one. Not only did the color scheme of the room go along perfectly with the wedding colors, but the views outside were picture perfect.

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The catering came along with the country club. We got to choose what our menu and hors d’oeuvres would be and then they did all of the set up themselves. We had some special touches that we wanted included with table settings that they took care of also. I think they did great making everything run smoothly.

My favorite thing to pick was the cake. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted the cake to look like. The cake decorator was amazing. I described what I wanted and she sketched out perfectly what I was thinking. The cake turned out better than I imagined and tasted so yummy.

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Wedding Memories: The Flowers

Thursday will be our four-year wedding anniversary! As we remember our fabulous day, I thought I would share some of our wedding memories with you. This is part two of my wedding memories.

One of the first things I remember choosing for our wedding was my bouquet. Again, I really didn’t know what I wanted and felt overwhelmed when we first went to the florist. We sat down in the back with a couple huge books of different flower arrangements they could make. I knew the bouquet I wanted the second I saw it. I thought it was so unique and beautiful.

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Again I was lucky to have Mom’s help to coordinate with the florist to make everything look beautiful, yet simple.

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The church and the reception were decorated perfectly with lots of flowers. The space was filled with lots of color and everything looked beautiful. Picking my bouquet first made the rest of the color choices easier because everything was picked to go along with the color scheme of the bouquet.

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Wedding Memories: The Dress

Thursday will be our four-year wedding anniversary! As we remember our fabulous day, I thought I would share some of our wedding memories with you.  This is part one of my wedding memories.

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I really wasn’t someone who always thought about how my wedding would be.  Honestly, I really had no idea where to start.  We are so lucky that we had my mom and dad to do the planning with us.  All of the special details came out great because of all planning they did to make it all work out for us.

The first and most exciting thing on my mind was finding a dress.  The Saturday after we got engaged Mom and I went to start looking at dresses.  Other than a white dress, I really didn’t know what kind of dress I was looking for.  The lady at the dress shop starting pulling a variety to get an idea of what I liked.  I remember her saying that I should try a dress with rouching because it was very flattering on many people.  It really didn’t appeal to me and I didn’t think we should even bother trying it.

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That dress happened to be the first one I tried on, and I LOVED it!  It fit me so perfectly and I just knew that was the dress I wanted to get married in.  I wanted to try on some more dresses just to be sure.  After trying some others, we left with the first dress.  We had no idea we would find one that day and I can’t believe it was the first one I tried.  No other clothes shopping trip has ever been that easy.

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Before we left, we also bought a tiara for my hair and a veil with sparkly stones sewn into it.  I later found some comfy shoes… I was not wearing heals when my dress touched the floor.

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And I love how my hair turned out.  I had it done at a salon with a practice session a week or so before the wedding.  Whenever I look back at our wedding pictures, I’m still so happy with how everything came together.

Me with Mom and DadMe with Ashley and AndrewMe with my bridesmaids