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.

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Meet Jesse!

Most of you already know my husband, but I thought that in honor of our anniversary month you should all meet him officially.  We were married on October 21, 2006 which will make this our four year anniversary!  There will be more about wedding memories later, but for now here is a little bit about Jesse:Jesse and Me

What do you do for a living?
I am trying to stop being a jack of all trades and focus, but for now, I’m an entrepreneur with a Web design/small business consulting/graphic design company that you happen to also be an owner of. My day consists of reading and responding to about 100 e-mails per day, staying on Twitter to follow the latest design/site/social media trends, and working some magic on the Interwebs for clients. It may not seem like I’m “working” much during the day, but it takes a lot of work to get “work,” keep it, and the processes going to completion to get paid.

How did you and I meet,  how long have we been together, and when did you first know that you wanted to get married?
I think we first met either at youth group or at a youth event that I was chaperoning, but you know my memory isn’t good enough to remember exactly which. 😉 I DO remember the first time I saw you, though. Definitely cute, but it took about 2 hours for me to find out that you were 16 and I was 21 at the time. We started dating during the Summer of 2002, after you graduated high school and dated for almost 4 years before I popped the question and we got married 4 months after that.

I knew I wanted to marry someone with your qualities before I asked you out and saw dating as a way to be sure we should get married. I knew within the first week of dating that you were the one, as long as YOU would have me with all of my flaws.

What is the best part about being married and living together so far?
Too hard to choose that one thing, so here’s what is best as a package: not coming home to an empty apartment and fixing a meal to eat alone OR having to go out and spend money to eat elsewhere with other people. Having someone on my team to make it our team, who has the same life goals and who has your back and to cover your back.

What is the hardest thing about living with me?
Your indecisiveness. How was that for decisive? I’m rarely going to dilly-dally with a decision, but you like to hem and haw about things, discuss them 12 times for 10-30 minutes each. It drives me crazy, but it also saves us from making bad decisions… most of the time. As much as it drives me crazy, I really shouldn’t want to change it, so I won’t.

What thing(s) do you want to share that you think people should know about me?
You are more social than I am, but being around me for so long and having such extroverted jobs has made you quieter and work wears you out and makes you want to just relax at night, but you really do like to go out and do things. I like to go out and do things with you, too, but we’ve fallen into a pattern of staying home because we’re wiped out. I want people to know that you are up to doing things more as long as you have the energy.

What are your top three favorite blogs to read?

The first two are no-brainers: http://www.problogger.net and http://www.chrisbrogan.com because they are the biggest names in the area I want to move into as I progress with our company and my skills. Other than those, I don’t really frequent blogs aside from the ones that get linked in my Twitter stream because I don’t have time set aside in my day to go looking at blogs like I used to when I had my corporate job (lunch… and any other time I wasn’t freaking out over a deadline). I see a LOT (read: a ton) of blogs in a week, but I don’t see each blog every day and would go crazy if I subscribed to them in my inbox or in an RSS reader, so I let Twitter be my filter for what is good and what is mediocre or crap.Messe Jesse