Favorite Wedding Moments

 

Making Our Wedding Ours!

While planning our wedding, we were determined to have an intimate wedding that celebrated our personalities and showcased who we are as a couple.  Every detail of our wedding spoke to who we were and turned a day of celebrating a marriage into a day of celebrating our relationship and personalities as well.

The very first wedding project we focused on were our Save the Dates. Asking an old friend to help us, we designed a fun and meaningful save the date that illustrated our diverse friends and family and highlighted the travel that everyone would be doing to attend our special day.  Thanks again, Lori, for your beautiful work on our STDs!

Throughout our relationship, John and I wrote notes to each other in haiku form. Whether it a sweet love note, a teasing jab, or a mindless ditty, haikus plagued our facebook wall, our post-it notes, and our email boxes so much so, that even friends began writing to us through the use of haikus.  We knew that haikus needed to be used throughout the wedding in some shape or form and decided to make our guests work for their drinks.

Yes, our guests had to write a haiku in order to be served at the bar. Oh how we love the thoughtful, loving haikus our guests wrote us...they serve as a fabulously sentimental (and humorous) guest book we love taking out to read.

I hate cake (the icing is the worst part) and John could live without it so it didn't make sense to get a big elaborate wedding cake that neither of us would eat.  Instead, we asked close friends and family members to bake us a pie and created a buffet of delicious fruit pies that also served as our receiving line. You see, wanting to ensure we spent time with each wedding guest, we decided to personally cut and serve the pies.

My mother surprised us with aprons to wear during the serving of the pies - John's had his monogram, mine was a fabulous flirty apron she made out of apple fabric that perfectly matched our blue and green color scheme.

With so many touches of ourselves, we were able to create a one-of-a-kind wedding day that truly celebrated our love for one another.   From cootie catchers my little sister made that shared fun facts about us to luminarias, a New Mexican tradition that lit the way back to the guest parking lot at the end of the night everywhere we turned, we were reminded of our love and the reason for the celebration.

Wedding Bells and Memories

Two years ago today I married the most patient, creative, and loving man I know.  This weekend we looked through photos and reminisced about the past two years together and both agreed it feels as if we've only been married a few months.

Over the past two years we've experienced many fun adventures, difficult decisions and situations, amazing moments, and a wonderful marriage that continues to grow and thrive. I'm thankful for such a wonderful husband who loves and respects me.

This weekend we celebrated our anniversary with some delicious homemade egg rolls and fried calamari while enjoying a fabulous bottle of wine along with sweet conversation on the couch.

Planning our wedding was the first major project we worked on together. Our wedding was entirely DIY from the bouquets and the apple centerpieces to our vows and our invitations. Of course, planning a DIY New Mexican wedding while living in Virginia is a little difficult and we're so thankful for family and friends who helped scour yard sales for vases and stalked Michael's for sales.

In honor of our anniversary, I plan on focusing on different aspects of our wedding this week and sharing how we made our wedding completely and utterly reflect our personality and relationship.