#54 more sneak peeks

So we'll have the rest of our pics in a few weeks...until then...feast your eyes on this awesomeness from Michelle Huesgen (she's awesome too!) of Untamed Heart Photography...or you can check it out on her blog too (along with lots of other pretties!).

Look at our awesome couch!!! Bahaha!

 Look at that cutie ;)

Jess doing a jig in the background?

Our flowers were gorg! Les Bouquets did a great job!

Jess again being a goof! Love her! Love this shot!

My dad and I...we literally raced down the aisle...

I think he was nervous and I was about to trip on my dress!

(Props to Michelle for getting this shot! LOL)

  

That's my pretty cousin Ashley's arm holding our lovely programs.

(shh! I say they're lovely because I designed them; the flags too!...hehe)

Some of the details I agonized over...everything was just how I pictured it!

SMP here we come...please? I love you...will you love me back?

P.S.-Dino and I made all 180 little pies (our favors) lovingly

P.P.S.- um...okay...Dino made all 180 pies...I helped a little (what a guy!)

We had TWO Food Network/Discovery Channel featured caterers for the day...

Pappy's Smokehouse (featured on Man v. Food)- Dino and I looooooove their BBQ! We searched and searched for a caterer that would have good food for a decent price...let me tell you hard to find...and we really wanted something that wasn't just your typical wedding food...but REALLY GOOD food. So we said F*it, we love Pappy's, we want them!!! And so it was! LOL! The Brisket and Turkey was fab! Yummy!

And again...we wanted a variety of desserts that wasn't just your typical wedding cake (sense a theme here...lol). Well that happened to be The Blue Owl of Kimmswick, MO (featured on Paula Dean). Let me tell you...Michelle's quote from her blog..."well lets just say…I’ve never seen a dessert table depleted like that…" she wasn't kidding...if we wouldn't have run out of plates...I wouldn't have gotten any delish cake the next day! I'm a fatty...hehe...which you will see in the next pics below...harhar...okay I'm being hard on myself...to be fair, I was completely FULL of awesome BBQ and desserts!

 

A HUGE thanks to all involved! It was a wonderful day--one that I will re-live over and over!

Oh and btw...if any of you stopping by are in need of a stylist/designer/coordinater for your wedding/photoshoot/tea party/etc. let me know, I'm totally ready to start that planning business I've been talking about...stay tuned...I'll get that website up sometime soon!

#53 a sneak peek

So for those of you who just happen randomly by my blog...hello!!! And for those of you, who have actually been following along this past year...I'm sorry I've been so absent. What with graduating, moving back home, finding an apartment, starting my big girl job, and finishing up all the wedding plans, my poor little blog inevitably fell by the wayside...which stinks!!! Coz I really love talking to myself with the hope that others too will think I'm slightly insane and will want me to keep talking! lol!

But really it's been an amazing journey, and it's all over with!!! AND IT'S CRAZY! All that planning/stress/OCD/detailed designing, when it all came down to it, made our wedding memorable in my eyes, but not nearly as memorable as laying down at the end of the day and thinking, GOSH! We're MARRIED! I have a HUSBAND. And nothing really felt like it had changed; like turning 16 or 21, do you really feel any different? But just the realization that we had reached the light at the end of the tunnel and it popped us out the other side is sooooooooooo satisfying.

I keep freaking out that we didn't do this or didn't do that...but do mustache photo props, or getting that one shot with my beloved throw-back Coca-cola bottle, or the fact that Dino got dehydrated and so we missed out on going to that really awesome location to take more pictures REALLY matter? (lol, notice they all have to do with photography...sorry Michelle, you're just too talented! I want you to shoot our life story, lol!) I'm positive that the answer is no and that our wedding was fabulous (even if just to us). Because isn't that really all that matters, is that it was the best day of your lives to the two of you!

I'll leave you with this sneak peek from Michelle Huesgen of Untamed Heart Photography, and with this:

I'm so overwhelmed with love and joy that I get to spend the rest of my life with Dino; and I'm so glad that we're on the "other side of living"! We did it baby!

Love all you too, gotta go for now...I'm not done yet...but Dino's got some succotash on the grill for me! Gotta run!

#52 thor tresses

So Dino's hair is getting ungooooooodly long...I mean OUT OF CONTROL...and he asked me, "when do you think I should get it cut?" I answered him, "a month out from the wedding so it has time to grow out a little" (I prefer him a little shaggy! lol!)

But now this having him wait till a month out is backfiring on me...because NOW his hair is SO long that he's starting to think he's Tom Brady or Thor or something! Ahhhh!

Not that I really mind this look, but I feel like it's something he's going to look back at years from now and think, "What was I thinking?" much like my father's overly large mustache when he and my mom got married, or even possibly the Deadwood 'stache that his dad was rockin' at his brother's wedding?

So what do you think about this look? Love it? Hate it?

If only I looked like Natalie Portman...or...Giselle Bundchen...I can dream

 This?

 vs. This?