Our Wedding: Bride & Groom Portraits

I knowwww.. I know! So maybe I have been slacking just a bit
on our wedding recap but sharing vacations and delish new recipes wasn't all that bad now was it ? 

Anyyyway, now that no vacations are on the horizon really, let's jump right back into
our wedding day recap with some Bride & Groom portraits, yes? Yes!

Being a Bride was quite possibly one of the best feelings I've experienced to date.
From the proposal, to just being engaged, to wedding planning, to all of the celebrations along the way,
to the actual day of our wedding, the feeling was completely unparalleled and just flat out FUN.
I felt fabulous literally from head to my pedicured toes, had a great group of girls around me,
LOVED my dress, had Mom's diamond earrings in and felt like the epitome of a "Bride."
What was even more exciting was the fact that I was about to say "yes" to the boy
I had been dating since I was 16 years old and officially become his "Wife."

Dress // Alfred Angelo

Hair & Make Up // Beyouty by Brittany Moreau

Bouquet // Morgann Hill Designs

Venue // BG Equestrian Resort

Photographer // Thunderclap Photography

Bryan, on the other hand, woke up EXTREMELY sick on

the morning of our wedding. I'm talkin' coughing, sneezing, swollen eyes,

the whole frickin' shebang. He somehow managed to pull himself

together with the assistance of DayQuil and man did he turn out

to be one damn good lookin' groom.

Once we said "I do" and headed off onto the property of our gorgeous venue for photos, 

I thought I was going to want to rush through them,  knowing 

that we only had an hour before we had to rejoin our guests, but that was so not the case.

We took our sweet time and had so much fun, despite the standing in the ant nest incident. 

Thaaaat's correct. Bryan's first task as a husband was shaking down the 4 foot rosette train

of his wife's wedding dress. Weeeee! 

 

Mark & Leigh with Thunderclap Photography did such an awesome

job of capturing our Bride & Groom pictures. We have pretty dang near a hundred

of just the two of us but these were my absolute favorites. 

I can't believe September 1st will be our 6 month anniversary and I STILL

don't have any wedding canvases on our walls yet.

#slacking

Fall Sangria and Back Porch Pavers

I have to admit.. I am sounding like such a DIY housewife lately.
Do I have y'all fooled yet?
I SWEAR I'm not as domesticated as it appears. The only thing I can cook is
pasta and I literally have to force myself to do any crafting cuteness.
Basically, unless it's cupcakes or cocktails (I foresee a themed holiday party to that effect)
..I'm practically useless.
I'm giving cupcakes the weekend off so I present to you... TA-DA!

Back up, back up, back up a second there. 
I won't even try and act like this was a quick casual
foodie photo shoot. No, no. I was in my backyard for almost 
45 minutes hovering over my picnic table with my Canon 
like a total freak until Bryan came outside and said,
"Uhhh, what's going on out here?" 
I am so not a skilled photographer so let's all just take
this somewhat visually pleasing picture in for a moment, shall we?

Annddddd done.
Moving right along.

So I had a ridiculously painful looking to do list the other day..

We're planning on setting up a sangria and champagne station
at our cocktail hour and sangria, my friends, is an easy thing to screw up.
I didn't want to wait the week before our wedding to toy around with recipes
so I took this fabulous weather as an opportunity to start getting creative.

Fall Sangria
1 bottle dry red wine (I used cab)
2 cups pomegranate juice
2/3 cup Brandy
1/2 cup orange juice
1 can Sprite
1 sliced Granny Smith apple
1 sliced orange
1 sliced lemon

Now stick a straw in that puppy and drink up.

Now put it down... 'cause we're not done here yet.
Bryan, being the back porch loving grill master that he is, decided
we needed pavers in our new home stat.
We had been weighing out a few different options for the past few
weeks and just decided to have it all done professionally since we got a great deal.
You know how there are just some things that should NOT be DIY?
In this household, pavers and weddings are one of them.

Now if Florida would just get a leeeeettle bit cooler we
could get a fire going. Throw in some adirondack chairs and we will be 2 happy people.

I have a couple other porch projects to work on.. including hanging all of these
babies that my mom made for our engagement party.

Happy Weekend :)

Weekend Snap Shots & a Recent Purchase!

Happpyyyy Monday!

Said no one ever.

This weekend rolled by waaayyy way too quick. 

I was really looking forward to relaxing and getting my glow on at the pool since

the past 3 months full of weekends have been packed.. and well, that didn't happen.

First and FOREMOST- overly excited to announce that I finally bought a nice camera.

She doesn't have a name but she DOES have a fancy schmancy new

camera strap on the way! Thank youuu ETSY!

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Ok so technically I bought the camera strap before I bought the camera?

Yes, I realize that is ridiculous but I did kind of name our dog Jake before we even 

knew we were getting a dog. Also, ridiculous. I know.

Anyway, Bryan has made it clear that he won't be toting around

this little beauty with THAT strapped to it but it was a necessity. 

This Saturday was Stacy's 26th birthday which was the perfect

opportunity to start playing with me new toy.. Enter a TON of random pictures.

Clearly still a LOT of figuring out left to do!

Found a TON of good foodie photo tutorials that I'll 

be browsing through this week... 

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Also! QUICK movie review!

So this past weekend we saw two movies...

We really do have a movie theatre addition.

Who goes to the movies twice in one weekend?

That's right, people, we do. 

Friday we saw Pain & Gain which was definitely awesome.

DEFINITELY a little gruesome, which was unexpected, but the

movie itself was pretty good andddd it was a true story. 

Action/comedy meets First 48 ? If that makes sense ? 

It's a go. 

Sunday night we saw The Place Beyond the Pines. 

L-O-V-E-D.

It was a little odd at first- odd meaning is this Ryan Gosling I'm

looking at or Slim Shady? Also the scene where Eva Mendez

walks out wearing a tank top with no bra. 100% necessary?

A little hard to follow but good ending. Go!