Six years ago...

We celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary this last weekend. Our little family started the day playing some tennis followed by swimming. What fun it was to think back to how we started our day six years ago - surrounded by our family and friends becoming husband and wife. It was such a beautiful serene morning on our favorite Texas beach!

Later in the day on our anniversary my Love and I went out on a little date. It had been almost a year since our last one! We snuck in a yummy veggie sushi dinner to see "Eclipse" and had so much fun! We hadn't been to the movie theater since right before Lovebug was born so it was pretty bizarre. We hurried home right after the movie though to see our little gal who we missed so much! :)

Throughout the day we'd say "six years ago right now..." and fill in with what we remembered. It's so neat to reminisce about that incredible morning/day of ours and I cannot wait to share more and more of it with Lovebug as she gets older. Anyway, I always say this but I cannot believe it's been six years...more than that though, we also just celebrated 10 years of being together which is even harder to believe. A whole decade together - WOW, what fun! And SO much more fun to come.

Happy anniversay my Love! You are my soulmate and the one I will aways love, forever and ever. For me, God made thee. Truly. Thank you so much for being you, the absolute best partner imaginable. You drive me wild in every way! I love you!

OH and of course, props to our amazing photographer, Michelle Young of Endearing Studios...she's amazing, just the nicest person, AND she's a new mommy! :) Thanks Michelle.

This weekend we're heading out on a little trip...have a great one!

Five years ago...

I CANNOT believe it's been five years. It has flown by so quickly and has been more fun that I ever imagined (and mind you, I imagined it being pretty darn fun!)! So on this very special day, I wanted to share some wedding shots with you all like I did last year...


Right after the ceremony ended my Love and I went down near the water and had some precious time together, just the two of us, which you can see in these photos. I remember those incredible feelings - the immense excitement and overwhelming happiness. It was truly a very special short amount of time that I will never forget! I get goosebumps just thinking about it. But you know what? I still feel all of that 5 years later, and know that I will until the day I die. I love you my Love more than anything else and that love continues to grow stronger and greater every single day. Happy 5th anniversary!


Tonight after some packing is done, we're going to do our typical low-key anniversary dinner at home (with my Love's yummy pizza!) surrounded by mementos of the special day, followed by wedding album perusing and overall reminiscing. We also have little messages from our wedding guests to read, as we had them write wishes/thoughts for our 5th and 25th anniversaries in addition to wedding day ones. Can't wait!


OH and I must of course give credit to our incredible photographer, Michelle Young of Endearing Studios, for the beautiful work she did on our wedding day. Thank you so much Michelle! :) She travels around everywhere and does stunning work so please check her out!

Four years ago...

Four years ago I married my best friend...after four incredible years of courtship, we were married in front of 60 of our closest friends and family in a sunrise ceremony on our favorite Texas beach...followed by a yummy brunch reception. It was beautiful, intimate, laid-back, simple, and oh so perfect. I think back to that day all the time and just smile...



My dear sweet husband, every day since that glorious one four years ago my love for you has truly grown stronger and deeper...I learn something new about you every day and continue to have more fun than I ever imagined! Thank you for being you, my love, and happy belated anniversary!



As I was reminiscing recently, I went in search of our wedding photographer, Michelle Young, whom we met in Florida (long story) but she was incredible! Her business has grown quite alot since she did our wedding and her work is still gorgeous! Thank you Michelle for giving us such beautiful shots of that most special day. So if you ever need a cool photographer, she's your gal, and she travels all around!

A Midspring Morning's Dream

SO, I've been meaning to post this for 2 + weeks - sorry! But here we go...

It was a BEAUTIFUL morning wedding with kind of a "A Midsummer Night's Dream"/"Lord of the Rings"/medieval/whimsical theme :)!!! J & G spent so much time on the planning of everything and it turned out wonderfully...It was a bit cold, especially in my bridesmaid dress:), but gorgeous nonetheless! Oohhh, the "confetti" above in the pics is Ecofetti, which is biodegradable and water soluble, and comes in beautiful colors. It had a great airiness to it and did just perfectly for photos. After an all-nighter, the decor all turned out great despite some last minute floral browning issues...but anyway, here we go on that for all you interested:

This is where you entered the ceremony area - the drapes were closed for all (8) of the bridesmaid's entrances and then the drapes were pulled apart at just the right moment for the bride's entrance - You all should have seen my sister's entrance - WOW! The music was very dramatic and perfectly timed! We did two metal "tree" candelabras wrapped with ribbon in their (3) colors - teal, turquoise, and periwinkle (It was a gorgeous palette of colors!), some beautiful hung bead strings that my Love made, and a touch of butterflies that we hand-glittered so they would be just the perfect colors:)...My Love was in charge of these and supervised my brothers while they put them up and they all did a wonderful job.

The flowers were all a pretty simple design...The bridemaid bouquets were a single teal-hued hydrangea stem with a wrapped ribbon design I thought was very whimsical...The bride's bouquet was a large blue hydrangea with the same ribbon design but some added white ribbon. The groomsmen and usher's boutennieres were single light blue flowers wrapped in a bit of the ribbon design, and the groom's was the same with some white sweetpeas. Hydrangea are so very fickle and started browning on me the morning of - quickly too! But all turned out fine thank goodness! The reception room turned out lovely...I didn't get any good pics of the centerpieces on-site so these were taken day after in my studio...ahem, family room...The centerpieces were very whimsical - a glass stone-filled vase with a branch design...some of the branches were wrapped in the same ribbon design as the flowers with some hanging down...and then some branches had glass bead strings handmade by my Love hanging from them finished by some hand-glittered butterflies. So very "buoyant" I think was the bride's choice word for them - and "beautiful":) - and they fit perfectly with the theme! I can't take any credit for the invitation and programs seen in the photos but J&G did a beautiful job creating them with (2) gorgeous fonts.
I made the below buffet arrangement last minute with the leftover hydrangea stems we had. My sister came up with this wonderful idea for the guests to "make a wish" for them on paper and then "take a wish" which was a wonderful little favor called "The Dream Maker" which was all these little elements to make your dreams come true -very cute! Anyway, it was lovely and dreamy, and although things take alot longer with a 4 month old :), it was such a pleasure to work on the decor and try to make it special for the happy couple! Congrats you two!

Now, as only a green mama would do, I am going to try and put all of the leftover remnants of the wedding to use in some shape or form...More on that to come...