Our Charleston Wedding: Pre-Ceremony

We have had the best time going through the photos from our wedding,

 and reminiscing about the best day of our lives!

It was everything I'd ever hoped for and planned, it was the Day of my Dreams!

I hope you enjoy looking through these images and sharing our treasured memories.

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First of all, we could not have asked for more beautiful weather!  It was sunny and in the mid-60's.  

As I mentioned before, I spent the morning at the beach house on Folly and then we grabbed Bagel Nation for breakfast before heading to the hair salon.

I had my hair done by Noel Richardson at Lava Salon.  I have been going to Noel since I turned 16.
There is no one else that can touch my hair!

Next I had my makeup done by Megan Johnson at Cosbar on King Street.
She is the best.

This is where the photographers met us...Away we go!

From Cosbar we went to St. Stephen's Church Hall, which is an old Charleston single on Society Street connected via courtyard to the Church.

  This is where we got dressed and took Bridal Party photos.

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I bought a new scent for the Wedding Day and the honeymoon for olfactory memory.

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This was a very special gift given by my Nana.

It's her mother of pearl Marriage Bible that she walked down the aisle with,

it is precious to me!

My Dad, resting while we took lots of girly pics.

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My garter was a gift from my sister in law.

Shoes by Alex Marie
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I loved the courtyard behind the church, complete with joggling board.  This is where we took the majority of our photos.

        Outtakes!

Favorite:

One last quiet moment to myself..

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While K and his groomsmen didn't have a team of photographers following them around the Mills House, here are some shots of my groom and our dads right before the ceremony:

I love this one, I think my dad's nerves were starting to show:

Many more to come!

Our Charleston Wedding: Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner

Here it is, the last of the Pre-wedding posts.  

Our Rehearsal began at 4:30 pm on Friday, November 21st, 2014 at St. Stephen's.

Father Williams had us fill out the paperwork for our marriage licence first thing.

His spaniel, Abigail, kept us all entertained throughout the entire rehearsal.

Jimmy (K's step-uncle?) was our organist.  

We can't thank him enough for giving us this gift!  

And now, on to the fun part, the Rehearsal Dinner at Fish!

We kept the decor simple, hanging lanterns I scored at a thrift shop and lots and lots of candles.

Here comes the bride!  Don't I look thrilled?  I was trying to find someone in charge who could help me store the gifts we would be giving out later in the night.

My dress is by Alva from The Bridal House.  It is actually a wedding gown, shortened.  You can see the long version here.  Because my actual wedding gown was more whimsical, I was excited to wear something a little sexy for the rehearsal.

On to the menu...

We had so much delicious food, y'all.

We had 3 passed HDs, all seafood.

And then our stations:

 

My father-in-law gave the nicest toast!
He discussed our family connections, how we met... it was so sentimental!

YUM!

The happy couple...

I had painted this at Wine and Design in October and we used it as a "guestbook" at the Rehearsal.

I am so sad that we didn't get on large group photo, 

but we have lots of pictures of everyone mingling...

K's Mamie and Poppa.

A HUGE Thank you to Harold and Cathy
for hosting such a wonderful dinner for us.

We love y'all so much!!

One last thing, I wanted to share what I gave K as his grooms gift.

I had a cigar case monogrammed (at the Christian bookstore for $5.00!) with 3 authenic cuban Cohibas!  He was thrilled.

Next week...Wedding posts!

Have a great weekend!

(We are going to see American Sniper tonight, trying out Indaco for Restaurant Week tomorrow, and cooking out with my parents on Sunday.  What are you up to?)

Blogging about Blogging

Humpity Hump!

I thought I would talk a little bit about my blogging "journey" (Bachelor fans??) today with a little survey...

1. When/Why did you start your blog?

I began blogging in Summer 2011.  I was in a position with a lot of downtime at work and essentially began blogging out of boredom, I suppose.  K and I had been dating for 8 months or so and I was interested in keeping track of our life as a couple (I knew I was going to marry him very early on).

2.What was the first blog you ever read?

I don't remember exactly how, but some Google search vortex lead me to the blog What I Wore.  I had never heard of such a site where a normal girl shares her outfits and snippets of her life.  I became, for lack of a better word, obsessed with looking at fashion blogs.  It was so neat to think that girls like me were creating their own editorials!  From there I became intrigued with the notion of local Charleston girls doing the same.  While I didn't find any Charleston Fashion blogs, I did stumble upon Hungry Meets Healthy, and began looking forward to Christina's posts every day.
From there it was a spider web effect.

3. How has blogging changed since you began?

So many of the blogs that I initially started reading aren't around anymore, so that's a change.  But otherwise I have definitely noticed a shift in blogging since the rise of Instagram. I love looking at gorgeous images, staged or not, but there is certainly less of a "real life" vibe in several of the blogs I follow.  It also feels like there is more of a "corporate" edge to blogging nowadays.

4.  What do you enjoy most about blogging?

I love that blogging helps me put a positive spin on days that aren't so positive...I guess I mean that it can really force me to look at things in a glass-half-full sort of way.  I'm not going to whine or moan about a bad day on the blog, so it's fun to turn lemons into lemonade some days.
I really love being able to look back at my archives.  This blog is more of a journal than anything else.  That being said, I do love sharing this with others.  I don't do a really good job of commenting on other blogs, but I love reading them!  I love seeing what everyone else has going on!


I would LOVE to hear your answers :)