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Five on Friday

As I used to do the Friday Favorites, I think this is a great way to get into it again!

So link up and join!


1. My new favorite BB cream. AND IT IS A DRUGSTORE ONE!

L'OREAL Magic Skin Beautifier BB Cream - I am in the light shade.

This stuff is amazing. It comes out of the tube white and then makes my skin look perfect!

 

2. In keeping with the whole makeup theme- I bought a new makeup brush from Ulta. I have seen it featured on a lot of blogs and finally decided I need it.

Real Techniques - Exper Face Brush

This brush is about $10 and amazing.

 

 

3.   A Cape Cod.  This is my favorite drink. Vodka, Cranberry and Lime juice.

 

 

4.   My new favorite blog. The Daily Connoisseur - Check it out!

 

5.   Heading to the the Big D!  B and I are headed to Dallas today to see his family.

 If you are the praying type, please keep his great grandmother in your prayers as she had a stroke recently.

keeping your mouth shut

Our Wedding

May 11, 2013 was by far the very best day in my life - and I know in B's life as well.

We went to bed that night saying that our wedding day was truly perfect.

It really was.  The funny part is - we are not really PDA kind of people, but apparently we were kissing all night as you can see in our pictures!

Some detail shots:

My Bouquet 

Roses, hydrangea, ranunculus, peonies and freesia.

There is a dragonfly pin that was my late grandmothers pinned to it.

 

 

 Centerpieces/Table settings:

We had 2 different centerpieces for our 15 tables. The tall ones and the short ones.

Each place setting had a menu made specifically for that person as well as the place card which was held up by a wine cork that we got from friends and family - my dad made them stand up and cut them so the place card could fit.

 

 

My dress

 It had a lace bodice and a silk bottom.  The center "sash area" was blank when the dress came in. Our seamstress was amazing and  she made the embroidered center area with swarovski crystals.

 

My shoes

They were Gold Glittery shoes and they were comfortable!

 

 

My engagement ring

 I wish we had one with my wedding band and his wedding band and my engagement ring, but this picture puts a smile on my face as I took piano lessons for 14 years.

 

 

Our Cards

Before the wedding we sent each other cards. I sent him the one you see him reading and he sent me the one with the red convertible. Our getaway car was his parents 1966 Red Mustang Convertible. The sentiments in his card to this day make me want to cry and smile at the same time. I hope to frame both of those cards together.

 

B's Grooms Cake

We are both Longhorns. It is a "red velvet" cake, but instead of dyeing it red, they dyed it "Burnt Orange".  The beers are real. We go camping a lot and B loves his Yeti cooler. We also gave out burnt orange koozies.

  

 

My cake

All of the bouquets are surrounding it. The cake is on my great grandmother's table cloth. My grandmother used this table cloth as the tablecloth for her cake table and my mom did as well. I wanted to keep the tradition alive.

The cake was a traditional wedding white cake. Everyone commented on how delicious it was. It really was to die for! The cake came out even better than I could imagine.

The lace on the top of each layer looked like the lace from my dress.

 

 

 

 CEREMONY:

 

My dad and I as we entered the room.

 

 

Top picture- the look on Bryan's face when I walked down the aisle, the bottom picture, me walking with my dad.

 

 

 

 

 

My dad giving me away.

 

 

 The Kiss!

 

 

 

 Bridal Party Pictures:

 

All of our bridesmaids and groomsmen.

 

 My bridesmaids

L-R:

S- I've known her since I was 6 years old and her family moved on to our street.

B- I've known her my entire life. Her son was our ring bearer.

B- I babysat her when she was first born. She is 15 NOW!

K- My matron of honor and best friend. Her daughter was our flower girl and she is 6 months pregnant with her son in that picture!

S- We met in college and could not be more different and yet she keeps me sane!   

 

B's Groomsmen

L-R:

D- He lives in Brazil and was a foreign exchange student and lived with B's family in high school

E- Married to S (my bridesmaid that I have known since I was 6)

M- good friend from college and fellow geologist

M- B's best friend. They met in college.

Lastly, C- My brother. Our only sibling!

 

  

Our Ring Bearer and Flower Girl

 

 

 

PARTY TIME:

  

Our First Dance.

It was to "It Had to be You" - the Harry Connick Jr version from the movie

 "When Harry Met Sally"

The movie When Harry Met Sally truly is our story, except we met in college not after college.

  

Our first dance- you can see his wedding ring and you can see the ring I wore on my left hand - "my something blue" - it is a sapphire that was my late grandmother's- she bought it when my grandparents lived in Thailand. My mom gave it to me on our wedding day. I love it.

 

 

B's dance with his mom. They danced to Rascal Flatt's "My Wish"

 

 

 

My dance with my dad. We danced to Heartland's "I loved her First"

 

 

Cake cutting!

  

My brother and My mom really getting down!

My grandfather and I.

  

My little brother and I.

 Our Bubbles Exit

Getaway car

  

 One last kiss before we headed off into married life

Pictures of just us:

  

Lastly I leave you with my favorite picture of our wedding day. I love how happy we look and how truly in love we are.

 

Ice Cream!

 

MMM Ice CREAM.

 

 

What is your favorite flavor?

 

Mine is Homemade Vanilla by Bluebell. SOOOOO GOOD.

Bridal Luncheon

I am slowly getting pictures back from the wedding so I decided to start with My Bridal Luncheon.
I don't currently have pictures of our rehearsal dinner, but when I do, I will do an entire post on them.


My Godmother and her daughter, My Godsister, threw me my Bridal Luncheon on the day of the wedding.

It was beyond anything I could have ever dreamed up.


It was held at the Hotel Granduca (about 1 mile from the Houstonian where the wedding was held). The Granduca is a beautiful Boutique Hotel that reminds me of Italy. It is beautiful.

The tablescape.

Everyone had a placecard and at each tablesetting there was a different picture of B and I throughout our relationship. It was beyond.

 3 of my bridesmaids.

L-R -

BC-I was her first babysitter. I was 15 and her parents lived across the street. It has been wonderful watching her grow up. SHE IS 15 NOW!

BBC(In the middle)- I have known her since we were born. Her parents lived on our street. My first friend. My sister. I think of her children as my Niece and Nephew.

KR- She is my best friend. We met during recruitment and became sisters when I joined the sorority. I truly don't know what I would do without her.

My Godsister (standing), My Godmother, me and my mom.  

 Same as the previous, except add my mother in law on the right.  Such a wonderful group of women that I adore and I am lucky to have in my family.

 My mom, B's mom, B's Grandmother and his Aunt.

 The beautiful centerpiece. I just loved it. This picture doesn't do it justice. It was huge!

My mom and myself.

 

 

To my Godmother:

I am so incredibly blessed to have you in my life. You have helped me through difficult times and partied with me through the great times. You truly are amazing and life without you and my Godfather is unthinkable.

I love you!

 

To my Godsister:

I am truly blessed to have you as family. You live too far away, but I suppose a trip to see you is in order.

Men

Changes

I know I need to recap the wedding and the honeymoon.

Oh my- Thailand. Took my breath away. By far the very best holiday I have ever had.

We stayed at The TwinPalms in Phuket and we stayed at the Shangri-la in Bangkok. Both hotels were amazing.  I cannot wait to go back.

B has the camera and we haven't uploaded any pictures yet. He also took a lot of video so whenever he does the editing etc, I hope to post it.

I am working on getting my new "married" emails working and moving my blog over to have my new "identity" be the one I log in with.

I also want to have a blog facelift. Does anyone have any suggestions on who to use?

Thanks!

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