How Pinteresting: Our Wedding Decor Part 1

Goodness, I have had so little time to blog. Work is crazy and we close on our house oh so soon. I am knee deep in paint swatches, tile inserts, carpet and wood stain colors.. you name it.. I'm frantically researching it. But more about the house later! Trust. I gots lots to show ya!

Onto my favorite parts of wedding planning... wedding decor. Which I realize I'm all out of order.. but honestly I'm just blogging as I feel like it! And all our house adventures have me feeling creative and crafty, so here are my decor recaps. Hope you likesss!

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SO. Pinterest was created a few years ago, and there is NO doubt that it influenced our wedding decor. The problem with pinterest is you can easily become overwhelmed, and instead of getting anything accomplished you just stare at amazing professional pictures for hours. and hours. its pretty much the most amazing blog surfing you can partake in.

Now, this is great for the earlier stages of wedding planning. BUT very bad for productivity towards the end. SO, I made a concerted effort to stay off the damn site once I started picking a direction.

Initially, I fell in love with two types of weddings

The Nautical Wedding

This was my intial dream wedding, my 'blue and white' vision. It heavily influenced invitations, 

save-the-dates,  a blue engagement picture outfit. I loved the nautical lanterns on the table. I picked peach flowers with grayish leaves (called dusty miller)  with my florist early on, because I thought this would be my accent color to the blue and white.

But the more I thought about it, the more it seemed so harsh. Navy almost felt like black. I wanted 'soft' wedding photographs. And a navy bridesmaid dress?? That was just ... non existent it felt.. And then I fell in love with this wedding...

The Softer Romantic / Crafty Wedding

I was actually pretty confused. Which is nothing new, I always research to the ends of the earth, then narrow it down to two completely different concepts, then figure out a way to merge both things .. 

and voila end up with something.. well.. just different. It's hit or miss really.

So I searched and searched for a way to merge these two, and well, I found these two pictures and felt I could could somehow merge it all...

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I'll be back soon with how it all turned out, but I need to create collages which takes
soooo long so hopefully soon.

And I did not link to any of those pictures on pinterest... because I downloaded them so, so long ago and don't have the time to go find them. So sorry to pinterest!!

Loves ya'll!

Tessy

Wedding Week: The Ceremony

Yes it still wedding week. Apparently my idea to condense my wedding recaps into one week has now become two. And If I can't finish it by this week, I give up! Anywho.. here's our ceremony!
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An interesting thing about the wedding process is the concept of time. There are moments when you feel that time is just creeping by, and you are like OMG just happen already! OK?? Can the day just be here? And moments where you think... "wait, just a few more minutes. Just 60 seconds."

Well this was one of those moments. If I a magic time wand, and could press the pause button I would have sat down in my dress, cried my eyes out, reapplied my make-up then walked up into to that church.



That's because Matthew had written a note for me at the church at the last minute. And then they handed it to me RIGHT before I walked in. It was the sweetest moment ever. I forgot what I did with the note afterwards, but it was the first thing I called my sister and asked her to track down when we got back from our honeymoon.

I love that our photographer got pictures of Matthew writing the note. And of me crying while reading it.

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I was trying to pull it together as I walked down the aisle, but most of my friends told me they could tell
I was on the verge of tears. I guess it looks a little like a fish face? I am so glad they designate someone to walk you down. Thanks Pops! All that fishy face would be too hard by myself.

Once I made it to Matthew, everything was okay.

and we got to the part of the day where we forgot all of our lines...

flubbing our lines...

literally, we forgot what to say..

but everyone found it hilarious..and we finally got our act together

ok, ok get serious now..

muggin' down ..and now we did not talk about how we 'would kiss'

I love Matthew's fist pump lol

I gots myself a husband! Wowsers!!

lets party ya'll!

The Healthy Train, choo chooo

Ok so I just have to take a break from wedding recaps and link up with my boo Kristen, and the hilarious Raven. Hell I don't even know if I'll ever finish these wedding recaps.  Well, you know how wedding stuff goes, you work out like a maniac, starve yourself, try every gimmick diet you've ever seen, (which here is a good one if you are looking for a 'cleanse').

Well sadly, since the wedding I have somehow gained 8-10 pounds, don't fit into my clothes very well, and am drinking venti starbucks and large diet cokes all day every day. Everything is just a little tighter it seems, and I am seriously lacking motivation. I'm also a bi-polar eater. I will eat egg whites and whole wheat toast sans butter, then end up at a mexi restaurant downing queso like H2O. The egg whites made me feel like I deserved queso? Maybe? lol.

So, to combat this extra poundage, and generally just get healthier, I signed up for a boot camp on groupon called 'The Lean Mean and Green" or something or other. I Actually bought this a long time ago, but since I am a 'groupon' holder our schedule is delayed. 

Check out my wedding body.. on the left..

yes my sink is a mess, and why didn't I touch up my make-up??

oh and there's my 'now' picture on the right. I know I won't ever get back to my wedding weight.. but I do hope to get back to normal!

My biggest goal to get out of this healthy inspiration is to meal plan, "eat clean" but also make my healthy meals matthew-friendly.  And just overall make our household healthier.

We shall see how it goes! Boot camp starts next Monday! I am prepared to die!