Four Years Ago Today...

M and I said "I do."

It feels like yesterday.

Unfortunately he's out of town on business today,

but I'm looking forward to celebrating this weekend.

How's your week going?

Our Wedding: Part Three

The Reception

My brother's friend entertained guests during the cocktail hour with some magic - he was young, but he had mad skillz (like bends-cutlery-with-his-mind skillz!) 

Our first dance - We Are Man and Wife by Michelle Featherstone

Dancing with my dad - I didn't cry that much

M dancing with his mom

Loved the dress my mom wore at night - bright and sassy!

Our last dance was to Per Me Per Sempre (literally "For Me, For Always") by Eros Ramazzotti. Its a song I've always loved with beautiful lyrics that I thought were very appropriate for the occasion. And that's pretty much it...Thank you so much for taking this trip down memory lane with me!

 

Our Wedding: Part Two

The Ceremony

My dad was a little emotional...

 

The rings...M's went right back in the box after our honeymoon.

Signing our lives away

Our nephew, the ring boy

Married!

M and his dad

The boys doing their glamour shots...

I had the best girls ever - my SIL (far right) was my MOH and had given birth two weeks before the wedding. Talk about a trooper.

Time to party...

Our Wedding: Part One

So today is officially our third year anniversary! How time has flown by. It's funny because I'm a big planner, but marriage was nothing like I thought or expected. In so many ways its amazingly better and on the other hand some of the issues we had were things I would have never anticipated. Just goes to show you that life has its own plans and sometimes you just have to let go and live it (or at least I need to learn to). I've also had the bad habit of waiting for the other shoe to drop. When something good is happening I always wonder when the bad will come. It was a constant thing for me and I'm trying not to do that anymore, not to anticipate problems where there are none and just enjoy what I have. Three years in, all I do know is that I'm a very lucky girl to have been as blessed as I have been so far.

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Somehow I won the marriage lottery (as it applies to me, of course, we all have our own ideas of the ideal mate): a guy who always makes me coffee just the way I like it, watches stupid TV shows with me and never complains, who doles out massages and never asks for one in return, someone who believes in me more than I do and who every day tries to make me see myself through his eyes. And while I may not deserve it, all I know is that I am incredibly grateful for all I have and what we've managed to build together. So enough of the mushy stuff and on with the photos, all of which were taken by our great photographers Mango Studios.

I decided to wear my hair up because I feared what would happen to my curls in the heat and I didn't want to be fussing with it all day, which I knew I would be. Having it up was the perfect choice for me!

My Earrings - Something Borrowed

My Shoes - super comfy, which was my main concern 

 

My Bouquet

My Grandmother's Rosary - Something Old

Back of My Dress

Bridesmaids Dresses (they chose the dress, I chose the colour)

Three Generations (me, my mom, one of my grandmothers and my sister)

Adorable Flower Girl (our niece--she was not impressed by the cameras)

Some of the girls in the hallway of my parents' house

A Flower Arrangement

Cigars and a few bottles...

The Breakfast of Champions

M showed up at the church a leetle bit *happy*

M's grandfather looking stylin'

Hopefully I haven't bored you silly - more tomorrow!