More Than 2 Months After...

We have had a busy few months following the wedding. However, we are both enjoying a much needed day off work thanks to a giant snow storm.

So now a quick recap (in pictures) of the days leading up to our wedding...

1.

+Jacqueline Wheeler and +Esther Walker went on a hunt for baby white pumpkins for the table center pieces. We went to several pumpkin patches within a 10 mile radius and could only get our hands on one baby white pumpkin. When we were just about to give up hope, we stopped at a stand on the side of the road that we had passed in the beginning of our adventure. Lo and behold, it had the biggest selection of baby white pumpkins! Problem solved!

2.

Seating guests at tables is much harder than anyone of us had initially thought. We had all of our sticky notes, color coded, moving them from paper to paper trying to find just the right spot. Just about all of the sticky notes lost their stickiness.We couldn't have done it without the help of +Joey Walker, Gary Bashaw, and +Esther Walker.

3.

Picking up flower center pieces. When going to get flowers for a wedding make sure you have at least 2 SUV's, plastic drop cloths, and a spray bottle full of water. We couldn't have been more happy with the way the flowers turned out! Mom's friends did an AMAZING job! I don't think we have ever driven through Clifton that slow before. We all held our breath hoping not to much water would spill out.

4.

Packing up every little thing that we had put together over the past year and a half. Wow! We don't think we have ever seen the basement bedroom so messy. It was very hard for Mom to deal with the clutter. :-) Ella even assisted with packing up the room...can you spot her in the picture?

5.

Jackie had a slight meltdown leading up to the wedding. The day before our wedding rehearsal Jackie was getting her nails done with her Mom. I called and told her some news that started with "are you sitting down". This is never a good way to start a phone conversation... I told her that we needed a new officiant, because our original officiant was not able to do the ceremony because of a health related issue (Warren is now doing fine and has fully recovered from an emergency surgery). After lots of phone calls, Esther and Bonnie, the wedding coordinator, were able to find a new officiant, Norm. Norm was a great officiant, even though he showed up in scrubs for the rehearsal (he did let us know that he would be coming from work). Everything worked out really well and we were so happy with the ceremony.

In the end, the wedding was wonderful and everything was perfect! Even the little bit of rain waited until we were done with our pictures before it started to fall. 

Thanks to all of our family and friends for their support and love. We will always remember October 7, 2012 as a special day! 

Please enjoy the wedding videos below. 

Videos by: +Grant Bell and +Jessica Schmitt 

October 7, 2012

It's official!! Today my mom and I took my dad do go see the place since he couldn't go with us last weekend.  He loved it so it is official, we are getting married on October 7, 2012! It is the Sunday of Columbus Day weekend so hopefully people won't have work on that following Monday.  The good news is I won't have school that Monday! The place is BEAUTIFUL! It is in Maryland and has 360 degree views of the mountains.  We are going to have the ceremony outside and the reception inside.  Here are some pictures from today...

 The back patio that overlooks the mountains

The room with a few tables (I love the chandlers) 

 My Dad and I standing in the spot where Will and I will be married

 The paper work is SIGNED :)

 My beautiful parents!

After signing the paper work and making everything official we went off for a celebratory lunch a few minutes away from the venue.  We went to The Main Cup in Middletown, MD and had a wonderful lunch.  This place was so cute and has great food! 

 Standing outside of where we had a wonderful lunch

Main Cup, a possible rehearsal lunch/dinner spot :)

Venue Shopping

So today Joey, mom, and I went on our wedding venue hunt and it was quite the adventure! I started out beautifully... we drove up to Myersville Maryland first.  Joey and mom were thinking I was crazing for wanting to go look at a place far away in Maryland but I fell in love with it online.  So on our way up 270 we see an old dodge truck with his window missing.  Instead of getting it fixed this man duck taped a piece of plastic to his door and then cut out a peep hole so he could see out of it when turning.  My mom and I were in tears laughing!! Anyway we got up to Maryland and I the location was beautiful!! I think its the place, I am keeping my fingers crossed we get the date I am hoping for! We shall see :) Here are a few pictures from this amazing place!

Now the true adventure began however when we arrived at the worlds worst winery wedding venue location!! I will not name any names but this place was AWFUL! It had one beautiful view but basically they wanted $20,000 to get married in a BARN! It really was a barn... it used to be a 30 stall barn that they converted into a "reception" area.  Not to mention that our ceremony would have been right next to some roaming chickens. You know it is bad when the lady showing you the location says "you and your fiancée will need to move over this way during the ceremony so you don't see the electrical pole in your pictures."  Anyway this place was NOT for Will and I! Not to mention that we are not trying to spend $20,000 just to get married and eat dinner in a barn with our friends and family!

Overall, it was a great day with my mom and brother and we sure did make some memories!