From Miss to Mrs.

Well, I am back. Just not quite there yet. A lot has happened since my last blog in mid May. First and most important...I got married! It was the most perfect day and I surprisingly had very little stress. All in all I could not have asked for a more beautiful wedding that is the start to our even more beautiful marriage. We were surrounded by our very best friends, family, partners in crime, and soul mates to share in our joy, and I think we threw a pretty good party too! Here are some pictures of our wonderful day, along with a little vendor love.

Bridesmaid dresses were from Love Lane in crinkle chiffon sage fabric. Purchased at Bella Bridesmaid
Suits were purchased from St. Louis Suit Company in dark charcoal. I highly recommend going the route of having your groomsmen/ushers purchase their suits. These boys got a three piece suit for only $170!

Vendor Love:

All photography done by Laurie Nowling Sneed at Bliss Eleven Studios

Ceremony at Graham Chapel

Reception at NEO on Locust

Flowers & Center pieces by Angela Lopez at Elegance in Bloom

Wedding Coordinator Tami Heroff at Perfect Day Weddings & Events, LLC

I can't say enough about our fantastic vendors. They all made my dream a reality and took all the stress off me!! Especially my wedding planner (she was the best money spent!)

 I'll do another post later on the details, my DIY additions, florals, and centerpieces of the wedding.

In other news, our first two months of marriage haven't exactly been normal as most couples. I am currently sleeping on an air mattress in our old apartment in Kansas City and Brandon is working 14 hour days in Orlando in his first month of residency. 

We made the big move the week after our honeymoon and I will join him in a little over two weeks! Please except some more blogging from me as I begin my journey to Florida and whatever new adventure is waiting there!

But for now, I will keep you posted on any activities happening in the last few weeks, including my best friends up coming bridal shower I'm hosting (I've going DIY crazy over here!)

Engagement Pictures

What a glorious and fun-filled day this was! After my stressful journey for finding the perfect outfits, Brandon getting contagiously ill just days before, leaving at 5am on Saturday to drive to Springfield, MO before our 12:30 appointment, and Brandon forgetting his pants, we were relaxed and carefree during our session.

Now to brag about our photographer. Katie Day is a college friend of Brandon. They did comedy improv and SOAR (MSU Summer Orientation) together and have a long friendship history. When we got engaged I contacted her about being our wedding photographer, but she recently just became a mommy for the second time (little boy born 12-12-12 --how cool!), putting her on maternity leave. Which led us to find another photographer, who I also love and can't wait to use, but Katie offered to do an ale cart engagement session. I couldn't pass that up. Not only would a good friend of Brandon's get to take our pictures, but we would get to take them in Springfield, where we both went to college, met, and began our relationship. 

She has the best personality, even being eight months pregnant she walked us all over downtown and kept us laughing the whole time. 

Also, when I asked her what she thought of a paint war, I got the best response: 

LET'S DO IT!

I knew I didn't want to have a set of normal engagement pictures and doing the color run this past summer, a paint war seemed like the way to make memories.

Here are some of our favorites (out of over 100 pictures taken, this was tough!)

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She does engagement, weddings, families, couples, and parties.

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