Happy Anniversary!

1 Year ago today I married my best friend!

The day was absolutely beautiful and perfect.

We couldn't have asked for a better day.

So in honor of our Anniversary,

here is a walk down memory lane of our magical day!

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And this is my 100th post! WOW

Wedding Wednesday

Today's Wedding Wednesday Topic is my....

Bridal Shower!

I had so much fun at my bridal shower. It was small but perfect. My mom and my girls did such a good job decorating and organizing everything. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the day. Check out my cake that my friend made me...It was so yummy!

I walked in and was welcomed by these 2 cuties!

Opening presents with lots of help!

Me & My mom!

Me and My bridal Party(minus Danielle)

Me and my ribbon bouquet!

My yummy cake!!

Wedding Wednesday!

Wedding Wednesday

This weeks topic:

Wedding Attire/Hair and Make-up

I knew the dresses that I wanted for my girls as soon as I got engaged.. Actually I had these dresses picked out before we got engaged! As many of you know Turquoise is my favorite color so it wasn't hard to pick a color scheme. Also because we got married near the ocean Blues were a great pick!.

Here are the girls dresses:

The back had a cool detail:

They are from Watters and Watters!

Here is the flower girl dresses:

The only change I made was we put a turquoise sash on them. I loved the butterfly detail they had.

We ordered them from Pink Princess online and they were only $35! Can't beat that!

For the men we went with suits!

We got them at men's warehouse.

The groomsmen had similar looking suits in a slightly different share.

I love this shot with the jackets off!

I got all the groomsmen shirts and ties at KHOLS!! Yes thats right!

For my Jr. Groomsmen we had them made using swatchs of the groomsmens suit.

On to Hair and Make-up!

I loved my hair and make-up for the wedding! One of our groomsmen mom is my hairdresser and she did everything!

Wedding Wednesday!

Wedding Wednesday Week 2!

Only 7 weeks and 5 days till our 1 year Anniversary!

This week I am going to highlight our flowers!

I love Hydrangeas they are my favorite flower next to Lily's! :)

For the bridesmaid bouquets we had Hydrangeas and white rose bouquets. We sprayed the hydrangeas a little so that they would pop to go with the girls dresses.

I did not have a traditional white bouquet. I personally am against them because you spend so much money on flowers and you want them to pop in you pictures. I use to work for a photographer and I use to here brides say all the time that they wish they had more color in their bouquets. Even if the color is just a touch more of green. I am not trying to offend anyone who has had white bouquets I am just not a fan of them. My best friend and Matron of honor did a white bouquet and it still looked beautiful I don't want to upset anyone. Please remember this is just my opinion. Now that I have rambled on, I choose to have similar bouquets to my bridesmaids in which I had the hydrangeas and roses but to make mine stick out I added Stephanoittis flowers and butterflies to my bouquet.

Hope you like them!

Tomorrow I will be posting my responses to all the questions you guys asked me. If you have any more please ask away!

Wedding Wednesday!

Today is my 10 month anniversary! In just 2 months from today Zach and I will be celebriting our 1 year anniversary. I thought it would be fun to post details from our wedding every week to countdown to our Anniversary! I hope you enjoy looking back at our journey!

This week I will be introducing the wedding party!


We didn't want a big wedding party and the way we picked our attendants worked out so well that this is how we paired them:


Matron of Honor and Best Man
Leah is my best friend. We have been best friends since high school. She is actually the person that introduced me to Zach. We have remained close through college and still today. I was her Maid of Honor in her wedding as well.


Jeremy is Zach's older brother. A cool fact about Jeremy is that he and Zach are both born on September 17 they are just 2 years apart. He is married as well and Zach was his best man.



Bridesmaids & Goomsman


Chelsey & Tyler: The sibling couple!
Chelsey is Zach's sister and although she and I are only 3 months apart in age I love to call her my little sister. Chelsey and I grew close from day 1 of me dating Zach. She is currently engaged and we are so excited for her!


Tyler is my one and only brother. We are 7 and a half years apart in age. It meant so much to me that he was in my wedding. Since loosing the day we lost our dad I knew that we had to stay strong as brother and sisters. It actually wasn't until we moved to Georgia that Tyler and I got close. He will be graduating from high school this June and he plans to move down here to Georgia to stay with us for a little while. We are excited to have him.



Jay & Pat: the cousin couple!
Jay is my cousin and she has always been like a sister to me. I knew i wanted her to be apart of my wedding because we have always been so close.


Patrick is Zach's cousin. He is very close to Pat and spent two summers living with Pat and his family while he played soccer which made them even closer.



Danielle & Nick: the childhood friend couple!
Danielle is a friend of mine from college that I call my angel bridesmaid. She stepped in 2 weeks before the wedding because my childhood best friend dropped out due to personal and medical reasons. I was devastated but glad Danielle was there to step in. Danielle and I met in College. She survived 1 semester in RI. Then moved back to Florida. She has family in RI which kept our friendship together. Every time she would come home we would make plans to see each other.

Nick is Zach's best friend from birth. He and Zach have known each other all there lives. He is still a big part of Zach's life today. Zach told Nick that if he didn't have a brother to be his Best Man that Nick would have been the one he would have chosen.

Stacey & Anthony: The College friends Couple!

Stacey and I met in College. We went through the Education program together and became really close. My best memories with Stacey are our lunches at Panera then Shopping at Oldnavy after class. She is currently engaged and I am in her wedding this September.

Anthony and I went to Hight School together so I have known him for a while. He and Zach played on the same travel team then were roommates for 4 years in college. The two became even closer and still talk every once in a while. He cannot wait to be Uncle Tony and asks us everytime he calls if he is going to be an uncle :)

Jr. Groomsmen and Flower girls!

Tristan and Olivia are my youngest cousins on my dad's side. I am the oldest grandchild and Olivia is the youngest. I knew i wanted flower girls and I didn't want to make their brothers feel left out. They are too old to be ring barers so i decided to call them Jr. Groomsmens.

Marcus and Abigail are my cousin Jay's kids. Because she and I are so close, these two have always been like a niece and nephew to me. I knew I had to have them apart of my day!

I hope you enjoyed my Wedding Wednesday information and stay tuned each week as i countdown to our Anniversary!!

Wishful Wednesday

'I wish' .... I could wear/could have worn _____ dress on my wedding day!

(single or married, you can play!!)

If I was getting re-married today I would still pick my wedding dress only because I wouldn't be able to afford my dream wedding dress.

My dream wedding dress would be Cinderella's dress. I have always loved Cinderella and would feel like a princess in it. The funny thing is Zach wanted to propose to me in front of Cinderella's castle at Disney but he wasn't able to. If money wasn't an option I would have loved to have a Disney wedding. It would be a dream come true. Thinking about yesterday's Top 2 Topic of kid names makes me excited to have little ones to take to Disney. I love Disney so much even as a 20 something. My grandfather use to call me his princess and he took me to Disney several times as a little girl. Kirstie Kelly is a famous designer that make Disney Princess inspired dresses. Check here out here.

This one is my absolute FAVORITE!!!

The other dress designer I have always loved is Vera Wang. Her detail and creativity is amazing. Again if money was not an issue I would have loved to have Vera Wang make me a custom dress. A favorite of mine and I'm sure many others is Jessica Simpson's Vera Wang wedding dress she wore when she married Nick Lachey!

For my wedding day I wore a Simmone Carvalli dress. I got an amazing deal on it from the shop I got it from. It is very simple with flower detail on the front where the bodice gathers and there are pearl beads in the center of the flowers. The back layers down through the train.

What are you wedding dress dreams?

Portfolio Updates!

Stationary!

I also make wedding invitations, programs, table numbers, place cards and thank you notes. Here are some from my wedding:

My wedding invitations that i made. They were pocketfold invitations with embossed butterflies.

This is a picture of the program that i made. The inside was printed on Vellum paper

The table numbers and place cards that i made.

I also made these diaper invitations. I am having a diaper baby shower for a friend and made these!

Thankful Thursday!

I have seen some blogs that do a thankful thursday and think it is so sweet. I will try to post something every thursday that i am thankful for. Today i am thankful for my husband. He is truly my best friend. A little history: We met my senior year in high school in the airport. I know you are thinking thats not possible. Well believe it. My best friend in high school is a triplet. She and her brothers played on a traveling soccer team. The day after Christmas they were going to a tournament in FL. She asked her parents if i could come with them and they said yes. I knew who he was because when we played his school i knew him as the "ward-smith friend who is really good a soccer" hehe! Anyway he later told one of my BF's brothers that he thought i was cute. We exchanged numbers and talked when we returned home. I asked him to my winter ball that February. 2 weeks later, February 19, 2002 we officially started dating!! We made it through College together and he even moved with me from RI to GA when i was offered a job! He told me that he gave me 3 months. If he could live with me, he knew he would marry me. On October 1, 2008 we traveled home for my BF's(same one who introduced us) wedding. When we landed in Boston, he proposed. He said he felt that he should do it at a place that brought us together!! We got married the next summer on June 7th, 2009!

Me and my Best Friend on her wedding day! I was her MOH!! :)

Our Engagement photo

Our Wedding Day!

I changed into this dress!

Our Honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Our wedding rings :)