Whew!

I've been kicking around my thoughts about the wedding, trying to decide where I was going to start my recaps. Everytime I thought I had a good topic to write about, I ended up getting bummed that the wedding/wedding weekend flew by too fast. I finally feel like I'm out of my hump - (glad to know I'm not the only one who had the post-wedding blues) and am ready to get back on the blogging wagon! But first I'll have to go back to a few DIYs completed before the big day....

Yes, yes, and yes!!!

This is my kind of wedding! Love the dresses, love the details, LOVE this wedding!

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Love, Love, Love

Totally loving the 1. Scenery, 2. Dress, and 3. Cowboy Boots.

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So many pretty colors!

We went around and around trying to decide a good color choice for our wedding. Red and poppy, purple and gray, yellow and white,..... One request from Percy: NO PINK! Ha! Two or three years ago I may have argued (and won I might add :) that battle, but with me having that darn wedding blog addiction, I knew I could find something that would make us both happy!

Since we are getting married on a ranch, (ok, technically it's a piece of property with a bajillion acres and three horses, but what do I call that? A farm? Nope, that won't work - no cows. Their backyard? Um, that would be a HUGE backyard! 'Ranch' will do for blogging's sake!) I knew I wanted something that wouldn't overpower the beauty of nature as our background. Well Ladies, that's when I stumbled across these images:

Ah, so pretty! So red and taupe it is! And as if I needed more inspiration, I saw this today, *swoon*!


How did (or will) you choose your color palette?

The proposal

I knew he had the ring, and for over a month, a LONG month, I waited in anticipation for the special moment he was going to pop the question. Would he send me an email? Take me out to dinner? Send me on a scavenger hunt? One day when I came home from work, I was on the phone with a girlfriend explaining to her the daily routine I'd recently developed in anticipation of his proposal: "I hang my keys up, check the counter, check the dinner table, check the coffee table, check the.....WAIT...CHECK THE COFFEE TABLE?!?!??! OMG, OMG, CHECK THE COFFEE TABLE!!!" My sweetie proposed by surprising me with flowers which, I was so impressed because he arranged them himself, and wrote me one of those make-you-cringe-it's-so-sweet notes for me to find (if you know my guy, mushy-gushy stuff is out of character for him, which made it that much more special!). Here's a picture of the beautiful ring he gave me!! We're so, so excited; 2008 was a big year for us!

photo by me

Love you Percy!