Old Soul, Young Heart

This one was the easiest of the something old/new/borrowed/blue, because basically I bought everything new! My dress was from Bridal Elegance. I really do feel like this dress was meant for me. It was on the sample/sale rack and the sales girl brought it to me. I wouldn't have found it otherwise. I loved it. I loved the ruching, the modified sweetheart neckline, the fit and flare (really I think this one is considered mermaid), and the asymmetricalness of the bottom. Despite some of the issues I had with it later on (expensive alterations and cleaning), it was so worth it. That freaking sash. Hahaha. You all remember the sash saga. After all of that, I found the perfect one on Amazon, of all places. I knew that I wanted a bolder earring since I wouldn't be wearing a necklace. I saw these at Von Maur and fell in love immediately. I knew that I wanted pear-shaped ones because to me they have more of a classic, elegant feel. I just couldn't stop thinking about

Christmas Eve and Christmas got in the way of Marriage Monday... I had a really hard time coming up with stuff for my something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. I wasn't opposed to not really doing it if I didn't find something for each thing. One night my dad and I scoured my mom's jewelry looking. I found something that I thought might work for my something old/borrowed/blue and I kept it in the back of my mind if I didn't find anything else over the months and weeks leading up to the wedding. It ended up being my something old and borrowed. Actually I ended up putting it in our wedding keepsake box, so I guess I can't even call it borrowed. But it is, in a sense. So my mom collected Precious Moments. Our whole house is full of them... there are curio cabinets and shelves of them all over the downstairs. As a kid, she tried to get me on board by buying me pieces. I myself have two shelves of them to this day in my bedroom. I thin

I skipped last week's Marriage Monday because I wasn't in the mood and was seriously lacking the motivation... Like I said in the previous week's Marriage Monday, I was very calm the morning of the wedding. Our photographer and videographer commented several times that I was one of the calmest brides they had ever been around haha. My aunt and I went to get the flowers, we hung out while the others were getting their hair done, and all of a sudden it was 11:01. And I looked at the clock beside the bed and said... "Oh my god--I'm supposed to be at Fox and Hound's right now for my makeup appointment!" I just could not believe that I did that! I never forget about things like that. I grabbed my aunt and we sped away. I called F&H on the way there; luckily we were only like 15 minutes late and the girl doing my makeup was running behind anyway. We even got done earlier than I had anticipated. (Sidenote: The trial for my makeup was not good.

Remember about a year ago when I wrote about a book that I found randomly on Pinterest called Motherless Daughters ? If you don't, here's what I wrote about it on Dec 21, 2011. Motherless Daughters   was pretty much all I had hoped it would be. There were several quotes in there that hit me in my gut, that made me feel as though I'm not alone in this life that has been forever changed because my mother died when I was 19. Sometimes I feel a little crazy because of it--like I'm reacting wrong or just plain overreacting--because I have no one in my life that truly understands what it's been like for me. (I'm not trying to be dramatic about this; it is just a fact of who I am. There is no other component of my person or my personality that is as pervasive to who I am as the fact that I am a motherless daughter. It enters into every part of my life, pretty much every day.) It's made me feel better about my experiences as a motherless daughter and about my fut

I woke up quite calm about an hour before my alarm went off on our wedding day. Luckily, I didn't have to get up too early. Michele and I chatted for a little, I showered, and then waited for my aunt Peggy to arrive. She found our suite, we hung out for a bit, and then we went to pick up the flowers at Casey's. (A Marriage Monday post on the flowers coming soon!) TJ arrived to start working on the girls' hair! Mama Bourque was the first up! I'm now realizing that I don't really have any pics of Michele throughout this whole part of the day. She was running around taking pics of everyone else! What a great friend/maid of honor, but I'm kind of sad now about not having any pics of her or us together. :( Michele got her hair done too, while my aunt and I were getting the flowers! And then it was Brooke's turn. After getting my make up done, my aunt got her hair did. The little girls were also getting primped! The general mood was pretty relaxed at this