The Teasers and Some Friend Shots

The Wedding was Magical!

Even more fun than I had expected!

My Beautiful Mom

555 Photography - Before the Ceremony

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I hope you all have a lovely weekend!!

I can't believe it! We have been married 6 days!

Woohoo!!

Now to tackle the honeymoon!!

Switzerland and Paris, here we come!

THE Dress

As you know from before, I found a dress that I loved in a wedding magazine.

I tried it on and I knew it was the one. My Madre knew it was the one.

My friendoodle knew it was the one.

It was the one!

the back is the best part!

what a beautiful dress!

We decided to get a Muslin to avoid high costs of alterations.

A Muslin {if you don't know, I know that I didn't before the whole process} is basically a mock up of the dress. The seamstress takes your measurements and then has a dress made to fit you. After that you try on the Muslin and they make any other alterations needed and then they send the Muslin to the makers of the dresses and they make a dress to fit me.

My Muslin came in in July.

the muslin!

wow it was soo beautiful!

super excited!

bootylicious!

look at my mom!

it had to be taken in just a tad :-)

sooo pretty! I would be have been happy with this as my wedding gown! :-)

The Muslin went out and then in January the dress came in!

I made my plan to drive up with Sweeter for my first fitting.

I brought two lovely ladies from my bridal party, their Madre's, my Junior Bridesmaids and their Madre and of course my Madre!

I saw my dress and it was magnificent! 

It reaffirmed my thoughts and feelings that it was the right one for me!

I can't even describe in words how excited I am to walk down the isle to my Sweeter in it!

I asked my gals to bring their BM dresses so we could see the whole thing together.

It looks great, I am so excited!

seeing the dress for the first time

we were practicing bustles

how gorgeous!

my gals!

2 of my most favorite people in the whole world!

so pretty!!

trying it on with the hair

And with my spray tan...haha

Yesterday was our wedding day.

I cannot tell you all how Happy I am!

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

We are driving back home on our holiday off!

What a surreal weekend!

I am ecstatic!

I cannot wait to show you all of the pictures from our special day!

Thank you all for listening/reading all about our wedding plans!

The First Picture

This is the first picture that Sweeter and I ever took together...

 

..not the best...

But that night was definitely unforgettable!

I got off of RA training and he told me to change into something warm and that we were in a rush.
I put on a sweatshirt and got my butt in gear.
We took the SFMuni to Embarcadero and started walking.
Trying to beat the clock we started running!
We ran 33 piers down the Embarcadero
(mind you, I still had no idea what we were doing)
To my excited surprise, he had booked a night time tour of Alcatraz!
We had talked about how much I wanted to go on the tour at night since I had done it during the day
This is on the cruise line on our way from pier 33.

We had a brilliantly fantastic time!
I can't wait for so many more adventures to come!
Happy Wedding day to my sweet sweet Sweeter!

The Best Marriage Advice

~Listen to each other: seek to understand when you're wrong, apologize when you're right, be quiet

~Don't tie a half-hitch knot - plan for forever

~Never go to sleep angry

~Laugh at yourselves together

~Never embarrass, criticize or correct one another in public

~Remember one of life's ironies: We are least lovable when we need love most

~Don't expect perfection - it'll bore you spotless

~On days when you don't like each other, try to remember that you love each other

~Tell the truth, and always with kindness

~Kiss at least 10 seconds every day without fail

~Examine your relationship often: know its vulnerabilities and keep it growing, together

~Be content with what you have materially, honest emotionally and never stop growing spiritually

~Never yell unless the house is on fire. Hurtful words can be forgiven but never taken back

~Be best friends, as well as lovers

~Show by your actions as well as your words that the person you married comes first in your life

~Remember that you're in love

~Never miss an anniversary, birthday, or chance to make a memory, you will treasure them one day

~Take care of business: pay bills, change your oil, call your mother

~Open your home and hearts to angels . Teach Sunday school, coach little league, feed the homeless, talk to strangers

4 days!

We got this card last week and it seriously made a huge difference and we both smiles! 

Please share this with as many people as you can!

Have a great day!

The 3rd & Final Shower

The Third and Final bridal shower was this past weekend!

My FMIL's friends wanted to throw a shower for me!

It was absolutely lovely!

 My Friends are Beautiful!

 My Handsome Bride Groom!

 I have the best friends!

 The apron!

 It was full of lots of fun kitchen items!

 The toilet paper bride!

 Love this! We didn't even plan to all be the brides!

 The FMIL, Friend and I!

My favorite ladies! Minus a few...

And then my camera died..hahah

There were a few games!

The first game was a wedding trivia game! Did you know that only 68% of women receive a diamond engagement ring? Or that the average American Wedding is $25,000??? Interesting!

The second game: A wedding word scramble! The winner got a mini colander!

The third game: I put on an apron with a bunch of kitchen items and I walked around the room. Then all of the guests had to remember what was on the apron and write them down.  The winner got a mini colander!

The fourth game: We were split into 3 groups and we were given a bag of goodies and2 rolls of toilet paper. Each team had a bride and we were made into toilet paper brides!

The games were a blast and the company was so sweet! I had a so much fun!

It was a great way to spend the weekend for the wedding!!

Wedding Countdown: 

5 days!

Can't believe it!

We are soo excited!!

The Dress

Because Sweeter proposed to me so close to Christmas, most of my Christmas gifts were wedding books, magazines, to-do calendars the whole shabang! It was great!

I opened up a magazine and I was flipping through all of the wedding gown spreads and gawking over table settings and flowers. I flipped to a Priscilla of Boston spread and my eye was immediately drawn to a woman wearing this gorgeous backed dress.

I went to the website and to my surprise, there was a trunk show. I called up my mom and my Friendoodle and we went to the salon in Downtown San Francisco. Nicole was my consultant and she was amazing. We walked into the salon and I told Nicole that I saw the most beautiful dress in a magazine and I wanted to try it on.

She told me to find the dress as well as any others. I found it and while my Madre, Friendoodle and I combed the racks and found others.

We went back into the changing room and I tried on about 13 gowns. Nicole told me not to try on the dress I came in looking for as my first dress so I could give the other ones a chance. They were all gorgeous!

Here are a few that I tried on {you will have to wait for the actual dress until a later post :-)}:

to tea-cup like...

 

I am not the biggest fan of the 1 sided thing...

so beautiful...just not for me!

so I loved the bodice of this!

not so much of the open front...

too much stuff on the top

I am not the biggest fan of the beads

not the most flattering...

I loved the top on this one, but the bottom was too floofy...haha

 I loved trying on all of these dresses!

They were all so beautiful!

The best part was watching my mom during the entire process.

She was glowing and so happy and excited for me!

Wedding dress shopping was a blast and I almost want to try on more dresses...even though I already have mine :-)

Have a fabulous day!

Wedding Countdown: 6 days!

Some Friday Love

1. Do you and your spouse go to bed at the same time?

We usually do...unless I need to go to sleep crazy early. If that is the case, he will lay in bed with me until I fall asleep :-)

2. A question for the ladies...What kind of facial hair do you like on your man?

None...haha And Sweeter can't have it - no arguments her!

3. What's the worst vacation you've ever taken?

I don't think I have ever had a bad vacation...

4. What's the first-ever blog you followed?

That is a good question....I started blogging because I would read Tracy's Blog at Then I Got to Thinking. She and I rushed the same sorority in college and were in the same pledge class. We became friends and when she graduated she moved away and I wanted to read how her life was going.

Yeah, I think her blog was my first :-) Thanks, Tracy, my retreat pal!!

5. Do you enjoy amusement parks?

I do. Sadly, I have not been to one in a very long time...

Happy Friday to you all!!

9 more days! 

Sweeter and I will be off to the Bay this weekend for Graduation and another Bridal Shower! 

Woohoo! 

September 8th

So I was reading Allie's wedding day blog post {I know..I'm late..}

I found out a couple of things.

<1> She and I share a birthday

<2> We share our birthday with the Virgin Mary.

So I text my mom...

Me:   "did you know that the virgin mary's bday is sept 8?

Mom: "thats a nice fact seeing as you were conceived by immaculate conception"

hahaha! I laughed out loud...at my desk...as work! haha!

I hope you all enjoy your Thursday!

Wedding Countdown: 10 days!