Wedding Memories

My sweet blogging friend Megan recently got married and has been sharing some of her GORGEOUS wedding pictures. Seriously, her wedding was amazing and absolutely beautiful. Now, she is opening it up to all of us to share pics from our special day and I am so excited!

In my last post I talked about how Chad and I got engaged, and now I get to share what we worked on planning for 14 months (fyi: 14 months is WAAAAYYYY to long to plan a wedding!) I loved the idea of a Christmas wedding for several reasons...one, I don't like to be hot and I did not want to be all hot and sweaty in my pictures. Two, I love Christmas time, the decorations, lights, flowers, just everything about it. And three, I really don't like to be hot!! Ha!

I would love to share with you just a few of my favorites from our special day, December 9, 2000

We were married at 6:00pm, so these were some that were taken before the ceremony while there was still some daylight

Side note: I loved my hair and makeup, and would give anything if I could get my eyebrows shaped like this again! I need to see if I can go to her for a brow makeover!!

My mom and I (btw - she lost like 30 pounds after my wedding!)

Me and my dad (Buddies, Pals, and Tight!)

A close-up. I was wearing a ring on my right hand that was given to me by my grandmother.

Me and my cousin Katelyn who was our flower girl.

The three amigos, ...me, my brother and sister. Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil! We actually had to pick this one because it was the only one of the three of us that Grace didn't have her eyes closed, but I like it!

One of my favorites from the ceremony. I love the way the candles are glowing.

After the ceremony...

This next one is my all time favorite picture from our wedding. I remember the photographers telling us that there would be one picture that would be panoramic and would take up both pages of the center of our album. When we were standing there, they told us that this "pose" was called "looking to the future". I really didn't know what it was going to look like, but we got our album and when I flipped to that page, it took my breath away! I love it so much! Now, the sad thing is, I got the proof album from my mom to scan these in and discovered that this picture is not in there! I have NO idea where it is, and have about turned my house upside down looking for it. I hope you can tell what it's supposed to look like. I had to take a picture of my wedding album to show you. Here is a picture of a picture! Ha!

Our first dance at the reception. My train did not really bustle right and it was so heavy and kept dragging the ground. During our foxtrot, I was so frustrated with it, I just grabbed behind me, scooped it up and carried it the rest of the time! (fyi: get a detachable train!)

These precious couples were from our Nearly-Newlywed Sunday School class at church. I look in this picture and see some of our dearest friends to this day! I am so thankful that they were able to share in our special day. By the way, a couple of them are bloggers!


Our farewell, the wedding was over, but our married lives were just beginning!

Thank you for sharing in our special day! I would love to see your pics, so go here and show us!