The day of our wedding, I woke up bright and early at Melissa's house (I woke up before the alarm went off... It was too exciting. I kept saying, "It's Christmas! It's Christmas!" ha ha). Melissa was good enough to get me started with a giant cup of coffee and My Super Sweet 16. Yes, there was a marathon. It helped calm me that at least I wasn't as crazy as those kids. ;)
A couple-few hours later, all my girls showed up and we enjoyed a fantastic breakfast (Bloody Marys and mimosas included!). Everybody hung out for a while and most people got ready there at Melissa's house. Emily came over and fixed my hair, and I had a few moments to relax before heading to the church...
Many pics are below, so keeeeeeep on goin!
Monday, December 21, 2009
One Year Ago Today (Err... yesterday!): The Big Day
Chandle drove me to the church in David's truck (I was too excited, and of COURSE she was the first one ready). Kat did my makeup (THANKS, Kat!), and soon it was time for pictures at the church. I had spoken to Jeremy on the phone a couple times that day, but we had not seen each other. Poor guy had just a couple things to do that day (make sure we had our room at the Peabody... call the taxi for a ride to the hotel from the reception... finalize our music list, etc.). But it all came together, and it was finally time!
This is one of my favorites of him from that day...
It was then finally time for us to get to see each other. We decided to do pictures before the ceremony because we wanted to join the party with everyone as soon as we could! We were both really excited...
Here are just a couple of the posed pictures we took before the ceremony... if you want to see more, check out our wedding blog.
It was officially time. I remember I wasn't nervous at all (just excited!) until I heard the organ music start. Here's a picture of Chandle, Kat, and Katie peeking out of the room where we got ready into the sanctuary, where they could see people starting to fill up the room.
I also didn't cry... until I talked to my parents, of course. But I pulled it together!
Here are our vows. I absolutely love them. So much, in fact, that they made me CRY when I was trying to say them. I had forgotten how much they meant to me (it had been a little while since we had picked them), and I was surprised at how touching they were:
I, Jeremy, take you, Elizabeth, to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever. I will trust you and honor you I will laugh with you and cry with you. I will love you faithfully through the best and the worst, through the difficult and the easy. What may come, I will always be there. As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep. So help me God.
I, Elizabeth, take you, Jeremy, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever I will trust you and honor you, I will laugh with you and cry with you. I will love you faithfully through the best and the worst, through the difficult and the easy. What may come, I will always be there. As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep. So help me God.
Now that the ceremony was over, it was time to head to the reception. It was a little ways away from the church, and we're really lucky that our friends and family had the option of staying at the site for a whopping $22/room! ;)My dance with my papa/Jeremy's dance with his mama: "The Way You Look Tonight" by Rod Stewart (my dad loves him... I might have a special place in my heart for Rod too, hee hee).
Our first dance together: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole. It still makes me tear up when I hear it...
I gotta tell you, I honestly had the best time at our wedding. We watched the video on Saturday night, and we just kept talking about what a good time we had. People always tell you that it goes by too quick and that you don't have a chance to enjoy it. If you saw me at our wedding, I think you knew I was having a good time. I was allllll smiles, right? ;) It truly was a beautiful, beautiful night. 
However, all good things must come to an end, right? This was right before Baby and I took off. Also about the same time we realized that the taxi wasn't going to be there to pick us up (since it was out so far, they had try to call us to "confirm" even though we had set it up already... we didn't get a signal out there, so they decided not to show. Luckily for us, Joe was kind enough to give us a ride to our hotel). I really didn't want the night to end (apparently, it didn't for our guests! ha ha). But it had been such a great night, and it was time for us to head out so we could get up early to head to Memphis to catch our flight to Tybee. 
Here is our getaway: complete with "snow!" (it was dissolvable confetti... pretty sweet). People were throwing entire cups of it at us. It was awesome.
Hee hee, I love this picture. Jeremy would like to add that if he could give advice to future brides/grooms out there, he would recommend keeping your mouth closed as you run through things people are throwing at you. Definitely got mouthfulls of the stuff.
Here is our getaway: complete with "snow!" (it was dissolvable confetti... pretty sweet). People were throwing entire cups of it at us. It was awesome.
Hee hee, I love this picture. Jeremy would like to add that if he could give advice to future brides/grooms out there, he would recommend keeping your mouth closed as you run through things people are throwing at you. Definitely got mouthfulls of the stuff.
It's been great recapping everything that happened that night. I know I forgot a lot of details, but what I DO remember is that it was a wonderful time. Thank you (again) to everyone that was there for us and helped us throw this fantastic shindig. It was amazing. Also, a very happy first anniversary to Jeremy. I can't believe this year has gone by already. I am a very lucky woman to have you in my life. You mean the world to me, and I can't wait to see what the future will hold for us.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
One Year Ago (Part 5)
Imagine it's December 19 now...! Since Baby and I leave for Eureka tomorrow, I thought I'd pre-post. ;)
The rehearsal! It was finally here. PS, my mom is HILARIOUS, don't you think?? Ha ha. By this point, everything was DONE (well, for me anyway... poor Jeremy still had one or ten things to do). All that was left was the fun. It became real when everyone started showing up for the rehearsal. And errrm, when Jeremy realized that we (I) had forgotten to print off the hymn that folks were supposed to sing. Luckily I have an awesome brother-in-law who took care of everything (thanks, Greg). Keep scrolling: many many pictures below!!
Our rehearsal dinner was at the Oyster Bar (YUM!). We had lots of food: catfish, etouffee, gumbo, fries, pies! Everybody had a good time (at least I did!). There were speeches (Jeremy, Melissa, Justin, Ryan, David, and our pastor). There were tears (happy ones!) and lots of hugs. Our folks made a DVD slideshow of pictures of us as sweet little babies (we were cute kids, yes?). The whole night was laid-back and just what we needed to unwind before the wedding the next day...
Afterwards, I spent the night at Melissa's house (I haven't done that in a long long time). Greg even stayed somewhere else and let us have the whole house. Kristen came over and she, Melissa, Paige, and I hung out for a little while longer. It was a great, great night... Here are some more pictures from the night (scroll on!)
One Year Ago Today (part 4)
Imagine it's December 18th...!!This is the blank slate that we started with on Thursday! Your eyes do not deceive you... that IS Zoey down in the bottom right corner. The pups came along with us one night when we hauled stuff out there. They loved it. When they barked, it echoed, and they got real freaked out.
But I digress...! Thursday was spent decorating the 4-H Center. I loved it that we could do pretty much whatever we wanted with the room, AND that we had tables and chairs for free (I'm telling you, they were very generous). Right away, we started rolling out the tables and the chairs and setting up everything where we wanted to go. The deliveries came that day and everything went very very smoothly. My folks, Bill, and Donne showed up to lend hands (THANK GOODNESS!) and really took over on jobs. Julie was also awesome and decorated the trees for us (very well, might I add). My dad and Bill were put in charge of hanging the icicle lights alllllll around this giant room. Everything was perfectly straight. Things were really getting rolling when.... the lights went off. They were working on some construction nearby, so they shut the power off on us! As you can see from the pictures, there are NO windows in this place. But there WERE two giant doors on both sides that rolled up. It was chilly, but we had just enough light to keep on going. We made sure the lights would be back up at some point before the big night (and they were, like 2 hours later...). Again, thank you to EVERYONE who ran errands, helped decorate, and picked things up for me. Couldn't have pulled it off without such a great crew.
The rehearsal was just one day away...!
One Year Ago Today (Part Three)
December 17th, 2008, was spent mostly with family during the day. We had already gotten our marriage license... I just wanted to post this picture. ;)
I'm not going to lie, I had a complete nervous breakdown this day for about 10 minutes. I swear that's as bad as I got the entire time (right? RIGHT?? Tell me I wasn't too bad! Ha.). I realized that Grandma Jean's visitation was going to be on Thursday, and her funeral was going to be the day before the wedding. All of these things were completely fine, except that we had planned to spend the entire day on Friday decorating our reception site. We had "volunteers" lined up. All deliveries that were to be made for the wedding were happening on Friday. And there was no way we were going to be there.
I remember we were about to leave to drive to Benton, and all of this hit me like a ton of bricks. We would have to move all of our Friday things to Thursday. And I burst into tears. Which I really don't do very often. Jeremy pulled the car over, and he talked to me. He helped me realize that it truly was not a big deal. We could totally get everything done on Thursday, and we even had some wonderful family and friends who could help us that day (I can never thank you people enough!!). So that's just what we did. And everything worked out just fine. I also realized how very lucky I am to have these awesome people in my life this day. You guys are amazing.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
One year ago today (part two)
One year ago today, Jeremy's sweet sweet Grandma Jean passed away. I was so glad I had gotten to know her. Jeremy and I would spend the night with her every once in a while, and we visited her often (she lived in Benton). It was really nice having a grandma in town (she liked for me to call her grandma too). She was fantastic- one of my favorite memories of her is last Thanksgiving (2008) when Jeremy and I had both sets of parents and Grandma Jean over. She ate a LOT (she never really ate much at home). She loved the cheeseball I made. She kept asking for more. She ate two pieces of pie. And after dinner, she wanted to go out on the deck and have a smoke. ;) We paid tribute to her (and our other relatives that we have lost) at our wedding by displaying wedding photos of our loved ones. She was a sassy lady, and she will be dearly missed. More to come...!
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