One year ago today I married the most amazing man. My best friend. Someone who I feel makes me a better person. Someone who even my friends and family noticed helped me become myself again after a couple of very hard years for my family. I love him so much, and am so excited for our life ahead of us.
In honor of Joe and my 1 year anniversary, I thought I'd share some of my favorite memories from our wedding weekend. This is going to be a long one.
(1) The family bbq my sister threw for us, complete with a cake featuring the character I dressed up as everyday from age 3-5, and I used to tell people I was...
(2) My bridesmaids tea at
The St. Paul Hotel with some amazing women. By the way, in case you can't tell, my sister was super pregnant with those twins I talk about all the time.
(3) My rehearsal dinner. And, most importantly, my rehearsal dinner dress :)
(4) Spending the night with some of my bridesmaids the night before the wedding.
(5) I had a lot of help from friends and family. My sister-in-law Angie did my makeup, my friend Jeana decorated my shoes, my cousin Cortney did my cake, and my mom helped out in a lot of ways. I am so lucky.
(6) I wore the necklace my mom wore when she got married.
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(7) I was adamant about not seeing Joe before the wedding. At one point before the wedding, Joe and the boys walked by the windows of where we were waiting while they were taking pictures. My bridesmaids and mom leaped into action. My mom ran to the windows and closed all the shades, and my bridesmaids all made a wall in front of me so that we wouldn't see each other. It was hilarious. Low and behold, they were one sided windows, so Joe wouldn't have been able to see me anyway...
(8) Joe's reaction when I was coming down the aisle. The kind a girl dreams of.
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(9) My dad was also emotional. I walked down the aisle to "The Girl With The Flaxen Hair" because my dad always said the song reminded him of me.
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(10) Unlike the boys, I did not cry, and instead was smiling like a crazy person.
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(11) We had the cutest flower girl and ring bearer. While I was waiting to come down the aisle, I was wondering why it was taking so long for the music to change. Found out they both took the direction "walk down the aisle slowly" very seriously. I guess my ring bearer also argued with the best man that he was forgetting some twine at the bottom of his ring box. Wish I could have heard that conversation.
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(12) When I was little, I got to walk down the aisle with my sister and a few of my cousins and my cousin Joel's wedding. We weren't the official flower girls, but we still felt like part of the wedding. Because both Joe and I have a number of girls in our wedding that we wanted to involve somehow, we stole Joel and Joanne's idea and had the girl's (including Joel and Joanne's daughter) walk down the aisle at our wedding as "junior flower girls".
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(13) Our wedding site (we had the ceremony at the same place as the reception) handed out champagne for the adults and sparkling grape juice for the kids. The girls really enjoyed it.
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(14) My cousin, Cortney, did our wedding cake and grooms cake out of the kitchen at the hotel everyone was staying at. She had to do so because she works out of Nebraska. They turned out incredible.
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(15) Like I mentioned above, I was obsessed with "The Little Mermaid" when I was little. The DJ at one point played "Kiss the Girl", and, when me and Joe were slow dancing, our friends started dancing around us like the animals in the movie. While I think the drinks they were consuming had something to do with this, I absolutely loved it.
(16) This one I don't have a picture of, but apparently while the ceremony was going on, there was a rainbow. I like to think it was my brother, Eric, who died a few years ago, showing us that he was there. If anyone has any pictures of it, I really would appreciate it if you sent them to me.
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(17) And, of course, the best part, marrying Joe.
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And in case you haven't had enough, here are some more wedding pictures.
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Making sure the ring bearer makes it to pictures
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Our ring bearer crashed the father daughter dance
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