Married Life

Wedding Selfie!

Holy cow I haven't been here in ages. I apologize, but I felt the need to focus my time and energy into my little family. I realize I still have it all Christmas Themed around here so I will change that eventually but since I'm on our laptop I'm quite limited to the things I can do. Plus all my cute blog related decorations are on the desktop and so is Paint Shop Pro.

ANYWHO sooooo WE ARE MARRIED! Haha, of course that happened December 23rd and I'm a little late at updating but oh well. We haven't got all of our pictures back yet so there will be another post with those. Right now all we have is what others took and one preview photo from our photographer. 

Let me just say that this day was the most perfect and amazing day of my life. It was very intimate and actually took place inside my parents living room. We were supposed to do it in the backyard but it start down pouring right when the wedding started. It didn't bother me one bit, rain or shine I was about to marry my soul-mate. As I walked down towards Kenny I could feel the tears start to form but I held them back (which is unbelievably hard to do when your hormones are all crazy) Once I stood across from my best friend and he took my hand everything was okay. Believe it or not he was the nervous one! Yup!! He was shaking and smiling, it was perfect <3 After the ceremony all the pictures were taken and the cake was cut... which we slammed in each others faces lol. We then shared our first dance to "All of Me -- John Legend ft. Lindsey Stirling". Everyone had a great time and so did we. I wouldn't have changed a single thing <3 I'm just glad the people who came had a great time and I'm super happy that Tatiana, Raheen, Tiffani, Nick, my cousin Stephy, and our parents, kids, and Kenny's grandma were able to attend. :)

We had to wait to get our marriage license because of everyone being closed for the holidays. But we were able to get it on December 29th and once we find a nice enough frame it will be for display in our bedroom. The married life is fantastic, I love when I hear people call my new name even though most people at work have been doing it since before we were even engaged lol. I'm not going to lie, it's been hard to break the habit of signing my name the old way haha, hell I went 27 years with it so of course it's going to take awhile before I don't have to pause to think about it lol. I'm so glad I never rushed into any marriages or had any children before Kenny. I know he is the one for me, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I'm here for all eternity and vice versa... here's to us <3

PICTURES!

Our favorites from everyone else

Our Nightmare Before Christmas wine glasses from my parents <3

The only professional picture so far and I freakin LOVE it!

Here comes the...

Haha, don't worry... I'm not engaged (yet) lol. Isn't that the best wedding cake topper ever lol I'm totally a beast at Halo, well I used to be like 5 years or so ago. Anywho, that's not the point in this entry...

Ever since I was a little girl I've always thought about how my wedding was supposed to be and how the dress was supposed to look. Over the years I've realized that weddings are pretty damn expensive especially if you try to achieve the "dream" wedding. I've had ideas planted in my head about how things should be, how things should look, whats supposed to happen and really... it's all a little unnecessary isn't it? I blame the media and well... society too I guess. What I'm getting at is why do the dresses have to be so extravagant? Why do they have to be so expensive? Why do you have to go above and beyond to "impress" your guests? And why do venues have to be so pricey too? 

A lot of people would reply "it's only going to happen once and it needs to be special so you should go all out!" Ok... one, these days hardly anyone gets married once especially the ones who marry young. Second, isn't it already special? I mean you're about to commit and spend the rest of your life with the love of your life, isn't that special enough? I'm not saying going all out is a bad thing... but I really don't think it's for me. Yes, I do have a pinterest board with all my "ooo this is pretty for wedding!" stuff... but in all seriousness, I think I'm going to go through and make it practical and suit it to what I really want and what a wedding should be. 

I'd be happy as can be having an intimate wedding in my parents backyard with close friends and family. Why not? I don't need to invite every single family member nor do I need to invite every person I've ever met. I don't need to try and impress anyone. It should just be me, my soul-mate, and our loved ones. I don't need a over expensive dress that I would never wear again. Why not get a fancy white dress and be able to re-wear it on special occasions like anniversary dates or whatever. I'm not looking for some over the top gathering so that I can post pictures on facebook and 'show off'. I mean... yes there will be pictures lol TONS of pictures but not to show off, just to share. 

Is any of this making sense? What I'm really getting at is, I would already be excited, happy, and on cloud 9 just by knowing I'd be spending the rest of my life with the man I love... no matter how it happened, how much money was spent, or who all was there, that would be the only thing that would matter to me. Oh wait! I'd also like to point something out lol. I know above I said "hardly anyone gets married once"  Well just to let readers know... this woman would only get married once lol. I'm 27, I've got enough history to know what I want and don't want when I get married I know it will last. You may think I'm crazy for being so confident... but I don't give a damn lol.