{One on One}

We had an awesome bridal party. Seriously, the best party in the world. They made everything so much fun, and it was like a big celebration for us on our big day. Everyone pretty much grew up together/knew each other, and I'm sure that's what did it. We had such a great day, and some of the credit goes to them! We love you all!!

First, MOH Stassia!

You are amazing.

Bethany (Beth)!

She is a beautiful person.

SIL Lindsay

So cute, so great. 

Ryan's Best Man, Garrett

Such an interesting guy, 

we've had our ups and downs, but I can honestly say I see him as a friend.

Groomsman, Wade

There's never a dull moment with Wade!

Groomsman, Nick

He is one of our closest friends as a couple. We've been through a lot together (Nick and I went K-12 together!) and he is truly an amazing guy.

I'll say it again, we had such a great day and we love you all so much!

{Group Love-Part 2}

We did two sessions of group shots/bride and groom shots in two different locations. Check out my previous post for the first of the group shots and the post before that for the first session of Ryan and I. We all got loaded up in cars and drove to our second location. These ones are my favorite! Here they are!!

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                      

                                                          

Pretty epic

                                        

           

                                      

                                        

                                        

I love this

                                        

     

              

                                      

What did I tell you....pretty good, huh?

Jenny Venema Photography

{Getting Dressed}

Normally, the title to this post would be weird. But since it's a wedding picture update, I guess it's ok!

Girls get dressed first...

(They're looking in a mirror)

Starting to lace...

It takes a lot of work!

As tradition (I put on her garter at her wedding in February)

One last touch...

All ready to go!

All photos by Jenny Venema Photography

{Getting Ready}

Since I missed this wedding weekend, I'll make it up to you now! Here are the first batch of photos. We got ready at my parent's home, and I had all the girls meet there for a relaxing morning. I ended up sleeping at my home with Ryan, and that morning, I woke up, wished him happy wedding day and left! We are such a breezy couple, I really wasn't worried about 'not seeing him'. Annnnd, we had a 'first look' anyways, so it really didn't bother me. Anyways, here are the photos!

My beautiful Matron of Honor, Stassia

My mouth is full of grapes from our yummy spread!

Bethany, one of the wonderful bridesmaids, looking great!

Lindsay, the other bridesmaid and Ryan's sister, she's cute!

Hair...check!

Make-up! :)

My photographer also had way too much fun with my accessories! Here are just some of the awesome photos!

Our rings with home-made invitations

My jewelry

{confession-I bought these the day before the wedding. I wasn't happy with what I had to I went out searching and came across these beauties!}

My bouquet with one of my bridesmaids. If you remember from this post, I had all the bridesmaids have different bouquets. This was Bethany's.

My bouquet and white ballerina flats. SUPER comfy.

The weather was horrid. It rained all morning making the boys (ushers, groomsmen, dads and anyone else) frustrated when setting up the chairs and the ceremony location. We did have a rain location and it was at the same park. The rain decided to stop just before the boys needed to get ready. I have talked to the woman's home they got ready at and she said that it was shower/suit chaos! After the chairs were set up and the boys were dressed, we were ready to meet them and have our first look. But it was 100% humidity (thanks rain!) and hot out! I feel so bad for the guys, but they didn't complain once! 

Next up: Getting Dressed!

Photos: Jenny Venema Photography

{Wedding Pictures are IN}

I'm so happy, but yet sad at the same time. I feel like there is nothing new wedding wise anymore! I told Ryan this, and he said, "What about our puppy?". Hmm.....I guess my birthday is coming up! :)

Anyways, picture time! :)

I'm a MRS!

Due to my job, I have not been able to blog as much as I would like. However, since I have lots of new material to talk about (pretty sure I got married or something?) I am going to at least write and fill you in on the details of the wedding/honeymoon on the weekends....and who knows, maybe there will be a week day post in there too!!

So, first things first. We do not have our wedding pictures back-our photographer said about a month (which is still almost two weeks away!) but, there are plenty of HONEYMOON pictures! :)

As stated previously, we honeymooned on the island of Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. We had rented a house with a private beach, and let me tell you, it was the PERFECT honeymoon. No tourist, no noise (except the waves crashing on our beach), no traffic, nothing. And expect for Ryan getting a little sun burned, we didn't have any problems! But, I'm sure you're sick of me talking and want to see pictures!!

I'm only going to show you the first day, but believe me, there will be more!

This is the island from the plane...we weren't supposed to take this...oops!

Ocean! Everything's so colorful!

Roadside view....so beautiful!

View from our couch!

First sunset from our deck

My new hubby....he's had a little to drink (rum's cheap down there!)

Me....looking great after a day of flying! 

So, there you have it! The first day wasn't really eventful, we'd been up since 2 am and we were tired! But there will be much more to come including snorkeling videos! :) Stay tuned!

P.S. I'm MARRIED!! I still am so so so excited about that! I love it.