Our story
How we met | Commissioning and the long distance relationship | Dealing with a deployment | Engagement ring shopping | The proposal | What do we do now?
Wedding planning
The venue
Long distance wedding planning | How we chose our wedding location | Wedding venues in Fayetteville | Hitting the ground running | Hammering away | We’re not going to the chapel | How to plan a wedding in two weeks | Wedding vendor creeping
The dress
What to wear, what to wear | Say yes to the dress, part I | Say yes to the dress, part II | Said yes to the dress, kept shopping | Something old, something new
Wedding details
My wedding food has a first name, it’s nom nom nom nom nom | Like a fat kid loves cake | Putting the cart before the horse | Music, lighting, and all that jazz | Does your wedding have a vision? | How Facebook helped plan our wedding, part I | Ikea, home of moderately priced Swedish goods | Ring ching ching | If you wanna be my lover, gotta get with my friends | Rain, rain go away | Would not a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? | Sweet roses | Building our ceremony | What we didn’t do
Gifts & showers
Sweets for the sweet | The giving of gifts | Showered with love. And presents. And food. | Gifting our guests | Wedding gift smorgasbord | It is more blessed to give | A top night
Paper products
Virginia Tech wedding invitation inspiration | Our Virginia Tech save the dates | Our invitation suite: Spice Grace from Invitation Consultants | My crazy wedding project: pocketfold wedding invitations | How to make wedding program fans
Budget
A non-budget budget | Number crunching
Wedding weekend
Our wedding weekend
Friday, we rehearsed, relaxed over dinner, and hosted an open house. Wedding morning dawned bright and early, we got prettified, then had our first look. We waited for some guests and headed down the aisle. Our ceremony was short and sweet, we finished our family portraits, and then took some bridal party photos. We were introduced at our reception, ate dinner, raised a few toasts, visited our guests, shared special dances, and didn’t smash our cake. Our married friends enjoyed an anniversary dance, and we embarrassed our single friends. We rounded them up for some group shots then snuck out for some private moments while they danced the night away. We partied til the end, packed up the car, and enjoyed a quiet night in our home. Sunday, we said goodbye over brunch and drove into the sunset to an Outer Banks honeymoon.
Our Outer Banks honeymoon
Planning
A lighthouse at the end of the tunnel | More like five lighthouses
Recaps
Just another day with you and me in paradise | Monday Monday | Tuesday showers | Windy Wednesday | Tudor Thursday
Friday free for all | Shop til you drop Saturday
Other wedding posts
Getting married in Fayetteville, North Carolina | The name change game, NC style | Making your marriage military official | The flip side of wedding planning | Vendor review: the big stuff | Vendor review: the little things | My dry wedding | PWC | Our guest man didn’t sign our guest book | 15 minute wedding craft | 20 minute wedding craft