Since it's our wedding anniversary month I thought I would share a few wedding photos for readers who haven't seen them before. I loved everything about our big day, it was just as beautiful as I dreamed it would be. Yes, that sounds a bit cheesy, but it's true! 

What was your wedding day like or what do you hope your wedding will be like if you haven't said 'I do' yet? To read more about our wedding click here.

If you have any wedding questions, feel free to ask! 

Are you ready to find out who won the Shop Rite $25 gift card?!! Drum roll please....

Congrats to Heather Walrath! A big thank you to everyone who entered! 

Stay tuned for more wedding fun on Throwback Thursdays! Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Geometric Painted Planter DIY

My husband joked around that he wanted chocolate and flowers for our anniversary, well I just had to deliver his request, right?! Joke, or no joke I had a really fun time putting this last minute idea together for him and was really proud of the way my DIY project turned out. 

I give you my version of the ever trending Geometric Painted Planter DIY...

So, I have a really awesome Canon Power Shot camera, however I am still learning how to take indoor photos. I have finally learned how to set up my shots for the blog using a white poster board for my backdrop, but the lighting isn't that great in my craft room/home office. For now, it is what it is!

Our Anniversary was on Thursday, April 24th and that Monday I had planned on going over to The Home Depot to pick up a flower pot for my husband that I could update with a fun little paint DIY project. Well, I didn't make it to the store until Wednesday after trying on clothes for the fashion show I was in. 

By the time I got there and brought everything home, it was only about another hour or so until my husband would get home from work. So you see, I didn't have much time to prep, paint, and take photos...I was in a mad dash!

OK, back to The Home Depot! They have an amazing selection in their Garden Center, which is why I can't wait to see what Monica over at East Coast Creative shares during the Garden Party she is hosting this Saturday, May 3rd in NYC at the Flat Iron Plaza! If you can't make the party, follow along on Instagram with the hashtag #SpringMadeSimple. You really can't go wrong with buying your garden supplies there, if you're like me you might even have a difficult time choosing the one you want to take home with you, there were just so many beautiful plants to pick from!

I had previously purchased the ScotchBlue™ painters tape at Home Depot for my stenciled lamp shade  and knew it would be a perfect way to free hand a geometric design onto the terra cotta flower pot. I was also inspired to free hand my design with the painters tape from the geometric tote bag my friend Busy Bee Kate made for my birthday, stop by her blog to see the tutorial for that! 

When I took the first photo I realized, "Hey I better tape off the top of the pot too!".... or I would have a DIY blogger fail! 

So, I just eyed where I was placing the tape and made sure the open spaces were in the shapes I was going for and started painting. This was my first time free handing a design and like I said before, I was in a mad dash to get this done before my guy got home from work...as noted by the imperfections of the paint! 

However, I am pretty impressed with my little flower pot and my husband was too, which is what matters here right?! I made him something by hand, with love! 

We celebrated with dinner at Bonefish Grill plus he surprised me with a bottle of my favorite wine, a box of Asher's chocolates and a new Lolita wine glass! 

What are some things you love to buy or make for your significant other for your anniversary? 

Thanks for stopping by today, have a great weekend!

Celebrating 8 Years Together...

Eight years ago today...11/23, I met the man who stole my heart, the guy who loved me more than I ever knew someone could be loved, I met the man I was going to marry. Our life together has been something unexpected, and something no one believed in at first except us. It isn't perfect, and it's messy at times, but there is always love, honesty, and trust. I wouldn't change one day, because every day with him is another day I am loved by a man who inspires me, by a man who encourages me, by a man who is my husband! Forever n Always my love.

So for our Anniversary I contacted Linda of Frog Prince Cake & Cookie Design and gave her an idea and well let me tell you... her cookies blew me away! She took my idea and created something so amazing, and breathtaking. The horseshoe feather design represents our last names and I knew she would be the perfect person to help create the cookie I was looking for! I sent her a photo of my husband's tattoo and she even replicated the colors! 

This morning Mike made me french toast and tonight we're going out to our favorite local restaurant! Do you still celebrate your dating anniversary? 

Anniversary & Easter...

Celebrating your Anniversary on a holiday can be pretty busy and a little crazy, this is especially true when you have three step children. We wanted to make sure we had a moment to ourselves to celebrate our anniversary, so the night before Easter we went out to dinner and had the perfect night together! Everything just came together so nicely. We dressed up, took some pictures, went to eat at Toscana 52 where we had the perfect meal, drinks, and the sweetest waitress, then we went for a walk through New Hope, and after came home to watch Eat, Pray, Love. The movie was really wonderful and done with respect to the book and Elizabeth Gilbert's life, Julia Roberts did a beautiful job, love her!

So on Easter, our actual anniversary, we had Easter baskets for the kids, went for a bike ride, had a little egg hunt (filled with money!), ate a very tasty ham dinner, and cut into our wedding cake for good luck! I was very thankful for our time together the night before and wasn't worried about running around and doing so many things on our anniversary because this is our life, our family, and this is why I'm so loved and blessed.

Will you or have you celebrated an anniversary on a holiday?

(A Perfect Anniversary)

(One Year Later!)

(Our Wedding Cake Top!)

(This is after a busy, Easter day!)

(Happy Easter!)

PS...should have said how the cake tasted! It actually wasn't too bad a year later! It wasn't the same as our wedding day, but it was better than expected! There was still half of it left so we just tossed it, it was weird departing with it!

How to Celebrate....

...your Anniversary! We're keeping our first wedding anniversary sweet and simple, just being together and going out to a nice dinner and then watching "Eat, Pray, Love"...we read the book together but haven't seen the movie yet! How will you be celebrating your one year anniversary?

Please check out my post at Wedding.Allwomenstalk for more ideas on how to celebrate and for more of our wedding photos!

Our Guestbook

YUM...Wedding Cake...we'll be eating the top layer this Sunday!

AWW...LOVE! <3

More from Our Wedding...

Thank you everyone for the sweet comments! I wonder how our wedding day would have been if it were this year? There has been so much rain this season in our area, I'm sure I would have been a bride wearing cute rain boots holding an umbrella! But I wouldn't have let the rain stop our beautiful day! What about your wedding day, were there any crazy storms or events that happened? It actually started to get cloudy right after our reception and the next wedding had to bring their ceremony inside. Here are a few photos from our first look and ceremony...

(All Photos by....Pictures in a Snap)

It's Our Anniversary this Weekend!

Can you believe this weekend, April 24th, it will be our one year anniversary!! I should have started this on Sunday, but better late than never! I'm going to post one picture each day from our wedding day! I wonder what our frozen wedding cake will taste like!

I love you my husband...with all my heart, forever n always, more than anything.

(Pictures in a Snap)

Getting Ready!!

I love this picture...here I am in jeans and a tank with my wedding veil on doing my own makeup at Glen Foerd Mansion!

Happy Engageaversary!!!!

One year ago today my sweet fiance proposed to me!! As you can all see we have evidence...see the banner up top?! We were down the shore on vacation...our favorite place to be during the summer...when he asked a lady nearby if she could take our picture. This is when he got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife! And what did I say...YES!!!! I LOVE YOU my HUSBAND-2-BE!!!

Three years!

One week from now will be our three year dating anniversary...or our pre-wedding anniversary!! I still cannot believe it has been three years. We have been very blessed in finding each other. I love him with all my heart. This coming April will be one year till our wedding! And I will also be trying on wedding dresses for the first time...I think I may have mentioned that before! I am most excited to see our girls (my future step daughters) in their bridesmaid dresses!!