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!

Hello April!

OK, yes it is still March, but I thought I would share a little Hello April print I put together in Pic Monkey so you can share it tomorrow on April 1st! 

As much as I love the month of March {my birthday month}, I love April even more! 

It's our wedding month... April 24th 2010! We're celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary this year and in November we'll be celebrating 10 years together. 

I'm so grateful for this man I get to call my husband, he is so loving and not just to me but to everyone he meets. He has such a big heart and always wants to lend a helping hand when he can, and when he can't lend a hand he lends an ear to listen or words of wisdom to give advice. 

I'm so blessed to have met him, to be in his life, to be a step-mother to his children. They have helped me become the woman I am today and because of them I pushed myself to believe in who I could be. There really is no greater job in life than being able to take care of your children and your husband, because in return they take care of you and you become a family. 

Love rules. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day! 

xoxo

Our 1st Wedding Anniversary is Today!

Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary my husband. I don't know who I would be without you in my life. I would be lost without your love, your encouragement, your trust and faith in who I am and who I want to be. I love our little family and I am the luckiest girl in the world to be your wife and stepmother to your children...our children! I love you with all my heart, forever n always, more than anything! Here's to 100 more anniversaries!

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!

GO STEELERS!!!!!

GOOOOO STEELERS!!! GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!

Wedding Day...Inspiration Board!

It's the weekend and it's been 6 months already!

What are your plans for this weekend? Guess what we're celebrating...6 months!!! Wow...that means it will only be 6 more months until we celebrate 1 year! I love you my husband!

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We're at six months since getting married at Glen Foerd Historical Mansion and Sara @ First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage is getting married this weekend at Glen Foerd!! CONGRATS!! ♥

Our Wedding Rocked...and yours can too!

Every time I see our wedding photos I fall in love with our special day all over again. I remember the beautiful vows that we wrote together, I remember how beautiful my stepdaughter's voice was when she sang to us her own song, and I remember the unity sand ceremony we did with my husband's children (my step children). So many personal memories that were part of our day made it special for us and it's a great way for all brides to make their wedding uniquely their own! On our wedding day I knew that I wanted three very important women in my life to be close to me because they were no longer with us. I had a pin of my grandmother's name, which belonged to her, a heart locket that my other grandmother had given to my grandfather (also no longer with us), and a beautiful butterfly pin that was my great Aunt's. I put all three of these beautiful trinkets on my blue hydrangea bouquet and carried the memories of these strong, beautiful women with me all through out my wedding day and close to my heart is where they will always stay!

To see more of our wedding photos continue reading @ AllWomenStalk.com....

What personal touches and unique memories do you want to make on your wedding day? Where did you find your ideas? I have to give a lot of credit to blogs like Weddingbee where real brides give us wonderful ideas to really make our wedding day special. Wedding blogs have been so helpful in planning our wedding and it's another reason why I love to blog about my own wedding and find ideas for other brides! Thanks readers for being who you are!

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Wedding Budget...

There are so many new brides that I blog with and I was just wondering how long their engagement and planning has been? I know a few of them are getting married very soon...Congrats!! And congrats to all brides and grooms!

We got engaged in July of 2008 and right away we were thinking of a Fall wedding for 2009. I really loved the fall colors, pumpkins, and the weather during this season. However, after we found our venue, which was the only one we had a meeting with and actually took a tour of, we knew that we needed more time to save money. We knew what it would take to really pull off what we really wanted....so our fall wedding of 2009 turned into a Spring wedding of 2010! It took two years and right up to the minute to save, plan, make invitations, bathroom baskets, a card box, a sign for the amazing Adesso Polaroid guest book, find the right cake topper, and make the seating chart for our venue...that was one of the worst things I had to do for our wedding, trust me it sucks!

Many couples have their reasons for their wedding date...some don't have the money or time to save so they plan for a 6 month engagement and some couples like us are lucky enough that we can save for two years for a $20,000 wedding. There are ways to plan and save for all kinds of weddings. Here are a few things about our wedding that may help you plan yours.

1. Our photographer including album was $1200, the DJ was $500 and our videographer was $800.
2. Our venue ( Glen Foerd Historical Mansion) cost half of our budget at about $11,000...most amazing time! Package included 5 hours, 5 different hor d'oeuvres, dinner, open bar, chairs, tables, silver, glassware, plates, pasta station, fondue station, our own bridal attendent, use of their beautiful bridal room to get ready, ceremony on site, and a beautiful historical mansion to take pictures at and walk through!
3. I bought our invitations for $60 at Michaels and printed them at home. (Takes time so plan for this)
4. My Allure W205 wedding dress was $1,000, which was a gift from my mother. PS it's not on their site any more!
5. Our centerpieces, bouquets, bout. and mother's flowers cost about $2000 and were very beautiful...we loved them!
6. We bought the MOH and bridesmaids dresses (Mori Lee)..my two bridesmaids were my now stepdaughters. The dresses were about $200 each with alterations.
7. We rented all the tux for the bestman, two groomsmen and my dad...total was about $400 with a free rental for the groom.
8. Our honeymoon was in Naples, Florida at a beautiful beach front hotel for 6 days, we had a car rental, and air fare for about $2300 not including what we spent there. Best vacation we've ever been on!! Our honeymoon was amazing!
9. His wedding band (the same as Mrs. French Fry's hubby!) was about $300, it's a handsome tungsten by Triton that we got at Robbin's Diamonds where we got both my engagement ring and wedding band. My wedding band was $880 I believe.
10. Everyone had their own transportation....no limo or wedding bus needed!
11. We had an amazing sand ceremony that included my now step children (two daughters and one son), it was one of the moments I will remember forever...because it was about our new family being bonded together forever. And no money can buy that!

Every wedding is beautiful and unique and as bloggers and brides we see these photos online and want to know how they made it happen...and this is how we made it happen!! PS...no budget for a wedding planner...so that was my duty!

Another peek at our wedding day....Getting Ready at Glen Foerd!

(Pictures in a Snap)


My flower headband (the headband part is covered up) was about $12.00 at Claire's and my pearl necklace I believe is from Kohls for about $18.00, and my veil was about $120...I bought it at the same bridal shop where I got my gown. I did my own makeup...very light colors, very natural.

No matter what your budget is, how stressful things can seem, how long your check list gets, don't worry about the little details and things you forgot because in the end its about what it all really means: Your marriage, your committment, your bond, your lifetime together.