Show Us Your Life Friday--Reception & Honeymoon

Our reception was held in our church Family Life Center. We had a friend of ours introduce us once we arrived in the FLC as Mr. & Mrs. it was very cool to hear my new name again! Just before we were introduced an older man me if I loved him and I said "forever". Which is pretty cool, becuse we saw him about 9 months into our marriage and he reminded us of that at just the right moment. We will remember that sweet moment well.."forever" The tables were dressed with white long table clothes with tall vases filled with espernce roses and white ostrich feathers and rose petals. The Bride Cake table was on a large round table in the center. All of the food and cake tables were draped with lipstick pink satin fabric. We had an adorable candy station with all pink and white candy in apothocary jars. We had John and Lindsey stamped candy boxes for them to take with them as a favor. When I think about our candy station, I think about sitting at my parents kitchen table with mom and my sister sorting through a ton a candy just to pull out the pink candies and then stamping what seemed like a million favor boxes with our "personalized stamp" that a dear friend, Lindsey created and designed for us herself! It was a sweet touch! We enjoyed speaking with everyone who came to see us that day and made sure to thank everyone for coming. We left the church and stayed at really modern hotel called Hotel Preston. It was a really cool place to stay for the night of our wedding. The next day we ventured off to Gatlinburg for our honeymoon. That is a really special placefor us because that is where John proposed and we wanted to enjoy that again. We stayed in an amazing cabin through a spa resort. All week we shopped, relaxed, and enjoyed some amazing dinners. We enjoyed our first week as husband and wife. We were both so excited to come home to really start "real life" It was the coolest drive to our first home! Our little rental home was so special! We worked so hard to make it our own! We painted and bought fun, modern stuff to make the paneling look "good" ha! I'll never forget once we pulled in our road John started saying things like "welcome to our road. This is the first time we are on our road together." It was such a cool moment to drive into our driveway as husband and wife for the first time. And it was there at that very special place, where we began our family!