My Happy Place

I'll start with a video the day after the wedding. One of my favorite days. Just watching

everyone hang out and fly kites with wizards on them.

One of the best things about living on the beach is the amount of Robe wearing that

commences. It's abundant. Every morning = crosswords and robes. Walk on

the beach? Let me grab my robe. BBQ? I hope I don't get sauce on my robe! It is so much my

favorite thing, that we got them for everyone that stayed in the house, and then some.

It's hilarious to see over ten grown adults wandering around in matching robes. 

Me and J in the morning with ice coffee on the back porch, and the girls in the eve 

watching the sunset on the front porch.  

(No make-up-day-at-the-beach faces. Pleaze don't be upset, ladies).

Anastasia Island hugs the coast of the mainland. It is less than a 1/2 a mile wide in some parts, so 

you have the view of the inner-coastal on one side, and the Atlantic is on the the other. 

Here is our front porch at sunset. The photo does it absolutely no justice. 

and our back porch mid-day. 

The porch completely wrapped around the house, so Delilah held her post as guard

when she wasn't laying in the sun.

Here's another thing: the beach makes your hair look RAD.

I understand that there are a lot of Florida haters out there. I mean, it does have 

a bit of a white trash rep. I love it though. You can walk into the grocery store with no

shoes, and no one judges you. However...St. augustine is a very special place, and most other 

parts of Florida I'm not a big fan of. It's the oldest city in the U.S.

Here are somethings it has to offer:

Hippies with Dogs:

(This one might not appeal to everyone).

Quaint Vintage shops:

Secret Gardens:

Beautiful views from Martini Bars:

Handsome men eating pecan pie at Organic Restaurants:

Cute girls at local bars:

 This is where I am happiest.

The beach is big and clean, and this is actually the most crowded I've ever seen it. 

Me and Del representin Texas. 

Preparations

Dear Readers, My profuse apologies for neglecting this blog for one hundred years. See, the thing is...I got MARRIED. I've been working my b-hang off for about 5 months preparing for the big day, and I gave myself a break from everything else in my life. (Except work, gotta make that monies). So I am back now, and I figured I 'd start from the beginning. Here are some pics of the preparations. 

We basically did everything ourselves. Starting with the save the dates. We ordered sand dollars, and stamped (letter by letter). Attached a string, and conveniently they were received right before X-mas. Ornaments, much? 

We had to make sure they wouldn't break, so we got the handy yellow envelopes that have bubble wrap inside. We then stamped every single one of those too. Flamingo stamp = rocking my face.

Tied them with twine (Cuh-las-sic) and sent them on their way.

(This picture is smaller, so you creeps can't see the addys)

Jonathan and I hand picked all of our invitations too. We found vintage postcards at a shell shack in St. Augustine (our wedding locale). Then, we hand wrote those suckers too. (Don't be mistaken, when I say "we" I mean "me and my mom" I think Jonathan was watching Top Chef).

*please note baby bottom!

The wording and selection of the paper was the hardest. We found a great starfish stamp and down loaded a type writer font, cut the paper and printed em.

 Decor: Here's a giant fabric garland/banner we made. This took 1 million hours. We picked 6 fabrics, tore them into strips and tied them on rope to line the 72 foot porch the reception was held on. (Danielle is tired....shout out to Kandi, she's a fabric tearing robot).

 Here's a little mock up of our vision. The copper corals were the find of the century. 

Each bottle and mismatched vintage plate was found at some thrift store around DFW. This also took FOREVER.

Then we met with our officiate:

View of Downtown St. Augustine. Right outside the Hotel we had our Rehearsal Dinner. 

 WEDDING SHOPPING

REHEARSAL DINNER SHOPPING

These are only a few. There are a tons more to come. Honestly this was the most epic event in my life thus far. We nailed it. The guests were cherry picked to perfection, The best people in the world on the most beautiful for three days, and I've never felt so much happiness ever. More on this later. 

Love you.

A

ahem....

Hey guys, can I borrow $18,000 to buy the dress on the right? I'll wear it to get married in. Yeah, I know it's more expensive than your car, but it's soooo cute, right? 

Updating.

Yes, I realize it has been over 4 months since I last posted. Not that I have a huge fan base....but that's beside the point. This post, and the next couple will be an amalgamation of the topics my brain cells have been spasming over for the last few months.

MOST OBVIOUSLY.....

the wedding....

We flew to St. Augustine, FL right after NY (glamorous, much? NY post to follow...I'm doing this in order of importance) to find the right house and the right cupcakes and a place for the rehearsal dinner and blah-di-blah. Here's some photos of how it unfolded....

Our feet and the beach on we will be wed. Nice, right? Classic foot shot, I know. Check out Jonathan's new Tattoo! Underneath that, more oh-la-la shallow depth of field beach shots. Fancy, eh?

Cupcake demolition....

In my free time I've been scouring wedding blogs....Is this post too saccharine? Here's some of what's inspired me...

Cake and Plates.

Fraking awesome feather necklace, which I have already ordered from the seller on her etsy page..

Typewriter, mason jars, and yummy candles as favors. NOT a big fan of initials, though...unless they are carved in a tree..which gives me an activity for this afternoon...

Strips of fabric and a dream catcher? I think so...

I know this is getting long, but a few more....

We went to eat a this restaurant our last night there. It's called Salt Water Cowboys, and they'll be catering. Fried Alligator anyone? Cheese grits anyone? It's on the inter coastal.... lovely, swampy, steamy, southern yum yum.

And finally, the walkway to the beach from the house. That's right I get to walk down the aisle for, like, 5 minutes. Booyay!

More soon.

Wedding images from green wedding shoes, style me pretty, My DIY wedding day

BYE!