Our Ceremony: The Procession

Welcome back to Wedding Wednesday!  Today I'm returning to my own wedding recaps.  It was September 20, 2014; we had gotten ready, made it to the church, and took a few photos before the ceremony.  Then, it was time for the moment I had been picturing over and over in my mind, for the past year: the noon walk down the long aisle with my dad, to my future husband.  

As the guests arrived, they were greeted by these two cuties: Christopher and Andrew: Mike's cousins and our flower girl's older brothers.  How great do they look in those purple outfits to match our wedding colors?!

I hid in the limo until just before the music started and Mike walked down the aisle with his dad. As I was walking in, I caught a glimpse of him through the crack in the door (the one over Mike's dad's shoulder in the second photo).  This was the first time I saw him that day, and it definitely made it feel "real."

I joked with my Maid of Honor all morning that it hadn't hit me yet.  When I saw him and heard the music playing... that did it, and this was my reaction, followed by a little girls powwow.

Three of Mike's groomsmen joined him at the alter, and the procession continued with Mike's best man walked his grandmother down the aisle followed by his final groomsman walking my mom down the aisle.  Lastly, before the doors closed, and my dad and I got ready, all my girls, starting with my amazing flower girl, made their entrance.

The doors flung open, and it was my turn with my dad.

Mike and I locked eyes and we both lost it.  Ha - I got him!  I won't post the photo of just 

And then, it was time for the ceremony... which obviously started with a few laughs (why? of course I don't remember haha).  Next week I'll be back with photos from the ceremony!

Now it's your turn! Share your own post with Macy and me for our weekly Wedding Wednesday linkup below:

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Long Weekend Check-In

Hey y'all!  Happy Presidents Day!  I hope some of you are enjoying an extra day off to recuperate from the epicness of last night's SNL 40.  Oh moly, I have never laughed so hard in my life.  Even though the weekend's not over, I still wanted to say hey and recap the weekend so far.  Mike's dad is here, so we've been doing tons of extra tourist-y things, and obviously, it was also Valentine's, so I received some beautiful flowers, a homemade card, and in return I planned a pretty awesome date night (if I do say so myself) and gave him us a gift of a jet ski safari to use this summer.

As for the weekend, we headed out to Kiawah after work on Friday for appetizers and drinks at the Ryder Cup Bar at the Ocean Course and watched the sunset at the Sanctuary Hotel.  

 Saturday, we spent the day downtown and walked like 6 miles around town: lower King Street, the Market, back to Marion Square for SEWE, up to HoM, down to the Battery, back up the the Market, and through all of my favorite narrow streets (Charlestonians - do that one in your head haha).  I'm happy to report that spring has sprung in Charleston and we spotted the first flowering trees of 2015!

amazing Birds of Prey show at SEWE!

After our downtown adventure, we headed out to our date.  Last year Mike's surprise was drinks, roller blading, and dinner.  Somehow I needed to top that this year.  I found an awesome couples deal at Wild Blue Ropes, a high ropes adventure park on James Island.  He was SHOCKED because I was super nervous about going to a new place and being 35' feet off the ground, but it was seriously amazing, and I cannot wait to go back!  They also had a food truck and fire.  We did the challenge course obstacles for a couple hours, ate some food, drank some beers by the fire, and ended the night with some hot and heart-shaped Kripsy Kremes - perfect, right?

Sunday was fantastic, too.  We spent the day with my two favorite beverages: tea and beer.  We toured the Charleston Tea Plantation and Holy City Brewing with a stop at the Angel Oak in between.  I took tons of pictures and can't wait to show y'all these great spots sometime soon!

And, that's it!  Linking up for Weekend Recap, Weekending, and Monday Madness!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Maybe it was that we have our pretty pink and red Valentine's Day decorations up or maybe it's the fact that our apartment was SUPER clean before Mike's dad got here to visit, but for some reason, I was on a roll this week taking photos.  I used a bunch in this post and thought it'd be fun to scroll over to Ashley's blog to see what this week's prompts for Scavenger Hunt Sunday were. I found all five them right in my living room throughout the week.  Enjoy:

Writing:

On the lovely Valentine's Day card from my parents

Curly:

The only day my hair has ever held a curl: our wedding day.  Also, what's funny is the last time I did one of these, we were just about as evenly far away from our wedding as we are now.  I couldn't just put away my wedding tally after the wedding, so I changed it to "days until I'm since I've been Mrs. Taylor."

Pattern:

Patterns on pillows, lamp shades (yes, that one still has the tag on it... it's getting returned for a different pattern ;) ), and even photo frames.

My View:

My typical lunch on days off: my favorite salad (coming soon to a blog near you!) and English muffin pizza.  

Love:

Makeup, candles, roses - all things I'm loving.