Wedding Wednesday- Bouquets in a Pinterest World

As you read about in Our Next Big Step we are getting hitched. For me the hardest part so far has been to decide what direction I want to go with the theme and over all concept of our big day. So I have a confession, I have a pinterest addiction. I am an addict, I could spend hours every day planning the rest of my life on pinterest and never actually doing anything.

So like every bride to be in our Pinterest world I have pinned away every idea I come across that I may like for our wedding. I have like 15 (slight exaggeration) wedding boards right now. So today I'm going to share with you all of my inspiration for my wedding bouquet.

I love the different colors in this bouquet, and the textures. I also really love how it is wrapped with twine. I'm on a twine kick myself right now. I got this from Style Me Pretty. 

Like any other Southern girl I love myself some pearls. Some people might not consider Oklahoma Southern but us Okie's do. I really like the different textures of this bouquet as well but the pearls, well they steal the show for me. I found this at Brides of Adelaide.

I also have a great love with Peonies, they are my favorite flower and I really want them to be in bouquet. Also, royal blue is my color of choice right now. I have a serious problem with buying and wanting everything in royal blue. So these flowers are gorgeous and I like how it has the little blue berries in it also. I found this over at Sayles Livingson Flowers. 

So far these three are my top picks, I'm sure that whatever I decide will be much different then all of these but will have little pieces from them all. 

What do you think? Which bouquet is your favorite? 

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Our Next Big Step

I mentioned a few weeks ago in my post about Grown up Decisions that Jarr and I got engaged. If you want to hear some about our love story where it all started go check out How Our Love Story Began.  So today I'm going to talk about the most recent step in our journey together.

Jarr and I have been together for almost 5 years, its crazy to think that we have been together for that long but I also can't remember a life without him being in it. He has been my best friend, my strength, my biggest support, and my champion for the last 5 years and I couldn't be more happy.

So a little history first, Jarr and I are the same age and we started college at the same time. But his degree plan takes 5 years and mine only took 4 but I pushed it to 4 and half years because I figured why hurry, lets enjoy this. But as I talked about in Grown Up Decisions we are going to have some big life changes when Jarr graduates this coming May. We have lived together for the last 2 years of our relationship while we have been in college so we know this is it for us, we are each others forevers.

This was such a big step for us! We couldn't be more happy!

So, in a very nontraditional manner we have been talking about and planning out when the best time for us to get married would be since last fall, like August and September. So as I feel like all couples who are serious should do we discuss our finances together. We each know how much debt the other person has and we know how much money the other person makes. Maybe not all couples do this but I think its important as a couple to both be aware of the finances and income of your relationship. Anyway, with this being said, I know Jarr's budget and income when it comes to a proposing. So I wasn't in any way expecting that he had been saving for an engagement ring and had one.

So on a Thursday night I get home from market with my aunt and Jarr asks me if I want to go with him to the free hot air-balloon rides on campus tomorrow. I of course say yes because I have always wanted to go on a hot air balloon ride. So on Friday I go to work and leave a little early so I can beat the traffic and be home in time to go with Jarr.

With the hot air balloon! 

So we went up to campus and got in line for the rides...then waited 3 hours. Yep, we waited in line for 3 hours. During the wait we saw a gazebo and make jokes about it and thought it would be cool to check out. So after we finally got to the front of the line and signed a ton of waivers we walked over to the gazebo. While we were standing in the middle of it talking about the gazebo and how it was like the sound of music Jarr got down on one knee.

I was so shocked I asked him if he was joking. Ha little did I know it was for real, I was so excited. Then he surprises me even more by telling me my mom, sister, and aunt were there and had been waiting for the whole 3 hours so they could be apart of it also. I was beyond surprised and excited that I got to share this special moment with my family. Jarr knows how much they mean to me and I'm so glad he included them in our special memory.

My wonderful family that got to be apart of this with us!

So that's our story, it is just like us. Sometimes the plans don't work out so we figure out something else and it always ends up being better. I'm so glad he proposed in the gazebo and it was a private special moment for just us.

So now the big mess of wedding planning is in full swing. We are narrowing down things and making decisions. I hope you will follow along with our journey to the big day.

What is your proposal story? Did everything go according to plan?

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Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?

 When I was young we used to play this computer game in elementary school. It was a reward we got for things in class. You went on adventures with Carmen all over the world and tried to solve mysteries and figure out where you were.

This was during my senior trip in Australia. 

I've always had a touch of wonderlust but this increased greatly when I visited Australia and New Zealand as my high school graduation present. 2 weeks in the great countries weren't nearly enough time to really get to explore. I have a longing desire to travel the world and immerse myself in other cultures.

This was in Australia on one of our last days. 

So I am working diligently to convince Jarr that we should travel all over the world together and learn about other cultures and go on adventures. I know that I will get him to give in to some places I want to adventure to, others however, he isn't so keen on going to.

All of this to say that we will be traveling in a few weeks to our possible wedding destination to try out the food, cakes, and adventures. I am very excited for our trip and looking forward to learning about a new place even if it is in my great states of America.

Do you have a touch of wonderlust? Where would you like to travel? 

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How Our Love Story Began

Our love story starts like most do, boy see’s girl, seriously embarrasses himself falling over first base in the middle of a baseball game. Then after the game girl’s aunt decided to introduce said boy and girl and their entire families.

Just your typical love story of high school seniors awkwardly meeting for the first time while their whole families meet also. See the thing is, my aunt was Jarr’s high school counselor. He played on the same baseball team as my cousin and we spent most of our lives going to the same events and attending things together and never knowing it. So during baseball playoffs our senior year of high school my aunt introduced us. We awkwardly talked for a few days during the Regional tournament and then went on about our day

Our sophomore year of college. 

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Here comes the clincher, I, myself the girl, text my cousin and told him that if Jarr asked for my number it would be okay to give it to him. I know, how romantic. But, the best part, Jarr had my cousin’s phone when I text him and read the message! Geez, I was so embarrassed!  I mean I was trying to be slick and play it cool and then that happens. Seriously, how embarrassing is that.

Another from our sophomore year. 

Anyway, I’m glad I made that first move because it obviously worked out. But at the time I was extremely embarrassed. So we started texting, and talking on the phone for a few weeks and then I somehow got coerced into being his prom date. Which we ended up not going to, we only went to the casino after prom party and then proceeded to play games with his dad all night at casino night.

But our first real date that Jarr asked me on was to go to church with him. That’s when I knew he was real contender and this could be more than just a summer fling before we both went off to college. So we went to church, but not regular church. Children’s Church. That’s right, Jarr was a Children’s church helper and that’s how we spent every Sunday for the first two years of our relationship. We had a blast going to church together and our kids, that’s what I always called them, were so much fun. We taught a 3 and 4 year old class and did arts and crafts with them during part of children’s church. During this time we learned so very interesting lessons from them.

The summer after our freshman year of college. 

So now you know how it all started, this is the beginning of our love story and here we are almost 5 years later.

What do you think about our interesting start?