Wedding Post!

Why hi there!

So about two months ago I got married to my best friend in the whole world, and today I thought that I would share a little bit about how my wedding went :) My wedding was incredibly small, and was mostly family oriented. Cameron and I both didn't really want a large wedding, nor are we people who really enjoy large events so a small wedding really did suit us best. My aunt and uncle live in Salem, OR and they have an adorable house that is a hundred year old farm house that has been recently renovated, and the property is quite large as my uncle runs a classic car business out of their home buying, renovating, and then selling a variety of classic cars on eBay. They had a beautiful spot for us to do our ceremony, as my aunt gardens as well, which was in the front yard out in front of the pump house for the well(which is a completely original building), and then we held our reception in the other portion of the front yard of the house. We had about 45 people, we rented everything we needed, self catered, and everything turned out perfect! My brother, my two brothers in law, and two of my husband's good friends served as the groomsmen, while my three cousins, my husband's younger sister, and my best friend for the past ten years were my bridesmaids so we had a wedding party of ten people. So crazy, but so much fun! We did a black and white wedding, but had everything in the afternoon, and kept it pretty casual for our guests. We had pasta, meatballs, salad, rolls, and various beverages for our guests to enjoy :) We also created an Italian soda station(as it was about 90 degrees at my wedding and we were outside), and had Otter Pops as well to help keep everyone cool. Thankfully, my aunt and uncle's house has a wrap around porch as well so there was plenty of shade for guests to use as well :)
The ceremony was simple. One of my good friends was gracious enough to drive to Salem for the day from Everett, WA(which is where I live and is about a 4-5 hour drive from Salem) and perform our ceremony. He wrote a very sweet message that was somewhat like a sermon, but unique to us, and we then each read a short message that we had written for each other before exchanging our wedding vows. We both wanted to do traditional and personal vows so we felt this was a nice compromise between the two :) We then exchanged the rings and that was that! :) It was only about thirty minutes from start to finish, but it was wonderful and absolutely worth it :) Our reception was free flowing, and we really just enjoyed hanging out with our friends and family and celebrating the fact that we were finally married! :) It was so nice to have such a great day go so well(we had only a few small, small hiccups which was wonderful!), and we both had an amazing day :) For anyone who's interested here are a couple pictures from our wedding!

Bride's reveal

The happy couple :)

The wedding party :)

Our lovely ceremony

We just got married!!!!

Our reception area

Our place settings for the guests

Pretty much my favorite picture from the entire wedding :) 

Hope you all enjoyed hearing about our wedding and seeing some pictures! Next up is all about our time in San Diego together :)

OMG IT'S A POST!!!!

Why hello there! So it has been FORFREAKINGEVER since I made a post on here, but my life has been insanely busy for the past couple months soooo I guess let's update on that :)

I guess the biggest thing is that I got married!!! :D On July 8th, 2014 Cameron and I got married and it was absolutely the best day of my life, although it was incredibly stressful getting to that point. We planned an entire wedding in about three months and it was just crazy getting everything done! But somehow we managed to get everything done and paid for on time(paying for everything was my other great adventure with that whole thing), and we had an incredible wedding :) It was pretty small(about 40-45 people in all), but truthfully even if we'd had more time or funds I don't know that our wedding would have been much bigger. We did a simple black and white theme and my aunt and uncle (who have a recently renovated 100 year old farm house and a good amount of space) were very gracious and hosted our wedding which was wonderful and we were so grateful for that :)

After the wedding, I went to San Diego and spent a month down there with Cameron which was awesome! I haven't had an opportunity to spend that much with Cameron since he went away to basic training in basically June of last year so having the opportunity to do this was wonderful for both us and our relationship(Side note: I'm pretty sure that it was actually technically one of the very last days of May 2013 when Cameron left, but yeah, we'll just call it June cuz why not haha) We had this adorable little rental house that was fully furnished, and it was in a wonderful part of town :) We stayed up in La Jolla which was nice since we weren't in the middle of downtown San Diego so it was a much slower pace which was wonderful :) We had the opportunity to go to a farmer's market every Sunday, as well as going to the San Diego Zoo, SeaWorld, Downtown San Diego, and we also had the opportunity to go to Disneyland and California Adventure which is somewhere that I had never been and had always really wanted to go so that was very special :)

So, you may be wondering why I'm not still in San Diego and why I went home to Seattle. Well, sadly, on August 22nd, 2014 Cameron left on deployment and is scheduled to be gone out to sea for ten months which for an aircraft carrier means we're looking at at least twelve to thirteen months before he comes back into port :( So yeah, I've been quite sad about that, but that's why I'm no longer in San Diego :/ In the mean time, I'm still working on my schooling and working and just waiting til my sweetie comes home. I'm thinking that for now that's all I'm going to post, but I'll put some other posts up about some of the things I just mentioned soon!