Home is Where the Heart Is: Little Snafus

The morning of the wedding as a little chaotic, so I guess it is a good thing I woke up early. I got a phone call from my mom around 7:30 am. There had been a slight snafu with some of the linens from the rental company. They were the right color, but the wrong [...]

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Home is Where the Heart Is: We Rehearse (part 2)

Now that the photographer had arrived and my Dad had changed his clothes, it was time to get this show on the road. Mr. B was still not in the mood to rehearsal, but rehearse we did. The DOC arranged us at the arch (I really should have worn my spanx – oh well) I [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Wedding Outtakes

(these are actual “Pro Photos” on my wedding disc … don’t ask me why)

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Home is Where the Heart Is: We Rehearse (part 1)

Since this is the official beginning of the recaps, and not the prep work I decided on a new name for this series of posts. “Home is Where the Heart Is” seemed like a perfect fit with our wedding taking place at my parent’s home. Don’t you think? I had been on the fence about [...]

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Home Wedding: Seating Areas

One of the other little touches that I had seen at other home/backyard/outdoor weddings was little seating areas. Mom already had a few areas around the yard, we just moved them around and gave them a “face lift” for the wedding. Area #1This is a nice little area right behind where we had the ceremony. [...]

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Countdown: Flower Friday

Well we have made it all the way to Friday morning! The day before the wedding and the day of the rehearsal. There was still SO much to do … even after all the work we had been doing. My main focus was the DIY flowers. I had 160 sunflowers that we needed to arrange [...]

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Home Wedding: Lighting the night

I had read MANY blogs about outdoor, backyard, home and park weddings. One thing that I knew would be key was lighting. My parent’s and I had discussed different ideas over the last 6 months. Now it was time to put those plans into practice. The first area to get lights was the patio. It [...]

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Countdown: The assembly begin

Now that the tents were up, the lawn was mowed and I had my toe nails done .. it was time to start assembing the last minute details prior to setting up and decorating on Friday and Saturday. My girls showed up to help and we started getting as much done as possible. We started [...]

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Home Wedding: Tents go UP!!

While I was off getting my toesies pretty the rental company showed up at Mom and Dad’s house, just like we had arranged. Look how fast the yard transformed with the addition of the tents: While the tents were getting put up, Dad was busy off loading the chairs and tables with the forklift: Once [...]

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Countdown: Pedicures

Thursday morning before the wedding (T-minus 2 days!) I woke up, got the kids to school then went to meet my MOH and her mom at the Beauty School to get our pedicures. I wore my bright pink “Bride To Be” sash, since I didn’t wear it for the Girl’s Night Out. Yes, we probably [...]

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