melissaepiphany's Black Wedding Blog - Wedding By Color

Bridesmaid Dresses - My Parents Get Married This Weekend! :)

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:50:00 PST

My Mom and Dad are getting married this weekend, after 25 years together <3 They are having the whole wedding on their property in the country and having a BBQ dinner. It's going to be very very casual. My sister and I are her Bridesmaids. I can't wait :) The ceremony is at 6 in the evening, so we are getting hair and makeup done at noon :) These are our dresses. Both are from vintage stores in toronto. My sister bought me mine for my 23rd birthday, and turns out it was perfect for my BM dress :) What do you think? Also of the hairstyle? I thought it would go nicely with the dress and be casual but still pretty. Wish us luck! We have been waiting years for this. I'm so happy and proud of them. They never got married because all these years they have always had issues (long story) but they've over come everything together, and I have always seen their love and strong foundation there. I just want their day to be perfect :)

Wedding Music And Songs - Music for my parents Wedding

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:42:00 PST

This weekend is my parents wedding. Yes, they are getting married now, after 25 years! Anyways, they are having an inexpensive, back yard wedding on their property. My husband and I are getting all of the music together for them. I am going to separate 3 different CD's.. dinner music (Which won't be formal dinner, just some tables for people to sit, or they can stand if they want, for the BBQ) Then reception dance music, and then a CD with just their special songs on it like their first dance etc. so that it's not randomly mixed in with everything else. Any other suggestions at all? I'm nervous and want it to go perfectly fine! I'm going through all of thier favorite old cds and picking songs from there as well. PS. I miss WBC! I got married 8 months ago, and I used to come on here ALL the time. I know some of the same girls still come on here, but I know there are tons and tons of new ones! Welcome to the new ones and Happy Planning :)

Wedding Photography - Wedding Photo's I Shot :)

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:13:00 PST

On NYE I shot my husband's Aunt's wedding. This was my first time, Im' an amateur, and I normally don't do people pictures. So these are some of my faves, and apparently she was really happy with them! I so hope I did a good job. Like I said, this is my first time ever and I've never taken classes or anything, it's just a hobby! PS. i just uploaded WAY more than this and now none of them are showing. Maybe I'll re-add them again later... ugh

MUST Have Shots! - I'm photographing a Wedding tomorrow!

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:54:00 PST

My husband's Aunt is getting married tomorrow evening. (NYE) She asked me to be her photographer. I've NEVER done a wedding, and I'm just an amateur, but I have a nice camera and (hopefully) a good eye. Today I am going over and over and over my wedding photo's, and taking notes etc on the shots I just can't miss and the ones I'm glad I had, and or wish I had. What are your must have shots ladies that you can't/couldn't do without on your wedding day? Wish me luck, I'm very nervous!

June 18th, 2011 - My parents are getting Married!

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:51:00 PST

I am happy and proud to announce that my mom and dad are getting married June 18th, 2011 :) A little story: My dad worked as a Chef at a fancy restaurant, my mom was a waitress. My dad saw my mom come in for her interview, and told his boss "Hire that girl" sure enough she was hired. They got together and moved in together, and had me a couple years later. They never got married though. They've had a lot of problems together honestly, and fought quite a lot when I was growing up. They even separated once. I've seen them go through soo many things together, and even through everything, they've pulled through every time. I know their love is strong deep down, and they have a loving foundation in their relationship, despite what problems they've had. My dad actually proposed to my mom when I was little. But they never set date because they continued to have problems over the years, but always stayed together. Lately, they've been talking about finally getting married, and over the Christmas holiday they decided they wanted to set a date! My sister and I were home and we all decided on June 18th, 2011 :) It will be an outdoor wedding, probably a BBQ etc. They don't want big and fancy, but just a beautiful ceremony out in the country on their farm. I'm going to use WBC to start planning my mom and dad's wedding and get ideas and plan on the type of wedding they are going to have :) Thanks Girls!

Wedding Photography - Pro Pic Couple Shots!

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:42:00 PST

Took lots of couple photo's on our day. We took lots outside. After pictures with our wedding party, they went inside, we took some photo's, it started to rain so we got to use our umbrella's for a bit! We went inside, took some there, and then took more outside with our party :) Love them all!

Wedding Photography - Just Bridal Shots :)

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:43:00 PST

Hey Girls, So through out the whole day of course the photographer took TONS of shots of just me :) Just thought I would share them!

Wedding Photography - Our Fun Wedding Party Shots!

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:06:00 PST

We had so much fun doing these. Of course after the Ceremony, we did family photos, and then wedding party photos. We took most of them outside, then everyone went inside for a little bit for some drinks, etc, and David and I took photo's upstairs in our room, then we went back outside with the wedding party for more photo's. I'll share our couples photo's separately :) Enjoy! We had soo much fun and our wedding party told us how fun it was too :)

Wedding Ceremony - Pictures and Details...

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:20:00 PST

As I said in my last post, the moment right before the ceremony (first picture on the left) I will never forget. I came from my room, and my parents and his parents hadn't seen me completely ready to go yet. I walked down the spiral staircase and they were quiet and just saying "wow" etc. I started choking up and getting teary but I kind of giggled nervously too. I walked down and met with them and the wedding coordinator who made sure I was ready to go. We headed out to the ceremony location where everyone was seated and looking our way. The bag pipes started and my girls went ahead. I held on to my dads arm tightly, and the bagpiper stopped and started a new song for us. We headed down the aisle, and made it to the front with my fiance staring at me the whole time :) We weren't sure that day if we could have it outside. It was kind of a chilly, over cast day, but we went for it anyways. As soon as we said our vows, the sun completely came out, it was a PERFECT coincidence! I teared up a few times but did a lot better than I expected. I almost felt like I was kind of too nervous to cry, and I was thinking so many things that I couldn't even think about crying really. We also had my friend (Alexxh on here!) do a reading. The reading was actually a song by The Black Keys, one of our FAVORITE bands, and it worked out perfectly! The ceremony was perfect. The only slip up: Our last name is "Peachey" and the Officiant said "PeachLEY" but corrected herself. Luckily every one laughed, and so did we. It was a little annoying looking back at it, but we didn't even stop to care about the mistake when it happened really. The ceremony was beautiful and we wrote it on our own. The ceremony and the time leading up to it was definitely one of my favorite parts of the day.. <3

Professional Pics are IN! - Getting Ready Photo's :)

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:00 PST

Hey girls, So finally just got our pictures back this week! Can't wait to post them for you girls! I am going to do it in chunks.. so I will start with getting ready! Well, my sister stayed with me at our parents place the night before the wedding. The morning of, we woke up early, got ready a bit and then waited for my MOH to show up. We left with my mom to go to the salon. My other BM met us there and my other one was doing her hair and make up herself. It kind of almost didn't even feel like it was finally the day! It just felt normal but my stomach was a little nervous feeling but also very excited! We got there, I got my nails done while all the girls and my mom and FMIL got hair and make up done. I brought in my inspiration picture of my hair, and I was SO happy with how it turned out. Honestly, I didn't know if it would work and it felt VERY vintage and classic. I was thrilled with my hair! Make up too :) We left here, and since it was a cloudy-ish day, we stopped at the dollar store and picked up 4 black and 1 red umbrella for photo's! This was very last minute, but glad we got them. We went straight to the inn and relaxed for a bit, took photo's of my dress, etc. I got cheese and crackers and fruit for lunch. And we snacked on that and some salads. My 2 other BM's showed up and they all got dressed and took photo's. I got dressed last and my mom and dad showed up about an hour before the ceremony. I was SO excited hanging out in the room waiting, and so nervous at the same time, but I loved the feeling. The night before we lost the MC duties list! And my fiance had to come in to the room and look for it! Even though I KNOW he had it somewhere in his own room. I had to hide in the bathroom and my girls covered my dress when he looked around. We were talking through the door of the bathroom and I was explaining that he must have it, lol. We didn't see each other since the night before. As the BM's were having pictures done, FMIL BURSTS in to the room, "MELISSA, THE LIST IS MISSING WE HAVE TO MAKE A NEW ONE NOW!" I told HER to relax, lol! And we re-wrote it. Everyone was looking for it, friends, family, the wedding coordinator. (This was about 30 mins before the Ceremony!) Anyways, a little while later, guess what? Fiance found it in his room, haha. My mom came up to see me as I got ready. I got dressed, got my shoes and garter and veil on. I was nervous the veil wouldn't look right, I couldn't get it perfect when I tried it before, but that day, the veil went on PERFECT the first time. It almost felt like I was in a dream, all my girls just watched me and kept telling me how beautiful I looked. I felt amazing. I started to hear music play outside and I realized that most of the guests were there and waiting. I got a call soon after to go down to the lobby to get started.My photographer and I did a little photo shoot in the hall minutes before the Ceremony. After this, I walked down, and met my mom and dad, FMIL and FFIL down there with the Wedding Coordinator. I remember so well walking down the stairs to the lobby and I remember my parents and FFIL and FMIL watching me in silence and smiling and getting teary eyed. I started giggling a little and choking up at the same time. I can't really explain this, but it was an amazing feeling... I'll always remember that specific moment. These are my getting ready photo's... Enjoy :)

More Sneak Peeks - A few more sneak peeks!

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:10:00 PST

So it's been a month since our wedding and we have yet to get ALL our photo's still.. but a few have been trickling in here and there from our photographer. She was on vacation for 2 weeks after our wedding and has 2 jobs, so we haven't gotten them as quickly as I had hoped, but what I've seen so far, I'm falling in LOVE with! Here are a few more, and when I get them ALL, I will make posts with details of getting ready, ceremony, reception, etc etc. I have yet to see ANY ceremony pics, and only have 2 reception pics! Here are a few more. I LOVE the black and white one of us dancing. If any of you girls have facebook! Here's a link to a slideshow! (honestly don't know if it will work though with how facebook works etc) http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=170560412961883&ref=mf

Wedding Photography - More Sneak Peeks! I cried!

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:10:00 PST

So girls, I still haven't gotten all of our photo's back (our photographer is on vacation!) but she sent me a few for our thank you cards. I literally cried when I opened the black and white one of us walking down the aisle. Just wanted to share some more sneak peeks, and to also get your opinion on what pic we should use in our thank you cards! We might use a few and send different ones to different people. Thanks girls! I'm SO excited about these ones!

Our Wedding Day :) - Details, Details

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:28:00 PST

Hi Girls :) So, I do not have all of our wedding photo's back, probably not for a couple more weeks, but I still wanted to post a blog about our wedding day, while it was still fairly fresh in my mind :) I will post professional photo's when I get them, in chunks like "getting ready", "ceremony", etc, with the little details later on. So I'll have lots of posts, hope you don't mind! :) So. The rehearsal dinner was the night before at 6pm. Our photographer actually was there already and took pics of this even!!! We ran through everything outside. At this point, I was really nervous the next day it would have to be moved inside. It was pretty chilly, like 10 degrees celcius. I thought for sure it'd be inside. Next morning I woke up early with my sister, got ready, and my MOH came over, and my sister and MOH went to the hair/make up salon. We met my FMIL and other BM there. Our hair was amazing, as well as make up. I was SO happy with how mine turned out. It was exactly what I wanted, and I felt, very vintage :) After this, MOH and sister and I ran in to the Dollar Store and grabbed 4 black umbrella's and one red one (last minute eh?!) because it was pretty cloudy.. We went straight to the inn. My fiance and his groomsmen and Best Man stayed at the inn the night before. They were all hanging out in my room! (He slept there night before) And so I had to send someone up to move them out while I hid in his Grandma's room. Finally, we relaxed a bit.. we had about 3 hours to relax and get ready. I had a light lunch (I was SO nervous) crackers, cheese and fruit. ONE PANIC!: My FH knocks on the door, looking for the MC duties list. I had to hide in the bathroom and my girls had to cover my hanging dress while he searched the room for it. I was yelling from the bathroom "You took the list last night! it's not in here!" lmao. He left, and later, my FMIL comes FLYING in to the room "We can't find the MC's duties list!" (our MC was nervous as heck!) and it was lost. Her and I re-wrote the entire list of what he was supposed to say 10 minutes before the ceremony! RIGHT as we finished, a knock on the door, and my future hubby had found the list. We got ready. As I was getting dressed I could hear the bag piper outside playing for the guests.. I was getting a little nervous.. We headed downstairs where I met my parents and his parents. My dad walked me down the aisle and cried. It was beautiful :) So, the ceremony ended up being outside, it was a little chilly, (pretty chilly!) but it wasn't raining. Actually, the sun came out JUST as we started our vows, no joke, it was perfect. Took amazing photo's, and had a lot of fun. It rained just a little bit while David and I took Bride and Groom photo's together. But we had our umbrella and took pics under it :) Dinner was fabulous. I honestly couldn't eat a lot, but I managed. People tinkled their glasses and we'd kiss, and they would donate spare change to a local Turtle Trauma Centre in our area. We raised 77$! Speeches were great. They were funny, beautiful, and touching. My dad had something written, but went up and said he decided to just say what was on his mind at the time. Everyone loved his speech, and it meant so much to me. The reception was tons of fun. We went around and talked to everyone (So happy we had about 70 people!) I loved the size and amount of people there. It was perfect, and intimate and fun. We knew everyone really well. We danced a lot and had a beautiful evening :) Only other problem: The flower shop did not send me a throw away bouquet, so I had to throw a bridesmaids bouquet, which really sucked because it fell on the floor and flowers fell out :( The girl who caught it gave it back to my BM (Sister) So really the day was perfect, except for the MC list going missing and the throw away bouquet not showing up. I REALLY took all the other Bride's advice and tried to take things REALLY SLOWLY. And to just stop. And look around. And take a breather and take it all in. I highly suggest this. I'm glad the past brides made this really clear. Because I didn't feel my day went too fast. It was perfect. I remember pieces from the day in slow motion because I really tried taking everything in. Sorry for the huge length, but wanted to share with everyone :) Really, don't let little things get to you. I refused to let the MC list go missing freak me out, or the bouquet not showing up let me down. Because now, those little things don't affect me. I won't remember those little things. I'll only remember the amazing, beautiful day we had. So don't let little mishaps get you down, and slow down and take a moment to really look around and record it in your mind. Love all you ladies, and will post professional photo's with all the little details later on :) Hope you don't mind all the future posts coming up!

Wedding Day - Non-Professional Photo's

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:35:00 PST

Hey girls! I'm about to go off to my first day back at work after the honeymoon :( So again, not much time to post how the day went, but I PROMISE I will soon! (It was just perfect by the way!) Only a couple tiny mishaps. Anyways, just wanted to post some photo's friends and family took. I have a few professional sneak peeks down below. I promise to make a post of exactly how the day went within the next day or two. Can't wait to tell you all about it! :)

Wedding Day - Sneak Peek Pictures!

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:38:00 PST

Hey Girls! Our wedding was AMAZING! It went absolutely perfectly. We are on our honeymoon right now, so this is only a short post, I *PROMISE* when we get back home I'll give all the details and loads more pictures! For now this is a sneak peek for those waiting :) So again, just a few from our photographer, and I promise to post more later with more details :) But our whole day was wonderful and perfect. Love, Melissa

MelissaEpiphany Signing Off! - 1 day to go! Signing off!

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:25:00 PST

Hey Girls, So I'm back at my parents place for the wedding. We got to decorate today! (Thurs) so that is awesome. Our hall looks amazing.. our pumpkins are perfect and are going to look so awesome lit up all over the room. Tomorrow we don't really have to do anything.. FH's mom just told me to show up for the rehearsal dinner! We are really done everything.. just have to decorate the dining room and outside for the ceremony on Sat. morning! I'm trying to even now take one moment at a time and take things in slowly! I started on here at 2 years, now I'm at 2 days. Thank you to every one of you girls! You have all been soo helpful and so supportive and have really guided me in the right direction. I honestly don't know what I would do without all of your opinions and support. I'm so glad I found WBC. Thank you so much everyone, and I will have sneak peak pics posted next week! Can't believe Saturday I'll be marrying the man I love and my highschool sweetheart. It's finally here :)

Honeymoon - 3 days to go and JUST booked the Honeymoon!

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:10:00 PST

haha, so we just booked our honeymoon today! We couldn't afford to go anywhere far right now, so we decided to rent a cottage not too far away. It's right on the water, and there is a canoe, and bikes etc. for our use. i can't wait to get away with just my FH. We've never been on a trip just the two of us, ever! :) I posted pictures of our honeymoon spot :) I think it will be really romantic to have fires and listen to the water.. there is a deck right off of our bedroom too. I'm so excited :) We'll be gone from this Sunday till the following Sunday! Been packing and doing last minute things tonight! May not even post on here till I'm back at my parents place for the wedding!

Bad weather :( - Saturday Only :(

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:38:00 PST

This is such a disappointment.. I know I can't be picky with the weather obviously, but only day all week it's just going to rain, will be the wedding day. I think we're going to buy some plain black umbrella's for photo's. Ugh I know I shouldn't care because there's nothing I can do about it, it's just rain with overcast skies is just so ugly. I'd prefer if it said thunderstorms Saturday. I love it when theere are huge dark clouds and there is thunder rumbling off in the distance and it looks like it could rain any second, that is actually my favorite weather, but not just plain grey skies with constant rain all day :( Oh well, nothing we can really do about it. Guess our wedding will be moved inside.

4 Days - FOUR DAYS!

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:48:00 PST

Only 4 days left!!!!!!!!!! I have 2 days of work left. My mom is coming tomorrow to stay the night and bring us back for the wedding. We'll be picking up my sister along the way. My Uncle is back from Tokyo.. I can't wait to see everyone! Only 2 work days left, then Thursday I pick up my wedding dress, and we actually get to start decorating the hall! Which is awesome, because then we can get that ALL done way before the weekend! We have a few last minute things we are working on. We're finishing up our speech right now, picking photo's for our frames, etc, just little things. Only 4 days to go!!!

Ask a Question - Skip the Wedding Party Dance?

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:29:00 PST

Can we just skip the wedding party dance? I have only days to decide! I've been trying to pick a song for MONTHS and I just can't find anything that's not awkward as hell. It just seems kind of like I'm being mean if I make them do one. We have 4 girls and 4 guys. Our one BM and one Groomsmen are married to each other. Everyone else, they just kind of know each other, and I just KNOW they'll be and feel awkward.... I feel like they would be relieved if we just canceled it lol. I know they would go along with it too though. Unless anyone has a NON sappy slow song they can suggest, can we just not have it? Is anyone else not having it? Thanks girls! Only 4 days!

Shoes! - Way too cute :)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:48:00 PST

I only JUST picked up my shoes yesterday! I wanted sparkly converse, we looked EVERYWHERE. We couldn't find them, and then finally we found these at Payless. They're not the real converse, their Airwalks, but whatever, it gets the job done! I love them and can't wait to wear them. I'll be wearing them the whole time, Ceremony and Reception, and I know my feet won't hurt a bit :) Also, got my hair dyed on the weekend! I love it dark dark again :D (not the best pic of me though) I also had my Bachelorette, and I will post photo's of that later!

Bachelorette Sashes! - Made Our Own Bachelorette Party Sashes!

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:16:00 PST

Hey! Tonight is my Bachelorette Party! (SO excited!) We are going out for some drinks at a cocktail lounge, then just bar hopping I think! My fiance's Bachelor party is tonight as well, they're going bowling, out for dinner, then to a pub to play pool. Alexx and I got together and made these sashes from scratch. We bought the material, sewed them, then decorated them! I must say I think we did a sweet job! ONE WEEK TILL THE WEDDING! AH! Getting my hair trimmed and dyed today too :)

10 Days!?! - 10 Days! Are you kidding me?!

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:59:00 PST

Ten days until the day we've been waiting for since October 17th, 2008 is finally here... I can't believe it!! This weekend is my bachelorette party. 2 of my BM's are coming and my MOH and a few other friends to take me out! I only have ONE WEEK of work left till I'm off two days before the wedding to do last minute things.. Next Wednesday night we head home for the wedding! My Uncle is already in Ontario all the way from Tokyo to visit with family before the wedding day :) I can't believe it's almost here.. just little things left to do and to sort out.. I feel like it hasn't even quite hit me yet! TEN DAYS!

Wedding Speech - Rough Draft Done!

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:32:00 PST

What a relief. Today we started on our speech, and we are about 80% done it! We are combining our speech, and I found it really hard to find examples online of this, so we just did whatever we wanted. Read it if you'd like :) I used initials to post it on here, and also, his parts are left blank because he wants some time to think about them and he will add on to it tomorrow. Melissa: Good evening everyone. Today has been the most beautiful day of our lives, and to start, we would like to say thank you to our wonderful friends and family. David: To my Grandpa's, Grandma's, Aunt's and Uncle's and all of my cousins, thank you for joining us today and traveling the distance to be here with us. Your presence here is special, and important to us on this day. Melissa: I would like to say a special thank you to my Uncle G, who travelled here all the way from Tokyo, Japan. It really means a lot to me that you have come all this way for me, I know you would do it in a heartbeat. David: To my Best Man, B- (still to be completed) And to my Groomsmen, B, B, and D- (still to be completed) - Melissa: And to my beautiful Maid of Honor V, we've been best friends since Kindergarten, I'm so happy to have you in my life, and thank you for sticking with me since day one. You and your parents have always made me feel a part of your family and I'm grateful to have all of you in my life. Your home was my second home. To my Bridesmaids, my sister T, N, and A. I'm honored to have each of you in my wedding party and in my life. I couldn't have asked for anyone better. You have all contributed something meaningful to me in my life. Thank you so much for everything you have done for us and for your continued love and support. I love you all so much. I'd also like to thank A and G for hitching a ride up here from Peterborough to be with us today. A, thank you for being a part of our day and doing a reading for us this afternoon. You're such an inspiration to me, and you know why. David: To K and J - (my parents, to be completed) To Mom and Dad- (his parents, to be completed) Melissa : To D and K, from day one you took me in to your home and in to your family. It felt like you automatically considered me a second daughter to you. I'm proud to be a part of your family and excited to share in the future as your daughter in law. You've raised a son who has become the perfect man and who respects and cherishes his family. Because of you, he's become the one that is my perfect partner. To Mom and Dad, you raised me to have strong morals and to stay firm in my beliefs. Dad, you are the hardest worker I know, and from you I've learned so much, I can't even begin to describe. Although I know it's been hard for both of you to see me leave to college, etc, you have both always made it so clear to me how much you love me and how proud you are of me. Thank you for everything you have done in my life, to mold me in to the person I am so that I would be standing here today. I love you both so much, and don't worry, I will always be your little girl no matter what. Melissa: To M and everyone at the Falls Inn, I remember working here a few years ago and you'd all tell me to have my wedding here! I always kind of imagined it every time I saw a beautiful wedding take place here. Now it's finally my day and thank you for making it beautiful. And to our awesome DJ, D thanks for dealing with my tardiness in getting to you about song choices. I literally was still picking songs a week and a half ago! Melissa: We'd like to share a little story about how David and I met. My friend from preschool, my bridesmaid over here, N, was the one who actually introduced us. She had science class with David and wanted me to meet him. One night we were talking on msn and she brought David and I in to a conversation together. We ended up chatting for a long time. It was nearing the end of school, I was finishing grade 9 and David grade 10. We decided we'd meet up during exam time. We actually had one of our exams in the same classroom at the same time. I already knew what he looked like, but he had no idea who I was. So when I went to write my exam I looked around for him and creepily sat 2 rows away from him. I saw him kind of looking around the room for me. I finished my exam and I saw he was still writing his, so I just waited and pretended like I was doing something. He got up to hand in his test so I followed. David: I went to hand in my test, and I felt someone tap me on the shoulder. I looked behind me, and Melissa was standing there. Melissa: I was so scared and nervous, and all I said was "Hi, I'm Melissa" David: I responded with "oh hey! just a second" Then I turned away for a split second to put my exam on the desk, but when I turned back Melissa was just leaving the room. Melissa: I didn't know what to do next so I had just left the room, leaving him wondering where I was going. I was just so nervous I thought he automatically didn't like me. David: I left the room wondering what just happened and where she went, but continued down to the cafeteria for some lunch. A little while later, she walked through the cafeteria and we formally introduced ourselves. Melissa: Over the entire summer, David and I chatted online every night. My mom would always ask who I was talking to and I'd always respond "Peachey!" (That's what everyone called him) Next fall it was time to start school again, and we ended up in the same Science class. He sat beside me and even though we got to know each other over the summer I still shook like a leaf. We talked of plans of him teaching me to snowboard. So that winter, David made the excuse, (because I lived near Blue Mountain at the time) to come over to my house, just to "see where I lived and how to get there" for future snowboarding adventures. He came over, we hung out and talked all night, and on January 4th, 2004, he asked me if I would be his girlfriend. Of course I said yes, and for some reason, I knew I would never be answering that question to another man ever again in my life. This was it. I knew it. Melissa: David, we met 7 years ago, in 2003. I never would have thought that day in the exam room, I'd be tapping on the shoulder of my future husband. And I bet you never thought the tall lanky shy girl would be your future wife. Though our meeting was awkward, it was also perfect. I am truly so thankful and grateful that you are my lifelong partner. I have become a part of who I am because of you. We grew up through some of the hardest parts of a young person's life, the teenage years, and you were always by my side. People may say we're too young to get married, we don't know enough about life to know what we're doing yet, but I'm willing, and excited, to figure it all out with you. You are my best friend, and without you I wouldn't be who I am today. I love you so much, and thank you for choosing me and never letting me go. David: (He will be adding more, haha) Melissa, you're my high school sweetheart, and you'll forever be my lifelong sweet heart. Melissa: Thank you again to everyone, We are so happy that our first day as a married couple could be spent with the most important people in our lives. Thank you. Let us toast to everyone!

12 Days Away - 12 days and I have my first wedding nightmare

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:44:00 PST

I think it's pretty good I'm only 12 days away and last nights was my first nightmare! It wasn't a big long nightmare, it was just short little dreams that I kept waking up too then going back to sleep too. I realized I forgot my birdcage veil at home and thought the wedding started in 10 minutes, but we had like 2 hours to still go get it. For some reason my hair was all wet like I just got out of the shower and it was in a messy bun and I was already in my dress. I started crying about something before the ceremony and it ruined my make up. My make up wasn't the way I wanted it at all, actually the opposite. I hope this doesn't happen every night! lol. I woke up like 10 times this morning from it. I think it's because my FH and I are working on some wedding stuff today and so it's just really been on my mind!!! When did you start having "nightmares"?

Hair Fascinator - Opinions? I can't decide!

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:53:00 PST

Hey Girls! So I'm wearing a birdcage veil for my wedding, but for the reception I'm going to take it out and just put in a fascinator. I just don't want the veil across my face the entire night and I can't make it look pretty put back out of my face. I bought these two at Claire's lol, 11 bucks for both. I think I like the flower more, but what do you think? I actually love the feathers a lot, but I don't know how to place them. I'm hoping my hair will be like in the photo I have posted. Opinions please! :)

Centerpieces - Carved White Pumpkins!

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:49:00 PST

For our center pieces we are having white carved pumpkins. Each pumpkin will be carved differently. We got the pumpkins at Michaels, they are craft pumpkins. There is a girl in our town that carves them professionally and I have seen 4 that she has carved so far and they are absolutely PERFECT. I wish I had photo's of them. Inside they will have flameless candles that flicker, and I think they will look the COOLEST with the lights dimmed and all of our jack-o-lanterns. These aren't our pumpkins, but these are SOME of the carvings we chose. Some not pictured here are: -Wedding cake -Corpse bride -Our initials -Our name with wedding date

Wedding Hair Style - A New Favorite Retro Style!

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:50:00 PST

I LOVE this hair style. It is so retro, and glamourous. what do you girls think? I'm so afraid it won't fit under my veil though.. what do you think? I'm afraid my hair isn't long enough or thick enough? I absolutely love this style!

omfg 14 DAYS! - I'm starting to get nervous!

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:49:00 PST

It's starting to set in! I'm not nervous at ALL to get married. I'm getting nervous over all these little things I never thought about before. Also, I'm really effin' nervous my one bridesmaid is going to be late for our hair appt's that morning. She's honestly late for EVERYTHING. My shower, we asked if she could come at 4, the shower started at 5. She arrived AFTER some of the guests. I'm so scared that it will be the morning of, our appt's are at 9:30am, and I'll be getting texts from her all morning that she'll be there "soon", "any minute". Honestly, if she shows up on time, it may be a first. I'm starting to worry about our MC, he's our best man too, (we only just last minute asked him to be our MC last month) but I'm starting to wonder if we should just have the DJ be the MC. I don't think our best man would mind. I don't know what list of duties to give him, etc. What if he doesn't do things on time or say the right thing? Ahh and there's just all these little things. I have friends staying at my parents house for the wedding. What are they going to do when we're all getting ready and everyone's running around? There's just so many little things I'm starting to worry about now. But I don't want too. I just want everything to run smoothly. I'm just afraid of everyone running to me for decision making the night before or the day of the wedding. I'm also afraid I'm missing something and something really important is being forgotten and we'll realize the day of! 14 Days! I will relax, I know I will. I have too! I just feeling like I'm JUST realizing the wedding is so soon!

Bridesmaids - My Thank-You's to My Girls!

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:28:00 PST

So tonight I wrote my thank you cards for my bridesmaids! I am giving each of them a pair of earrings and a necklace as their thank you gift. I picked up these pretty blank cards at the dollar store, and started writing out my thank you's to them tonight. I decided to put a photo of each of us on the top of each thank you card! I think it looks great and thought I would share! Let me know what you think too! PS-15 Days!!!!