Our Wedding Day - The Reception: The Dancing & Socializing

Alright y'all here is the final post about our amazing wedding day. Like I mentioned before the two most important things to have on our wedding day was good food and good music, which we achieved.

We ended up booking for our wedding the 80's band The Spazmatics. I knew as soon as they came on that they were the perfect choice. Between their sets we did have a dj to mix up the genre of music so there was a little bit of something for everyone.

If people weren't dancing they were socializing on the huge wrap around balcony with spectacular view of downtown or taking pictures in the photobooth.  I of course danced majority of the time and when I needed a break from dancing jumped in the photobooth for some quick fun pictures. One of my favorites was when I ended up photobombing my grandparents in the photobooth, their faces were priceless. 

In all we had and threw the party of our lives! We were so incredible lucky to have those moments and more important those moments with such great people. It has been such a joy posting these photos and looking back at how wonderful everything was. 

House Life According To My Iphone...

Well it has been a rainy few weeks here in Houston. Which has made some of our past weekend plans not ideal, like attending a friends crawfish boil and seeing a few concerts (one of them being outdoors). But the rain didn't stop us from enjoying all of our plans. I helped host my sister-n-laws baby shower and have done a lot of flower shopping lately. So in all I have stayed a busy bee all while able to keep my sanity and composer. 
Here is how house life has been lately... Oh and you'll see a few new pieces I have picked up from Target, Marshall's, and Anthropologie (hints: lamps, rugs, pillows, and baskets).

Our Wedding - The Reception: Our First Dance & Mother/Father Dances

It was no surprise that I was all giggles and smiles when Amos and I did our first dance together on our wedding day. Amos and I danced to Band of Horses "No One's Gonna Love You," you can see the music video/song here. We loved this song! Amos put this song on one of my first mix cd's he made for me and we then saw them in concert shortly after that. It is a really specially song to us. 

I dance with my father to "Beautiful Boy (song altered to Girl for me)" by John Lennon. My dad is a huge Beatles fan and even more so of John Lennon so this song was perfect for us. 

Amos and his mother dance to "No Basta" by Franco de Vita . This was a song that they listened to together when Amos was younger and it was pretty special watching them dance together. 

Our Wedding - The Reception: Cake & Toast

This post I am dedicating just to the wedding cakes and toasts from our wedding because the pictures are just so pretty. The cakes were done by Supreme Kakes here in Houston. I discovered them through the huge bridal convention held every year in downtown. They were great to work with and really were able to take our visions and designs from concept to the finished products. 

For the main wedding cake design we kept the magnolia theme with the added magnolia flower and the details were inspired from my wedding dress. For the grooms cake Amos wanted to do a tribute to all of the old logos of  the Houston sports teams, The Oilers, The Astros, The Rockets, and top it off with a football helmet from the University of Houston where he did his undergraduate. The cake stands I made from materials I bought from Hobby Lobby, which they came out perfect and matched all the colors and details. 

The beautiful toast will go down as some of the best! There were tears shed and tons of laughs and smiles. My maid of honor and Amos's best men we have known for over half of our lives and they really stepped up to the plate and gave amazing toasts. We felt so loved and privileged to have received such blessings and speeches on our special day.  

House Life According to My Iphone...

Hello y'all! I hope everyone is having a lovely week and staying dry if you live in the Houston area. The small window of good weather I had last Friday allowed me to clean up some flower beds and pot some plants. Other than that Amos and I had a pretty chilled weekend and hung out with friends and family. 
Next week is our 1-year anniversary and we might plan a quick weekend trip to Austin, but we are still throwing ideas around. This weekend; however, is the annual Bayou City Art Festival at Memorial Park. Amos and I love going to this every year and love to scout out any new art for our home. We might even make it a tradition to buy a piece of art every year and this purchase act as our yearly anniversary present to each other. How cool would it be to have a house filled with great pieces that we got together! 
Here is what life has looked like at our home according to my iphone. :) 

Our Wedding - The Reception: The Decor & Food

Our reception was held at the Crystal Ballroom at the Rice Lofts in downtown Houston. I wrote an older post, here, on how we selected this venue and how I knew it was the one right away. 

Yosemite Backpacking Trip - A Look Back To June 2007

When I first started my current job right after college in May 2007, I knew one thing was for certain, I was finally going to have funds to travel. The first year of working I took two trips, one to the UK (in November 2007) and a backing trip to Yosemite (in June 2007). Both of these trips I went by myself, but met up with a group at my final destination. 
My travel goals were to do one big international trip a year and one backpacking trip a year around the states. I travel a lot for work and I have done a few international trips not related to work, but I have not done a backpacking trip since the one in Yosemite. I really would love to do a few more, one that has been on my bucket-list is a backpacking trip to Machu Picchu. I also hear backpacking in New Zealand is amazing. 

D.I.Y. Cute Lettered Plates

Hey y'all I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. While I had a little time to browse on Pinterest over the weekend I stumbled across this really cute D.I.Y. lettered plates pin, y'all can see the full instructions and beautiful pictures from the originally D.I.Y. here). This D.I.Y. was just too easy and cheap not to try and I am so happy with the results. These plates would be adorable for a brunch or a bridal/baby shower. I did twelve salad/dessert plates in all, that is what came in the package from Amazon (a direct link is on the website the pin directed me too and linked above).  I am still working on my "styling" for the photos I take and it is way harder then it looks. Well I hope y'all find this project fun and easy like I did and check out the original pin/website for all the details!

Our Wedding Day...The Ceremony

Amos and I chose to get married at St. Paul's Methodist Church, which is in the museum/medical district in downtown Houston. A friend of ours got married there and it honestly was love at first sight. I did not know churches existed like this in Texas, the architecture and ceiling looks like something from Europe. This church is so "popular" that they do up to three weddings a day on Saturdays (Times at 11am, 3pm, and 7pm). The pros of this are that because there was a wedding the same day as ours we were able to split the cost of the beautiful flower arrangements that were displayed at the foot of the alter. The cons were that you had to stay within your time window (~5hrs includes time slots for setup, pictures, ceremony, etc.), which when you don't do "first look" photos and wait till after the ceremony to do all your photos together is a little pressing on time. 

A Little Easter Decor...

I don't usually decorate for Easter, but we had a chill Sunday a few weeks ago and I was pulling out some spring decor I purchased a year or so ago (The idea was that maybe I would use some of it to host a spring brunch or a spring baby shower one day). Since we organized or "garage" last year and added shelving units all the holiday decorations are so much more accessible and I thought why not mess around with the spring decor for Easter. A few hours later I came up with this little spread on the table. The only items I purchased were the green bunnies, three dollars each at Target (I hot glued fake flowers to them because well I love flowers), and the lavender spheres at World Market. Now I can't wait to dye some eggs, I'm thinking something like this, to go with the blue couch in the front living room. Happy Easter Y'all!

House Life According to My Iphone...

Yesterday was the first day of Spring and Amos and I spent it very productively doing house and yard work. The weather was perfect so we just had to be outside the majority of the time. The flower beds looks so much better and have a fresh top of mulch. I will even go as far to say that they look nicer then when we first moved into the house two years ago. We spend so much more time in our backyard since getting our puppy so we want a space that is pretty on the eyes as well as functional. Happy Spring & Easter Week Y'all!