Ashley & Tony's Mexico Wedding Ideas!

Happy Friday Lovelies! Today is the last day of classes for me and all the seniors here in the School of Nursing before finals! Yay, us!!

 My cousin Tony was married to a wonderful lady Ashley in Mexico and unfortunately many of us were unable to attend this amazing event. However, they are letting us share in their celebration by holding a New Year's Eve reception- how fun!! Lately I have been compiling these lovely pictures on pinterest for them, as sort of a brain storm! Their theme of course is Mexico, have a look at some of my ideas!

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Mini Cactuses!

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Love this and especially the hat.

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Aren't the bows on these chairs gorgeous?

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Loving the bright colors

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Can you see the lime on the cupcakes?

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More bright colors.

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I love the tea cups and the Spanish wording- La Novia, eL novio

Plum Pretty Sugar

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O Martha how I love your ideas!

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Treats for the guests- easy and cute!!

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Flags to wave as the couple enters and leaves.

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Really love this table scape! 

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Can't you see this Mexican Drink at New Years.

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Another great cake.

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Favorite- from Etsy!!

Have a wonderful weekend- Tomorrow I am starting our wedding recaps!!

Prelude from Te Deum- Something Blessed

Happy Monday Lovelies!! I just took my second to last "Care Management" test for nursing and wow does that feel amazing!! Today I wanted to share with you a very special thing that Danny's cousins did for our wedding! All three of the Lambrecht girls are music majors and incredibly talented at that! After we asked them if they would play in our wedding we all sat down and chose some songs for them to play. Lynnsey ended up rearranging quite a few of the songs so they could play them with their saxophones. Most of the prelude songs were instrumental songs from "The Beatles." She also arranged the song that I walked down the aisle to, "Prelude from Te Deum." She dedicated this song to us and now her arrangement has been published and is for sale. How completely amazing is that? Thank you to Lynnsey, Janelle, and Annette for making our wedding day fill with musical love!

http://www.windmusicsales.com/score/Charpentier/PreludefromTeDeum/SQ1167-

Compliments of Anna Lynch McClary

The Lambrecht Girls!

In 30 years...

Hello! It's been awhile, but with school and newly wed life things have just been fast and crazy! During my absence I have realized how much I seriously miss the blogging world and have been catching up with all of your gorgeous weddings and updates! Congratulations to all the newly weds and the newly engaged!!

I recently was given the opportunity to attend and sort of help out at an extremely special and sweet vow renewal and thought what better way to return to the blogging world than to share it with all of you!

(Disclaimer: Names and places were not discussed in this post due to privacy laws)

This year is my senior year of nursing school which means tons of work and clinicals galore. For my last rotation this semester I am on an Oncology floor and during my first week there I had met a couple whom I want to be like in 30 years. They were upbeat and loving even though he had a terminal cancer diagnosis. They decided the best thing for them would be to leave the hospital and spend his last days at home, although due to his medical needs he needed to be discharged on Home Hospice care. However, before they left they decided to renew their vows and involve their family and their health care providers in this loving act. The vow renewal was bitter-sweet as the husband was dying and in unimaginable pain. If you looked around the room there was not a dry eye in sight and you could tell that the life of this couple, the love of this couple, and the love for this couple rose up and out of every person present. Their strength and love that they have found in each other and others is something I will never forget! They have really taken their vows in sickness and in health to heart and have stood by each other every step of the way! So in 30 years I hope that Danny and I have at least have of these insights with each other!

Congratulations to my new friends and thank you for teaching me the important things in life!

Something Blessed: Our Wedding Video in Pictures

Happy Thursday lovelies!! Last night I received the email I have been waiting for from the very talented and super sweet Anna Lynch McClary!! Our proofs have uploaded and as we looked at them they reinforced all the love and blessings that we felt on our wedding day. That is why I am going to entitle our wedding recap series as... "Something Blessed" because I had my something old, new, borrowed, and blue but our guests made our marriage something blessed!

 At the end of this post is a little video Anna made for us with some of our wedding pictures but there are so many more and may I say she captured the day in many more ways than I could have dreamed. As much as I tried to take in everything that day there were places and faces that I couldn't be and see- she captured the moments that I wasn't a part of or didn't see and that was amazing to see last night for the first time. Couples standing together, a laugh shared between my grandparents, a little girl and her daddy dancing, and every thing that happened before I walked down the aisle!! I can't wait to show you these photographs but it will take awhile as we wait for the proof book to come in and then order the ones we want. Don't worry because we will get the disc with all of the images on it after we order. OK OK I can't wait any longer to show you this: Our Wedding Video in Pictures!

Thank you again Anna- you are truly amazing!

Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesdays!

Happy Wednesday Lovelies! I can't wait to share this post with you because it is about pinterest!! If you haven't heard of pinterest consider this post your starting point and click here to follow my pins!!

Today I ran across another fabulous blog called the Vintage Apple and every Wednesday she has bloggers link up to share the pins they found this week!! So of course I am participating! Yay for Pinterest!!

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Have a great Wednesday and hope to see you linked up next week!

The Dress!

Happy Monday and happy August!! Can you believe July is gone? In a way I am glad because it hopefully means cooler temperatures here in humid Nebraska- talk about a heat wave!!
Today I wanted to finally share with you my search for my dress. One weekend my mom, two aunts, two cousins, and grandma went dress shopping and found my dress quite quickly. Now I must admit to you all that I am not much of a shopper, I never really have been. I also don't enjoy being the center of attention especially when it comes to shopping, so yes I was a little out of my element when trying on these gorgeous gowns!! Anyway me and my entourage went to a little store called Amanda's Bridal and seriously I cannot recommend them enough if you are in Colorado! I loved my consultant- she listened to me and picked up on my "shyness" so she picked up on nonverbal cues- she knew which ones I liked and which ones I didn't. So here are the ones I tried on...

 Here it comes....

 My dress!

Here it is on my wedding day!!

All in all it was a fun day and I was glad we only had to go to one store before finding it!! Did it take you only a few dresses to find yours or did you try on hundreds?