Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 10:32PM Thank you so much to Leila Khalil from Be Inspired PR for featuring Chris and Tara's wedding on her well known wedding blog: Inspired by This. We are so honored and grateful. If you are in the wedding industry and don't follow Leila's blog, you should! It's totally....inspiring (I'm so dorky, I know).
Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 07:44PM Jeff and Justine got married at the Sanctuary Golf Club on Sanibel Island. Photographing weddings on Sanibel is always fun. It's a bit more secluded than the mainland and the pace is tad slower too. The Sanctuary was beautiful and so peaceful. The lawn wasn't surrounded by houses or parking lots, just nature.
The day started off with Justine getting ready at a condo at South Seas Resort. It was nice to be around her family as she was getting ready. They are all such lovely people.
Here's some of the vendors we had the honor of working with:
Ceremony and Reception: Sanctuary Golf Club
Band: Danny Morgan Band
Flowers: Floral Artistry
Cupcakes: Andrea of Flour Cupcakes
Ashley Brockinton Photography
A Hip and Chic Photography Boutique
Specializing in Wedding and Engagement Photography/Portraits for the Fashionista in LOVE!
Location: Bonita Springs, FL
Fort Myers, Naples, Estero, Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, SW Florida
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 12:37PM On June 5th Sam and I celebrated 5 years of marital bliss. I am happy to announce that after 5 years of marriage our lives are completely perfect and care free.
HA! I wish. Our lives are no where near perfect and definitely not care free but I am so blessed to have a partner in life like Sam.
Here are some of the reasons why I married Sam:
- He had big muscles from playing college baseball.
- He was very smart.
- He loved God and walked the talk.
- He didn't have a big ego.
- He wasn't a flirty womanizer. He made me feel special.
- He doesn't say bad words or tell crude jokes.
- A ton of other things that seem irrelevant now.
Here is why I love him SOOOOO much more today:
- Each time I was pregnant and had horrible morning sickness he; ran the business by himself, cooked, cleaned, and took care of me and the dog (and the baby while I was preggo the second time). All while making frequent grocery trips for non-caffienated coke.
- He got braces after we got married because he knew I loved pretty straight teeth.
- He used to think pink was unmanly but now he lets me dress him in anything (and doesn't he look good?). Before we got married he wore: jean shorts, hawain shirts, and basketball shoes.....
- He is an amazing dad.
- He dances with me in public-doesn't matter where we are.
- He gets me and appreciates me.
- He loves my family.
- For several years while we were getting the business going he had three jobs: spanish teacher, taco waiter, and photographer. He did whatever it took to provide.
- He tries not to burp and fart around me.
- He trusts me to decorate the house however I want.
- He makes up special songs for each of our girls and sings them to them over and over.
- He never once complained or acted dissapointed that we have all girls- he celebrates them.
Before I start to cry and get all mushy here's a few pictures of Sam and I on our journey of loooove.
The first one is the very first picture we had taken together. It was our second date and we went to a Jr./Sr. formal in college. That was the night I started to really like him. We clicked. I don't know how this picture got cut into a circle. I'm not really a scrapbooker so.... I do know how the picture got green marker all over it: I-S-A-B-E-L-L-A.
The next picture is ummmmmm..... Oh yeah, our wedding day.
This last picture is of us this year on our 5 year anniversary. To celebrate we went to dinner and saw the movie "UP" in 3d. It was the perfect anniversary movie. My hair was an experiment that night (in other words, it was dirty and I had no time to do it) so I tried a faux hawk thing.
I HEART you Sammy. -Ash
P.S. Thank you for the vintage necklace and earings. I love them. If you bring the camera home I take a picture of them so all of our lovely readers can see.
