Best Day Of My Life

As promised, I'm here to share all the details of the most wonderful day of my life.

The day started at 8am... after a night of girl talk and giggling, we finally went to bed around 2am only to awake up early the next morning. Tina, my hairstylist, came to the hotel to do my hair for me. She did such an amazing job and I couldn't be happier. We weren't able to get together to do a trial run so she did it based on pictures I had printed and pictures I'd sent her from my bridal portraits. Thanks Tina for such an amazing job!

Afterwards, mom and I headed to get our make up done at Macys with Clinque.  That's when I got the first phone call of the day telling me it was an hour after the time the Officer's Club said we could come and no one was there, except for my two bridesmaids trying to get in. I told them to call me as soon as they got in. About 30 minutes later, things were fine.

It was a little after Noon when I reached the venue and I wanted to check everything out to make sure things were going the way I wanted. I was nervous at all. We had a room for all of us to get ready and it had plenty of windows for us to look out to see what was going on.

First Look

Soon after the photographer arrived and that's when time started flying by. We were taking lots of pictures, having fun, and getting me dressed.

Dave and I decided that we wanted to see each other before the ceremony, not only to calm our nerves but for the beautiful pictures that come from it. I've seen so many great pictures from this moment, I couldn't pass it up. We had the perfect location.  Out to the side of the lawn of the Officer's Club is a bridge, so that's where the photographers took Dave, giving me the chance to walk up behind him. It was a priceless moment, just like I hoped for. He actually cried moments after turning around and seeing me there in my wedding dress.. just an hour or so away from becoming his wife. After a few moments to ourselves, we were whisked away for pictures.

We then noticed guests were starting to arrive, so I took off back to our room and the guys hung out in the reception area. We also let guests hang out in there as it was like 90 degrees outside and no breeze. The ceremony started about 15 minutes late as it was Retiree Appreciation Day on base as well so the front gate was backed up, and there were still a lot of guests waiting to get on base.

The ceremony was by no means perfect, but perfect to use. Everyone looked amazing standing up at the front as a I walked down the aisle. I loved the parasols and how it looks from this picture and I know the girls enjoyed them since it was rather warm. I have to admit and always will, I did jump the gun on the "I Dos". I heard Mary Louise (our officiant) pause when reading the the vows and I jumped in and said "I Do" when she actually had another line to read.

Jumping The Gun on "I Do"

The guys wore aviator sunglasses during the ceremony, including Dave but when I looked into his "eyes" or glasses, all I could see was my reflection, So I took them off of him during the ceremony so I could see.

During the exchanging of rings, Ryan, the best man decided to play a little trick. He handed Dave the ring box... and it was empty. Then he decided to be silly and act like he didn't know where the rings were. He then pulled them out of his pocket... and I had trouble getting the ring of Suzanne's finger.. it was stuck for a quick second.


We had one part of the ceremony we had to skip over and come back to later on. We wanted to give our mom's roses as a representation of our love and thanks for everything. It was supposed to happen near the beginning of the ceremony but someone forget to put the roses on the table. But the coordinator was able to get them and had the guys pass them up to us.

And the only other issue we had.. well I did was during the sand ceremony.. it took forever.. and I kept spilling my sand on the table.. Oh well! lol

Mr. & Mrs. Turner!

I'll stop here and come back at a later time to recap the reception.. that's something you won't want to miss.
Where else where you find a gamecock, pink converse sneakers and groomsmen running around without their shirts..... Um that would be our reception! Stay tuned....

A Guy's Day

Well for the first time really, yesterday we took care of figure out what the guys would wear for the wedding. We had some special visitors in town, Dave's mom Suzanne and Kelly, so we decided to start looking at suits/tuxes.

We first headed to Men's Warehouse, since it's a national chain and those who don't live in the area can rent from there. Plus they match David's Bridal colors. Luckily, there is store right next to our apartment so we headed there. What a bad experience we had. And to make matters worse, it was the manager who was helping us. We walked in, telling him what we were looking for -- tan suit to go with brown Rainbows and ties that would match our colors of pink and orange. The manager kept insisting Dave wear a brown, burnt orange and blue tie with a light blue shirt under a linen suit. I kept asking my self "What don't you get about pink and orange?" We first started looking at suits that the groomsmen would have to buy. I then asked to see what options we had to rent. The manager pulled out the rental book, showed me a dark brown tux. Closed the book and walked off. Seriously??? At this point, Dave & I were both frustrated so we left.

We came back to the house to see what our other options were. We had found Jim's Formal Wear online with a night khaki colored suit that would be great for outside. (the one we previously posted in my first blog.) Luckily, there's a retailer on Folly Road. So we headed down there. Charpia's Formal Wear was great. The owner Terri was such a help, listened to us and showed us exactly what we described. Needless to say, we went through them for the rentals. The better part... Dave paid about $180 dollars for a tux rental for an upcoming wedding. Our rental price.. just $109 plus tax!

<----Here's the tux. Dave will be wearing a solid orange tie.... seen on the right with a vest in the color on the far right. The groomsmen will just be wearing the stripped tie. The colors online look red and dull compared to the actual fabric.

We're pretty excited! The woman was kinda busy with some prom goers when we stopped in so we'll be going back in a few weeks to work out the details because the card she gave me says the groom gets a free rental with 5 other rentals. Our problem is we have some out of town renters so how does that work? Oh well! Minor details we can worry about later!