Wedding Reminiscing

As you know, Omid and I have been married just shy of two months now. And it is still very fresh. The wedding doesn't seem that long ago and people are constantly asking us how married life is. I think its funny when people ask that sort of thing. I wonder to myself when people will get over us and find the next cute thing to fixate on. 


But I will enjoy the attention while I can. Its always nice to have people interested in your life. And after being engaged and waiting for the biggest day of your life, you kind of need to ease out of all the attention that you are so use to getting. It is so exciting to be engaged, and then the wedding comes and its amazing and then its over. And its back to real life. I will admit that I have had a little post-wedding blues. But something that helps is remembering how wonderful and special it all was. We finally got our DVDs of our wedding pictures this past weekend, and that was a nice little pick me up. Getting to share them with people is also exciting. And I will now indulge myself a little and post some pictures and talk about my wedding, because it makes me happy. And who doesn't love pictures?

The day of our wedding was the fastest day of my life. And I am so glad I can look at my 729 photos to remember every last detail. 

I will also take this time to give a shout out to my vendors because I loved them all and I would love to promote them:
Our Venue: Butler's Courtyard - absolutely gorgeous place. This unique venue (100 year old renovated bank building) has a gorgeous indoor and outdoor space, a house for the girls and a house for the guys to get ready in, and an amazing staff that made the whole day go smoothly
Our Photographer: Lindsay Dixon - she was not only affordable and fun to have, but did an amazing job on both our engagement and wedding photos. We were so happy with all of them.
Our Flowers: Flowers by Leanna - she made the bouquets, boutonniere, and the beautiful gazebo decoration 
Our Cake: Cakes by Jula - The cake was just as delicious as it was beautiful
Our Videographers: AGB Productions - We haven't actually seen our wedding video yet but we loved working with this cute couple! They were so sweet and gave us a great deal on the photo booth we had at the wedding, which was a huge hit with the guests and we got a scrapbook of all the photo strips with messages in it. So cute!
Our String Quartet: Divisi Strings - these people were absolutely amazing. They play classical and contemporary music. It was so fun to have them play a contemporary selection that we chose for the ceremony. One of my favorite things that we did!
Our DJ: Mark A. DuVerney - Mark was super sweet and did a great job integrating our wide selection of American and Persian music. 


Our wedding was everything I hoped it would be. It exceeded my expectations. And even though I am sad its over, I am so happy that I get to wake up every day next to the most amazing man I know. And I still have some things to look forward to, like getting our wedding video and getting my wedding scrapbook from the best Maid of Honor/Best Friend in the whole world who is making it for me. 


And before I go, I will leave you with some wedding advice. Disclaimer: I have not been involved with many weddings or even gone to that many for that matter. This is solely based on my own personal experience of getting married. 

1. Do not take on too much: If I could do it all over again, I would have held off on grad school for another semester so I could have not been so stressed out leading up to the wedding. I had a TON of help (in fact, I barely did anything) and I was still overwhelmed. 
2. Get yourself a badass wedding planner: My wedding planner happened to be my incredibly talented stepmom who made all of the decorations and centerpieces and planned the entire thing. I could not have done it without her and having someone to help do all of the little (extremely time consuming) things is totally worth it.
3. Pick an amazing Maid of Honor: The whole getting married process would not have been nearly as fun without my best friend. All of the planning and sweet things she did for me really meant a lot and made me feel more special than I could have ever imagined. 
4. Enjoy your engagement: I was also given this piece of advice, and its true. When we first got engaged, we thought we had all the time in the world. But it went by so fast (especially the last couple of months). It is a very exciting time and its gone in the blink of an eye.

So there it is. My little tid-bit about the wedding. In other news, the first day of classes was today. And that means its the start of another extremely exhausting and busy semester. But since its the beginning,  I am still excited and optimistic about it. That attitude probably won't last very long if I continue getting so little sleep. Still working on that one.