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Congrats to Ellen who was the 63rd commenter and wrote: I'm getting married in less than 3 weeks and this would be a HUGE help, especially since we're moving cross country a few weeks after the wedding! Would LOVE to win this! Ellen is the lucky winner of the MissNowMrs.com giveaway! Thanks everyone for entering- [...]

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I don’t have written copies of their speeches so I can’t share them with you in their entirety… but I’m pretty sure E’s Best Man was just ‘winging it’ since he didn’t have a piece of paper in his hand. He told a story about how he and E jumped in an algae infested pool [...]

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My dad worked really hard on his speech for our wedding- considering he only found out a week beforehand that he was supposed to say something. Quick lesson to brides: just in case your dad’s not a regular wedding goer, or hasn’t seen Father of the Bride 10,000 times like you have, it’s probably a [...]

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I just wanted to take a quick minute to say thank you to all of you out there who voted. Not just voted, but really stuck out your necks for me by posting about the contest either on your own blog, Twitter, facebook, myspace, etc. I can’t thank y’all enough! I was overwhelmed by the [...]

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There is no rule saying that you have to drive away on your wedding night in a limo or a rental car… no matter what the WIC says. E & I were happy to drive off in his old Saturn with extra money in our pockets. Instead though, we had one of our groomsmen’s dads [...]

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It all started with these beauties… the Emma Collection from Pottery Barn. We registered for them, and we got all the pieces we wanted. Yay! I love the dots… they’re just darling. My obsession with dots continued into the Wilton Armetale serving pieces I registered for at Bed Bath & Beyond. This pattern is called [...]

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My friend Maris was in pretty much ALL of my classes in college. We were both graphic design majors so that was a given. My friend Todd and I used to call Maris, ‘our model friend,’ because she’s pretty much gorgeous. Even in sweat pants and old UT house shoes after chugging RedBulls to stay [...]

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After dancing with my new hubby, I danced with my daddy. We danced to John Mayer’s ‘Daughters’ I can’t look at these pictures without tearing up… Chris and Adrienne did such a great job capturing every emotion of the day. From my laughs to my ugly cry- haha. My dad’s not one to enjoy being [...]

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E & I danced to ‘Thank You’ by Led Zeppelin for our first dance… for those of you wondering. Kinda strange, huh? Well the lyrics are beautiful… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7gMePDTOPM] “If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. If the mountains should crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me. [...]

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