What a Summer: Victorian Wedding part II

             An amazing dress would not be complete without lovely accessories and fun reception decorations!

   My beautiful hat!

My vintage reminiscent shoes.

Silk flowers with pearls, ribbons, and tulle.

I made the silk flowers; seven in all. 

Me and Alan were first married on 3-14-09, pi day (3.14).

We were sealed on 6-28-13, 2 pi (6.28).

We decided to have a pi theme. We made these toothpicks that we found on the Marie Calender's website to celebrate pi day. We had pie instead of cake at our reception. The amazing thing about pi is that it's a never ending number. It goes on forever. Neither me nor Alan are huge math people but pi became a special number for us. A never ending number for a never ending family. 

(Pi = Love, and both are forever)

I found this idea on Pintrist. These ribbon wands were great party favors and kids loved them. They were an excellent accent to the ribbons we had hanging from the door and from the chandeliers.

This Blog is dedicated to mostly my artistic endeavors, but I want to take a minute to diverge. It took us four years after being married civilly to be married in the Temple. There were some days when I thought it may never come. There were some days that I thought that if it did come it would be much longer than four years. Time passed quickly but it wasn't easy. Heavenly Father definitely knows what is best for us. The ways in which me and Alan have grown as individuals and as a couple have been incredible and profound. I truly believe that  the past four years were a blessing and that we would not have learned the things we did without it. Even if we had been sealed in the temple when we first  got married, we would not have learned what we did. We are better people because of the past four years. I'm so grateful for our beautiful sealing day. I'm so grateful to my wonderful husband, for how hard he works, for how much he loves me, and for how much he loves his Heavenly Father. I could not ask for a better person to be sealed to. He is my best friend and I love him so much.