I am now a wife! I’ve always wanted to be a wife to my best friend. What’s better than spending the rest of your life adventuring with your favorite person? When we got engaged we originally had planned for a barn wedding venue. We toyed around with the idea of the fantasy of an elopement. So we decided why not! It wasn’t an elopement but instead a destination since we had it planned with family to attend. We got married at Navarre beach, in Navarre florida.
We had it all planned out. We would have our honey moon right after in the same location! We had uncle Brian officiate us, all of your aunts and uncles were apart of the bridal party, and a few of your great uncle and aunts attended as well. Of course both sides of grandparents were present too! I was already dreaming of life as a mom. I was the ultimate girl when it came to our wedding. Planning ahead way into the future and daydreaming life as a wife.
I chose your dad as a life partner because of the love he shows back to me. We make a team that I know I could never have with anyone else. Our communication is too notch. There isn’t anything we don’t have conversations about. NOTHING. It’s beautiful. We are opposite people to the extreme but it truly works out in our favor. Your dad is more low key, calm collected and quiet. He is full of anxiety, very organized with everything, always on time to events, ponders on something for way too long before he makes a purchase, and is the most caring, sensitive loving man you will ever meet in your life. Your dad has a power to make my day better when I didn’t even know i was having a bad day. He is a hard worker and keeps our family afloat. He has goals, ambitions and he never thinks he’s good enough. He is the man I love waking up too, and I am forever growing love for him. He keeps us safe, fed, happy and has a goofy side that is forever busting out of him. He is creative and artistic. He has way too many sound boxes for his guitars, but I don’t tell him because they make him happy. His music is the most beautiful thing to hear in the evenings when he is relaxing. He plays for himself but I always feel as if he is playing for me. Okay, I went a little too long on this post. I could write forever on your dad, okay back to the wedding!
I was 26 when we got married and your dad was 29. We got married in 2017. This was a dream wedding. We had the beautiful white sand, beach and family. What more could we ask for?! We started our journey on a plane from Kansas City, and landed in florida and got a taxi to Navarre.
I will never let you dad forget what I’m about to tell you. We stayed a few days prior to the wedding, and we needed to find some wine to share on our patio out back at our beach house. But Navarre is a small small town. So your dad with the love of bikes had the idea to use the bikes that were part of the house we rented. Which we’re needing a great deal of lubricant, because they were super hard to pedal. But it was our honeymoon! I didn’t want to be the lame new wife so I agreed. He found a store that had alcohol and he were gonna get some food also. Now, preface the fact that yes we could have gotten a car to drive us, buuuuut again your dad and his love for bikes. In the beginning I was up for the challenge! How fun this will be, the memory behind it and the tan I’ll be receiving while riding!
It was HOTT. But the store was 2.5 miles away. Ahh no big deal that’s easy. But it was also 2.5 miles away over an ARCHED bridge that was 1 mile long. Starting off it was good. By the time we finished the bridge we had 1.5 more miles to go. That bride was all uphill mostly. I was tired but kept good spirits. We finally got the the store and we loaded up! I had a bag, your dad had a bag and we got food and drinks! Okay. Soooo now that we have 2.5 miles to track back to our house over a huge uphill bridge with an extra 15 lbs on my bike in 100 degree humidity I was starting to lose spirit. I kept it as a long as I could. But I did mention about 5 times we should call a taxi service but your dad kept saying no he didn’t wanna pay for that we can make it. I continued to roll my eyes and secretly planning a divorce (just kidding! Just humor) but kept good spirit. I started to complain more and more and more. But we kept going. We finally got back to our house. A day later, we found out that the gas station half a mile away had beer and food. Then we laughed about it.
Our wedding day was perfect. When I say that, I honestly mean perfect. I got ready at my parents condo while your dad got ready at our beach house. We had champagne, snacks, and all the girls! Putting on my dress was something I’ll never forget the feeling of. I’m actually getting married! This is crazy! I can’t even believe it! I wasn’t nervous at all marrying your dad. I knew he wouldn’t leave me at the altar, and I was ready to just share his name. We wrote our own vows to one another and read them aloud to our family.
Our honeymoon we spent exploring, a lot of food, and spending so much time at the beach. I collected sea shells and we were only like 50 steps from the beach! We had great neighbors also! We want to go back again and stay here, but this time with our kids. Maybe not this exact beach house for it will be too small for a family of 4, but to Navarre beach florida.
But what is a perfect wedding you ask? Haha it was perfect in my eyes but we had plenty of mishaps! Your dad played the guitar as I walked down the aisle with my dad, it was a beautiful song and an even more beautiful moment, but we were on a public beach! Right as my dad and I are starting to walk down the pier bridge to the beach, a man parasailing crashed feet away from us! It was so scary, he was so high and came crashing down at the speed of lightning. So of course we didn’t walk the aisle to the ceremony for another 15 minutes due to making sure this man was okay and called an ambulance. Your poor father was wondering what happened to me! He had no idea what was going on, as it was out of his sight. So he continued to play his song over on repeat. Luckily this man was okay and refused any responders and was able to walk, unfortunately he said it was a brand new parasail. Phew, okay now that we had that overcome us, now it’s time to walk. We both are up at the alter and as it’s starting and your uncle brian starts to talk, I remember something. I FORGOT my vows. So foolishly I look to my mom and mouth the words “my vows” she had no idea what I was doing or saying to her. I was mortified. My day had been so calm, fun and stress free that I forgot them and I honestly didn’t even know where they were. I was hoping in my parents vehicle that I rode to the beach in. Finally, my mom out loud was like “what??” And I said out LOUD my vows! I forgot them. So my mom ran so fast and returned with my vows to save the day.
After we got married we were having a big party reception with all of our friends and family back in our hometown. We had a small dinner at the beach after the ceremony. A shrimp boil!! It was the best food ever. We then went back to our house had some champagne and went out to a bar for drinks as husband and wife for the first time. Later that night it stormed so we had to track our way back home to the beach house where we watched tv! It was the best day!
We came back to a huge party!! We had so much fun, I can’t say I remember much of it but your dad does! I had a little too many drinks. Not recommended by the way. But it was a very special one time occasion. Here are some pictures to share.
Life, children and marriage 