Let's keep the party going...

I would love to say that we met in book store on a crisp autumn day, but alas we met online. An anticlimactic beginning to the most fulfilling and deepest love of my life. I got to marry my best friend and the best person I know. He is the calm to my storm, the voice of reason to my extra-ness, and the smartest person I have ever met. We complement each other in so many ways – it’s almost hard to put into words. We just get each other and everything works. Our relationship is easy. After four years we knew it was just a waiting game as to who was going to ask first, he is normally the one that makes big gestures in our relationships so I thought I would catch him off guard with the princess moment he deserved. A proposal on a cruise to Key West and then Mexico. He said yes. It was the happiest moment of my life. Until June 9th... Our wedding did not end up the way we had initially planned. Of course we envisioned the traditional wedding and traditional reception. But we are not the traditional couple. After a year of planning and mind changing and late nights comparing venues and colors and flowers we got tired of waiting… and planning. So we stopped. We told our parents and siblings and picked a Friday we could get everyone in town and we went to the court house floral suit, tiara, and all. After our beautifully short and intimate service we met our family for brunch on Lake Eola on a perfect sunny afternoon in June. When people ask me about how Ricky and I met I often tell a story about how I fell in love with him at Disney World under the fireworks on one of our first dates. To relive that magic that only Disney can provide we decided to spend our wedding night at Epcot. We didn’t have the perfect place settings, flowers, or DJ… but we had fireworks in Paris. Everything about our wedding day was so perfect for us; we got to spend it with our closest family, see the world, and relive our favorite memories while making new ones. Memories we will treasure forever.