Oh the wedding! Hands down, still the best day of my life. Will and I wanted to make this a wallet friendly wedding and still be able to have a guest list of over 250 people. Which is pretty impossible for a Charleston wedding in the spring. But we somehow made it happen. We set our budget for $20,000 (again, pretty impossible for a Charleston wedding…in spring…with 266 people invited) but we only went over by a $100 dollars or so! I remember hearing people tell me, “oh you will be so glad when the wedding is over” or “Oh, don’t you just hate wedding planning?” And to those people I say, “Are you serious?!” Planning our wedding was the most fun I have ever had with my clothes on 😉 Yes there was some stress involved. Sure I wanted to choke some people from time to time. But I was so sad when it was over. And I would do it again in a heart beat if I could. And I wouldn’t change a thing. Not even the groom 🙂

And now you might be asking, “Ok Plish, how did you make this large ass wedding close to budget?” And to answer this question, I will give you three letters…. D…I….Y. We did EVERYTHING ourselves. We would of married ourselves if we could of (but lucky for us, Will’s mother’s cousin is an Episcopalian minister so we had that taken care of). But the wedding arbor, the invitations, the save-the-dates, the party favors, the center pieces, the photo booth, the bridesmaids bouquets, and the photo booth props were all made my either Will, myself, or someone from the wedding party. The wedding cake was a gift from the fabulous Jim Smeal and Alejandro González, who are close friends of the family. Will’s aunt Neva made the groom and all the groomsmen grey seersucker ties. Which matched perfectly to the ring bearer’s cute seersucker bow tie, which I had custom made on Etsy to be in grey to match the men!  The CDs were burned by moi’ and the CD covers were printed on cardstock at home. We had a wine and cheese night, were Will’s sisters and two of my girlfriends came over and we slaved away cutting and gluing them, but it was really fun!

The fabulous cake.
The invitations. Made by Priscilla and mom. Paper from Cardsandpockets.com
Firefly and lemonade, of course!
Will’s amazing photo booth.
Photo booth props in old peanut boxes from Will’s friend Sunshine.
The party favors which included the CDs and the coasters.
close up of the coasters
The “sand pouring” instead of a unity candle. The vases were from our kitchen and the colored sand is from Micheals.
I designed this outfit myself. Of course I would make him look like a British paper boy.
The babys breath was placed in old silver paint cans I found on Amazon.
The tree cuttings were from Will’s hand lumbar jack skills, I painted some old vases and glasses white, and we got the assorted flowers from Piggly Wiggly!
loved my hair from Charlotte Belk.
oh yeah the Tiger was there!
EVERYONE was dancing.
I rapped Super Bass to Will at the end.
close up of the CDs,
we departed with bubbles my mom picked up at Micheals the day before (oops I forgot we had to do something at the departure!)
loved the color grey for the wedding dresses but I let the girls pick whatever style they wanted.
I really wanted a white Ranunculus and a Dusty Miller leaf,
My friend Jackie made my bouquet!
my something blue! All the girls wore blue shoes too!
Will was blindfolded before hand so he couldnt see me but I could see him!
The arbor and window frame that Will made and I painted white.

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