YAY! Time to get marrrrrried (well six months ago it was!) I can’t believe that I finally get to post all these pictures now that the show has officially aired! I’ve waited so long! It was truly a special day with so many special memories and moments and I’m so glad we had such an awesome photographer, Jonathan Moore Photography, there to capture it all. Here are some pictures from before the ceremony!

It was a really long day and we got ready at the church that we were married at, which was the same church that 7th Heaven was filmed at! It was a beautiful church, and they were amazing. There was A LOT going on during our wedding, but it was so special and so full of excitement, it was just a joyful amazing day where we were truly surrounded by so much love and amazing people.

A nervous habit… playing with my ring before we started filming for the day.

It’s true, I had NO idea what dress I was going to wear on my wedding day! David walked in with a big white bag and I knew he was going to show me, and I was so hopeful that he would pick number 3! :) Once David showed me what dress I was going to wear, my lifelong dream of wearing my hair down at my wedding went right out the window. It would have been WAY too much going on with all the beading of the dress and my hair down, so we worked together on picking a style of wearing it up, and I don’t regret it at all, I loved my hair, and it made me much more ‘bridal’.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH still can’t believe this was my dress. It was SO light, and shockingly enough laid perfect for the entire day. It was glorious and I felt like a cloud princess. So special. Ines Di Santos was the designer and she is AMAZING. She creates dresses that are so special and different. They are made to lay nice and photograph well.

The shoes I got ready in, they were by Steve Madden and I got them at Nordstrom Rack on sale… I realized they must be at the rack because the next day the bow fell off.

Looking at a picture of me when I was trying on the dress two weeks earlier that one of the crew members took.

Yup, that’s the getting ready camp. There were a LOT of people there and they were like busy bees in a hive! I remember one time I was talking to Shea and said man, you know what we forgot to get, Monsters, and before I knew it I had one in my hand. It was magical and everyone was SO nice. It was weird having that much attention on me. The makeup artists were incredible as were the hair stylists, I couldn’t believe it was all really happening and I was going to get married!

Magical Monster and my Best Friend. Nothing could be better.

Love this shot. Loved the bouquet, loved the shoes and yup, love the ring. :)

Gah the dress fit like a glove but when you put a mic pack in there it gets TIGHT. Shea was the best zipper-upper though.

Suck it in!

I loved the shoes and loved that they were red! So much fun and I was really proud of myself, because I kept them on the entire night, which is a feat since I NEVER wear heels.

All the boys. The ties were all the same, but they look different in this picture because some of  them are different in the light. David didn’t change anything about what the boys were going to wear.

David and B. <3

Almost time to walk down the aisle! I LOVED the church. Some people have asked about the flowers in the church, or lack there of. Actually, something that really bothers me is random flowers at the church. Like big sprigs or sprays of randomness, and I  love the look of this church, simple clean, nothing distracting, so I’m SO glad there were no flowers. In the wedding we had planned before David came in, I wasn’t going to have flowers in the church that we were planning on getting married at, so I wonder if those people would have said that we were missing flowers then? Who knows, but I love how it’s focusing on us, not floral arrangements and I love how clean it looks up there, and the wood. I love the color of it.

They sent everyone down the aisle and then I walked through the back door and immediately saw my brother and it was immediately time to walk down the aisle. There was so much emotion and I already was on the brink and didn’t want to cry! I told him DO NOT CRY and they opened the doors and we headed down the aisle! My heart was beating out of my chest!

It was AMAZING. Amazing. AMAZING to see all the people we love in one place. As I walked down the aisle I just wanted to get to Bryan and I was so excited and ready to just get married. The church looked fabulous and everyone was so  happy and I just wanted to look and say hi to everyone! I loved seeing everyone’s reaction and I loved walking down to the bridal march song!

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I cannot believe that the whole whirlwind that was my wedding actually happened. It was the crazy, most exciting, fun and memorable day of my life. Everything was simply flawless. Watching the episode last night was so emotional and amazing to see how it all came together and I’m more than excited to finally be able to share our wedding pictures! I was planning this entire week to just post them all and share the experience with everyone. I also wanted to do a Q&A on Friday about the whole experience and I will answer any questions you have. You can leave them in a comment or email me at [email protected] and I will try to answer all questions on Friday. I know it will be a lot of my wedding in a week, but alas, I haven’t gotten to share anything about it yet, and I’m super excited and then it will be over. :) So sit tight.

Here are a few personal pictures from my phone that are not professional but I took throughout the experience. :)

Right after meeting David at our house for the first time. I showed him my table and the bridesmaid dresses and shockingly enough, he liked them! :)

After the amazing experience at the Sonya Dakar skin studio and the little Bridal Shower they planned for me. It was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, a gorgeous day and my favorite women in my life!

After Go-Karting… which I must admit, was pretty scary!

The most amazing designer ever, Inez Di Santos. She seriously is the sweetest and most amazing person in the world! I can’t believe I actually got to meet her. Since Dress 3 was my absolute favorite, I took a picture with her and the dress :)

On our dress shopping day! So surprised to see everyone there.

Working with everyone was amazing, and truly so memorable. Everything on the show is so true, you literally know NOTHING. We didn’t know where we were getting married until the Thursday before, and we got married on a Saturday. I didn’t know what dress I was wearing until that morning. We didn’t know our shoes, jewelry, until that day. And yes, I truly enjoyed the whole experience. When you are with David, he’s so kind and genuine, and you know you are in the best hands. I still cannot believe it happened! It was a blast, and to see all the love and emotion of all those who are so close to us was so amazing to feel that the entire day. Here’s the deets on our entire wedding.

We were married at First Christian Church North Hollywood (yes the same church that 7th Heaven was filmed at and most recently it was featured on How I Met Your Mother) and our reception was at Universal Studios. The set up was incredible and the food was amazing.

Here is a list of all the vendors that were at our wedding, which you can also find on We Tv website as well.

BAND – they played during dinner and were SO good. Great vibe and I have gotten a lot of compliments on the great music during dinner: Rocky Neck Bluegrass Band www.rockyneckbluegrass.com

BRIDAL GOWN – the dress, which I am still obsessed with, was from Lovella Bridal, great experience there and AMAZING DRESSES. 818.245.INES www.lovellabridal.com

BRIDAL PARTY SHOES & ACCESSORIES, another surprise for us were the amazing and cute Nina Bridal shoes and accessories. They were comfortable and I love wearing them! www.ninashoes.com

CATERING, great, great food and totally what we both wanted! Gourmet Celebrations www.gourmetcelebrations.com/

CATERING AND DANCE FLOOR RENTALS, again, can’t say it enough but everything looked amazing so I truly am thankful to all those behind the scenes that I never even met. Dolphin Event Services www.dolphinevents.biz

CHALKBOARDS AND LANTERNS, Once you see the professional pictures later this week, you will die over how everything came together! :) These are SO cute and they did amazing with them. Darice www.darice.com

CHOCOLATE CANDY APPLES. I wish I could share these with everyone. They were the best candied apple I’ve ever had. Carmel covered in red chocolate? DELICIOUS. Enjou Chocolat www.enjouchacolat.com

CUSTOM NECKLACE. I wear this necklace a lot still and love it! I love how it’s interchangeable and love the beautiful red flower and little blue accents with the beads. Beautiful and she is SO sweet! Kata Banko Couture www.katabankobrides.com

LIGHTING Lighting makes all the difference and the street our wedding was held on was beautiful! Amber Event Production www.ambereventproduction.com

LINENS I loved the gingham… obviously! :) Cloth Connection www.clothconnection.com

PRINTED MATERIALS There were so many details that made it all come to life and she did an amazing job with our escort cards, program and all printed materials! Sandi Spells Design www.sandispells.com

RECEPTION DRESS This dress was HOT and I loved it! So much fun and changing made dancing so much easier. Sherri Hill www.sherrihill.com

VINTAGE FURNITURE/PROP RENTALS I think these were the bikes, fencing and pews? Possibly? Anyways, I love the vintageness of them and they came out looking amazing! Found Rentals www.foundrentals.com

EVENT RENTALS, I’m sure they supplied so many things! Town & County Event Rentals www.tacer.biz

FLORAL DESIGNER These flowers were AMAZING. I loved how everything looked and loved the combonations and how vivid and colorful everything was. The floral arrangements were simply gorgeous and beyond my wildest dreams! Studio Fiore www.studiofioredesigns.com

HAIR AND MAKEUP These girls know their stuff, they were amazing to work with, patient and totally made everyone look AWESOME! I would love to have them by my side every morning! :) Noriko Kerns-Podue from The REX Agency www.therexagency.com

WEDDING CAKE This cake was SO cute and fun! I love all her work.  NancyKay’s Confections www.nkconfections.com

WEDDING VENUE I love this church. It was so pretty. So simple, clean, everything was perfect! First Christian Church North Hollywood Fccnh.org

So any ways, after all that! I will post our pictures of pre-wedding, getting married the the reception throughout the rest of the week. :) And then friday, I will try to answer any questions that I get in the comments on emailed to me at [email protected]

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I’m so excited for this weekend for so many reasons.

A – Today is my best friends Birthday! Hooray for Shea being an old as me. I cannot say it enough, she is like a sister to me, I’m blessed to have her in my life and can’t wait to celebrate tonight. She rocks, enough said.

B – I’m running a half marathon on Sunday. Haven’t trained TOO much for it, but it’s the base point that I will measure my fitness at for training for Arkansas. Basically my motto is, as long as I don’t die this weekend, I will do a 16 miler next weekend, and then and 18 miler the following weekend and then I will do the dreadful 20 miler. Badabing, training complete. So this weekend, should be a test of if I can get through 13.. onwards and upwards! I also am going to wear a team sparkle skirt and be totally AMERICANA out for this race, which is oh by the way my most favorite thing.

C- OUR WEDDING AIRS ON SUNDAY! Exciting. Another sneak peek was released today! I am so excited and very nervous. It airs Sunday on We Tv Check your local listings.

D – I’m cleaning our house tomorrow. This gives me complete joy and excitement that I will have a nice clean fresh house after tomorrow.

The weather should be great. Hopefully I don’t do anything weird on national television. Oh and I got my bike fitted! So I get to test that out this weekend too! Hooray for a great weekend and you know what makes it even awesomer… It’s a three day weekend! Cha-CHING!

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I never have really tried seriously to track anything I ate ever before. I usually eat ‘somewhat healthy’ but never really count calories or keep close track of what I’m eating.

Recently, I’ve changed my mind becuase I am not happy with how I feel. I know the person who is solely in charge of this is myself and I have to make a choice to actually try to lose weight to become more healthy. I know exactly where I carry all my weight, in my mid-section. I always have and when I gain weight, it goes directly to there. I’m just not happy with how I’ve let my mind think that eating some fruit will make up for bad choices. I know I can make better decisions and I know I’m the one in charge of this aspect of my life.

Also, a summer trip to the river is right around the corner, and instead of being upset at myself and how I look there, in a bathing suit, I’d rather take charge, when I have ample time to make a difference in myself before then. A lot of my issues that I have are when I eat poorly, and give up easily. I don’t know why I don’t believe that I can eat healthy, but I always blow it and then just let the rest of the day slide away. Also, it always seemed like I would either try to starve myself, which obviously never worked and I would become angry and mean and it would only last for a couple hours and then I would just overeat once I could eat again. I wouldn’t ever look at anything besides calories, and I really needed to make a change. Though I have the taste buds of an eight year old, it was time to eat like an adult.

So I’ve started logging what I eat every day on an little app on my phone called My Net Diary. It was free and I wanted to see what I really was eating. It actually is pretty fun and I really can see how I was eating WAY too much a day without even knowing it. I use to use the fact that I worked out as an excuse to eat whatever I want, which isn’t a good way to think.

In addition to looking at my calories and tracking what I eat every day, which is informative and it gives me stats on how I’m doing with sodium, saturated fat, and calories of food, it’s motivating to see myself keep on track with what I’m eating and coming up with foods that are good and fall in the categories that I need.

I have been making good snacks, eating more smaller meals throughout the day and feeling much better already. I just felt like a salt lick eating crap all the time, and the only person to blame is myself. I had my first ‘green monster’ smoothie yesterday after my 4 mile run and it was good.

I wouldn’t say it was delicious, but it was drinkable. I think I thought I would be able to just ignore the weight gain, and be whatever about it, but it has come time to make a change. It’s easy to think that if you work out all the time, or run, you don’t have to worry about what you eat, but I have come to the realization that diet is also such a huge part of your life and now I’m willing to make a change to feel healthier and be happier with my appearance.

So with that out there, I’m also still working out a lot and working toward the Arkansas Marathon. I have the 13.1 Los Angeles on Sunday which will be the starting point where the miles really start to add on for the full, and I’ll be heading to Arkansas before I know it!

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Talk about a hit. I am always looking for awesome juice beverages that are low in calories, low in sugar. There aren’t TOO many out there, sadly. I use to think that it doesn’t matter because juice is fruits. I know, pretty ignorant of myself to think that. Anyways, Trop 50 is a great juice beverage that has 50% less sugar and calories but still has that delicious taste.

I got a coupon to try out the Raspberry Lemonade and got it at the market the other day. The only problem with the drink was that it was gone before the end of the day! I had one glass to taste it and I loved how refreshing it was and how it wasn’t sour. I HATE sour juices, I think Lemonade should be sweet and not sour! Anyways, it was delicious and then B got a hold of it and he became an obsessed freak! Since then he’s requested for me to get another bottle because he loves it so much, which he NEVER does things like that. I know it will now be a staple in our household as a great juice! I can’t wait to do a little mixing in the summer with some adult beverages too. :)

Anyways, it’s light, and you can tell it’s not loaded down with sugars, like a lot of juices. It reminds me of Crystal light but with much more flavor, which I like a lot. Tropicana Trop50 delivers all the goodness of fruit juice with 50 percent less sugar and calories, and no artificial sweeteners. Sounds like a winner to me.

I would share a picture of the bottle, but B drank it all before I got one… so I’ll use one from their facebook :) It also has a lot of Vitamin C and Vitamin E, which are never a bad thing!

I always know if B likes it, and will drink it, it must be much better for me than what I normally drink because he is a health freak. He is so paranoid about sugars and all those things, and to know he loves it was great! I love the flavor and that is most important.

So, you want to give it a try? Check out their facebook and enter their True Resolution contest to kick off the New Year. If you enter, you’ll earn a coupon for $1 off Trop 50, and coupons for 50 cents off for up to 50 friends. Whether you enter a resolution or not, you can enter to win a $1000 gift card to fill your fridge with Trop 50! Or something else that you’d want to spend $1000 on. :)

Next time you are in the juice aisle at the grocery store, pick up a bottle and check it out! It’s a delicious, flavorful and light treat! And now after writing this review, I am most definitely picking up a bottle on the way home because I am salivating over it.

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I was compenstated one coupon for one free bottle for doing this review