Signature in Silk

It has been awhile, hasn't it? Being at South Alabama has kept me very busy. Busier than I'd prefer to be. But I only have 12 months left here and those 12 months can't pass soon enough. I don't mean to wish my life away but I am ready to have a life! Studying, writing patient reports and research papers really isn't my idea of a life! ha! I'd rather see my husband and my family and be on my horse! Oh I miss my horse!!!!! Words can't describe how lost I feel without a barn to clean on the weekends. But I suppose there is a time for everything and right now I have to focus on my time of preparation for the very purpose that I have been placed here to do :-) Speaking of horses, here are a few photos of my girl:-) If I can't find a place here in South Alabama to bring her for a reasonable cost then she will have to go to a new home. So keep your fingers crossed for a solution... :-)

The Wedding Details

January 1, 2011 was like a fairytale day for us....It was a moment in time that seems to be a page out of a story book. Here are a few of the little things that made the event just that much more special. (Above you will see an original painting of the Kennesaw Mansion where we were married above the fireplace in the sitting room, just as it had been placed upon the home's completion in the 1800's. Kennesaw was a Thoroughbred racing farm, which is also the exact halfway point between Ben's parents home and my parent's home. If you know me then you know just how fitting it was that this is where we said "I do.")

I know Benjamin worked tirelessly on my ring. I had hinted for a sapphire and I think he did a fabulous job in choosing the perfect piece to express our love and especially his for me. I had his ring picked out before he had even asked me to marry him; thank goodness I found it just in the nick of time!

Our florist, Phyllis was SUCH a love! It's true that God didn't make many blue flowers but Phyllis seemed to find just the right combo to put together EXACTLY what I had always dreamed of.
This is Ben's grooms cake. Thank you to Ms. Opal who created this masterpiece for us! It was SO delicious and he was SUPER surprised.

The little porcelain bride and groom cake topper was my great grandparent's cake topper in the 1930's and the Hungarian toasting flutes behind the cake topper were what my grandparents toasted with at their wedding 50 years before.
The DRESS!!! It was the VERY first dress I tried on once I knew we were getting married. It is a vintage piece that was slightly re-created with my tastes in mind (I LOVED the buttons!).
I was rather late to our wedding day and therefor missed a good amount of wedding party "photo time". You can read HERE to get the details on that. While waiting for me to arrive Ben had decided to write in a journal I had given him years before, all that was on his heart at that moment for me to read later. It is a letter that I will FOREVER cherish. He also had made sure that everything was in it's place for me (snack, shoes, dress: the important things!)

P.S. I know that these probably should have been posted in January, but we have been a bit busy! I'm just glad that I've finally got them on here so when a hurricane blows through Mobile in September the world wide web will have our wedding photos safe.... (I know...an oxymoron...)

The Wedding Ceremony

Here we go!
Ben waiting to walk his mother down to her seat.
My dad and I having a good laugh as we wait for everyone to get into place.
Jill, one of my sisters was asking Ben if he EVER thought he'd make it to this point! lol!
The wedding party walking in!



It ended up being a warm(er) New Years day!

Oh, the sisters :-)

The Wedding Party

We opted to do a first look and have a few moments before the wedding so that we could take it all in. This way we were able to really focus on the ceremony, our vows to God and each other and our prayers for the future. Here are those "First look" moments :-)




The groomsmen! What a good looking group! Ben's brothers, Nick and Jordan are on each end. And his lifelong best friends, Douglas and Joe are standing next to Cameron, Ben's little cousin.
My sisters, Hannah and Jill were my bridesmaids....i know it was the LAST thing they wanted to do but they were SO wonderful that day!




Ahhhh, the Journey Drive men!!!! From left to right: Tom, Aaron, Andrew, Stu, and Ben Briley....These were Ben's house mates through college at MTSU. Never a borning moment with these guys!
I think I love all these guys about as much as Ben does!


Our Pastor, Larry Yarborough :-)