We are having a VERY CASUAL beach wedding.  I know he is definitely going to wear flip flops. I am now trying to figure out what my groom should wear…what do you think?

Choice 1- White short sleeved button downs with khakis

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I spend most evenings scouring the Internet looking at this site, bridal blogs, wedding websites, etc… and tonight I came across someone who said this…

The only things that should last forever is your marriage and your photography – everything else is just details.

I think I agree.  I am going to try to keep this in mind when I am stressing over flowers and invitations and favors.  I knew from the get go that the wedding photography was important to me.  It is one of the first things I booked.  I love our photographer and her work.  From the moment I stepped foot into her home for our first meeting…I knew I was going to hire her.  I know that the photos she takes of us we will have forever and they will be passed down to our children…so I had no qualms when it came to the cost of the wedding photography.  Seeing our wedding photos is one of the things I look forward to the most about our wedding.

Here are a few of my favorites from our photographer to be, Amy Sandoval.

http://www.amysandovalphotography.com/

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Ok….so after hours of deliberation (I mean seriously, it shouldn’t be that hard) I have chosen our colors! I took into account all the great advice I got from all of you.  Unfortunately, Dogwood Dude’s only advice was “Whatever makes you happy, makes me happy”… I resisted the urge to tell him that he wasn’t making me happy at that moment!  I decided to do some research into local flowers to see what we could get for a good price and what colors I had to choose from for those flowers.

So, here were the three choices I was looking at….and click through to see what we picked!

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Crisis #1…I can’t make up my mind on our colors!  With all the beautiful colors to choose from when planning a beach wedding it really makes it hard to decide. I could go with sky, water or earth on this one!

My first inclination was to go with the colors of the sunset since our wedding will take place at that beautiful time.  I was imagining amazing hues of canary, peach, coral and tangerine much like this image from Martha Stewart.

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I think I have just arrived at the stage of wedding planning when one realizes that there’s a lot of work to be done, and maybe not as much time to accomplish everything as one thought. 290 days sure sounds like a lot, but when you get down to brass tacks, I gotta get moving. Let’s take a moment to review:

What is done:

Venue is picked which will host ceremony and reception – The Sundy House

The "Warhol Room" where we will have the reception at the Sundy House

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When it came down to escort cards, I had a hard time envisioning what would make the best presentation for our guests. With all of the last-minute changes at our venue, I didn’t know whether the display would be outside (and therefore subject to wind) or inside. I didn’t want anything too chintzy either. Also, I didn’t want to have to transport anything large, bulky or fragile from Georgia down to our Florida Keys venue.

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Lovely ladies helping with program assembly

I have been pretty open about not being the craftiest bride out there. Luckily, I have some awesome friends and family members who were all too happy to pitch in! Above you can see three of my aunts, my brother’s MIL and my mother hard at work assembling programs.

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Being an avid traveler, I’ve always known that I wanted a destination wedding. The idea of exchanging vows somewhere beautiful and exotic always appealed to me– plus I had heard that it can be cheaper and easier to plan a wedding abroad. So about 5 minutes after we got engaged last July, I started looking for “the right” destination venue for our wedding.

From amtweddings.com

I didn’t realize it would be like trying to find the proverbial needle in a haystack, which is why it took eight ridiculously long months to find the right place and set a date.

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From http://www.flickr.com/photos/sammiedanger/2401084667/

One of the last-minute projects I recently tackled was putting together welcome letters for our guests. I have seen some fantastic examples of full-color wedding brochures that could pass for professional work, and some that are full of cute wedding clipart. But, true to Plumeria form, I didn’t have enough time or energy to truly do justice to a full-on brochure, especially given my paltry design skills. We are picking up brochures from the local chamber of commerce, so our guests will have Islamorada info at hand.

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Even before I got my wedding dress, I was thinking about what kind of shoes I wanted to wear.

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