Weddingbee bios

We are two people who finally figured out that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together....9 years after we first met.  

Jill is high strung, fun, laughs a lot, creative, enjoys life and spending time with friends.  Also loves spending that time at home alone with Dan.

Dan is laid back, hilarious, a dedicated friend (but don't cross him!) and loves to be at home snuggled up on the couch watching a good movie.

We have fun together, we laugh together, we have learned so much about each other in 7 years of dating.  We compromise.  Something so minor yet so HUGE.  Compromise is key to our relationship.

Most of all.  We love each other and cannot wait to be married on October 16th.

 

In the summer of 2001, one of my college friends and her fiancee had their bridal party up for the weekend at the beach. I went with one of the groomsmen that I was dating...but towards the end of the relationship with at that point. While we were at the beach, I met the other groomsmen. All were very nice men but one was that type of personality you know you like to be around.  Well, since I was with the other groomsmen, nothing happened. The wedding went on in September and then....nothing.

Two years later....Same friends, now married, invite just me and that other pesky groomsman to the beach with them. My friend's husband told his friend that this would be a fun weekend, maybe he'd hook up. My friend told me, we'll have fun!  You should see this guy, he looks great.

Well...we didn't hook up....but we did like each other. A lot. And spent a lot of time together that weekend. We stayed up until 3am watching TV, just to spend time next to each other on the couch. There was definitely something in the air. 

Problem. I live in NY. He lives in MD. Oh well...we'll figure it out.

After the beach, I was in town for another couple of days so I called him the next day and asked him out. We went to dinner, spent hours and hours together that night and it was settled. We would try to make this thing work.

 

Our bouquets ALMOST made up for the fact that our florist put dried, dead roses in our centerpieces and roses in our corsages.  I had told him 4 times NO ROSES!!  But look at these beauties!!!  They were wrapped in extra fabric from my MOH's dress and my mother's lace from her wedding day veil.

 

We wanted something a little different than just flowers for our centerpieces.  Our reception site had nice chandeliers hanging from the ceiling so we didn't feel like we needed a lot of height.  I love what we ended up with (sans the roses) which I didn't even know about until afterwards!  My Mom actually went to the reception site while we were at our first look and plucked all of the roses out of our table!!!  I made the table numbers.

 

Our favors ended up being more than we could have hoped for.  They were white chocolate, some were white chocolate on toffee.  We had sea shells and starfish.  We tagged them and wrapped them all around the napkins.

 

 

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One word for our invites: Love.  The whole package was perfect.  Simple, elegant, themed.

 

My Mom and MOH helped me get ready on my wedding day.  It was so nice to have the two most important women in my life help me step into my dress and zip, snap, clasp, etc everything together. 

My dress was Caroline by WTOO and I love her so.  I would love to wear her again but know that probably will never happen.

The scrapbooker in me decided Thickers were mandatory for shoe detail.

 

I ran around all day in this robe. Classy dame, that's me.

 

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All photos by Elizabeth Scott Photography

Our photographers, Leslie and Matt were amazing.  They took us and this bridge and made magic happen.