Wedding Week! - Quotes

Well, J and I have been married for 6 months as of yesterday! And it still feels like yesterday, to be honest. I figured it would be fun to do a themed "Wedding Week" since I love sharing those stories and looking at those pictures.

Getting engaged, planning a wedding and getting married was such an incredible season in our lives. It was filled with such joy and stress and love and everything in between. That year-long period of planning seemed at times to fly by and all I could remember thinking was, "Savor this. Enjoy it.". And then there were the other times.... In any case, I look back on our engagement wedding, parties, family and friends with such joy and love. We are truly, truly blessed and looking back makes me smile and my heart happy.

I'm obviously in LOVE with quotes and I knew that I wanted to incorporate them into our wedding somehow. My first find was a guest book which I wasn't originally going to do, but as soon as I saw it I HAD to have it. Every other page has a quote on it! Fitting, no? Then there was the question of how to incorporate some of my favorite sayings into our actual reception without over doing it. A friend helped me make frames for the tables at the reception with quotes that I felt described our love. Nothing too in your face, but they were totally unique, really funky and I loved them. Still trying to figure out what to do with them now, though!

These were our wedding day quotes:

"True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending."

- K. Knight

"If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared on your face or a touch of joy within your heart, then, in living, I have made my mark."

- Thomas L. Odem, Jr.

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"You and me together, we can do anything, baby."

- Dave Mathews Band (an excerpt from "our song")

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

- Dr. Suess

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

- Judy Garland

"Piglet: 'How do you spell love?'

Pooh: 'You don't spell it, you feel it.'"

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Bronte

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