rushley & crew

I am less than 2 months away from celebrating my third anniversary with my husband. Can you believe it?! Because I can't. There was a time in my life when I never thought the day I'd get married would ever  come, and now it's come, gone, and taken three years with it! But though we have been married for nearly three years, I had yet to create or order a wedding album! A wedding album came with our photography package, but one with only 72 pictures. After narrowing down all of our pictures, we still had 150 that I wanted. (We had a lot of great photos that you can see here , here , and here .) I had emailed back and forth with my photographer back in January 2013  about options and kind of decided that I wanted to upgrade, but then life got busy and I forgot to move forward with it. That's why it made the 23 before 23 bucket list : I knew that the only way I would get it done is if I made it a real priority. So a few weeks ago, I met up with my photographer an...

As I said last week, I had a PREception --a reception the night before  my wedding--which was the best decision ever. Why? Because it meant that I got to really just enjoy my wedding day, without having any stress about trying to fit everything into one day or about something going wrong. Nothing could go wrong . . . it was my wedding day! Our wedding was scheduled for about 2pm, so I had the whole morning to get ready and make sure I had everything packed for the honeymoon. Russ and I then drove up to the Salt Lake City temple together. Our wedding ceremony was small in comparison to many. We had only our parents, our siblings (except Chantry because she hasn't been through the temple), grandparents, aunts and uncles, and a few friends. Sadly, none of my best friends or cousins closest to my age could be there because they hadn't gone through the temple, either. But two of Russ's best friends from his childhood (Brad and Curtis) and one of his favorite mission companio...

Many brides don't want their future husbands to see their wedding dress before the wedding day. They are traditional, and that's fine. But that's not me. I had no qualms at all with Russ seeing my wedding dress, so we took pictures a few weeks before the wedding so that we would have pictures out at our reception. Here are a few of those pre-wedding day photos :) i refused to have fake nails for my wedding day, so these are all mine! :)  Come back next Wednesday to hear all about our reception! :) **All photos by  Melanie Paxton Linking up for Wedding Wednesday!