I woke up super nervous, I had been for a couple days. (Rewind to a week before) I was scrambling to find an outfit. I had gone shopping with a couple of girls from work and found this beautiful mustard colored dress. But after trying it on about a million times later, I decided it just wasn't me. I'm planning on taking it back tomorrow, I'm pretty sure I'll never wear it! Anyway, I started pulling things out of my closest, and then it clicked. My black pencil skirt (high wasted because I love the way it hides the little chubby part of my stomach), a white blouse, and this beautiful mustard cardigan I found at target! Okay, so we had the two outfits. (Yes, details are important in my blogs, I forget things easily and I want to remember my year of wedding planning.)
I had made a hair appointment and a makeup appointment, but before that I woke up early and headed to Big Stone. My mom had graciously allowed us to borrow a quilt that belonged to my mamaw. Then I drove back to JC and proceeded to get my hair done and then to makeup. Now, this is when my awkward alter ego showed up. I know this because, when I'm around people I know, I'm loud and crazy and sarcastic, and mean. I walk in to get my makeup done, the girl doing my makeup was 19 years old and let me just say that her confidence level surpassed mine by like 200%. I was stuttering, and blabbering. I told her I was super nervous. The other awkward part about the makeup, was that while the 19 year old girl was doing my makeup, another lady working (who was the age of a walmart greeter), stood behind her the whole time making tiny remarks and being super annoying! She would walk back and forth, from helping customers, to trying to figure out how to work the credit card machine, to walking back over to me (giving me this creepy smile, I was waiting for her to hand me a yellow smiley face sticker). Anyway, I finally got done with makeup, it looked pretty dark to me, but my pictures look amazing, so nothing to complain about.
I get back to Corey's, I change into the first outfit and we head to meet our photographers. My nerves still shot, and corey wanting to shoot me because of it. "Do I look pretty?"...."Yes baby!"...."Are you sure, like prettier than normal?"...."Yes, not that you're not pretty all the time, but it's just....ugh, never mind!" (And then we sang awkward songs)
Now back up. We picked two places to take pictures, Buffalo Mountain and ETSU. Two of our most favorite places. Each one filled with memories. We used to go to Buffalo a lot during college. Hiking with friends or just the two of us. We once saw a bear up close and personal, and a creepy man who ask us to join him on his hike (we said no, I'm not sure we'd be here today if we'd said yes). I'm so glad we both like the outdoors. And then there's ETSU. The place that we met. The place where we had our first kiss. The place that Corey ask me to marry him! Two perfect places to take perfect pictures.
Now, this is where I get to brag. I did in the last blog, but it needs to be reiterated. Our photographers, well they couldn't be any more wonderful. Oh, and did I mention that I can't stop looking at our pictures. They are absolutely (there's that dang word again) amazing!! I had seen a lot of people on my Facebook talk about how well they took pictures, and I knew after looking through some of them, that I wanted them as my photographers. The photo session wasn't awkward at all (well, except for the smiling and kissing constantly), Kayla and Andy were super helpful in the whole "put your hands like this, hug his arm, lean your head on his shoulder". My favorite..Kayla, "okay now Corey you put your foot in her ear". They seriously had us laughing the whole time. I would recommend them to anyone, for any occasion!
The weather was perfect. At first, I was hoping for a gorgeous day, where we could have maybe had the setting sun shining though the trees. (This is my attempt at sounding artsy). But the fog looked amazing on the mountain and the color of leaves were gorgeous! Thank you God, for answering my prayer about no rain!
We only had one almost tragedy. I couldn't find a building at ETSU to change into the second outfit. But, one of our wonderful friends, who works in one of the dorms, let me in to change. Ahh, she's wonderful!!
The day was wonderful. I had the love of my life, who helped build my confidence back up. He helped to make me laugh, relax and have fun! (p.s. I can't wait to see the pictures of us in our nerdy glasses, Cor was a trooper, wearing those glasses like a pro) And we had two talented photographers capturing every second. I couldn't have ask for anything more.
And that was pretty much my day in the full extent.
(the misuse of grammar, and or spelling, is to be looked over, and forgotten about. I tend to make a lot of mistakes when writing. Thanks)
The End.
"Find rest, Oh my soul, in God alone. My hope comes from him."
Peace, love and awkward moments.
One of our gorgeous pictures, taken by Andrew and Erin Photography.
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you are too sweet callie! We love you guys! We can't wait until your wedding!!
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