Our Wedding Day

As everyone of you know, a little over two months ago, I married my high school sweetheart, my college buddy, my best friend, my person I turn to in moments of anger, sadness, excitement and joy, my rock, the love of my life, the future father of my children...my Russellbear. After nine years, and one day we finally became husband and wife. People ask if it's different now or if things have changed. My answer is yes and no. We are the same people we were on February 26th as we were when we woke up on February 28th. However, the fact that I get to call him my husband makes things even more exciting. It's a similar feeling to after we got engaged, just excited all of the time. I just love it!

Tyler Schmitt, our photographer with The Mill Photography Studio, sent me the Drop Box of all of our wedding photos yesterday. This post will be just pictures of my husband (ahhhhhh!!) and me. I'll post the rest to Facebook later. The pictures are absolutely amazing! I would recommend him to anyone! From the first look, to the first dance, to the first day of the rest of my life.

 

 

Photo Cred: all photos posted in this blog were taken by Tyler Schmitt of The Mill Photography Studio.

--Mrs. Russell B. Bisbey

Finishing The List

The fact that I haven't completed a blog entry since January is no surprise to anyone who knows me well (or..at all)! :) In the last few months,  I have gotten married (not that any of you missed that memo), settled into newlywed life, continued to teach my sweet third graders, administered the STAAR tests, enjoyed several wedding/wedding festivities with some of my sweetest friends and tried to figure out a balance between it all! The last part I'm still working on!

My last post promised information on bridesmaids/groomsmen presents, marriage license and wedding insurance <---yes! that is a thing! So, here goes!

13. Bridesmaids/Groomsmen Presents-This was one of my favorite parts of the wedding! I love giving gifts. I decided that I wanted to give the girls Kendra Scott earrings and a monogrammed flannel to wear while we were getting ready! I bought the flannels from Old Navy and had them monogrammed at Oh Yeah! in Bee Cave!

    

The customer service team at KS was great! They originally sent 9 tags and I needed 10. Being that I'm crazy and wanted them all to match, they (Lauren) sent 10 new ones and a card with well-wishes! So thoughtful!

Photo Cred: The Mill Photography Studio

Here we are in our flannels! Have I mentioned lately, how B-E-A-U-tiful my best friends are?!?! The team at Oh Yeah! was amazing as well!  Each shirt was gift wrapped, so all I had to do was give them to the girls at rehearsal dinner! It was perfect!

We gave the guys/ring bearers new shoes and they looked amazing! Blue chucks to wear at the wedding!

 Photo Cred: The Mill Photography Studio

Photo Cred: The Mill Photography Studio

Love these guys so much! Thank you guys and my sweet girls for spending this weekend with us! We are so grateful and will never forge how special each of you are to us! 

14. Marriage License- Make sure you get it 72 hours before your wedding day! You can go to any county in Texas and get it! You and the groom have to be present, and you'll need your driver's license. It was $81.

Travis County takes your picture for you and posts it their website. :) 

15. Wedding Insurance- My venue required it, so we bought it. We used wedsafe.com, and it was $185.

I'm obviously going to do a second post today because well...I enjoy blogging and because so much has happened over the last few months...and because our wedding pictures are innnn! Stay tuned.

Love y'all!

-Amanda Pearson Bisbey <---that's my new, legal married name!