wedding ideas. part 6.

i'm hoping to find a simple dress. and i'd like to make a flower belt like this to go with it.

love this big open feel.

LOVE these shoes. i'm hoping to find a pair of cute yellow flats to wear.

i've seen this idea a lot and i really like it. i'm hoping to pin up a bunch of photos of us, along with our friends and family.

i like using these buckets as centerpieces. and maybe for the flower girl.

just another cute photo with a mason jar.

hoping to find a bunch of these to use for centerpieces and drinking glasses.

[kenda, how crazy is this! i can't believe someone else had those pencils in their wedding.]

also, i'd love to have jugs of sweet tea and lemonade.

two or three things i know for sure.

there are two or three things i know for sure,

and one is that everyone has a story.

a story worth telling.

a story worth listening to.

there are two or three things i know for sure,

and one is that empowerment and affirmation

can only be found within yourself.

your identity is not found in the labels

the world has stitched into your clothes.

and it is not contained to the boxes the world has limited you to.

your identity is your own.

and it runs across borders.

it deconstructs labels and reconstructs truth.

it blurs the lines of boxes.

there are two or three things i know for sure,

and one is that when you withhold love from others,

you are only hurting yourself.

there are two or three things i know for sure,

and one is that life is not about the body.

it is not about the skin we are in.

but, it is about the heart.

the spirit.

the soul.

all of which are always trying to find their way home. to Love.

there are two or three things i know for sure,

and one is that Love wins. always.

even when the dark gets darker.

even when the Light seems to have faded away.

even when you can't even remember what Hope feels like.

what Faith feels like.

even when the world's illusion of power becomes overwhelming.

even when you feel smothered by the lies of society.

Love wins.

always.

for giving.

i've been re-reading "traveling mercies" by anne lamott,

and man is it breaking me. again.

here's some stuff from the chapter "forgiveness."

[if you want to be forgiven, if you want to experience that kind of love,

you have to forgive everyone in your life -- everyone, even the very worst boyfriend you ever had -- even, for God's sake, yourself.

forgiveness means that God is for giving,

and that we are here for giving too,

and that to withhold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

God loves us exactly the way we are,

and God loves us too much to let us stay like this.

i read once in some magazine that in czechoslovakia, they say an echo in the woods always returns your own call, and so i started speaking sweetly to everyone ... and my sweet voice started getting all over me, like sunlight ... ]

[the salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord;

He is their stronghold in time of trouble.

the Lord helps them and delivers them;

He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,

because they take refuge in Him.]

-psalm 37:40

wedding ideas. part 5: some more cute things.

i just like old windows used as decoration:

some more flower arrangements that i like:

mason jars hanging from trees, again. i just can't get enough:

maybe some homemade jam & apple butter for gifts:

my most favorite wedding (photos) ever.

http://blog.benblood.com/2010/03/22/emilycolby-a-wild-west-wedding/

here's some photos, but you should check out this link to see them all.

the wedding is absolutely incredible.

and the photography is the best i've ever seen.

wedding ideas. part 4: things and such cont'd.

this is a must. i LOVE this idea:

a nest ring pillow:

possible cake toppers?...

i'm trying to find the perfect center piece. we want everything in our wedding to be of some other use. i like this idea. a lot.

here's another wedding with a tree as the centerpiece: