Tea and Wedding Photos!

Hey guys!
I know it's been awhile!
Basically, I've been running around to events, AND sittin in this chair editing photos,
so not much time for an update!
I can tell you this... I've been drinking more tea.
A month ago, I read this on the inside of my Sleepytime Tea box:
"Today, heart disease is the #1 killer of women in the United States and kills more women than all forms of cancer combined, including breast cancer."

Wow... that really hit me when I read it.

It goes on to say,
"Often all that's needed to combat heart disease is a commitment to a healthier lifestyle: exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, quitting smoking, and eating a heart-healthy diet. Research shows that drinking just two cups of black tea a day provides as many heart-healthy flavonoids as one serving of fruits and vegetables. Green and white teas also have high levels of antioxidants."
(Red tea also has antioxidants.)
I didn't know what flavonoids were, so I looked them up:
"Any of a large group of water-soluble plant pigments that are beneficial to health. Flavonoids are polyphenols and have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties. They also help to maintain the health of small blood vessels and connective tissue, and some are under study as possible treatments of cancer. Also called bioflavonoid." (dictionary.com)

There are many different types of tea... if you don't like one kind, try another.
My current fave (what I'm drinking right now) is Red Earth's Sweet and Spicy tea. Here are a few others I drink:


(Yup, I have two kinds of before-bed tea.)

So, even if you're a guy, the antioxidants are super good for you... so I encourage you all to drink tea! (or, eat antioxidant-filled foods!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Also, as I promised, here are some more of my favorites from my wedding a year ago!
It doesn't seem like a year ago... but at the same time, it does... so strange.
Keep in mind I'm not showing ALL of my fave pics... That would be a LOT!!!
(Thanks again to Brad and Jessica Person for wonderful pics.)
Brad and I both edited these....(cuz I love editing:)).

Gettin my hair done:


Makeup is done, hair almost finished (I really started to get butterflies here!):


Me, happy, arriving at the church:


Going to meet Aaron!:


I had tons of fun playing with this one... Aaron has it on his desk at work now:)


Ok, so I'm a bit nervous and exited, all at once!!


Thank goodness for the breeze... it was 100 degress that day, PLUS tons of humidity!


One of my favorite pics of Aaron and I meeting for the first time:



My little cousin flower girls!


My flowers!!


My bridesmaids... such beauties!


I was taking it all in, watching the formal pics take place:


My friend Johanne arrives! Love our expressions... both excited for the big day:


Waiting for our time!:


My dad... so handsome!


Also very handsome! ow ow!




Aaron and I both went to the same high school (but didn't know each other at the time) and played cello under the same conductor. "Mr. H" is wonderful. He's at the piano, playing a piece he arranged... "In Christ Alone (My Hope is Found)" for vocal, piano, and string quartet. Our friends played and sang so well...


Some outdoor fun!
I was told, pre-wedding day, we couldn't use the golfcarts.
One of the groomsmen, Steve, is a smooth talker. He was told he could take three
golf carts..

Steve: "So we took... um... five."


It was fun... (me, laughing obnoxiously, as usual... haha!)



Hot sun!!


Yeah... it was REALLY hot out... so staying in the shade was a good plan!:)


Meanwhile, the reception was just about to start... I couldn't wait to see it...
my aunt designed the whole thing, and some of my family helped put it all together...
I was SO impressed... it was so beauitiful!



A bridesmaid's bouquet! So pretty! (Aaron's uncle owns a flower shop,
so we obviously went through him!)


Clinging glasses = kiss.


After the quartet finished, our friend Dave played some AMAZING dinner music,
Billy McLaughlin style. (After Dave finished, Mr. H. played jazzy piano...
our whole day was filled with wonderful music!)


My amazing Personal Attendant, Marie, is happy for Aaron and me:


Some friends!!
Annie (who looks more like Spiderman's girlfriend than I do;) You know you do, Annie!), Steph (whom I photograph weddings with!) and Sara!:

A first dance with the hubby:


A dance with the dad (I arranged to have Mr. H. play a jazzy "You Are My Sunshine," cause my mom always used to sing it to me... when she realized what song it was,
she was just a tear bucket! :)