Wedding Invitations

Here is a picture of our wedding invitations!

We got them at Party City.

I know what you're thinking...Party City??

Yes. They have like 15 books and they are 30% off the book price. This particular invitation came with a brown envelope, which we didn't like. They called the manufacturer and got it changed to grey for us! We got to pick our colors, and the wording.

I loved the little pocked, so nothing got lost.

Here are our responce cards:

I saw the wording on pinterest and LOVED. So we included it :)

A bit of advice: Do your best to send your invites out as early as possible, give yourself more than two months. The LOVELY USPS took forever delivering invitations, lost some, and we got some back with a ""wrong address" because their machines smudged the ink on the address. We were getting them back up to a week before the wedding. So frustrating.

Our Honeymoon...

We just got back from our honeymoon, we had so much fun!! Marcus and I went to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and got a sweet little cabin in the mountains. We struggled a bit when it came time to pick a honeymoon location. My first idea was BEACH! I wanted to do a couples resort in the Caribbean somewhere...and then we got to looking at prices, which were a bit too high for us. The next idea was a cruise, but Marcus has never been on one and I could tell he didn't seem too thrilled about it. Then one day I was talking to my coworkers about cruises and fun vacations, and they mentioned Asheville or the mountains and how pretty it was. When I mentioned it to Marcus, his face lit up. I knew that we had to find something up there. I would still get some sun, and we could still do some outdoorsy stuff that I wanted to do on a cruise.

We chose Pigeon Forge, as Marcus had been there before and really liked it. We drove up to my sisters, who lives in North Georgia, on Thursday, and Friday morning we continued our trek to Tennessee. Along the way we saw some beautiful views in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park.

 Our first day there we enjoyed the Dixie Stampede, and then the next day we went to Dollywood Splash Park super cheap because of a chance run in with a Dollywood employee who gave us tickets for 10 dollars (normally 50 a piece!). We also went to a pretty little winery, explored the Forbidden Caverns, and kayaked down the river (SO FUN!). It was so beautiful in the mountains, we cannot wait to go back. Seriously, we are considering moving to North Georgia to be in all their glory. I am SO, SO glad we chose to go to the mountains instead of the beach, especially since we live so close to the beach anyway!

A pretty view of a mountain river

Pigeon Forge at night

Please check out these peoples sweet shirts

 Yummy ice cream

That ring means he's alll mine :)

So handsome

Opening the door for dinner

Yummy wine :)

And now, in two days, starts school. Ahhh back to work again!

The Powell's

The little details...

One of the things Marcus and I were really adamant about with our wedding is that we wanted it to be personal. We worked on several little different details for the wedding to make it a little more special. Here are a few of them:

Home made signs:

These were carried by Marcus' sons, Buddy and Riley. Buddy was VERY tired, which is why he is crying, but it was still cute. We got chalkboards from JoAnns and painted on them with white acrylic paint. My dad cut this particular board in half and drilled holes in the top so we could string ribbon. We didn't want to use chalk because we wanted it to stay.

This was done in the same way as the one above it. The princess bride is my favorite movie, which is why I wanted this quote. We did one of Marcus' favorite love quotes, also, but I didn't see it anywhere, so I'm not sure if it was put up :/

OUR love story. I saw this idea on Pinterest. Again, this is a chalk board from JoAnn's, with white acrylic paint.

Circuit machine sign:

This was a sign my friend made for my wedding shower and we kept it. I told the people at the venue to just hang it somewhere they thought was cute...and they picked the gift table! We loved it. For those of you getting married, keep cute decorations from your shower, you can use them for your wedding!!

Centerpieces:

Again, we wanted something a little special for our centerpieces. We wanted Mason jars as an ode to my mom's family (the Masons). My mom found these lanterns at IKEA for a great price. Then we spray painted wine bottles. I originally put a tape design on the wine bottles, but when I pulled the tape off, it didn't turn out well, so I spray painted again. You could still see the lines but not so much of the mess up.

We did the flowers ourselves. We just wanted Gerber daisies, so we ordered some from Fifty Flowers.com, and made all the center pieces and bouquets. My awesome mother made the boutonnieres and corsages from flowers we got at publix. We put the favors, koozies with the date and our name, around the table so everyone would see and get them.

And the cakes:

The cakes were done by Confection Perfection near Atlanta. They were BEAUTIFUL, and they tasted amazing. We were SO, SO pleased with them!

Many of our ideas came from pinterest, and we put our own little twist on them.

A big thank you to Amber for the photo's.

~Angela

Wedded Bliss

Hello all! This post is coming to you from a newly married woman! Please notice the blog name-change. It may change again, but as of now it is "The Powell Platoon". Cute, right??

The wedding was wonderful! Marcus and I are married, so clearly everything went well :) I will be posting several times about the wedding, so be on the lookout for that. Some of the things I will be posting are obviously pictures, details, some crafts we did, and advice for future brides, wedding party, and guests.

We want to thank everyone for being a part of our special day. The new photo at the top was taken courtesy of our photographer, Billy Davis. Please check out his website if you need any pictures taken ever. www.whdphotography.com Billy is a family friend, but he has a great way of making people laugh, he is very funny, and can put anyone at ease. We absolutely love him. He has posted about 15 pictures so far, and all of them are great! We can't wait to see more pictures!!

Of course, several other people have been posting pictures on facebook, and we love them all!! I love pictures, there are so many around our house, so we are really enjoying seeing what everyone took pictures of.

We leave for our honeymoon on Thursday and are super excited about that. I am hoping to get all of the name change business done before then :)
Again, thanks to all!

~Angela

8 days a week...

8 days. 8 measly little days until I will officially be Mrs. Powell.

EEEEKKK!!! So excited. There is still a good bit to do, but I am so so so so so excited for this day to come. The past year and five months have been the best of my life and I am so happy to make this official :)

Oh, and let me also point out that I am getting three for the price of one. That's right, on July 14 not only do I get this handsome face...

But I also get this one...

(Ri-guy)

AND this one

(Mr. Buddy).

Can you say lucky girl?? Cause I can ;)

Tonight, Marcus and I are going on our last date as an engaged couple. My parents and brother will be in town for Marcus' bachelor party, and my mom and I are going to get into trouble go shopping Hilton Head.

Updates on all that, later

Love and Thanks,

Angela

Bachelorette Party

Photos of my bachelorette party! We went to dinner at Eclipse de Luna in Atlanta, and then went out to Hole in the Wall. I had a blast and I love all of these lovely ladies who came out!! Thanks for everything, I'm so lucky to have you!!

Bridal Shower :)

My sister and my best friend, Katie threw me a bridal shower on Saturday..and it was so nice! It was so good to see everyone and we had so much fun! I think about twenty five people showed up...I am SO SO blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life!!

The above sign was made by Katie and her Mom on her mom's circut machine...and now I want one :)

My only request was that there were cake pops

Kayla, Liz, Me, Stephanie and Katie! My girls I went to high school with...aren't they so pretty?

Morgan, my flower girl, My maid of honor and sister, Kerry, Me, and two bridesmaids, Katie and Kendra!

Rachel, Me and Misty! Love my Watkins :)

Me and Mrs. Stephanie!

this amazing blanket was made by my mother of all my old high school and college tshirts. I am SOOO excited about this! It will fit a queen size bed!!

Food? Who gets food at their bridal shower? Fat kids...thats who. Sugar babies and nutella from Katie and Twizzlers from my sister. It's no surprise these two know me SOO well :)

My cousin Betty made this awesome quilt, also! Super pumped!

I got everything put away in the house and Marcus even used some new stuff to make me dinner tonight! I am so lucky! Thank you so much again to everyone who came and sent things, and a BIG SHOUT OUT to my sister and Katie!! LOVE YALL!

Braves game

This past weekend Marcus, Buddy and I went to Snellville to visit my family and for my first Bridal shower. We had a ton of things planned, and first on the list was the Braves game! Marcus was dying to take Buddy to the Braves game because he has never been. My brother, his girlfriend Angie, my parents, my newly engaged friends Kayla and Connor, and Kendra came with!

Buddy had SO much fun, he enjoyed the fireworks and singing and FOOD most of all.

 Buddy sat with Kendra most of the game. He wuuuuuvs Kendra. This is after the game, and before the fireworks. Turner field does fireworks every Friday night, which is awesome! Buddy loves his leapster!

Buddy was so ready to go TO the game...

Father and son at the game :)

Kayla! I am so excited for her and Connor!

Watching the fireworks after the game. He LOVED them, even if they were loud :)

Love that little side smirk :)

The above and below pictures are my two favorites of the night. Buddy is so handsome, isnt he??

My love :)