Our first wedding gift to each other...

I know what you're thinking, "isn't it a little early for a wedding gift?" The answer is no, not when you find the perfect one! A friend of mine told me she found the perfect wedding gift for me to give to Kevin, however, Kevin and I agreed several months ago that we wanted to buy something together as our wedding gift to each other. We both wanted to get a piece of artwork for our large green wall in our living room. Originally, it was going to be of the Pineapple Fountain (where we got engaged) by Jim Booth. But, The Treasure Nest Art Gallery in Mount Pleasant had something better! Are you ready.....an oil painting of Alhambra Hall! It's beautiful. We love it. Since it is a little smaller than we anticipated, it will be hung with two framed wedding photos. A big thanks to Sara (my friend) and Katie at The Treasure Nest Art Gallery for helping us select this beautiful painting!

Seating Cards

Since last summer Kevin has been sand dollar hunting. We plan on using these as our seating cards & favors. We are still planning all the details and we have to do some more hunting to do this summer before the wedding (that's why we had to get married at the end of summer), just kidding!

How do we display the sand dollars and decorate the lobby area of Alhambra Hall? My sister came up with the bright idea of making them part of the decor by hanging them on Manzita branches. I haven't figured out how to do it yet, but I like it. I will have to ask my florist, Charleston Flower Market. It would look like to big trees in the lobby. Fun, fun, fun :)

The Perfect Place

Shortly after we were engaged my family was visiting from Ohio and Kevin's mom from California. We decided it would be the perfect opportunity to pick the location. We did some searching and narrowed it down before we took 5 1/2 (the half was my new nephew) on this crazy adventure. 5 people means 5 opinions everywhere we went. Everyone had something they absolutely hated about each place! After a few trips we finally looked at Alhambra Hall in Mount Pleasant. We all loved it, but Kevin and I didn't love the availability. Two Saturday's were available when we looked at it, August 29th and September 5th. If you live in the area you know that hurricanes and humidity are a bit of a problem in August. But, we collected all the information we needed to make a decision because our families all loved it. A week later we noticed one of the Saturdays disappeared. We panicked, if we wanted to get married here we had to move quickly. Kevin filled out the contract and we notified everyone that we'd be saying "i do" overlooking the ocean at Alhambra Hall in August! What a relief, we found an affordable place to get married in Charleston.