Thursday, May 30, 2013

Bridesmaids Brunch

Beautiful gift we received from a dear friend of ours! It made many debut's throughout the wedding weekend and now has a special place in our home!
We kicked the wedding weekend festivities off with a brunch thrown for my wonderful bridesmaids. They were the best group of girls to have by my side leading up to the big day and I wanted to show them my gratitude for all they had done!

Love these ladies!


I'm mad at myself I didn't take a better picture of when the table setting was actually done. Things were just too busy! But it was so much fun wrapping each of the girls gifts differently. They received monogrammed oxfords for the wedding day, monogrammed seersucker pajama pants, J Crew earrings and monogrammed coozies. I may have gone somewhat overboard, but I was just so thankful for all they did for me along the way.






We are hoping to receive our professional wedding photos in about 3 weeks. 8 weeks seems like an agonizingly long wait for our wedding pictures, but I think it makes us that much more excited to get them back!

Happy Thursday!

-K
SHARE:

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Our Rehearsal Dinner - Photos

My in-laws really worked hard to make our rehearsal dinner so special. Everything was done so beautifully and effortlessly coastal. We had the best evening with the best friends!


My handsome groom :)

How cute were the centerpieces! Salt Harbor Designs did a wonderful job!
My gorgeous bridesmaids!
                           
                           
It was the perfect start to the best weekend of our lives! I will feature my bridesmaid's brunch tomorrow!

xo,

-K
SHARE:

Friday, May 24, 2013

Long Weekend


We could not be any more excited for a long weekend. Ever since returning from Antigua, our adjustment back into reality has been a harsh one. I am so looking forward to late mornings of coffee in bed, trying out some new recipes and spending some quality time unplugging from electronics with the hubs and our sweet pup.

Happy Friday!

xo,
-K

SHARE:

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Katie's Favorite Memorial Day Sales

I am so excited for a three day weekend with the hubs! We are attending a wedding of some close friends on Saturday, and the rest of the weekend I plan to partake in a whole lot of nothing. It will be fabulous. Here are a few of my favorite sales going on this weekend, and a couple items I have my eye on!

                                                  Image 1
Furbish is local in Raleigh and offering all shoppers in store AND online 15% off of their purchase with code LONGWEEKEND

                                                             Collection pom-pom top
J Crew is offering up to $75 off your purchase in store and online as well! Be sure to use code: SHOPNOW

                                  nesting bowls     
C. Wonder is giving all of their shoppers an additional 50% off of all sale items! Seriously good steals going on!                                       

There are so many others I would love to partake in, but my husband may kill me :)

Happy almost weekend!

-K
SHARE:

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Honeymoon To Antigua

Where do I even begin on how amazing our honeymoon was? We are both still dreaming we are still on those picturesque beaches. Everywhere you looked was truly a scene from a postcard. Neither of us had ever been to Antigua and it surely did not disappoint...In case you didn't know, I was entirely unaware of where we were going until we got our boarding passes to Miami. Originally, Austin wanted to wait until we got our final boarding passes once we arrived in Miami to tell me, however the airline employee helping us with our bags needed to be told our final destination. Austin tried whispering...she didn't quite hear, nor did she know what was going on. Until, all of the sudden Austin blurted out "Antigua". I am not quite sure I have ever had so much emotion at 5am. Cue the tears, kisses, laughs, everything. After a year of being booked, I finally knew where we were headed! 

My friendly little plane partner to Antigua...little did I know as he responded as "visiting friends in Antigua" when really they filmed Des' season final rose where we were! Everything was uber private, but it was so neat to meet him and chat a bit. Surprisingly a really nice guy!

Note: All of the pictures taken were off my iphone. Sadly, we didn't realize until we were on the trip that we had a malfunction with our decent camera's memory card. Hence, the onslaught of iPhone pictures.


Austin spent one morning get a sailing lesson. He then took his wife on a private little HobieCraft cruise around the bay in Antigua. We did this probably 5 times while we were there! Loved it.
Our own little private dock where we laid each day...and drank WAY too much rum. Woops.

My most favorite day was probably when we took the catamaran out for a snorkeling adventure. The gentleman that drove us around were SO MUCH fun and made me feel entirely at ease while snorkeling (This girl doesn't do heights or depths) and we were in about 25 of water. Being able to see all the way to the bottom and the MOST gorgeous fish you've ever seen was truly amazing. I'm sure the 16 rum punch's before diving in had nothing to do with it. :) 

I  still can't believe this is my hubby. So much fun.




We took over 200 pictures during our trip, but I wont bore you with all of those! We are bummed to be back, but seriously LOVING married life. Some of life is the same, but some is a lot different! And super exciting! The last name changes aren't any fun, but doing everything together without the stress of wedding planning has been fantastic!

Happy Tuesday!

xo,

KZS
SHARE:

Monday, May 6, 2013

We're Married!

We are officially Mr and Mrs Smith! What a fantastic past two weeks. April 27th was by far the best day of my life and the honeymoon in Antigua really topped everything off. Here is a sneak peek of our big day until we get the real pictures back! Thanks so much to our close friends and family who sent us these shots we weren't able to capture!


xo-

Mrs. Smith
SHARE:
BLOGGER THEME CREATED BY pipdig