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Our Love Story {Part Four}: Our Wedding

on May 17, 2014 by Jami Balmet 0 comments

Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. So I decided to re-post our love story. Young Wife’s Guide is dedicated to encouraging YOU where you are and I thought you might like to see a little bit of our story…Go back and read how we methow we feel in love, and our engagement story.

Now on to the moment you have all been waiting for (I know I was!!)– our wedding. We had the perfect and most beautiful wedding (even if it was over 100 degrees and sweltering)!

the story of our wedding!

Wedding planning

We got engaged on October 17, 2008 and got married exactly 7 months later (who needs a long engagement??) on May 17, 2009. We were away at college at the time  (8 hours away from our family). But we just knew that we had to get married back home.

Away at college, I started our wedding planning with hours of research online. Over Thanksgiving break we did a few beginning things such as taking our engagement pictures and visiting a few venues. But then over Christmas we did the bulk of the wedding planning.

If someone tells you that you need at least a year to plan a wedding, they are crazy! We had 7 months and never felt like it was too rushed. We just figured out what we needed to do and did it!

Over our three week Christmas break we picked the venue. It just had to be outdoors. I don’t know why but the idea of a lush garden could not get out of my head. Well due to our budget we couldn’t find an actual garden but I ended up falling in love with our venue. It was an iris garden on one slope and a beautiful pond below the site.

We also picked my dress over Christmas break. I ended up picking the third dress I tried on. Loved it!

At my final dress fitting a couple weeks before the wedding!

We picked the wedding invitations and pretty much got everything ready. Over the next several months I planned the wedding from 8 hours away with lots of help from my mother and my in-laws.

Over Easter, I had my final dress fitting and finalized anything else we had left. We went back to school for two weeks. We had our finals week and then I was home for a week and then it was our wedding. It was definitely a busy time and it made it hard to focus on finals with my wedding a week away, but it was so worth it in the end!

Our wedding day

We got married on May 17, 2009. I was 19 and he was 21. Yes, we were young and married and our wedding was absolutely perfect!! Our families came around us and supported us more than we could have imagined. Our friends were also so supportive and we had the perfect wedding day.

Our Wedding Party
Our Parents
Oh yes…and our first dance had a surprise! See the video below

Fast forward to one minute and 15 seconds for the fun 😉

And my hubby requested that I mention that we went to beautiful Hawaii for our honeymoon. He said it was the best part 😉

This is MY FAVORITE picture of my husband EVER 😉

Are you a young married, or were you married young? Share you story with us. I always LOVE to hear about young marrieds and hearing the stories about how God brings two believers together in  holy matrimony.

Leave a comment here and let me know how you got, met, and married your love or leave me the URL to a blog post you wrote about your love story.

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