Meet the Shaneyfelts

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Friday Favorites!

Happy Friday, my friends!

I’m off school today and my sister is off work today, so we’re going to be doing a little shopping this afternoon and I can’t wait to spend some time with her!  I love that my sister and I have such a close relationship 🙂

Today is also Good Friday–good because we deserve death on the cross, but Jesus, in his infinite love and obedience to the Father, took our place–and Sunday is coming!

Today, I’m sharing a few FAVORITES with y’all!

 I’ve had lots of fun recapping our wedding (2.5 years later) and I finished it up yesterday with the reception where we had THE BEST time!  I have loved writing these posts and reminiscing!



 Sunday I tagged along with my sister while she had a photo shoot.  Before her client got to the site, she took a few photos of me.  You can tell by my outfit that I was totally prepared to have photos taken……not! ha!  
(Also I’m posting this even though I think I look fatter in this picture 🙈🙈)


 
 My big sister flew in from Colorado Wednesday and I was so happy to see her!  She moved in August and I haven’t seen her since, and I know my dad was so happy that we were all together again!
(I’m also wearing my fav workout tank in a different color)



 Dustin and I are aggressively paying off student loans (his undergrad and my graduate school), so this will be how I feel until everything is paid off next year.  I’m taking donations for anyone who wants to support my shopping addiction 😂😂  I feel like we’re kind of doing Dave Ramsey but not 100%.



Southern Charm recently came back on TV and I love that show!  I follow Jennifer Snowden on IG and over the last few months since she had her baby, she’s really become my favorite and she isn’t even a main character on the show haha!  Her baby was born with health issues and had brain surgery a few days after birth.  If you’re watching Southern Charm, who’s your favorite?  Landon is getting on my nerves big time and it’s only been 2 episodes ha!


Linking up with Erika, April, and Amanda

#MeetTheShaneyfelts: Reception!!

Yesterday I told you that I was really good in narrowing down pictures for the ceremony post; well today is a different story.  I had a really hard time choosing, so feel free to skim through these pictures.  I did this mainly for my own memories.
To see the ceremony, click here.

 Once we got to the country club for our reception, we headed out to take a few pictures on the golf course and the guests began to arrive.


As soon as guests began arriving, they immediately picked up their food (yummy bbq) and began to eat.  (Remember, we did get married at 6 PM and it was a 20 minute drive to the reception.)  After pictures, Dustin and I had a table set up in the office and we were able to eat by ourselves before the actual reception began.  Best thing we did!  We were able to make sure we ate uninterrupted and it was so fun to recap the day together and eat our first meal as husband and wife.

 The band’s set list



 Our first dance was to Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love”
 After our first dance we immediately cut both of our cakes.  I wanted guests to be able to eat cake while they watched the next two dances.  I definitely thought about how I feel at weddings sometimes where I’m dying for cake but it seems like it takes forever until the bride and groom cut it haha!

 My cake was strawberry and vanilla layers with a buttercream frosting died pale pink.  And as you can tell, I didn’t have a cake topper #notapriorityforme

 Dustin’s cake was wildlife-themed and it was red velvet with a buttercream, too.

 My dad and I danced to Hall and Oates’s “Sara Smile.”  He always sang that song to me when I was little to where I thought it was about me, so it was only fitting that we danced to it at my wedding!



 Dustin and his mom danced to a George Strait song.



 And the dance floor stayed full the rest of the night…

 My sister breaking it down 😂



 We also had a table set up where people could leave us marriage advice, and some of the things we read were hilarious!  And others were very sweet 

 Some of my book club friends came to the wedding!



 I love this picture so much!  I have it framed on my bedside table 😍

#MeetTheShaneyfelts: Wedding Ceremony

I’m being featured on my friend Ron’s blog today so head over there to see what makes me happy!

Woohoo it’s wedding day!  No, not in reality, but I’m finally getting to recap the actual ceremony!  Y’all will be proud that I didn’t fill this post with 5 million pictures….although I wanted to!


Dustin and I did not get married in the church where we are members.  The church I chose for us to get married in (and I’m going to say I chose since I planned our wedding), was the very first church I began attending and also the church where I became a Christian.  Also this church has a center aisle, so you know how important that was ha 😜

Our wedding was at 6 o’clock in the evening on July 26, 2014, and then (which I’ll recap tomorrow so come back to check!!) reception was at a country club outside of town.

Dustin and I both wanted our wedding ceremony to point to God’s goodness instead of us, and that “We love because he first loved us” 1 John 4: 19.  Our friend Adam married us and did a wonderful job sharing the Gospel in our ceremony.  Dustin and I also recited different vows to one another because our roles in our marriage are different–he is the head and I am his helpmate.

Okay, now onto the pictures!
***Rules in this church prohibited the photographer from getting any close up pictures during the ceremony.
 The weather was really perfect that day!  Yes, really hot but that was to be expected.



 Dustin created our guest books on Shutterfly and we had our guests sign these.  I felt like this was so much more practical than a fancy guest book that we would never look at again. These books gave guests a chance to write personal notes on each page.


 Before the ceremony began, my girls gathered around me to pray for the ceremony, but most importantly, to pray for mine and Dustin’s marriage.  This prayer was led by my bff Janie.



 I couldn’t help but cry!



 My sister and my mom



 I love this picture!  We all cried during Janie’s prayer!



Music is very important to me and I wanted the music played during our ceremony to glorify God.

Seating of the Grandparents and Mother of the Groom:
The Way You Love Me performed by….one of my students!
(funny story…our school had a talent show off for the very first time and this student asked me if he could sing his audition song in front of our class to practice.  This was a couple of months before the wedding.  Of course I allowed him to sing and once I heard him, I knew he had to sing at the wedding.  Dustin picked this song out and my student was able to slow the tempo down and played it with his guitar….it was perfect!!)

Processional:

Bridal Processional:
“Be Thou My Vision”….this exact version and I cry every time I sing this hymn because the words are so beautiful.  Also if you listen to the link, they didn’t open the sanctuary doors until about a minute for a more dramatic entrance 😉

Song after Exchanging of the Rings:
“How Deep the Father’s Love for Us” performed by one of my childhood friends…she’s an AMAZING singer and it was beautiful!

 My mom and dad divorced when I was 13, and because of that, I wanted both of them to walk me down the aisle.



 Giving me away



 We also had a family prayer right before we exchanged vows.  Our immediate family members surrounded us and prayed for our marriage.



 Headed to the reception!  
Come back tomorrow to see how fun it was–we still have people telling us our reception was fun!
Linking up with Jenn and Shelly