Life As We Know It: Even a small, intimate wedding has a lot of details...

Trying to keep a wedding small and intimate on a shoestring budget is not an easy task. There are still a lot of details and we are fortunate to have so many friends and family helping us out. Still recovering from the fire last year, which is an entire journey of its own, planning a wedding back home, 600 miles away has it's challenges.
So we want to give a shout out to those that have not hesitated to put their time, money and heart into making this the perfect day for us!
Location! Location! Location! My best friend, Jenny, jumped right on securing her family's winery for our ceremony! Finding a venue is one of the first and biggest challenges when planning a wedding.
Kent's cousin (brother) Sean didn't hesitate when we said we wanted an after party with bonfire, music, dancing and fun! He locked in a perfect location not far from the wedding...the Elks Park and he insisted on paying for it!
Uncle Kermit and Aunt Christi locked in our minister, who is now 86, and married the two of them over 40 years ago! He also baptized Kent and Sean.
Jason, Kent's other cousin, has offered to be our DJ...no doubt he will do an awesome job. He even has his 4-wheeler decked out with a bad ass stereo system!
My fabulous and incredible sister has offered to make the deserts in a jar for the reception...which are amazing! There's a couple photos of the ones she did for her daughter's rehearsal dinner in one of my blogs.
My amazing brother and brother-in-law are going to help with photos and videography...they are awesome! Of course my wonderful neighbor from back in Vienna will also be doing some of our photography! He is great and the first photographer I thought of to hire for the wedding!
Another one of my great friends has been a gem! She has offered to make the wedding bouquets for me and the bridesmaids as her wedding gift! That is so cool!
Jenny has also started collecting mason jars that will be used for centerpieces on the tables. She is also my wedding planner and doing everything on her own time...she is awesome! Her husband is also getting in on the action! He has already booked our double honeymoon for next fall...a CRUISE! What a gift!
Our beautiful daughter, who is also an inspiring photographer, is taking our engagement photos today! We are very excited and look forward to having lots of fun with that!
I am sure this isn't the end of what our family and friends will do to make this a perfect day! So it's important to say thank you to everyone! We don't know what we would do with out you!!!