5 Years

Eliott & I have been together for F I V E years now! I can not believe how fast time has gone by. Everyday I am SO thankful to have him in my life.
He keeps me sane when the world drives me crazy.
He accepts my flaws, and still loves me despite the many.
He loves me in a sweet, caring and honest way.
He appreciates my quirks.
He is patient with me, e v e r y d a y
I know he will love me forever and ever.
I am so excited to marry Eliott Guy Copier in just 10 short days. We will finally be Mr. & Mrs. after many hours spent day dreaming of what our marriage could be like. I know we will become even more in love as time passes and we learn more about each other and experience the ups & downs of marriage. We have been showered with blessings this summer and appreciate everyone who is helping with this wedding! whether it is financially, manually, emotionally, soulfully, we appreciate and need all of your support! We love you!

now, enjoy some pictures of our favorite moments together.

Just a few weeks into dating, summer 2006

Year one, we LOVE going to the beach together, he probably pretends to like it so he can see me in a bikini ;)

Year two, Eliott supports me at the BGCH, helping with the kids :)

Year three, Eliott & I enjoying a sunset

Year four, enjoying the rays in Florida Spring Break 2010

Year five! 2 to 1 premarital event 

I love you El!

Pintrest

Oh My!! I do not know why I didn't make this connection earlier...

You see, I have a Pintrest account, which is basically a big image browser where you can save and categorize images to make inspiration "boards". Well of course I made a wedding board and have been "pinning" for a couple months. I bet you are dying to see my inspiration images...wait no longer, click the link and "Happy Pinning"

my wedding board

Bridal Showers

I can not express how grateful I am for everyone who attended my bridal showers! and for those who couldn't make it, you were there in spirit and I appreciate that as well. What a great experience for everyone to get together and celebrate Eliott & my upcoming marriage. We are so thankful for all the lovely gifts and cards we received, we feel so blessed.

Special thank you to the fine women who put on the showers! Shout out to my moms, maid of honor Lourdes, bridesmaids Frances, Caroline, and Bekah and to Eliotts lovely aunts Mary & Joan! and also for those who helped behind the scenes that I don't know about :)

Only 33 days until the wedding, when I can finally say I am Mrs. Ashley Copier!!! I am so lucky to have this aaamaaazing man in my life, for all of his emotional support during this stressful wedding planning, and understanding that I am fragile at this busy time ;) He has been a HUGE help in the plans so far, contacting venues, designing and making our save the dates and invites, and being awake during gift registries (actually he was very interested and knowledgeable). He is the reason why I am still sane after 5 months of wedding planning. 

Here are a few pictures of the showers.

^ My moms & me at the shower

^ putting on my tiara veil (note: I will not be wearing this at the wedding ;)

^ us again, one of my faves

^ gifts galore

^ soap making kit from my friend lizzy (she is getting married in 25 days!)

^ more gifts, storage/organizational stuff

^ SO happy!!

^ at Eliotts aunt Mary's place. 

^ rocking my new (and first) romper :)

^ eureka!

^ what do I do with these again? ;)

I will add more pictures on facebook when I get them from Mary, thanks for reading!

Stamping over sleeping

I'm still up, its 2:20am

I'm stamping the candy bar bags...

Progress update!

The bridesmaid dresses arrived a few weeks ago & will be super cute on all 4 BMs. That's right, f o u r. My best buddy Bekah & her husband Gerald has returned to Michigan just in time to be in the wedding :)
Today I had my first bridal shower at work. It was fun-filled with laughter, catch-ups, Eliott, co-workers, and twin babies! We got some awesome gifts and we are so thankful! First one down two to go. We have my side of the familys shower on June 11 @3pm (invites are coming!!), and the in laws to be June 25 @10:30am. This saturday I have my first dress fitting with my mother then shopping for her dress afterwards, oy, wish us luck.
We have a lot of things planned, now, just to implement them...hmmm. We have SO many DIY projects to work on and not enough energy. Eliott is working very hard on the invites and they are looking great!!!
Also, for those of you who wish to know..we most likely will live at Oakwood Manor (cherry & college) in a cozy audio apartment. Just some paperwork to get finished. So we will still be in G-Rap for the time being, we like it here :) we are starting to collect some awesome furniture pieces, take a look...
And I'll throw in some pictures of recent stuff also just because.

Testing

Testing using bloggeroid and dragon dictation

Battle of the bridal sashes!

Sheesh, this is a more difficult decision than I thought it would be. So many sashes but only one will succeed in becoming Ashley's next top sash (very lame reference to americas next top model). Here are the contestants!

(keep in mind these are customizable thanks to some awesome ladies on etsy.com)
which do you like??

Testing from new app

Man, homework sure takes up a lot of quality time away from us, meh. Only two more weeks!

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Update

Eliott & I have been very busy lately with school and such that we have not done very much in the wedding area. We have however been focusing on our relationship, we recently went to 2 to 1 with Winning at Home which was so wonderful! It was an all day marriage counseling type event, where we listened to speakers about the necessary nine topics to a happy marriage. We both got a packet with topics to discuss and tips for beginning our marriage on the right correct foot. I recommend this to every couple getting married, even if you are not religious, it is very informative and fun. We have developed this connection with one another that did not exist when we were merely boyfriend and girlfriend; being engaged has made us 10x stronger, which is very exciting :)

We have not totally forgotten about wedding stuff! The bridesmaid dresses have been ordered, which should be ready in less than a month. We bought them from Ananya on Etsy, I am so anxious for them to arrive! Also, we sent out our first batch of save the dates to friends and family. Funny story about this is when I finished addressing and stamping each one I abbreviated "Save the Date" by each name, which ended up being STD. Haha, STD, by everyones name, hilarious! Actually, I think they are actually called STI's now, sexually transmitted infections, but thats besides the point, I digress (my WRT 305 professor always says that phrase...).

Enjoy some inspirational photos!

Love these banners! I will DIY a few

Love the balloons, such a simple and inexpensive thing that looks so fun.

I also will be DIY-ing these string ball thingys (end result in top right corner). 

and somewhat our new color scheme: Cobalt, Yellow & Grey.

Thanks for reading!

St. Patricks Day!

Guess I'm all set for the rest of my life, my stone is green sapphire :) Eliott is a genius!

Dress!

Today I bought my wedding dresses! Such a great feeling :) such a relief also. I won't give details, just wait until july 30!
Having "the" dress makes me so excited for the wedding but more so excited to be Eliotts wife! Slowly things are coming together and I am so thankful for it.
Ceremony site (check!)
Reception site (check!)
Wedding dress (check!)
Wedding party (check!)
The big things are taken care of now for the fun decorating stuff and cupcakes!!

Fab Florals – Rananculus

Fab Florals – Rananculus « Engaged & Inspired

I want these flowers! Wish they were summer flowers, but they are spring flowers...

Spring wedding anyone? ;)

I love the shape of these round shapes and fullness. Any suggestions of a similar flower for July?

jodi + kurt’s wedding film

jodi + kurt’s wedding film | Richmond, Virginia Wedding and Event Planner | Merriment Events

such a sweet wedding video!

Test of posting to blogger via cell phone text message

Save the date scratch art!

At work making home made scratch art, I thought of making home made scratch art save the dates for everyone (then I came to my senses) but thought this was still cute :)

Wedding Ideas!

Yay! Spring break calls for ample time to get cracking on wedding plans. The day JULY 30TH is fast approaching with just over 5 months to get every little detail figured out, and with that I have decided to make a new (more intuitive) blog with blogger. This will help me stay organized with my handy blogger phone app, so YOU can see how plans are going! I hope to have Eliott post on here as well :) 

Here are some photographs that have helped inspire some wedding plans:

and here are some dets we have confirmed!

Date!!! July 30th 2011

Ceremony: will be held at Central Park Chapel

Reception: Boys & Girls Club, Holland

Maid of Honor: The lovely Lourdes Pagan

Best Man: The dashing Jason Brand

Bridesmaids: Frances Bracero, Caroline Copier

YAY! We are so excited to be married sooon :)