• Life,  Marriage

    Zinhobls Say I Do: Our Honeymoon Recap

    Today is the last installment of our wedding series! 🙁 While I’m sad to see it go, it’s probably about time haha, I think I’ve been doing these for about two months. Today I’m going to share pictures and tell a little bit about our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic! We were actually really bad about taking pictures, but I will share with you what we did document. 🙂 If you missed any of the other posts in this series, you can check them out below:

    New York City + A Mishap

    Right at the end of our reception we took a limo from the venue to New York City where we would fly out right to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic! P.S. Let’s not forget though, the pastor who officiated our wedding forgot to sign and have everyone else sign our wedding license, so we technically were not “officially” married at this point! We had to meet him, and have him bring two random “witnesses” to sign our wedding license on the way into the city!!! It was crazy and stressful and definitely not how I pictured this time, haha. But now I guess we have a fun story to tell. 😉

    We finally arrived at our hotel in the city at close to midnight, but at least we made it and were now officially married! It was a gorgeous hotel room, which we actually didn’t take any pictures of because we were so overwhelmed with what had just happened and about the fact that we were now married!! This is when it actually hit me, and I still get so excited when I think back on this moment.

    Up Bright and Early To Catch A Plane

    The plane ride was about 3 hours and wasn’t bad at all. We still were so excited to be married that it really didn’t matter what we did at this point I don’t think, we were just so happy. We stayed at Confresi Palm Beach & Spa Resort, which was all-inclusive.

    Arriving at our Resort

    We arrived and got settled into our room and were just so thankful to be there. It’s actually killing me to write about this because I am so desperately craving a trip to a tropical beach right now, haha! Up above is the view right outside our hotel room.

    Fun in the Sun

     

    We spent our days by first waking up and making the most amazing coffee in our room, and drinking it our on the balcony while reading our Bibles. Then we would head to breakfast at the buffet, and go back to our rooms and change into bathing suits. We would then head to either one of the really nice pools they had or down to the beach.

    On the beach in the picture above, there were wait staff where they would bring you any food or drink you wanted right to your chair. It was awesome, but a little much for Tommy and I, haha.

    Our Fun Rings

    We bought these rings from Qalo to use on our honeymoon because we heard of all the horror stories of people losing their rings on their honeymoons. These rings are great, and we still use them to this day if we’re doing anything were we think we could lose them.

    Our Evenings

     

    After we were done spending the day at the pool we would go back and shower and get ready for dinner. We either would head back to the buffet (where we would also eat for lunch), or go to one of the restaurants we made reservations for. Our favorite was the Italian restaurant (pictured above).

    A Sick Day

    We did have one day that was not the greatest. I got sick during the middle of the vacation, and ended up going to the doctors on the resort. They gave me antibiotics and I was okay the next day.

     

    All in all though it was a great first trip to take as husband and wife. We headed back home after six nights there and it was so much fun. Now I am missing it so much and desperately want to go back! 🙁

     

     

  • Wedding

    Zinhobls Say I Do: Decor Pictures + Details

    Hi friends. Today is the last post on just the wedding. Next week I will be sharing out Honeymoon Recap from the Dominican Republic! Today I just wanted to do one last post and share pictures of mostly just the decor that we used that day. I want to do this for two reasons: one is because I worked very hard on finding and making some of the decor and I really want to remember it well and document it here. And two is because I’m hoping that it may help give ideas to someone who may be planning their own wedding.

    If you’re interested in seeing the other wedding picture posts, you can check those out below:

    The Ceremony Decor

    The Reception Decor

    This was the sweetheart table and I used that vase that my MIL made me to put my flowers in.
    The banner says “Love is Sweet”.

    The Smaller Details

    Going through these and finally getting to the end feels so sad. I miss this day so much. Really wishing I could go back now!

  • Wedding

    Zinhobls Say I Do: Reception Pictures

    Today I’m going to be sharing my Reception Pictures from our wedding. We chose not to have a DJ for the reception, and instead have the best man make the announcements. We chose to do this in hopes to have our reception feel more intimate since we only had close friends and family there. Our reception went so quickly but was so much fun. I think you can tell by the pictures!

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  • Wedding

    Zinhobls Say I Do: Family Pictures

    Hi friends! 🙂 Today is another installment of my wedding pictures. If you are interested in seeing the others, or you missed a week, you can check those out below those below:

    This week I wanted to share our family pictures. I think these came out so nice and I’m excited to share with you guys. 🙂

    My Family

    My Mom, Tommy, Me, My Grandma, My Grandpa, and My Brother Dylan

    My Grandparents!

     

    My Mom
    My Brother (Whose eyes are closed in 80% of all the pictures, haha!)
    My Dad

    Tommy’s Family

    Tommy’s Parents
    My Brother-In-Law Michael, Tommy’s Dad, Tommy’s Mom, Me, Tommy, My Sister-In-Law Diana, and My Brother-In-Law Nick

    That’s all of ’em! Now we only have the Reception Pictures and Decor Pictures, and to end off the series, our Honeymoon Recap! It’s so fun to go back and relive this day through these pictures. Hope you are enjoying following along as well. 🙂

  • Wedding

    Zinhobls Say I Do: Bridal Party

    I’m back again this Thursday to continue sharing wedding pictures. This week I’m sharing pictures of our wonderful bridal party! Next week it will be family pictures, then reception pictures, and I am still debating doing just a decorations picture post. Then to wrap up the series I am going to recap our honeymoon at the Dominican Republic! So we have about a month more of pictures! Hopefully you aren’t hating them. 😉

    Our Wonderful Bridal Party!

     

    My Bridesmaids

     

     

    My Maid of Honor and Cousin, Nichole!

     

    My Longtime Friend, Brooke!

     

    My cousin, Natasha!

     

    My Sister-In-Law Diana!

    I’m so thankful that these girls were there to stand up next to me on wedding day! They’re all so special to me!

    His Groomsmen

     

    Tommy’s Best Man, Matt

     

    Tommy’s Brother, Michael (This is the only picture we have of them together!!)

     

    Tommy’s Brother, Nick

     

    Tommy’s Friend, Colin

     

    My Brother, Dylan

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    So that would be it. Those are our quirky, fun friends! 😉

    Oh and we can’t forget our adorable Flower Girl and Ring Bearer of course!

  • Faith,  Wedding

    Zinhobls Say I Do: Ceremony Pictures

    I’m back this week to continue on with our wedding series. I am still so excited to share all of these pictures with you. Our ceremony was my favorite part of our whole day and funny enough it was the part of the day that I was most anxious for. I thought standing in front of all of our friends and families and saying our vows was going to be terrifying but in the moment I could care less that everyone was watching. The only thing I cared about was that I was committing my life to my best friend. I could feel God’s presence so well that day as well and I’m sure that helped a bunch. All the decorations you see were brought there by me and I bought most of them off Etsy. It was really fun to get to personalize the details so much, which is one of the reasons why we picked this venue to get married at. We were married at The Conservatory on May 22, 2016.

    The black sign says “I have found the one whom my soul loves. Song of Solomon 3:4”

    It’s All Starting!

    Our First Kiss As Husband and Wife!

    My Mom and Brother Dylan
    Tommy’s Parents

    I also wanted to share our wedding vows here because our main goal of the day was to show our friends and family that our relationship is centered around Jesus and one way we did that was by using special wedding vows. We did not write these, our church had us pick from different ones but we felt they were perfect to get across the message we wanted and how we viewed marriage.

    I, Tommy, take you, Ashley, to be my wedded wife. I love you and know that this love is from God. Because of this, I want to be your husband so that we might serve Christ together. Through all of the uncertainties and trials of the present and future, I promise to be faithful to you and love you. I promise to guide and protect you as Christ does his church, as long as we both shall live. God’s Word gives us the perfect example of this love in Christ’s death for the Church. I shall try always, with God’s help, to show you this same kind of love, for I know that in His sight we will both be one.

    I, Ashley, take you, Tommy, to be my wedded husband. I love you. I prayed that God would lead me to his choice. I praise Him that tonight His will is being fulfilled. Through the pressures of the present and uncertainties of the future I promise my faithfulness, to follow you through all of life’s experiences as you follow God, that together we may grow in the likeness of Christ and our home be a praise to Him.

    What I can remember most about this day is how I felt. I was just so happy and grateful that it was all happening. If I could go back to that day I would in a heartbeat. It was such a special day!