Wedding Recap - Getting Ready Part 2

by Stephanie
Danny and I had agreed to get each other a wedding present to be exchanged on the day of our wedding. We debated back and forth about whether or not to give them to each other before the ceremony, or after the ceremony. The issue was that we decided NOT to see each other until the doors opened at the church and I started walking down the isle (which made logistics for the actual wedding day really complicated! But it was TOTALLY worth it). So if we exchanged gifts before the wedding then we would be opening the gifts without the other one there. We decided that it would be a nice idea to exchange the gifts in the morning while getting ready because it would be a little break from the chaos where we can take a moment to open the present and just think about each other for a minute.

So in the morning I totally forgot to wrap the present! So had one of the bridesmaids wrap it for me while I was getting my hair and makeup done (Julie wrapped it I think...pretty much everything is a blur so I'm not really sure who did it lol). We all thought it would be fun if Danny and I both opened our gifts at exactly the same time even though we were two floors apart (Danny downstairs, me upstairs) in my parents house.

So Julie ran up and down the stairs to figure out the timing! It was so funny and fun. So here are some pictures of us opening our gifts:

This is me writing Danny a real quick note explaining that his gift would get engraved at a later date, when I could find a place to do it. We had agreed not to write each other letters like some people do because we knew we weren't going to have time to write something that would be as meaningful as we would have wanted it to be. So I cheated a little bit! Big deal! I just wanted him to know what the engraving was supposed to say! And I threw in "I love you" and a couple mushy things lol.

This is me starting to open up my present:


It was an absolutely AMAZING necklace. It was white gold with diamonds and came from the same design line as my wedding ring set. At this point I had still not decided if I was going to wear by great grandma's set of pearls, my mom's set of pearls, or a necklace of my other great grandma's. As soon as I saw the necklace from Danny I knew it was what I was meant to wear that day. It went perfectly with my dress. It was so amazing. I wear it almost every day now.

These are pictures from the store's website that I blew up in photoshop:



Here is Julie giving Danny his present!

Danny opening it up and realizing that I had cheated by writing him a note :-)

This is a picture from the Skagen website of the watch I got Danny.
We both ended up wearing our gifts on our wedding day which is pretty special. I wear my necklace all the time and Danny wears his watch all the time. It is really neat that we got each other something that we can wear everyday to remind us of our wedding day.

And they lived happily ever after...