Showered With Love

Mac and I are so blessed! We have several groups of friends and family who are hosting wedding showers for us! We kicked off the wedding fun last week. My work family hosted a party for me last Thursday and then that weekend, friends and family hosted a bridal shower for us in Murray, KY.

I am still waiting on the photos from the work shower, but I will post those soon. I have several pictures from the Murray shower below. Mac traveled with me to Murray and stopped by the shower at then end to visit, snack, and help load all of our wonderful gifts.

We are headed to Camden this weekend for another wonderful party at the Lockhart Lodge on the Tennessee River.

 All of our gifts...before and after!

 Several generations of Cochran's, Cooper's, and Jackson's.

 My gift opening assistant and flower girl!

 Leyton was an expert at opening gifts!

 The lovely hostesses who hosted a wonderful shower.

How Time Flies!

Mac and I have officially been engaged one year! He proposed one year ago this weekend. It honestly feels like yesterday, so I cannot believe it has been a whole year. 

How did we celebrate our one year engagement? Well I was on a work trip in San Antonio and Mac floated the Buffalo River with two of his friends. Romantic, huh? Haha.

Curious as to how Mac proposed? Check out the "Engagement Story" tab on the top of the blog. 

We officially have 55 days to go until our wedding day. When Mac proposed, I had 14 months to plan our wedding...now I have less than two!

I am so excited about our big day and I cannot wait to marry you, Mac. I look forward to many more years together. Love you!

Promised Photos

A few posts ago, I mentioned my shopping trip of a lifetime. I have a few photos of the aftermath of that trip below. If you remember, we were taking a family vacation to Florida right after our shopping day in Atlanta. The photos below are of Mom and Dad trying to configure our car with our new purchases plus our Florida supplies. As you can see, it was very entertaining frustrating.

We've Hit the Big Time

Mac and I were featured on the Society Page of the Camden Chronicle! Over the years, friends and co-workers have always been amazed by the ways of Camden society. You see, in Camden, you don't send wedding invitations. You just place your wedding announcement in the weekly paper, and as the article says, all friends and family are invited to attend.  So for all of you that have been in dis-belief, here it is! This is the official announcement from the Camden Chronicle. It went out in the paper last Thursday and we will post it one more time before the wedding.

 

I hope everyone has enjoyed their first lesson in Camden culture.

"It's like Santa's workshop..."

I can't believe that it is already time to send out our wedding invitations. I have been working very closely with my wonderful stationery store, Mrs. Post, for many months, so it is a little bit odd to actually hold the invitations in my hand. I am in love with them. Seeing our names in print makes this wedding seem so close! I cannot wait. 

If you know my schedule, you know that the end of July is one of the busiest times at work for me. There is no way I could haven gotten these invitations in the mail without the help of my Mom. In order to be budget-friendly we decided to "diy" much of our invitations. We inserted the envelope liners, inked the edges of the invitation, folded the gate fold, tied the ribbons, and I did all of the lettering. Whew! It is a serious process. 

Today, my friend, and bridesmaid, Whitney, came over and helped us knock out a ton of invitations. I also recruited Mac to come over after work to see what he could do. Mom and I started working on them at 10 a.m. and closed shop around 8 p.m.  It definitely felt like Santa's workshop, just not quite as fun. Haha.

I stopped during the process and snapped a few of the photos below. I don't know if my kitchen table will ever see daylight again. We hope to get the invites in the mail in about a week, so hopefully you will have yours soon.

 The aforementioned kitchen table/craft station.

 Mac and Trina LOVE assembling invitations!

 Sorry, Whit! I had to prove you helped!

Trina instructs Mac on the fine art of bow making.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Well, my 25th birthday came and went and I survived! I actually had an amazing day thanks to friends, family, co-workers, and one amazing fiance. I would like to announce that this will be the first annual 25th birthday, and I look forward to many more in the coming years. :)


My day started in Dallas for a work meeting, and ended up at one of my favorite restaurants in Memphis. Mac had flowers, cupcakes, and dinner reservations waiting on me when I got home from the airport. We had an amazing meal at Felicia Suzanne's and it was just overall a great day.


The BEST part of this day was the birthday gift Mac gave me...my wedding shoes! They are sparkly, beautiful, and the most special pair of shoes I will ever own. Want to see them? Here you go!

Amazing. Right?

Thank you, Mac, for a wonderful birthday and the best pair of shoes! I cannot wait to walk down the aisle in them!

Shopping Success

Last weekend my parents and I spent a day in Atlanta on our way to Flordia...yes, you read that correctly. Just a slight detour through Atlanta. Haha. We had very important things to accomplish during our one day visit...we had to purchase my wedding wardrobe. This was the shopping trip of a lifetime, and one I had been looking forward to for a while.

Mac and I are very lucky to have several friends and families throwing wedding parties and showers for us. And since these are once in a lifetime events, my parents took me to find beautiful new outfits for each one.

I would like to report that the trip was a major success. I found wedding shower dresses, honeymoon attire, and an amazing rehearsal dinner dress. It was a fun day and a shopping trip that I will never forget. My Dad deserves some type of an award for keeping himself busy the whole time while Mom and I shopped. He did not complain one time...well, except when he chugged my iced coffee before I had added cream or sweetener. Ha!

After a day in Atlanta, the Cooper family headed down to Rosemary Beach to spend the Fourth of July weekend with some more of our family. It was a great weekend and the perfect last vacation for the Cooper family of three. From now on, Dad won't be so outnumbered!!

P.S. I do have some photos from the trip, but I am in California for work and am blogging from my iPad. The crazy thing won't let me upload photos. I will post pictures once I get back to Memphis.