Such were the joys of wedding planning...

The wedding is over, but we have amazing photographs and memories to last us a lifetime!  Here are my top wedding planning moments:

Invitation Amazement: 
If you are in the Lancaster/Harrisburg/York area, and are looking for invitations, I would HIGHLY recommend Persnickety Invitation Studio.  They are just amazing.  It was the one thing I wanted to splurge on, and boy was it worth it! 

DIY Heaven (and Headache!).
Printing, cutting, and ribboning 100 three-page programs the week before our wedding...  Jeff and I wondered what we'd gotten ourselves into, but we made it through ( as we hopped out to get more ink or ribbon) pretty much unscathed.  It saved us a bundle on printing fees--and it was nice to be able to work together to finish this project!

Putting together our escort cards/table names...  Again, was a pretty involved project that Jeff and I did together in the weeks preceding the wedding.  He printed, and I cut, arranged, organized, and glued (with my dear friend and bridesmaid, Laura, at my side ready to help).  They turned out awesome, if I do say so myself!

Lanterns...   My mom, dad, and I went to town putting the ribbon accents on our lanterns for the ceremony, followed by making arrangements of silk-like coral roses and white hydrangea to sit inside.  They looked beautiful (and from afar, you couldn't even tell they were fake!).

Our Perfect Planner!
Dawn from the Doubletree was AMAZING!  I cannot say enough about how incredible she was.  From the first day (before 2010 even entered as a reality), she was raring and ready to help us plan our perfect day!  I was a pretty well-organized bride, and could be a bit of a handful, as I knew exactly what I wanted things to look like, sound like, be like, end like...you get the picture.  Dawn handled everything (most especially ME) with the greatest of care.  She laughed with us, celebrated with us, and captained a most well-oiled ship to make sure that everything went off on time--and that I didn't have a care in the world.  I'm sure our wedding would have been fine without her; I have no doubt, however, that it was perfect because of her.  Certainly, I got a chance to thank her before--but I want to publicly say a HUGE "Thank You!" now.  Dawn--I've already said it, but you are the BEST!  Team Sisenshelly loves you!