Slip 'N Slide

Ok I know this has nothing to do with our honeymoon recap, but this past weekend we went to Hattiesburg to see Lamar's family. Well his uncle was celebrating his 50th birthday so we had a little party then did some drunk slip 'n sliding. Needless to say it was quite amusing. Here is the video. I hope you all can see it. I'll post on the honeymoon later.
I have many more videos, and I can honestly tell you that this was a ton of fun to watch, even though I wasn't drunk (surprise, surprise). But nonetheless, definitely something I would recommend trying. Too bad we don't all have a pond, 2 extremely large tarps, a 4-wheeler, and ski rope.

Start of the Honeymoon

Since I promised I would post pictures in a few days, a while back, I figured I would go ahead and get started on the honeymoon. Although I am at work right now. I will start the honeymoon from the day it started, August 2nd, and then continue until I am finished and post pictures along the way.

I would say the honeymoon started immediately following the reception. Since everyone traveled such a long distance, Lamar and I decided to hang out with our guests at the after party. We went to the bar at the Lodge and continued to mingle and chat with our friends and family until around 1:00am. (The after party continued til around 4:00am for some.)

The next morning we woke up and finished packing our bags and said goodbye to all of our friends and family and headed to the airport. After arriving at the airport, American Airlines proceeded to call me and tell me that 3 of our groomsmens flights had been cancelled and were rescheduled for the next morning. After talking with them for about 45 minutes we finally cleared up the situation and they were able to make it back home that night. (Sidenote: I will never fly American Airlines again!!) From Denver we proceeded to Dallas-Fort Worth where we had a short lay-over then headed to JFK for the night. WE spent the night in New York City. This was the first time to New York City for both of us, but yet didn't have enough time to even explore the city. So we will definitely be back. We were back at the airport around 9:00 and were heading to St. Lucia for 6 nights. After a 4 1/2 hour flight we finally made it and couldn't get over how green, mountainous, and beautiful St. Lucia was.

In my next post, I will write about our stay at the Sandals Grande St. Lucian.

Bad Blogger

Well we have been back from our honeymoon for almost two weeks and I still have not posted any pictures. I am such a bad blogger. I promise that within the next couple of days I will sit down at home and force myself to post some pictures of our wonderful time in St. Lucia.

Until then, please keep Adyson Palmer in your prayers. She is the beautiful little girl of our great friends Scott and Jan Palmer and has been in the hospital since Monday due to periods of apnea. They are still awaiting news from test results to determine the cause of the apnea.

More Pictures

Well here are some more pictures courtesy of Lamar's mom. I am so please with how everything turned out. It honestly couldn't of been any more perfect. Everything went so well and we all truly enjoyed ourselves.

Hope you enjoy!


Lamar with his groomsmen
Stacy (Lamar's Dad) and me
Lamar and I
Me looking over at someone
The cake

Mr. & Mrs. Rutland

Well it is official and has been since August 2nd, 2008. I know I am a bit behind, but what can I say, I 've been a little preoccupied, with the wedding and then the honeymoon.

I want to say thank you to everyone who came to Colorado to share in our special day. It meant the world to both Lamar and myself. We are so grateful that everyone made it safe and were ecstatic to have everyone we love so much surround us on such a special day.

Well, I am sure you have been waiting for pictures so here you go.














The girls and Lamar and I at the rehearsal dinner.















The view when I woke up the day of the wedding.














Kayt, Mom, me, and Amney before the wedding.





















Waiting in the hotel room before the ceremony.















Lamar and his mom before the ceremony.

We don't have many pictures of the two of us together yet. So when I get those I will get those posted. Hope you enjoy the little teaser at least. Can't wait to see everyone!

We love you all!

12 more days

Well, I honestly cannot believe we only have 12 more days until the wedding. Planning a wedding has been such a fun and enjoyable ride. I am such a planner and detail oriented that this is right up my alley. I think I should switch professions, Alexis "Rutland", Wedding Planner, has a nice ring doesn't it ?!?!

Alright, well back to my post. With only 12 days left, we still have a few items left to accomplish and complete, but for the most part the big stuff is done. My mom has a few more projects than I do, but I can't thank her enough for doing everything. Since they live the closest to the wedding site, they were given the tasks of projects that would take up a lot of room and were not easy to transport via airplan, which in turn, leads to most of the projects :) Many projects have been done here in Memphis and then shipped to mom. The project list is dwindling down and we are able to focus more on the upcoming wedding itself.

Some of Lamar's mothers friends threw me a shower this past weekend in Hattiesburg. I haven't been able to download my pictures as of yet, but as soon as I do I will get those posted and tell you all about it. We had a lot of fun, and it was nice to meet some of the Rutland Family friends that I haven't met in the 4 1/2 years we've been dating.

Music, Pictures, and More DIY Projects

So this week and last have been filled with lot's of DIY projects, music, and pictures.

I do believe my biggest project for the wedding had to be the programs. These took forever! Although I love the outcome I don't know if I would make these again, they were a pain in the you know what. This is what the programs look like.

We hand cut each piece, and after cutting 450 pieces, I don't think I'll be doing many more of these! The programs should come in very useful. The reason I went with this design versus a typical program: 'I had to be different.' Well although that is partly true, the main reason I loved these are for the fact that the church is not air conditioned, and although Estes Park Colorado is in the mountains and it just doesn't get HOT up there like it does in Memphis, I figured people might still like a little breeze during the ceremony. So hopefully these will work out like I hoped and come in useful. We will also be providing bottles of water at the ceremony for the same reason as above, no airconditioning, can make lot's of people uncomfortable, especially when you're wearing suits, tuxedos, bridal gowns, etc.

Next, we have been working on picking out music for the reception. Nothing better than waiting til the last minute to do things. I am still waiting on my dad's final say for our song, but I think Lamar got a song for him and his mom picked out last night. Needless to say, www.youtube.com has been our friend on this project. We would find a list of songs then go to youtube to listen to it.

The last thing we have been working on is pictures. We are trying to make a list of all the pictures we want taken so life is made so much easier for both our photographer as well as us.

Well I don't know if any of the rest of you have figured out that we have less than 2 1/2 weeks left til the wedding, but trust me we certainly have. Things have been a little hectic, more for my mom than me. Since the wedding is so far away. Mom is taking the brunt of the work load. I am doing what I can, but trust me this wedding would not be what it is without the help of my mom, sister, and dad. I thank you all.

Til next time, I hope you all have a good weekend.