Here’s a crazy little fact about Danielle. She has been a mom for pretty much our entire marriage. Seriously, about 2 or 3 weeks after we said I do, Joseph showed up in her belly and it’s been kid after kid ever since. It’s strange to think of what life would be like without kids and motherhood is just something that Danielle does naturally. (Growing up with 4 younger siblings gave her plenty of practice.)

Anyway, she is far and away the best mother I know and she is the reason our family is what it is. Here are just a few moments from the past 6.5 years of motherhood.  

I love this one. Straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.  

She was super pregnant and tired, yet still letting the kids crawl up in her lap and fall asleep.  

All Sara wants to be when she grows up is a “mom”.  How cool is that?

 
Teaching Luke to walk.

Same song, second verse.  

There is not a more selfless, draining, rewarding, frustrating, enjoyable, forgettable job around and Danielle does it better than anyone.

D.
Our kids are crazy about you and have no idea just how great they have it. You impress me day after day.
In the past year alone you have taught Jo to read and do math, Sara to color, Luke to poop in the potty and Eli to sleep in his own bed.
You are freaking amazing!
I love you and am honored that you are the mother of those 4 crazy things we call our kids.

As I was working on this post I got an E-mail from Amanda who is on her honeymoon in Jamaica. It was neat to hear from her while editing the images, but kinda frustrating to hear from here because she is in Jamaica. :)

Anyway, on to the images….

From the get-go I knew it would be a great day. Amanda was all smiles as she got out of the car.  

The first thing she did was offer me a cookie. (It’s bad luck to NOT eat a cookie a bride offers… right?)  

This is a journal that Royce and Amanda have been writing in the past few months. They had phrases from it hung all over the place as decorations. Super cool stuff.  

I really love this shot. Way back in 1991 Royce had a dream about seeing his wife walking down a set of spiral stair cases. He wrote about it in a journal at the time and they had that phrase hanging at the spiral stair cases at The Belgium House.  

Royce is one of those guys that other guys just can’t stand. He’s good looking, funny, writes in journals, is super polite.  Basically everyone likes him. I’m thinking of getting t-shirts made that say “I wish I was Royce”.  

Did I mention Royce sings? Him and Amanda pretty much had everyone in tears.  

How cool is this thing?!? Again, parts from the journal, mixed in with some stunning Alex M Photography. :)  

These next few images are just some of the may many incredible details and decorations that Amanda did. If you can remember form her bridal session, she likes pink. I’m going to give you some space to get ready for the pink overload that follows.

Venue: The Belgium House
Flowers: The French Pea 903.939.3907
Cakes: Sweet Treats By Cynthia 903.705.2653
Dress: Brides & Bells Tyler, Texas | 903.581-8211

For the record, if you check back to their engagement session post, I predicted this would be a uber-cool wedding.
These few will have to hold you over for now. I’m just warning you now, when come back on Wednesday, you’ll wanna be sitting down. :)