Seaton Shoots Blog

Jessica and David tied the knot April when the pink tulips were at their peak!! While Barry takes the credit for creating their images I have a new friend in Jessica. While we facebooked back and forth I finally met her at the studio when she came in to bring in her album designs.  Jessica sent me an amazing story about how she and Jonathan met and then later how they “decided”  to get married… was loving it this afternoon…. thanks again for taking the time to tell us your story.

So there was this patient I took care of in Jan. 2009. And said patient had told me of her son that quit his job, sold his house, and moved back here to take care of his very sick mother (she wasn’t pushing him at me or anything, we were just chit chatting). At the age of 27. Who at the time was 29 and in engineering school at UT.

I met her son the second night, who was beautiful. He looked up at me in a way no one in my lifetime ever had. I bounced out of the room and told another nurse I was going to marry the beautiful engineer that took such good care of his mom. I had no interest in men, I did not date (I had been in a relationship that had not worked out and had no desire to go through that again~but something in that look told me he’d be around for the rest of my life). That nurse told me I was crazy, I told her “you wait and see.”

Two weeks after she went home, I found him on facebook and sent a message entirely asking about how she was, no other intent. A week and a half went by with no response, and then I walked into work to find her on my floor again. She was not well…

He came in, and I told him about the message he could now disregard. He went home and wrote back he hadn’t been on in over a month and apologized for not writing back sooner.

She got past her emergent phase, went home, we continued to write back and forth. He eventually asked me for coffee. I went March 1, and at the end of that meeting, he asked me for dinner. I was shocked and stammered out “um, ok.” He thought I didn’t want to go, I was thinking “oh crap, now he’s interested, and I don’t know what to do!”

Dinner came and the more the weeks went by, the more we saw of each other. Sometime towards the end of April I asked him “are we together together?” Neither one of us had exactly mentioned being exclusive, although it was definitely implied. He responded with a very surprised “yes” and said that he thought we’d been together since our first date.

By April 23 I had five wedding dresses picked out I loved, and he didn’t even know he was going to marry me yet. (I did not tell him this).

All through May last year he hinted at being together long term. The first time he told me he loved me was May 24. May 25 he asked “So how long do you think someone should know each other before getting married?” I told him that with him it didn’t matter because I had dresses picked out since April and that I had known since the night I met him I was going to marry him. He thought it was hilarious.

I asked him two days later when he thought he wanted the wedding to happen, and he said “Well, since you want an October or April wedding I guess then.” I choked and said “THIS Oct. or April???” I had no idea he’d want to get married so soon~I expected it to be a couple of years from then. So April it became.

As the months went by, it seemed the wedding would never get here. Judy McMillan and Crescent Bend made wedding planning so easy, and I had so much fun reading the magazines and looking at “all things wedding” and everything else that comes with a big wedding event. Then it was time for it, and it all happened so fast that I was sad when the day was over!

Our wedding was beautiful. My dress was amazing. My groom looked incredible in his tux. The weather cooperated, the flowers were gorgeous, our photographers were great and professional, the food was good and the cake beautiful, Jim Ogle was a fabulous DJ, and we have the best friends and family ever. Judy made our wedding so easy that I was completely stress free and recommend Crescent Bend and all it includes to anyone that asks.

My sister managed to drop the wedding band and the site of her crawling on the ground to get it was hilarious! The “ping” of the ring hitting the ground magnified by the microphone cracked us all up. Our preacher handed David the wrong ring to begin with, which had us all laughing once again as I stood there repeating “wrong ring Jerry, wrong ring Jerry” until he finally realized it. The crinoline in my dress had me tripping all over myself climbing the stairs at the end of the ceremony. I managed not to cry until my sister made her speech during the cake cutting, and then I bawled. At the end of the night, my bridesmaids, flower girls, and me all climbed in the fountain as Jim the DJ played “U Can’t Touch This” by M.C. Hammer.

Every day David and I find new things that show us we are meant for each other. Our preacher had even told us that during our premarital counseling sessions, “In talking to you and listening to you I have to say I think you are truly made for each other.”

We realize that a relationship is hard work~lots of commitment, understanding, and everything that goes into making anything worth it, but somehow we make it easy. It’s nice.

I tell him that he’s everything I never knew I always wanted. And every day I realize how true that is.