the details� THE COUPLE
Courtney & Jonathan Harris
CEREMONY + RECEPTION Moonwater Weddings, Amarillo TX
DRESS
Lasting Bridal Couture; Addison, TX
BRIDESMAID DRESSES Bella Rose Bridal; Edmond, OK
MENSWEAR
Men's Wearhouse
F LO R I S T
Flowers by Amy
CAKE
The Cake Company
DJ
Kent Hilton
PLANNER Krystal Burns
D E C O R AT I O N S
Marci with Moonwater Weddings
THE BEGINNING
We met in high school back in 2008, at Amarillo High School. Jonathan was a Senior about to graduate and I (Courtney) was a Junior. Jonathan went off to college at Texas A&M University only 4 months after we had started dating. Then I graduated, a year later, I began attending The University of Oklahoma, a lifelong dream. We did a long distance relationship for 5 years, only seeing each other for extended time periods on Christmas breaks and a summers. But, we didn’t let the distance stop us from staying strong.
T H E P RO P O S A L
Jonathan proposed to me on December 23, 2012. I came home for Christmas on December 22, and the following day is my mom’s birthday. I thought the plan all day was to get our nails done (my mother and I) and then go to dinner with my parents and Jonathan to celebrate. The night of the proposal Jonathan insisted on picking me up to go to dinner, even though I was at my parents’ house and we were all going to the same place for dinner. So he picked me up and instead of going to dinner, he took me to the very place we originally started dating 5 years before. It was a little park that is right by my house. Jonathan had flowers and candles sitting on a table with a picture book of different memories we had made. Each page he wrote what he remembered about that day and why he fell more in love with me. Then the final page was a picture of him, me and his sister on her wedding day. He wrote that Tricia (his sister) said that was the happiest day of her life, and he couldn’t wait to share that day with me and then wrote “will you marry me?” He had a photographer, the wonderful Chriselda, taking pictures of the whole engagement. I loved it! He then had a huge engagement party planned immediately following.
THE DRESS
I was in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl with my and Jonathan’s family. It was a perfect time to go look for dresses. I thought I would just go and get some ideas. However, once I saw the beautiful Tara Keely dress on the mannequin, I just had a feeling it was the one for me. We have a picture of me, my mom, and my sister all pointing to it at the bridal shop. I walked out and everyone loved it. I didn’t want to take it off, but I had other beautiful gowns in the dressing room so I wanted to see what else was out there. Once I started putting the others on, nothing compared. So I put the first dress back on. When I saw my Dad start tearing up as I put the veil on, it all hit me, this is really happening and that was MY dress.
It was the first place I went and the first dress I tried on, a true God thing. No stress over the dress, what a blessing!
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