It's a GIVEAWAY!! Proposals, Weddings and Photography...OH MY!

I am so excited to introduce to you all this fantastic Giveaway ! We've partnered up with Kitsap counties finest women entrepreneurs to bring you this coveted package.

One lucky winner is going to win their choice of either:

1)- The "They met, fell in Love, now it's time to Ask"  Package:
When she announces your engagement she is going to tell all her friends, your family, her family, your kids and grand children of how you became engaged. Create your dream proposal that she will tell everyone about.
*We have the up most discretion when it comes to proposals*

2)- A custom Wedding package which includes

• Personalized officiant services and ceremony at a location of your choice
• Romantic Ribbon and candlelight ceremony decor

Think....

• Gorgeous and memorable Photos from Elaine Turso Photography for your wedding.

• A custom 6 inch Wedding Cake OR 2 dozen Wedding Cupcakes from The Kooky Baker

• A Bridal Bouquet created with you in mind from Rocha Floral Design

 

•  Embossed Keepsake Wedding Certificate 

OR

3) Become the Faces of LadySunshinEvents.

You would our spokemodels for the site. With that, Elaine Turso Photography and LadySunshinEvents would test out all kinds of concept photo shoots, including marriage proposals, engagements, weddings, wedding fashions, trash the dress, etc

WHEEWW! That is simply amazing!

To enter to win one of these wonderful giveaways....


-Visit www.ladysunshinevents.com and come back here and tell us your favorite thing about LadySunshinEvents and why you think you should win.



- For the second entry, go to LadySunshinEvents, Elaine Turso Photography and The Kooky Baker's Facebook page and 'Like' the pages. Leave us a comment telling us about your entry.



-For the third entry, share the LOVE about this giveaway. Leave us a separate comment here letting us know where you shared.


There are THREE possible ways to increase you chances. Contest ends August 8th at midnight.

Random.org will help us with the selection of the winner; the winner will be announced on Aug10th. The Proposal, Wedding or Photo shoot needs to take place on or before Sept 9th 2011

Cori & Paul ~ Train Wedding

"He asked, She said Yes, We eloped" Perfect! I am a sucker for non traditional weddings and beautiful pictures that show the expression of love the couple has for one another. Check out Cori & Paul's ELOPEMENT wedding on a train.

Photo credit: Amanda Borozinski

There are so many non traditional and creative ways to get married that people do not think about. You can still have a magical wedding day even if you decide to elope on a train , in a country greehouse, the woods, or on a roof. Eloping kinda saves the money you would have spent on a large wedding to use for a reception instead ;)

LadySunshinEvents is a Elopement weddings~Dessert table~Event company that specializes in Elopement weddings. We have pre-designed elopement packages that you can custom tailor to fit your desires and needs. The sky is the limit :)

Am I strong enough?

One thing that I have learned from Navy Sub life.... You have to be strong.

As a wife of a U.S Sailor and a mother of three, boys mind you. I often find myself being a single-non single parent for months at a clip. Those months apart are most challenging, the car will decide it no longer wants to work right, some household appliance will break down, your house gets torn apart from kids because there is no way you can be in four rooms at the same time to prevent disasters, emails are few and far between and almost always monitored by someone and if you're an unlucky one like some from our boat, the emails will be read and talked about with people who have no reason to know what was in it at all, you're deprived of sex and think about taking up stock in batteries, you learn what deployment insomnia is and you'll mumble and grumble "why does this only happen when he's gone?"

I'm also a person that NEEDS to stay busy, which I think might add to some of my stress. As a 7 1/2 month pregger I decided to re-paint the entire inside of our house....while he was at sea. I picked up armature photography, quilting, scrapbooking, couponing, gardening, baking, pretty much I strive to be a Martha Stewart clone minus the prison time.  I often have about 3 things I'm working on, right now it's a cathedral quilt, canning/baking, prepping to take senior pictures and the most time consuming...starting a business. Although I have my husbands full support and willingness to listen to my never ending talk about vendors, marketing and the future, he still isn't there to be 100% supportive.

Sometimes I get the "uh huh" or "oh cool" monotone response, I get upset but then have to remember that this man is putting in a 12hr shift of craziness known as Navy life. He is the only unfortunate person on his boat to be in 3 divisions and is tasked numerous things beyond the norm. I try to stay positive and supportive all while masking my own frustrations of the days business.

The pressure will build up over weeks and explode into a 'I'm not gonna cook you lil jerks anything to eat, go eat a bowl of cereal and mom is gonna go sit in the shower for 2 hrs, you better not bug me or mommy dearest will come out' mess(you like my run on sentence? good because I did). The kids sit there looking at each other trying to figure out why mommy has gonna coo coo.

I wonder sometimes how strong am I really? Can I really do this? Then I look at all the pictures in my house, I look at my husband, my children and know I not only have to be strong for me I have to do it for all of them......So I suck back all my emotions and frustrations and go through another day of a Navy Sub life.

These are all my knuckle heads :-)

What Navy tales do you have that makes you wonder "am I really strong enough for this?"