Shane and Crystal

Did the title scare ya? I graduated on September 23, 2006 from The Art Institute Online with a Bachelor of Science degree in Interactive Media Design. I spent 3 1/2 years working on it and am glad to say it’s finally over. Crystal has been patient and understanding of the lack of time I have [...]

It’s no secret that I’ve been rather, um, horrible at helping with the wedding planning and getting things to Crystal in a timely manner. She often asks me to do the simplest things and I will completely forget an hour later. I could blame it on having a full-time job and full-time school (as I [...]

I just finished uploading the rest of our engagement photos that Victoria DeLoach took, so there are now something like 50 photos of us to look at. You can see then all be clicking here. Once again, we’d like to thank DeLoach Digital Photography for taking these images of us!

Victoria (our photographer) sent us a few more pictures, which I posted to the gallery. Just click on any of the images over to the right to see them. Crystal called me this afternoon somewhat stressed about the wedding planning. I thought everything was going well…I mean, shoot, I’ve been breezing right through it! (That’s [...]

Crystal and I have never spent so much time in front of a camera as we just got our engagement pictures taken in Rome, GA. Most of you that know me probably understand how weird it was for me to be in front of a camera as I usually spend most of my time behind [...]

Realizing that many people might not have a Sears or Bed Bed & Beyond near them, we created a registry at Target so now you have 1 less excuse for not buying us anything another option for a place to shop! There is everything from bedding to board games on the Target registry, so think [...]

I’ve never been able to figure out why the bride gets two rings and the groom only gets one. Maybe it’s because the bride pays for a lot more wedding stuff. Who knows, but we finally found our wedding rings! You would have though we were on a scavenger hunt these past few months trying [...]

Whew…I didn’t realize registering would be so exhausting! I started getting bummed with all of the bridal registry talk at Bed Bath & Beyond and so I wanted some groom registry action! She got to choose a bunch of goods at Bed Bath & Beyond (ok…the $20 towels are my pick…but if you’re ever a [...]

There’s nothing like having an insider to scope out potential places to stay on your honeymoon! My mom has been in Maui all week and spent quite a bit of time checking out each resort and even taking video of the rooms! She called one night and sounded somewhat disappointed as she said that every [...]

I knew this was one area that I was going to be pickier than others in and I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to find someone that I could feel confident in their skill and work ethic.  We had narrowed our choices down to two photographers (Victoria DeLoach and then January Shiflett of [...]

I put quite a lot of thought into who would be by my side on my wedding day.  I needed someone who wouldn’t stick me on a flight across the country the night before my wedding (any friend of my best man knows what I am talking about).  More importantly I wanted someone I could [...]

If you could have only seen the look on her face when she saw the last page of the book where it said “Will You Marry Me?”!!! WOW!!! I barely got to see the look as she covered her face with her hands and boo-hooed like crazy, but I caught a glimpse of a huge [...]

I’ve been hearing Crystal ask “How much do you love me?” lately. As bad as I want to say “You’ll see” I don’t want to give anything away. Luckily I was woozy from taking Tylenol Cold PM last night so I was able to get out of answering that question. I just have to make [...]

Here we are 3 days away from the “big day” and Crystal comes into town tomorrow (Thursday) to stay until Christmas Eve. We will be spending Christmas Eve here with my family and then driving back to GA that night…that is when she’ll get all of her surprises. There is just one problem…keeping the secret. [...]

Wow…just when you think that everything is going well, something comes along and makes it even better!!! My dad called tonight while I was laying sick in bed. Him and Gina (my step-mom) were on speakerphone and asked if I was sitting down. I told them I was laying down in bed and dad says, [...]