I’m Daphne, I’m 20, and I’m a self employed college student. I’m a sarcastic, confused, and soft hearted bitch so most people don’t understand me. Not to mention, I always want my way, even though I don’t know what I want half of the time!
When I chose my bridal party, I apparently didn’t think it through because I ended up kicking out over half of them the week before the wedding. I don’t think they quite understood the term “bride’s-maid”. Just do what I tell you to do and I’ll be happy. I started out with 7 bridesmaids and by my wedding day, I had 3 bridesmaids. Not to mention one of them was a replacement! I basically shoved my hand so far up my replacement’s bridesmaid’s butt, I made her my own hand puppet. She did EVERYTHING I told her to do!
My family has always supported everything I’ve ever done and I love them more than anything in the world and it means so much to me that they love Drew unconditionally as well. I actually told Drew I wanted to take my maiden last name because my family is so kick ass!
My in-laws on the other hand… heh. I have nothing to say about them. They not only hurt me the week before the wedding but hurt Drew a lot, which isn’t cool with me. During the ceremony and reception (which his family refused to attend) we were surrounded by so many people that love and support us that we didn’t even notice they weren’t there. I think they meant to hurt us, but only ended up hurting themselves by missing out.
I absolutely loved my dramatic dress! Besides not being able to sit or hardly walk, it was perfect. But, my favorite part of our wedding was saying our vows because it made our relationship forever and it was really touching to me.
I had 7 months to plan our wedding but when I got to South Dakota I felt like I had to plan a whole wedding in one week! I had never seen the venue, cake, flowers and I didn’t even know what my guests were going to be eating! It was a hot mess!
To be completely honest, I felt like I kept my composure until the day before the wedding. I had a few ‘zilla moments but I hit my absolute breaking point that Friday. I went from being a controlling bitch to breaking down completely. I never wanted or expected things to go that far.
If I could change anything about my wedding, I’d go to South Dakota at least a month early because I didn’t enjoy any of the planning or get to spend any quality time with my family, who I only get to see maybe twice a year.
Drew and I went to Disney World for our honeymoon! It was so much fun! We wanted to go out and do something out of the ordinary for our honeymoon! I don’t understand why people spend so much money to go some where to spend all day in bed and do nothing – you can do that at home for free.
There are a lot of people doubting our marriage but we have something that no one else will ever understand and I think that’s what makes it so special. It’s like we have our own little secret. A sailor and his princess… something you’ll never understand.
We are still in the talking stages of when we’ll have children but I feel like it’ll be real soon. I think our children will be so damn cute!
By the end of the first day of filming, I was thinking “What the hell did I get myself into?!” I’ve never felt so privately invaded in my life! It was almost worse than the military. Haha, not really. But seriously, it didn’t seem real for so long but by mid-week we started to really embrace all of it and enjoy it. I loved sharing our special day with an audience and would do it over and over again. I know I had some embarrassing moments but anyone who has been a bride would understand how I felt. I’m just more open to expressing myself than some people.
My husband is a military policeman in an expeditionary unit that is scheduled to deploy overseas next year. We both knew about this before we got married but it’s still hard to accept sometimes. I know the military, inside and out so I understand why he can’t call for days or weeks and that he has to leave for long periods of time, but it doesn’t make it any easier. I am so proud of him and feel honored to be his wife. I want to be a better person when I’m with him and I’m so glad we got to share our love story with so many people before he leaves.
