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Anniversary Awesomeness

As mentioned, Todd and I celebrated our third wedding anniversary last week. On the actual day, we exchanged gifts and ate the mexican food I had been craving for days. We went small on the gift giving, since our real present to each other is photographed a little further down, but for his gift I finally framed our wedding invitation which was designed by our amazing artist friend, Sasha Barr.

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As for my present, Todd gave me photo of us on our wedding day, autographed by former President Bill Clinton himself! The stars must have aligned, because as explained in my recent blog post, Clinton visited his old house where he and Hillary were married and, of course, where Todd and I were married too. The magic about this, is that he arrived at that house (where he hadn’t been since he moved out in the 1970s) actually ON our wedding anniversary! As part of the media, Todd not only was one of the few people allowed in the small house when Clinton arrived, but he also got to talk to him about the coincidence while Clinton wrote a note on our photo. It’s our own, little unique story that we’ll surely remember forever and now it looks like I have something else to frame!

Anniversary note from Bill Clinton!

Bill Clinton signing our photo

Bill Clinton!
Photo by Sarah Bentham for nwaonline.com

If that weren’t enough, the next day, Todd and I enjoyed our real anniversary present – a long weekend in Las Vegas!

We drank, ate, explored, gambled, swam, and slept in.
It was fabulous.

Plane ride there.

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Our amazing room at Red Rock Resort.

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Views from the room.

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One of the many hotel bars.

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Pool time.

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I love a breakfast buffet.

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Exploring.

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Todd won.

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Another hotel bar.

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Where I met up with my friend Cheryl,
who I met on my Maui trip a few months back!
I joked that we only see each other
in fabulous locations.

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On our last night,
Rob Thomas played a concert by the pool.
Apparently Paris Hilton was in the front row,
but I didn’t see her.
Otherwise we’d be BFFs.
Duh.

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…and I might have ordered a Philly cheese steak
at midnight.

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Cheers to us!

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Three Years

Three years ago today
I said I do no doubt
to spending the rest of my life
in love
with Todd.

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We always laugh
and love
and laugh some more.

I’m beyond lucky
to have married the
sweetest
funniest
cutest
smartest
curliest hairest
and bestest
man I know.

Our move to Fayetteville. 2004.

Todd on Sunday

Kansas City. My awesome husband.

Drinks, Snacks, & Hats

Todd & Cindy

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Old photos / Todd

Happy anniversary,
with love love love.

And here’s to many more years
just like this

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Todd & Me. Halloween 2005.

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Christmas Card Outtakes

Our Engagement Party weekend. 2006.

Our Engagement Party. 2006.

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2nd Anniversary / 2009

going thru photos...

Wedding Weekend in Oxford

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Coincidences

What does the
Chelsea Clinton & Marc Mezvinsk wedding,
Bill & Hillary Clinton wedding,
and the Todd & Sarah Gill wedding
all have in common?

Amongst other things, really unique timing.

Chelsea Clinton was married yesterday and my wedding anniversary is next week on August 11th – the very same day that former president Bill Clinton will be in Fayetteville, Arkansas stopping by the very same house where Todd and I were married three years ago to the day. Of course Bill and Hillary were married there too, which is what brings the coincidences full circle.

Check out this article on politicsdaily.com about it all:
Bill Clinton’s Marital Tips to Newlyweds

The letter Bill Clinton wrote to us…

Bill Clinton - Wedding Letter

Me next to the replica of Hillary Clinton’s wedding dress.
Chelsea’s looked a tad bit different.

Cheers, Bill!

More Wedding Photos

Here are a few more photos that (most of which our friends & family took). I will probably post more in a few days once the rest of them roll in…

silk screened poster invitations by Sasha Barr

wedding favors

our “guest book”

for the champagne toast

one of the few shots of the ceremony that i have right now

taking off

Tons more over on Flickr

Luv,
Sarah

wedding polaroids!

Thought I would go ahead and post the Polaroid portion of our wedding photos. Big thanks to the lovely Erin Abbott for almost all of these shots!

For those of you all who don’t know, we got married in a little old house right next to the University of Arkansas campus. It just so happens to be the house where Bill & Hillary Clinton use to live (and where they were married). Plus, we just so happen to be the first couple to get married there since them, hince all of the Clinton references below and the newspaper article.


Todd & Sarah Gill

my girls & me (and our airbrush backdrop straight from the Memphis ghetto)

cupcake wedding cake thanks to Laura & Darling Deserts

Polaroid wedding cake toppers

sharing the first cupcake

we had mini cans of Sofia Coppola champagne for the toast

making it official (in Bill & Hillary’s old bedroom of all places!)

dudes + cigars = true love

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cheers Bill!

Brandy w/ a famed letter we got from Bill Clinton!

i think Three Six was playing

cracker jacks, salt water taffy, nachos, corndogs, & pizza!

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me in my wedding dress next to Hillary Clinton’s wedding dress

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me with my niece Mariam & stepsister Roxy (who caught the bouquet)

Todd, his dad, & me

it was hot. we had tents, but it was still hot.

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Todd w/ my mom

two hot ladies serving champagne

Be & Erin (we had toy flutes & kazoos instead of bubbles for our send off)

Cory & Karen

Brandy & Laura

bouquet toss

Joel, Kerri, & Brandy

the fam – Mariam, my mom, Roxy, & Tim

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Pretty ladies – Brandy, Kerri, & Erin

my dad video taping the fun

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Todd & Aaron

Laura & Bev

Jonathan + a beer = true love

Katie (Todd’s sister), Erin, & Bill

Erin & my momma

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Ed (Todd’s setp-dad) & me

me + my mom = true love

sexy bridesmaids

awww more true love.

all the ladies w/ Todd

the send off!

got married… & went to the car wash!

eating more cupcakes at our fab hotel room! we stayed at an old hotel on campus that use to be a women’s dorm long ago & now is suppose to be haunted.

snapshots from our honeymoon at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami

Luv,
Sarah