Welcome to our Wedding Weblog!

Welcome!

Regardless of which "hue of blue" suits you, we're so glad you're here and so excited to see you in October. Browse around the blog. Any questions you have about our Big Day should be answered in one of the posts below. If it's not, though, let us know, and we'll be sure to get you the information that you need.

Thanks so much for visiting our site - we both look forward to visiting with you on October 15th!

Nuts & Bolts

If you're able to join us - and we hope you are! - please let us know what either of us can do to help make arrangements for you to get here. For those out-of-towners flying in, Greenville-Spartanburg Airport (GSP) is definitely the closest option, but Charlotte (CLT) and Asheville (AVL) aren't too far away, either. If you think you'll need a room to overnite in Greenville, the Hilton Hotel on Haywood Road is offering a special $79 rate for our guests. Just mention that you're part of the Stultz-Pressley wedding.

Fall for Greenville is a GREAT way to entertain yourself once you get here. An Upstate tradition, the event offers a smorgasboard of activities - including concerts and the opportunity to taste test a variety of really overpriced foods (don't say we didn't warn you!). There are lots of other options, too, if you're looking for ways to spend your downtime, so let us know, if you need some suggestions!

Paper Products

Incredible thanks to the incomparable Brooke Rainey for designing our save-the-dates, invitations, and thank you notes. Just like her hero Dolly Parton, this Tennessean does it all ... well, except dance around a stage wearing nothing but something skin tight and sequin (not that there's anything WRONG with that!).

Truly, though, Brooke is a jack of all trades - and a master of most. In addition to graphic design, she shoots the World's Most Precious Children's Photos, can quote from memory every song George Strait ever sang, and always manages to keep her fridge full of Diet Cokes for whenever Kristin visits Music City.

Thanks, Brookie. As King George might say, "Baby, write this down:" "You are THE BEST."

Engagement photos

One of Kristin's friends is the enormously talented wedding photographer Charles Bordner. You may know him better as "The Storyteller," but regardless of what you call him, his talent can only be called "incredible."

Hearing of our engagement, Charles graciously agreed to come to Canton to shoot our engagement photos - and "grace" is the right word when you consider we dragged him to about six different locations in a span of less than three hours. He was a true pro - selecting some venues we'd never even thought of and waiting until the moment was "just right" in order to capture the perfect pictures.

Biased we may be, but we think he did an amazing job. In fact, we keep flipping through the photos, letting them "tell" OUR "story" over and over again.

Here are a few of our favorites, but you can see more in an album posted on Kristin's Facebook page.

(Thanks, Storyteller! You are "the Main Event.")

"Exactly Like" ... WHO?!

If you're like 97.5% of the other people who received an invitation to our wedding, you're probably wondering why in the world there's a song lyric pasted down the back of a card that is, traditionally, left blank.

THAT is an excellent question.

The answer is simple. Next to her faith, her family, and her friends, Kristin's greatest obsession is music. She never met a form of music she didn't like, in fact, but her favorite form is popular American tunage from the early to mid twentieth century. Think Irving Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald, and all of the stuff Diana Krall records - only in its original form.

This love led her to graduate school where she studied the work of lyricist Dorothy Fields, who wrote the song "Exactly Like You," which is what you read on your invitation - and hear on this Web site.

If the lyrics weren't indicative enough of two 34 year olds getting married for the first time ("I know why I've waited / know why I've been blue / prayed each nite for someone / Exactly like you!"), there's another reason the number is a perfect choice as our wedding theme: it was written in 1930. Golf lovers will instantly recognize that as the year that Bobby Jones, Jeremy's golfing hero, won the one and only Grand Slam, and if you know anything at all about Jeremy, you know that, next to his faith, his family, and his friends, his greatest obsession is golf ... and Tarheel sports, but that's a whole 'nother post.