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<\/p>\nUnless you had some traumatic boating experience or watched too much JAWS in your lifetime, you can probably agree that there’s just something about being around water that has a mystifying effect on one’s soul. Water calms me, it rejuvenates my spirit, and makes me feel at home. \u00a0I didn’t grow up around a beach or lake, but maybe those one-week vacations once a year to Jacksonville, FL throughout my childhood instilled in me a love unlike any other.<\/p>\n
Now, I’d never actually been to a legitimate LAKE before until a couple of weeks ago, when a friend invited me and several other of my sorority sisters to her parent’s house on Lake Victoria to stay and rent a pontoon boat. I love water and the ocean and everything, but lakes scare me with their deep water I can’t see through. \u00a0Somehow I managed to overcome my apprehensions and dived in (ok, maybe I was pushed…) and actually had a lovely time! (Going so far as to tube in it and jump off a rope swing into the abyss, even!)<\/p>\n
All this is to say, I think weddings by water (be them lake, ocean, pond, creek, sprinklers [ok maybe not], what have you…) are lovely, and with Memorial Day happening this week, I know a lot of people are spending their holiday in boats and on beaches across the country.<\/p>\n
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From top left, clockwise:\u00a0jumping<\/a>, standing<\/a>, floating<\/a>, glowing<\/a>, dipping<\/a>, twirling<\/a>, lounging<\/a>, wearing<\/a>, posing<\/a>, encircling<\/a>, sailing<\/a>, shimmering<\/a>.<\/p>\n Inspiringly,<\/p>\n ~ Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unless you had some traumatic boating experience or watched too much JAWS in your lifetime, you can probably agree that there’s just something about being around water that has a mystifying effect on one’s soul. Water calms me, it rejuvenates my spirit, and makes me feel at home. \u00a0I didn’t grow up around a beach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-wedding-resources","tag-inspiration-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}