Personalized Rustic Wooden Recipe Chest

My husband proposed on Thanksgiving morning in 2011 out on a trail ride with our horses. He put up a huge banner out in the middle of the trail and of course we all know what it said. He got off his horse and down on one knee and of course I SAID YES!! I had one entire year to plan my wedding, but I wanted it to be unique and different, something that would WOW our guests. I didn't want the average "Modern Day Wedding." As I started looking and planning, I was having a hard time finding exactly what I was looking for so with one item at a time I started making everything from scratch. Frustrating at times, but I found something, besides animals, that I was truly passionate about. And here we are today.