Category — the day

(photos by Matthew Morgan)

I am loving the colors and feelings being portrayed in these photos.

(Shot by her, via.)

loving this picture (and those dresses!) shot by Hugh Forte.

(shot by matthew morgan. edited by me)

Here are some details from Bryan’s cousin’s recent wedding. Which also happened to be our first as Mr. and Mrs.

(my seating card with my new name!)

My cousin just got married this past weekend (congratulations Erin!) and I couldn’t help but post a few pictures from their gorgeous wedding!  I posted their engagement shoot here and if you forgot, her husband loves him some Jeeps!  They were married in Alaska which provided a gorgeous backdrop, and the groom’s mom made the awesome cake!!

You can find more pictures at  Philip Casey Photography Blog.  Congratulations Erin! I love you!!!

I am loving this brides necklace. Love love love.

Photo by SMS Photography. Check out the rest of this gorgeous wedding here.

My long time friend Jessie got married a few months back (Yaaay!) and I have been meaning to do a post of her pictures, but I just kept getting busy.  So this morning when I saw on facebook that she had put some new items on her etsy shop I figured now was a good time to do a double header!

Jessie is a Southern California girl who fell in love with a (very tall) Swedish basketball player. She travels with him and when they aren’t traveling they are in Sweden. All of this time has given her a chance to work on some side projects, sewing being one of them. And oh. my. Lord. Go check out her etsy shop before everything sells out!

A yoga mat bag.

Place mats with a built in chopsticks holder! (ok, so between this morning when I grabbed the picture from her etsy and right now, these have sold out….  I am sure you can request some though!)

She also has pillows and aprons… all in the most fun fabrics!  Go check it out!

Now on to her wedding. Want to know something cool? They got married in Sweden, so… as to not disappoint all of their family and friends who couldn’t make the trip, they had a live feed going! I got to watch the whole thing from right here in front of my computer!  It was awesome! All images (except for the shoes, which were shot by a freind, were actually shot by an actions sports photographer! Check out his site!

She was rockin the J. Crew dress (The Whitney) and shoes!!

So gorgeous!  She also has a blog , which I have a link to over on the right, Meditations of a Wallflower. She posts cooking stuff, home decorating stuff, life stuff…  She is pretty much awesome.  Congrats Jessie and Fred!!!

update: ok, now it is fixed!

(update: apparently wordpress doesn’t like it when I title my posts with just numbers, which is why you haven’t been able to comment. It is all fixed now!)

All my to-do’s are done. I may make a ‘just married’ sign tonight, maybe.

2 days to go.

Here are the last few things to get done:

Putting the programs in their box. (And a few kids activity books for the really young kids)

A mock up of the kids table to show my florist turned set up person

Pen jar for the ‘guestbook’

Hair trial! She fixed the dark pieces (yay!) and did a gorgeous up-do!  However, I am very simple and wear my hair straight all of the time, so I said for the big day I would like it with a little less volume

Ok, now I am really going!  We aren’t leaving for our honeymoon until Monday, so I may post a teaser before that, but I am not making any promises!

tomorrow (well, in 30 minutes) marks 4 days until the wedding.

holy cow.

I finished up the programs tonight and since I was so organized and finished so many projects over the course of the last year (i highly recommend this approach to wedding planning) I may even add a project tomorrow, a little ‘just married’ sign for the back of the car. Or not. We will see how I feel.

I apologize for falling out of blogging the last few weeks (ok month). I have been finishing up projects and trying to relax a little along the way.

I want to thank all of you for your inspiration, kind words and help along the way.  I didn’t even notice that last month marked my blogs one year anniversary  And it has been quite a year. My wedding was shaped by the blogs I read, and by you, the wonderful girls that read mine. So thank you! I may post again before Saturday, but if I don’t then I will see you all again around the 27th with pictures and stories and answers to questions!  And then what of this blog? I am not sure…  it will probably turn more into a design/home/event/baby blog with the occasional wedding post (you can’t just turn off your love for gorgeous weddings) but only time will tell  I hope that some of you stick around, at least until the wedding recaps are over!

So yeah, thank you for reading and for making my wedding planning process go much more smoothly then it would have had I not started this blog. I am very very thankful!

4 more days!!!!!!!!