From Dolly: We thought of the idea ourselves and we co-wrote it and designed it ourselves, with the help of 2 close friends marloes versluys as the graphic designer and abbie ong as the copywriter. The concept behind the invite is “uniting two people as one” which is what a marriage means to us. The idea is to have two seperate cards and when people receive the invite they have to pull two strings together to make one.

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Please say a prayer for Andy Irons’ wife, who is due with their first child next month. I can’t even image the heartache that loosing your husband can bring, let alone loosing him while carrying his child. My heart breaks for her. You can read more about Andy and what they know so far about his passing here.

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Last year, on December 23rd, I was mentioning (complaining) that I had nothing to wear to Christmas Eve. Bryan handed me one of my presents from under the tree and said “Maybe this will help” (or something like that). I opened it up and it was the perfect grey dress from Anthropologie. It fit perfectly and best of all he picked it out 100% by himself!  What a wonderful (then) fiance.

This year history seemed to repeat itself.

It was December 23rd and I was… mentioning… that I had nothing to wear to Christmas Eve. Bryan walks to the tree, grabs a present in an Anthro box with a pretty felt garland on it and says “Maybe this will help.” (or something like that). This time around I suspected what it was, a darling dress that I had seen on the Anthro website. Bryan had told me “maybe Santa will bring it for you” and I was so excited to get to wear the new dress the next day.

The box was kind of small, but it was only a dress so I didn’t think much of it. I opened the box and unwrapped the tissue paper to find … an adorable gold clutch! Well, I thought to myself, I can’t wear it but I can bring it along! However before I could say anything Bryan looks at the clutch and says “What the bleep is that?!” (he didn’t say bleep).  I realized that he was as surprised to see the clutch as I was!  Apparently he bought the dress, and paid for Anthropologie to gift-wrap it, and they accidently sent a clutch!  Since he hadn’t had to wrap it, the clutch lay undetected under our tree for a good 4 days! Bryan called them up immediately and although the girl was super sweet and very helpful, we were told the dress would arrive by last Monday. A few days after Christmas, but on such short notice what could we expect?

I have been waiting very very patiently.

But, although a week late (well, two if you count back from Christmas), today I received the dress! It is super cute, fits perfectly and I am in love with it.

Anthropologie, even though you sent me a clutch, and then took your sweet time sending me my dress, I am still very much in love with you.

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So, I was a bad blogger last week. We had a Christmas/house warming party Saturday night so between getting the place ready for that and prepping for Christmas in general, I had to prioritize and blogging just didn’t make the cut. Sorry! But now I am back, and have a little recap from last weekends trip to Unique LA. I had a great time and will most definitely be back next year! Here were some of my favorite booths:

SucculentLOVE (although I didn’t buy anything because I know I can make these myself.. it is just a matter of finding the time!)

The most adorable shoes by TinyWhales:

Fun headbands and such by BrookOwens:

Fun letter and number prints by ModernPOP:

Awesome felt ornaments and such (we bought the reindeer in white!) by Graf & Lantz:

Kitty sushi from Happee Kittee (we had to hide this stuff way up high because when I brought it home the cats attacked the bag!):

Fun mugs and coasters (i bought those yellow ones!) from Rock Scissor Paper:

I know I am leaving so many others out, but this is enough for now! Again, it was for sure a show I will go to next year and would encourage anyone in the LA/OC area to do the same!

1. I posted my 300th post today! Crazy. I know.

2. Bryan and I updated our website for Girl Vs. Boy Design. Check it out!

3. There isn’t really a 3, but leaving it at 2 just didn’t feel right. Have a good night! Bryan has an away soccer game tonight (he coaches) which means left over baked macaroni and cheese (delicious!) and wine for me See you tomorrow.

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Me in my moms wedding dress (and awesome hat!)

And my flower girl dresses I was pretty much a professional flower girl when i was younger

Thanks for the pictures mom, and for the stylish bangs