There are so many decisions that come along with wedding planning, but one of the detail-oriented, in my opinion, is selecting all of the details associated with your wedding stationery. I love how all of our wedding stationery suite turned out, and it is all so much more special because my mom was able to design it all for us! I just want to keep looking at these beautiful pictures forever! Save the Date When Evan proposed to me, he had one of my friends hiding with her camera so that …
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5 Ways to Thrift Like a Pro
In my family, the tv in the living room is always on for background noise. If no one’s actually watching something, then you can probably find it on one of three channels: Food Network, HGTV, or ION (NCIS and Criminal Minds reruns alllllways). I often catch myself wondering which vacation home a couple will pick or Googling what a “financier” is in the middle of a baking competition when I’m supposed to be doing a million other things around the house. And sometimes I sit down and realize that …
Thoughts From A COVID Bride
Thoughts from a COVID bride, I remember back in March, I was about to start working from home full-time because of COVID-19, and my biggest worry was if the wineries we were planning on visiting for my bachelorette weekend would be opened up again in time for our trip (and if I’d be able to find any toilet paper at the grocery store). Our trip was on April 4th, and we were positive that things would be back to normal by then. We got engaged in December, I bought my dress two days after …
My Virtual Bachelorette Party
Being a COVID bride is weird. I plan to share more in-depth thoughts on our experience getting married during this time soon, once I can get all of my thoughts and feelings together, but to sum it up, it was a much different experience than what I expected to have when we got engaged. The first time I realized the impact that the pandemic would make on our engagement and marriage season was when my bachelorette party had to be cancelled in early April. We had planned to visit some local …
Morning Routine: Quarantine Edition
Who would’ve thought that it would take a global pandemic and a complete shakeup of my normal rhythm for me to begin establishing a real morning routine? This time at home has been challenging but also life-giving in a lot of ways - one of those being the formation of some solid routines in my life. I am not a person who just totally embraces change wholeheartedly, so the abrupt change in my days was startling and difficult to adjust to at first. But here I am sixty-something days later, and I’m …