I vow

This page of our album is feels very bright, springy, and cheerful :) Must be those winter blahs that are making me reach for pink florals and spring greens.  Again using more pink throughout the album than I originally anticipated, but liking it!

 I am thinking of making these tiny painted hearts a recurring theme throughout other pages in the album.

This little envelope holds our vows written out by my sister on pieces of notebook paper that we read from during the ceremony. So happy I kept them :) 

               

One for my baby, and one for the road

 This page was created to be the final page of our wedding album.  I tend to work out of order, just using whatever photos/ story inspire me at the time.

One for My Baby, and One More for the Road by Frank Sinatra was the song we chose as our last song of the night and was our last dance that evening, so I thought it fitting to end the album :)

pure joy

One of the projects you will find under current projects on the left is my wedding album.  It has been 1 1/2 years since that day, which is hard to believe, and I have about 10-12 pages of this album completed :)  I started collecting supplies before the wedding even happened and continue to add bits and pieces to my stash.  I have found this method very effective in that I have a lot to choose from when I sit down to make a page, and I can spend in little bits. 

This was the first page I used a great deal of pink on, a color I wasn't really planning for in this album, but I liked the way it turned out so much that you sill see I have incorporated pink into quite a few other pages as well. 

I drew the color scheme from the fabric tag, and had the perfect Basic Grey paper to match.  The dangling flowers are handmade with paper bits, ink, and a brad in the center. I think the little heart stickers are my favorite though.

Oh and this may be my FAVORITE photo of us from that day :)

nuptials on my mind.

scrap a page thursday.

this is the first page in my new wedding album :) so excited to start scrapping again and having some new stories to tell keeps it interesting!

i do saturday.

This weeks Dave's parents have been in town, and we have seen a lot of my parents, which means we have had lots and lots of wedding talk/planning going on. here are things we have discussed and figured out :)

--my mom bought her dress
--the idea behind what we want to do for the rehearsal dinner
--where the guests and the wedding party may be staying
--gathering addresses for save-the-date cards
--investigating more possible photographers
--final decisions before booking our honeymoon!!

i do saturday.

I am planning on trying to send out my Save the Date cards within the next week. I am planning on designing the cards and graphics myself and want to carry the look throughout the whole wedding (invites, table cards, thank yous, blah blah blah) so it is a BIG decision!! Because the wedding is in Pennsylvania and is a naturish theme and I have always had a thing for Pennsylvania Dutch style art I have decided to be inspired and incorporate come of the elements into my design. Here are some photos I am using for inspiration and I can't wait to share the final product!!


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wedding dress shopping.

I am going for round two of wedding dress shopping at a local boutique in Ann Arbor and am so excited!!! Here are some pictures of dresses I like that I am basing the style on. Can't wait to see what they have there for me :)

i get to have a barn wedding.

I can't say that I have always dreamed of a barn wedding, but from the moment I saw pictures of them and heard of them I wanted one :) And now I get to have one!!! We went to check out a place called the Hayloft in rural Pennsylvania this weekend and it couldn't be more perfect! It was a 6 hour road trip that we took, leaving Saturday morning. We got there, checked out the grounds and building, the local town, and then went to a fundraiser held in the barn. The food was great, the play they put on was hilarious, and the whole thing is family owned and operated, which I LOVE! We got lost in farm country at night, had a flat tire on Sunday morning when we went to leave, and had the craziest flavored chicken wings ever...it was a fun trip!! So, here are some photos from our trip...enjoy :)

they let us stay in this cute country cabin room which was quaint and cozy!

wow do we look sleepy! I told you that bed was cozy!

they had free horse-drawn carriage rides at the fundraiser :)

a view of the grounds. we get to have bon-fires at the wedding too!!

not the best picture but this is the inside of the 125 yr old barn. It is beautiful and huge!

Thank you readers for all of your congratulations, we are very happy and excited!! Please share wedding ideas and inspiration if you have them...you can't have too much inspiration!

a wedding road trip.

this weekend we are headed off to Pennsylvania to a place called the Hayloft to check it out as a possible wedding venue. I am super excited and it looks like everything I am looking for :) I will take lots of pictures ( I mean I am going to need them to plan for decor and seating and such right?) and promise to share them come Monday. I also confirmed that my sister is taking our engagement photos in the coming weeks (which I also promise to share). So, I hope you have a good weekend and look forward to talking to you all again on Monday!

inspiration.

here are some photos I am using for inspiration in the beginning stages of planning our wedding!!

**all photos are from martha stewart, once wed, or the knot**

p.s. I decided I wanted to do a sunrise walk for something different and have to be to work by 5:30am tomorrow, so the timing is perfect. photos will be posting in the morning :)

it's official.

Dave and I are getting married!!!! I am beyond happy and excited for this new season of our lives to begin. I have already went into full planning mode and couldn't wait to get to the bookstore to pick up some magazines and a planner/to-do list :) I plan on making a LOT of things myself and am going to be adding a new 365 wedding category to the site where you will be able to find all and any update, DIY, and inspiration posts. This also means now that I have a wedding to plan the 365 shop will be slowing down a bit. But worry not readers, the blog will stay going strong. Well I am off to read Martha Stewart Weddings!!!!!