We just celebrated our second wedding anniversary on March 24! Each year, the wedding anniversary is traditionally celebrated by giving a specific gift to your spouse. While this is certainly a more traditional way to celebrate your wedding anniversary, I think it’s so romantic. Each year’s gift represents growth in the relationship that I think is important to reflect on. (See the full list of anniversary gifts by year here). Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you I may make a commission if you click through and purchase. Year 2 Wedding Anniversary Gift – Cotton The second wedding anniversary…
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Timeless Spring Wedding Inspo
It’s hard to believe it’s been one whole year since our wedding. It’s seemed like a lifetime and yet no time at all. I’ve shared bits and pieces of our big day throughout the past year, but I think it’s time to have a dedicated post to the big day! To those that have been here, thanks for sticking around. For those that are new, welcome to the party! I hope future brides can use some of our big day for spring wedding inspo of their own. Unlike my Pinterest board growing up, there was no real “theme” to our wedding perse. For the most part, we tried to keep…
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Rain on Your Wedding Day
Marriage! Marriage is what brings us together today. Michael and I recently just reached our 6 month wedding anniversary. While I wouldn’t say we celebrated our 6 month anniversary, it is certainly worth celebrating everyday. We get asked all the time how “married life is”. To which we respond with, “the same”. It’s truly a beautiful thing to be just as in love now as we were on day one of dating. And it’s something I wish for everyone, to be in an eternal honeymoon phase. With 6 months of being husband and wife I’m looking back on our wedding day. I’ve realized, I haven’t shared much about our wedding…
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Custom Wedding Invitations with Hand Painted Venue
A trend I’ve been obsessed with long before I ever got engaged were custom wedding invitations. I was particularly in love with hand painted images of wedding venues on invitations. To me, they were not only timeless, but a piece of artwork everyone of our guest could keep too. My concern with getting custom invitations done for a wedding was the price. Custom wedding invitations can cost thousands of dollars, and that simply was not in the budget. Luckily, my old co-worker is an extremely talented artist. I asked if she would be willing to paint and design our invitations and was blessed when she said yes. The beauty of…
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What to Expect at Wedding Cake Tasting
One of my favorite experiences during wedding planning was wedding cake tasting. It was delicious every time, but there were some things I wish I had known beforehand. Here’s a few things to expect from wedding cake tasting in this little know before you go guide. Know Before You Go: Wedding Cake Tasting Come with an empty stomach – Ever heard the phrase, Eat Cake for Breakfast? This is a good approach for wedding cake tasting. We found it best to show up on a mostly empty stomach. Even though samples are small, there’s a lot to try and you don’t want to fill up too soon! Have an idea…
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Wedding Week Outfits 3.20.22
The week of 3.20.22 was jam packed full of bridal and wedding outfits. To say it was a big week is truly an understatement. The past two weeks have been filled with so much joy and I’ve been spending every second soaking it all in. So while I apologize these wedding week outfits are late, I’m actually not sorry at all. For all the future brides, I hope these outfits inspire you. AND that you choose to soak in all the joy during and following your wedding week. Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you I may make a…
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Wedding Party Gifts
I am so excited to share this post! I’ve been gathering gifts for my wedding party since Christmas time. I finally got everything that I wanted to include the week before my wedding. Talk about cutting it close. The problem was, I kept thinking of things to give them! But time has run out to buy them more and it’s time to show what I got! I wanted these gifts to not just be for me, but to show my wedding party how much it means to me to have them stand by my side. Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, meaning at no additional…
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Spring Wedding Guest Dress
Well, our wedding is next week. Which means, if you’re one of my wedding guest and you don’t have a dress yet, you should probably head to Amazon. But there’s still plenty of time for other spring wedding guest to find a dress. Personally, I love to dress up for weddings, even if they are “less formal”. Because I love dressing up so much, I did make my wedding dress code black tie/formal. While I’ll be in a wedding dress that day (obviously) I couldn’t help but look at formal dresses that a guest might wear for a spring wedding. Below are some of my favorites, as well as a…
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Wedding Dress Fitting Essentials
My final wedding dress fitting is next week. I can hardly believe how fast time has gone and that I’ve already had two wedding dress fittings. I’ve learned that each fitting serves a different purpose. As such, bringing everything you’ll bring on your wedding day isn’t necessary for each appointment. Because of this, I wanted to go through each stage of wedding dress fitting and list what to bring to your different appointments. Not everyone will have their appointments run the same way, but it’s a good place to start that I personally didn’t have at first. Thread & Needle Alterations My bridal shop, One & Only Bridal, referred me…
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Wedding Shoes & Designer Look a Likes
I have finally settled on a pair of shoes for my wedding day. I have gone back and forth a few times but decided to go with the more timeless pair. Not to say they don’t have a little bit of a modern twist, but overall they are timeless. I fell in love with two pairs of Jimmy Choos. The Jimmy Choo Sacaria and the Sacora. (Neither of which I can afford. Which is why I purchased some look a likes instead). I love the pearl accents on both of them. To me pearls are timeless and will never go out of style. So even though the center pearl is…
