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Tonight.

Playing with Matches. Photographed Nikon D60, 18-55mm lens. Tonight we fly home for our wedding shower tomorrow. I’m excited to go home. Home is home and home is good. I’m excited for my Boston friends to finally see where I grew up. I’m excited to see everyone and celebrate the wedding. There is talk of [...]

Dude. My fiance is hot.

More favorites from the engagement session.

More engagement!

Okay, I take back every bad thing I ever said about being engaged and planning a wedding. Some parts of it are just plain fun. Last night, my Dad, Andreas and I headed to our photographer’s studio to view the full set of our engagement photos and I don’t think it would be an exaggeration [...]

It’s all progress.

In my post about finally breaking down and hiring a wedding planner, I hinted at the fact that I’ve started seeing a therapist recently. It began with me trying to get a better handle on the stress of planning the wedding but has morphed into my therapist and I wrestling with much larger alligators. We’re [...]

New blogger at Elizabeth Anne Designs.

Happy news! I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be sharing my wedding planning journey over on Elizabeth Anne Designs starting very soon. They also featured our engagement session today, so I’m feeling a little ferklempt at all the EAD love.  Thanks Elizabeth and Anne! Can’t wait to join the fun.

Engagement sneak peek.

Omg, I am just buzzing with excitement right now. Our amazing photographers from Allegro Photography just posted a “sneak peek” from our engagement session and – wow. The pictures are just fantastic. When it came time to choose a location, I knew I wanted some place fun and interesting. I wanted us to be doing [...]

You can’t put a price on sanity.

Okay, brace yourselves. I’m going to say something right now, something that I think most brides feel but don’t always say, and that is that wedding planning is a bitch. There. I said it. And here’s something else: I don’t love it. I won’t say I hate it, certainly not. It definitely has its high [...]

For the love of paper (and dear friends).

Not long after we got engaged, Andreas and I began asking our closest friends and family to be part of our wedding party. When I could, I tried to ask my bridesmaids in person. It just felt like too big a deal to do any other way. I was fortunate enough to be able to [...]

The story we’ll be telling for the rest of our lives.

It’s been an eventful past week for me. If you haven’t heard, my boyfriend of six years, my best friend, Andreas, proposed on Christmas Eve. We were back home in Maryland for the holidays and had been doing some last minute Christmas shopping in Bethesda. We got back to the car and were laughing about [...]