mini e-shoot

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! Here are a few of my favorite photos from our mini e-shoot in Sylva, NC.

the old courthouse/now library - love this shot

All photos taken by Nick Breedlove.

wedding shower in the mountains

Happy Friday!! I know I said that I would be starting the wedding recaps, butttt there are still a few pre-wedding things I'd like to share first. This is a fun one, too! Back in April the mister and I had our couples shower in his hometown of Sylva, NC. My mother- and sisters-in-law did a fabulous job hosting, and they even hired a professional photographer to capture the day!

The shower was held at Sapphire Mountain Brewing Company, which used to be owned by the mister's great grandmother (she was the first woman to be a licensed dentist in NC).

favors

fathers of the bride- and groom-to-be

the mister and his mama

me and my parents

my new in-laws

the flower girl and ring bearer - too cute for words

the mister's grandparents

BM/SIL Katie - hostess extraordinaire

two families combined

It was a beautiful shower and a very happy distraction from recent events. Once the festivities started to wind down, the mister and I wandered off with the photographer to get some engagement type photos of just the two of us walking around downtown Sylva. Those are up next!

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend! We're actually heading to Sylva tonight after work to attend a couples shower tomorrow for one of the mister's cousins. We haven't seen his family since the wedding, so it should be a nice time. See you back here next week! xoxo.

All photos taken by Nick Breedlove.

a cause for celebration

Today our wedding is being featured on the super amazing Southern Weddings Magazine blog! Yipee!!! I've been reading their blog and magazine since before we were even engaged, and they were a huge source of inspiration during the planning process, so it's an honor to have been picked. Go check it out:

Part I

Part II

I guess what this really means is that now I can start the full-fledged wedding recap! So excited and can't wait to share the day with you!

pardon the interruption...

Hi all! I just wanted to interrupt these honeymoon recaps to excitedly exclaim that we have our pro photos! Actually, we've had them since last Thursday. However, for the past week I've turned into quite the selfish photo hoarder. I did send our family and friends the preview slideshow, but since Thursday the full online gallery has been allll mine (and the mister's, but I'm sure he doesn't click through them obsessively in his free time - like me). I still have to wait for the disc and there are so many pre-wedding things I have yet to share. So until I finally get to the wedding day recaps, here's a little teaser:

photo by the ridiculously talented Heidi of Our Labor of Love

winner, winner chicken dinner

Just the other day I posted about wanting to find a unique way to display some of our engagement photos. Well today I found out that I won a contest hosted on Brooklyn Bride for a free Memolio photo deck! I'm excited that we'll finally see some of our e-photos in print.

(source)

Did you enter or win any contests during your wedding planning?

putting our e-photos to good use

I've been on the minted site dozens of times, but never knew that they offer photo calendars! Ever since having them taken, I've been looking for a fairly inexpensive way to display our engagement photos. One of these would be perfect hanging in our kitchen where we currently have a Georgia Bulldogs calendar (which is, thankfully, about to expire).

Some of my favorite designs:

Fling

Love Struck

Heirloom Blooms
(all from here)

What are some of the ways you used or plan to use your engagement photos?

forever young - him

You've already seen my baby photos, so now it's time for the future mister's. It's one thing to look through your own pictures and reminisce and a different experience altogether to look at someone else's photos and listen to their stories.

Way back when, while we were still in undergrad and our relationship was brand new, the future mister and I were studying at his apartment when he handed me a three ring binder and told me I could read it. It contained page after page of his childhood stories, written lovingly by his father. Some were touching, most were funny and I was incredibly honored to be given that glimpse into his past. Also, I took that as my sign that things were getting serious, because you wouldn't let just anyone read something so personal!

This past winter, while we were going through his photographs, I experienced similar feelings - a visual glimpse to corresponded with the stories I read a few years before.









Adorable! Do you remember the first time you saw childhood photos of your significant other? How did it make you feel?