More Blush to Keep You Busy

I am so overwhelmed. I am two seconds away from a nervous breakdown, if I haven't had one already.

All I have is a groom and a dress. Does anyone smell a destination wedding with just the family?? I think...

Anyhow, before I sink into my deep depression before 9 am again, I'll just give a brief update... My dream venue is taken. The annoying lady was rude enough to let me visit, fall in love, think about it non-stop, just to tell me none of my dates are available. THANKS FOR NOTHING, MEANIE!

We have 2 venues to visit this week... Next weekend we're attending my friend Lori's wedding so that will take up an entire wedding planning weekend, but instead of freaking out, I'm attempting to view it as a much needed mental vaca... and I can TOTALLY be on "clean up crew", Lori... aka scoop up whatever you need to while you go off on the honeymoon! :)


The venues we're going to see are Ordy's favorites... they're back to the barn... as overwhelmed as I've been with barn weddings, it's our only choice now with my venue being taken and not wanting a fancy hotel wedding WE wouldn't even feel comfortable at. Sorry if I've gone back and forth- beggars can't be choosers! It's not that I'm settling, but yes, I really wanted the other venue! But, I must move on. With 157 days left, I need to pick a place so I can start invitations, etc.

I have a paper due every Thursday in October, a random final exam next Friday, and the MPRE on Nov 5th. I can't even take it... I need to get a venue just so when I go to type my paper I don't find myself googling venues!

Enough about my rough schedule. On to things that make me smile and think, "will this day ever come?!" More blush and gold inspiration...

great bridal shower look!!! Hint hint sher

my dream dress. i'd wear it the entire week of. rehearsal. bed. anywhere.

love rifle paper for inspiration for invites

another great shower idea :) 

Anyway, I promise, once I finish being a student/wedding planner, I'll come back to being a better blogger. Thanks for hanging in there for the 4 readers I may have left! Any ideas are appreciated!

One thing my dad shared:

"There are people with $100,000 weddings, and people with $10,000... and every person regrets SOMETHING about their wedding and wishes they could do SOMETHING differently. You'll never please EVERYONE, everyone has different taste- what you think is trendy, someone traditional will think it's the tackiest thing ever... but don't ever forget an elaborate wedding doesn't make her marriage any better than the girl with the simple one. It's about the marriage, not the wedding. You have the best groom waiting for you at the end of the aisle and that's all that matters. "

Amen. Gotta love dad's lectures/pearls of wisdom :)

Pink is my fav-o-rite colahhh

Ok, if you know me in real life- you know this is the biggest, fattest, juiciest, omg-blasphemous lie. Pink is my least favorite color. I hate it. Everything about it makes me cringe. The only time I like it is in nail polish.

I always said if I have a baby girl- she will have a yellow, lavender, or turquoise room- no pink in sight. I think it's mostly the way people {obnoxious girls} freak out and do pink overload, but in general I have always loved cooler colors, with the exception of my absolute favorite color, yellow.

I always thought I'd have a yellow and grey wedding. My obsession for yellow and grey is seen in my decorating throughout the house, but I didn't LOVE the idea once I started to envision my actual wedding details.

I have to get something off my chest. I'm obsessed with something lately and I'm almost ashamed to admit, I owe my nemesis, the color pink, a huge apology. So here it is.

WHEW! Now that that's taken care of... I can continue wedding theme searching with a clear conscience!

I am in love with blush tones for the wedding and have always loved antique gold- the two pair SO WELL together! White, as the third color is obviously wedding appropriate. Natural brown wood tone is another great complimentary hue, along with linen and burlap.

Here are some inspiration palettes thanks to the perfect palette!

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love the grey and white stripes!

Gold hues

color inspiration- boys wearing gray suits

I am so excited about choosing blush as our main color... can I show you my stellar wedding shoes??!?

I'm pretty obsessed. And I've never had so much fun trying to break them in, prancing around in my house with them (ignoring that I'm in an oversized sweatshirt and old boxers with a messy afro)...

Of course, since I've never worn heels over 3 inches for longer than 3 minutes, I will be "dancing" (omg just the thought makes me want to cry/puke), and socializing during the reception in my lace toms that Ordy boy got me. LOVE my wedding shoes!!! 

So... to sum it up- I think I more than made up for my lifetime disdain of pink by including the ol' girl in my big day!!!

Engagement Shoot Inspiration

If you follow me on twitter, you know I've been stressing about engagement shoot issues.

1.) Will I have lost enough weight to be photogenic/pleased with my shots??
2.) What outfit should I wear that will be classic and timeless for years to come? I want to be trendy but I'm sure the lady in her engagement shoot from the 80's thought the same in her acid wash Jordache...
3.) Will Ordy and I be awkward? Stiff? Weird?
4.) WHAT IF I HAVE THE WORST HAIR DAY?! Speaking of hair, will I have it up/down, straight, curly?? UGH!
5.) Will Ordy refuse to do cutesy things? Ha... this is one I always worry about. Because, he'll kiss me on the forehead all the time, but ask him to reenact it for the camera and he says, "no way!"

Anyhow, I was perusing the glorious world wide web and decided to share some inspiration shots with y'all. Now, I know Ordy will not do half of them, but a girl can dream...

I knew from the beginning since picnics are a huge part of our lives (and he proposed during one), that I wanted a picnic themed engagement shoot... at least for a FEW pictures. Then we could do classic pics.  We're also huge quilt people so we have plenty to use as blankets :) Maybe even have the Scout in the background...

All of these pictures (and a lot more) were found here. 

Another idea I was obsessed with since I saw it on pinterest, was the camping theme! I loved that it could be overcast and only add to the charm of the shoot. All you need is some plaid, plaid, and more plaid! I love this idea so much!

 Other ideas I love: anything outside in a huge field or on a lake. My sister has a lake with a deck that I always think would be perfect for a photographer to be able to take a shot from... but I'm not sure about the logistics of it all!

Love the tall corn around them

I just need a boat like this!

 Of course, I LOVE PROPS! I am scheming about what we could possibly use, but some of my favorites are:

kind of even looks like us from behind (minus how tiny the girl is ha) 

words can't even tell you how much i love this pic

overboard? perfect?

we're looking high and low for an ampersand to use either for pics or wedding

Can I tell you what we're NOT a fan of? The headless shots... Sure, they're artsy... but I think it's too much... So disregard any of the headless ones. 

And finally, the one picture I will recreate because I'm just so obsessed with how much it reminds me of Ordy and myself...

"can't help but touch her"

Wedding Wednesday!

Ok, so I'm sure there's a blog out there that has Wedding Wednesday- I was kind of just kidding, I don't have any intention of keeping it up regularly... It's all that came to my mind when starting this post :)

{we picked a date P.S...}

Note: Those aren't our Save the Dates- I just like playing around with stuff... speaking of Save the Dates... HOLY COW! How do you choose just one?!?!

I know this will be the hardest part for me because I'm obsessed with different fonts and layouts that I would have the hardest time choosing just one! I'm looking to get someone {ahem, Lori... jk} to hand write all the addresses like this

I've been toying around with the idea of a custom stamp or custom graphic to carry throughout all of the invites but I'm wondering if it's played out? Ordy carves our initials in trees random places we go, so the carved initials in trees actually MEANS something to us- we don't just think it's "cutesy"...

Speaking of, this is just a random babble of wedding thoughts... I spent hours on Pinterest a few weekends ago and am overwhelmed with how played out our wedding ideas are... I mean every wedding now is a barn wedding with burlap and milkglass... It's the trendy thing to do now- whether that's truly your style or not! I'm so sad... I know I should be happy that they serve as inspiration but it bothers me that it's the cool thing to do! I used to talk about rustic barn weddings years ago and people looked at me like I had a third eye! Now it's like, "oh I went to 4 barn weddings this year..." Sheesh.

I want special, intimate, small, unique, thoughtful, SIMPLE. I don't want to spend thousands for a wedding to look low-key like the ones I see on Pinterest... I actually want most of the stuff DIY and authentic vintage stuff.

The other thing is, both "barn" venues we have visited don't truly have authentic barns... they're gazebo like style... and they're both $5,000. I feel like that's steep for a venue that doesn't even have the authentic vibe we're going for! I seriously feel like driving around parts of GA and knocking on someone's door to borrow their barn for a night :)

I have been so stuck now before I choose any wedding colors/bridesmaid dresses etc it's crucial I decide what direction I want my wedding to go- and I've been at a fork in the road for two weeks now. I NEED to decide. Help! Pin cute ideas and @Ordy and Joon me on Pinterest, I need all the help I can get!

I'm starting to think I just want a low key backyard wedding like this:

I feel like that's feasible since I want a small wedding. I don't ever want to spend my wedding meeting new people, I want to spend it celebrating with close friends and family. We've always wanted the following things:

I feel like I'm starting wedding planning from scratch... I know it's not- but I'm just as overwhelmed! I have boxes and boxes {and boxes} of milk glass that I have been saving forever because I know I've always wanted to incorporate it into our wedding... So milk glass is still a huge part of the wedding :)

Anyhow, thanks for letting me ramble... I guess I feel pressure because there are so many ideas on pinterest and other blogs it's like every one is trying to "one-up" everyone else...to be honest, I wish I could just elope! I really stress about wedding details mostly because deep down I know nothing matters, what matters is who I stand up there with... So, I have this internal struggle about not caring about small details and then not wanting to regret not caring years down the road... make sense?!?!?