Baby Pictures for the Big Day

I had an idea to put up some of Chris's and my baby pictures around at the wedding, like at the guest book table and the seating chart table. Of course we will have our traditional engagement pictures also framed but seeing as our two extended families dont know us that well I thought that might be a fun detail. Plus I would love to get those kind of things framed to put up in our new house (when we finally purchase one that is :) As it turns out, me being the first child in my family there are a ton of baby pictures of me, so I am having a bit of trouble narrowing them down. Chris however was the middle child in his family and as his momma explained, there arent many pictures of Chris without his older brother. So I thought the best thing to do would be to have his mom send me the pictures she had of him and that would help me narrow down my choices. Little did I know that Chris was the cutest little boy ever!!! I just had to share some of his pictures so you could see how adorable he was!!! Makes me very excited to start our own little family ;)

My baby pictures will be following shortly... :)

Just the two of us

Driving home together this weekend, Chris and I saw this beautiful sunset. We felt like it was a perfect ending to a perfect weekend, I just had to share.

Ok so it's more of an ominous storm cloud that we are driving towards... but we still thought it was cool looking :)

Lets eat CAKE :)

This weekend was our cake tasting! This is one of the aspects of the wedding process that I have been most excited about. We hired Haute Dolls Bakery to make our dream wedding cake and it looks like we are off to a Fabulous start. I asked our baker to make sure she had some Caramel, Toffee and Vanilla flavors to accommodate my hubby to be! But of course I had to have some chocolate in there, so she made me a chocolate cake with chocolate hazelnut ganache filling. To top it all off she will be covering the entire cake in italian butter cream frosting!!! It is absolutely the BEST frosting I have ever tasted. Also look at how cute the tasting was set up for us.

Sadly Christopher decided to spend the day with my dad and miss the cake tasting (Not his best decision, but more cake for me ;)

However, our wonderful baker made him a to go box with all of the cake tasting fixings...

Drum Roll Please.... Here is our cake!!!

Bridesmaid time

I was lucky enough to have all of my bridesmaids come visit me in the beginning of October to go shopping for Bridesmaid dresses. My only guideline was that they need to be black! I said I prefer that they have a sweetheart neckline and be cocktail length but all of my girls have such different body types so I didn't want to put on too many limitations and have them be uncomfortable. We got lucky though!!! We went into White House Black Market just for fun and ended up finding the most beautiful dress and get this, it ended up only being about $90!!! 

and we found some adorable 

Betsy Johnson Shoes!

And they even have a bow on the back!!! I am so excited for the day of to have a picture of all of the girls shoes lined up with all of the bows! :)

My BEAUTIFUL sister modeling the dress and shoes together, what a fun weekend!!! So touching that I have so many wonderful women in my life.

Wedding Details and invitations!!

I selected black and white as the colors for our wedding because they are simple yet classic colors that will hopefully always be seen as elegant.

The idea is to also incorporate touches of silver to add to that elegant look I am going for.

Also just last week I received our invitations which we are so excited about!!! We saw the letterpress invitations and just fell in love with them. A lot of them were out of our budget, but we found this great company that does letter press for a lot less than other companies. We were skeptical but now seeing the actual invitation we are so happy we took the risk.  The name of the company is The Aerialist Press, here is the link to their website http://theaerialistpress.com/.

These are our invitations, response card and map to the venue, we are so excited with how Beautiful the invitations came out!! Now the next step is to get the envelopes figured out... We are going to try the cheaper route with those and hopefully do them our selves, which will be very interesting. Although we were able to make our Save the Dates ourselves and they came out really good actually! Although I might be a little bit partial ;)

 

Wonderful hubby working away on our Save the Dates, he got a whole assembly line set up. It was very effective though and we got them done in no time!

 

Here was the inspiration for our Save the Date, I found it on the Wedding Chicks Website, https://www.weddingchicks.com/2011/09/23/photo-save-the-date-card/.

Here is how our Save the Dates turned out, we were Very happy with them!

The Beginning...

A little about me, I am a small town girl who moved to the big city a couple of years ago to persue my dreams of becoming an interior designer. Low and behold, not only am I now an interior designer at a small design firm in Santa Cruz, Ca but I also met my prince chartming :) We met a couple of years ago through one of our mutual friends, the more time we spent together the more we realized how much we had in common. About a year and a half from when we met each other my Chart took me to my favorite cupcake shop one night and surprised me with not only my favorite cupcakes but a marriage proposal as well!

Its about 6 months until the wedding now and we just cant wait, I of course have everything planned and organized! We are getting married at Wolf Lakes Park in Sanger Ca in the garden venue. It is one of the most beautiful locations I have ever seen! It reminded me of when I was a little girl and would read The Secret Garden. The ceremony location is surrounded by beautiful tall trees and the entrance is an iron gate, just what I would have immagined the garden would have looked like in my book.

We also recently got some of our AMAZING engagement pictures back!!! Our photographer Allyson Magda with Allyson Magda Photography simply blew us away!!!

Here is a sneak peak, more to come!