One of my favorite things about weddings is seeing couples make the day their own. Your wedding is a chance to show off your love, style, and personality with the people you love most!
Need a little inspiration? Here are some of my favorite wedding websites to help you get started!
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Wedding planning can feel overwhelming! One useful tool to help the process is Pinterest! But what often happens is that the wedding board becomes a huge conglomeration of too many ideas and projects to pull off before the big day!
Make your pinning more productive by asking yourself these three questions as you browse:
Before you pin, ask yourself these three questions:
Does it match the style and feel you want for your day?
Can a friend or family member help? Or would it be better to hire a pro?
Would you rather make it, buy it, rent it, or hire someone to do it?
So relax, grab your favorite drink, and spend an afternoon creating a new board where you can re-pin those absolute favorite, achievable projects, the one or two pairs of shoes you’ve decided on, and anything else that you’ve been able to narrow down!
And if you’re sharing the board with any vendors, filling in the description boxes with exactly why you like that bouquet or how exactly you want to recreate that seating arrangement helps everyone to be on the same page!
Whatever you decide to do, remember that your wedding day is more than just being Pinterest perfect–it’s about celebrating the two of you and your new life together!
Rain or shine, the proposal was happening! He had the ring burning a hole in his pocket, but even more important, the “proposal date” was already engraved into the band of the ring!
But back up to 4th grade, they met when Kelly’s family started attending the same church as Landon’s family. Friends in high school, she had decided she was never going to be like one the of many girls that fell for him. Funny enough, Landon’s feelings deepened first, but he decided to take the next couple of months to pray and just intentionally text and hang out with her. It was when they carpooled to a mutual friend’s birthday party that she realized she liked him too! It wasn’t until a few weeks later though, when on a run to McDonald’s for comfort food, that they became dating official!
So here they were now at another special place to their relationship, Mount Tamalpais, and he wanted to redeem how he had asked her to become his girlfriend by now asking her to become his wife! There’s a lot more to the story, but I’ll let them fill in the details! In between raindrops and rain pours, Landon got down on one knee, and she said yes! The sky cleared, the sun shone, and the mist evaporated from the valley for a minute…before the rain came back again! But the ring was on her finger, and they were officially engaged!
View Kelly & Landon’s Napa Valley wedding!
It started off with a conversation after church one day where Zachary let me know he had been thinking about Monica for awhile now and was wanting to pursue a relationship with her. Friends with both them separately and around for events Zachary put together like disc golf, let’s just say this wasn’t a total surprise to me. I wasn’t sure where Monica’s heart was but Zachary was hopeful from the start mentioning that his current school schedule would allow for them to spend more time together until his classes started at Davis in the fall and possibly a wedding the next summer after her graduation??
And all these months later, it looks like he wasn’t wrong! Official in April, by August Zachary was in talks with me about photographing a surprise proposal. But the timing didn’t come about until October where he worked out every detail to have Monica remember all their special dates and memories through a scavenger hunt! Starting off getting her nails done (smart guy!), Zachary sent Monica and her friend off for a day of following clues while he and his friends created this little area for a surprise proposal complete with battery-powered bistro lights. When she arrived, they talked and danced while he sang. When he came to to the line “All I want is you, will you be my bride” Zachary shocked Monica by getting down one knee. Let’s just say their wedding in July is just what the “doctor” ordered. ;-)
These two already knew what it meant to be best friends through both the beauty and pain of life. Their love had been forged through hardship and when walks outside by the river were all they could do. It was such an honor to capture their relationship in one of their favorite places!
We had to end with their everyday outfits, that comfy and cozy wear for living life and laboring alongside a best friend!
