Credit to Whitney Powell

I loved this post so much that I read on my friend Whitney's wall that I just had it to share.....


Weddings will change your entire vocabulary. BMs and STDs are no longer taboo terms, but terms that I hear EVERY day. BMs are super helpful and something you enjoy in your life and STDs can be ordered in Hallmark, online, or from local experts. I see more than one BM a day, which I hear is healthy. I am checking out my options for STDs, and I am leaning towards ones that I can order online and that stick to things!
Like I said, weddings will change your entire vocabulary. Who knew that BRIDESMAIDS and SAVE THE DATES had such funny abbreviations.

Wedding Updates

I think a wedding is a great time to learn more about each other.....but it has also proven a great testament to how well we already know each other. For instance, as we finally narrowed down our venue choices to the Williamsburg Lodge, my fear of rain and a "backup plan" for our outside wedding rose once again. Corey, knowing it wouldn't be enough just to TELL me that he was sure it wouldn't rain on our special day, went on almanac.com and told me out of the past 10 years it had only rained once on June 25. When we were debating whether we wanted to change the wedding to July 2, my mom followed Corey's lead and checked the almanac (but I already knew my momma knows me better than I know myself:) )

I've also come to know that the little details that NO ONE will even notice also serve very little importance to Corey. Not that he doesn't care, it just isn't that important in the grand scheme of things whether there are four or five candles on the table. I think planning has also taken me on somewhat of a self-discovery (although things such as being INDECISIVE I already knew too well about myself, and boy has that shown through during planning!) My professors have a knack for referring to my grad class as the most type A class they have ever seen come through.....my attention, no obsession, to details in the wedding are only affirming this for me.

All in all, it's so much fun, but I think the fun and passion come from the fact that it is OUR day....and I want to make it perfect for Corey. Although, I think when we're standing there saying our vows, or having dinner, or our first dance, I don't think the number of candles on the table will all of a sudden strike importance :)

Here is an inspiration board for what I'm now thinking for the wedding. Thankfully I haven't done one of these for every idea I've had since I've changed my mind numerous times about, oooo...wedding colors, flowers, centerpieces.....

I know the colors seem a little all over the place but the concept is supposed to be vintage and romantic.

We were originally using a very natural palate.....blue, yellow, and green. I still really like that and all those colors are going to be incorporated but as I keep saying I am "enhancing" the colors/decor by adding in some peach and pinks-mostly in the flowers. The main reason is I've been fostering a desire to use pinks and peaches and stumbled upon this bouquet.....

I completely fell in love with it, and it just scrreeeeaaammmmeeedddd VINTAGE and ROMANTIC to me! The more I thought about it, and after consulting with my mom she agreed, the especially with doing an outside wedding, if we decorated with just white and green, it might all get lost. We also visited the Lodge again when I came home on a spur of the moment trip Tuesday. It was sooo helpful since the room was divided into the one end section we will be using for the wedding. The space didn't seem quite so massive, but the room does have a lot of character on its own. I felt the neutral/natural palate we were going to use would get lost in the room, not to mention white centerpieces would fade into the white tablecloths without some punch from other colors.

So far it's been a productive trip home and I feel that I am finding more and more a "theme" or vision for what I want the wedding to look like. I think part of the indecision before was that I wasn't following any type of theme, it was just "I like this...I like that" and trying to make it all work.