Some time ago, my dad asked me if I could remember the times when he was angry with me. After a silent moment or two, I think I said something like; “maybe, but probably not.” I think the reason for my memory lapse is because we desire to remember the good things about our parents, friends, and colleagues.
Though Jesus’ closest friends performed some outrageous and hurtful acts against Him, He chose to forget them (John 21) so their relationship may remain strong. This is just one of the things God chose to do when He took on skin and bone and moved into the neighborhood.
Our dear friend Morgan Hopfensperger joined us in NC to film our wedding and the numerous celebrations involved. This video is a compilation of some of the best moments. We would like to thank Morgan for all his hard work on this piece which came out amazing! He made us look good, which we appreciate. His company is Go North Films, check him out, you won’t regret...
Since David and I (with the help of my wonderfully talented Mom) designed and created so many different pieces for the wedding, we decided the best way to show it was to make one single interactive document with everything together, so you can see it all at once. My web guy (ie David) was able to code the image as a Google Maps document, so you can zoom in and out and move around within it, just like you would use a Google Map. Have...
I know this post is coming to you a little late, but it seems the dust is still settling around here. I had no idea how much work planning and designing a wedding would be until I was neck deep in it. And now we’re in full recovery mode, right in time for the holidays! Thankfully, everything went off without a hitch! It was an amazing weekend, full of laughter and happy tears, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. More recap posts to come… But, as promised, I wanted to post a few shots of the invitation! A lot of love went...
Thanks to Mr. Jon Rowe (our wonderful volunteer photographer) we have so many adorable photobooth pics of us and our guests at the wedding. Because photobooths are really expensive, and because Jon so graciously made himself available to take photos of us with his super nice camera and honed photo skills, we made our own booth with a typewriter, desk and chair, suitcase, and some old frames. Here are a few of our favorite...
Finally, with the help of our dear friend, Ariella Mostkoff, we have wedding invitations. We definitely had a tall order on this one, but we are overjoyed with the way they came out. They are perfect! They are us and they are what we want this wedding to be. So, within the next few days, be expecting a little treat in your mailbox (or for those in town— in your hand)! We can’t wait for you to see the love that has gone into this, from design to production. Oh! And don’t miss the reply/registry card underneath, thanks to our...
In lieu of recent incidents, I felt a blog post coming on…so here it is. I had my first big snag in the planning process the other day. I got some news that the dresses I had my heart set on for the bridesmaids that were being made custom by a seamstress were not going to come into fruition. Or at least not from that seamstress anyways. After finally finding someone who could make the dresses with the fabrics of my choice for an affordable price, and going through organizing the payments and measurements of all the bridesmaids, I thought...
No great wedding is complete without some serious dancing. Which is why I want to give you all the opportunity to put your song requests in now so that we can load it up in DJ iPod’s database (ok, so we don’t really have a DJ). On the flip side, there is always that handful of go-to wedding tunes that just rub me the wrong way. Like YMCA, it’s just not my jam. So if there are any tunes that you would rather NOT hear, you can give me those too. I’m not guaranteeing that we won’t play some of those songs, because I...
The first question most people ask when they see me is… “Hows the planning going?” …or some form of that. And because I’ve pretty much been telling everyone the same thing, I thought I would just go ahead and blog about it so everyone can read/see how its going. The short answer to that question is: “Beautifully.” The long answer to that question is this: I am not in the least bit stressed. I made a decision early that I wouldn’t let what anyone else does or says make me feel like I am behind...
As most of you have no doubt seen, we got a little carried away with our save-the-date. We called in favors from all over. Our awesome client and bang-up photographer Stephen Allen took and edited the most incredible photos, and our number one print rep Kathy helped us out on the production side making sure the piece blew people away once it was on paper. We would like to thank both of them so much for their cooperation on this ridiculous endeavor. As Steve reminded us numerous times: This is just sick… We know he meant in a grotesque...
Yay yahooooooo! We’re getting married!!! Let the planning begin… So after letting ourselves rest a bit over the holidays and just enjoy being engaged, we had to decide when and where we were going to do this thing. Although we highly considered having our wedding in Central Florida where most of our friends and family reside, we just couldn’t NOT have the wedding in one of our very favorite places— the mountains. Because we love the fall weather, we decided on the September/October range, and then the hunt began. I have...
I've had the same resumé format for more than a couple of years now, and I just got tired of looking at it. I felt like it placed too much emphasis on what technology I used instead of what I actually did. Plus the format itself had come to bore me, even though I thought was great when I first created it.
Anyway, I showed the new and old resumés to Gina, and she thought the old one was the new one. So, I dunno, maybe the old one was better. That doesn't make me any less sick of it though.
If you're one of those schadenfreude-y people who wants to read it, please, be my guest! Tell me whatcha think.