No one tells you how quickly your life can change. How one day you wake up and meet a person who will change the course of your life forever. They will inspire you to be a better person and take care of you so effortlessly. You will love so madly that each and every moment together is cherished. And when you are apart, you will feel the pain of the distance and count the minutes until you are together again.
In the beginning, not telling this person that you love them just seems impossible. And over the course of a few months time, you decide you MUST marry this person and be with them for the rest of your life.
This has been my story.
I always hoped for a love story like this and on Saturday my dreams came true. Jeremy asked me to be his wife and saying yes was the easiest decision I've ever made!
Dreams Come True
Come On Over
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XOXOX,
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Without you, I wouldn't have watched this video.
Putting Your Stamp on It
Why would you meter your wedding invitations when you can do this?
(photos from oh so beautiful paper)
These Blessings Never Stop
Losing Verbena has been one of my life's greatest heartaches.
My dog has been my best friend for 6 years. I was there when she was 8 weeks old and nothing more than a little rat and I was there when she went to Heaven on Sunday. It is a heavy thing to experience this much love for another living thing. It is also a heavy load to have to be the one to decide that it was her time to go. I struggled. I wept. I curled up in a ball and for a while, I couldn't even look at her. But when I had made the decision, I got to spend a few hours just holding her. And somehow, I feel like she knew.
I think my Dad put it best when he said that dogs are lucky in a way because they have someone who loves them dearly who can make sure they don't need to live in pain anymore. And those people can send them to a better place.
My dog taught me the definition of pure happiness. I used to take her down on the beach and would take her off the leash and she would sprint back and forth with a doggie smile filling her face. She would run down the beach and look back at me like "Mommy, aren't we having the best time ever" and usually, came running back and circled around me. She would run until she couldn't run anymore and I would carry her covered in sand home for a bath. Those moments on the beach with Verbena will be the happy place I go to when I am sad about losing her. I will remember how she would stand in the water until it touched her belly but would never swim. I will remember how much she liked to go on hikes with me or sit on my lap while I worked on the computer with her chin resting in the bend of my arm. How she laid with me for days when I was sick or sad. Or how she could hug like a human with her front paws around my neck.
Blessings like having a pup like Verbena never stop just because they end. For the rest of my days, there will be things I will see in the places I go that will remind me of her. My heart will know more love having had 6 years with her.
Good for One Free Kiss
I currently love the blog oncewed for amazing ideas for invitations, photography and overall DIY goodness. I love the idea of creating a theme for a wedding and really playing it up like Adam + Halli did for their circus wedding.
The invitations were done by:
Graphic design for invitations~
Meagan Bennett
mailformegatgmail.com
Invite letterpress printing~
Emily Johnson: Emprint Press
www.emprint.net
I love the paper, font and overall layout. Seeing this type of work makes this invitation designer very inspired and happy.
Take a look at some of Adam + Halli's photos and daydream!
We*
It has been quite difficult for me to even beginning talking about the new we* in my life because whenever I think about it the joy so overcomes me that I feel like my head might explode.
This we* is the single best thing that has ever happened to me.
