Your Custom Text Here
My new and sweet friend, Katie Webb, texted me a couple of weeks ago and asked if she could take photos of Taylor and me in our home. Ummm.... YES PLEASE. Naturally, Taylor and I scrubbed the house down and then tried to act natural.
My favorites are below:
This is how we always sit on the couch.
Taylor, you are just so cute.
We tried to get one with Pedro and Emery too.
Still trying.
Success!
Here we are in our typical cuddle positions.
Taylor and I married in the summer of 2013.
Last week, I went to friends' wedding, and I started to feel all of those wedding feelings that encouraged me to bust out my wedding album and relive a day I wish I could literally relive. (Like if I had three wishes, I wish I could wake up again on that day and do it again the exact same way, but only if I had three wishes because... priorities) What I find hard to believe is how much money we (and my parents) spent on a photographer and how little I see/look at those pictures. We made a book using Artifact Uprising, and I printed a handful that live on my desk in my classroom, the fridge, and one frame in the living room. I am disappointed that I don't admire the beautiful work of Clayton Austin more. But it can feel a little... I don't know ... conceited.. to have all these frames photos of yourself all over your house. So I am going to be less conceited and put them all over the internet for everyone to admire.
We got married on a cool (for Texas) summer evening in Fort Worth at a small venue called The Rose Chapel. The building was super old and boasted a lush garden.
Before our ceremony, Taylor had sent me a message in a bottle. Inside was the very best note and a wooden heart that he had whittled.
My bouquet came from this Etsy store. It still lives (at my parents' house). The handle is made out of birch and the flowers came dried which is why it will last forever.
My dear Aunt Sally has made a garter for all of her nieces. It is beautiful and the picture doesn't do all the details justice. I made the invitation by knocking off something I saw online. I forgot to bring the envelope and all the paper goods that were included. I guess I could print them again and try to photograph them, but I am exhausted just by thinking about it.
The painted candlesticks were an idea I stole from my bridesmaid, Mel's, wedding. My center pieces needed one more thing, so when I saw those at her wedding, it was over. They weren't lit because of fussy rules at our venue, but they sure looked neat. Our table numbers got a second life after my wedding, at my bridesmaid, Mary's, wedding. I am telling you, recycling wedding items is a lost art. Taylor and I found these wooden disks while we were walking our dog. We walked through this field and came upon hundreds of them. We realized that the field is seasonally home to a Christmas tree farm. Taylor wood burned and I painted them. My bridesmaids and I arranged all of the flowers too.
During set up, my bridesmaids, my mom, my sister, my sister's mother in law, my future mother in law, my future sister in law (seriously, I had an army) and I were putting everything together. Everything in this wedding was hand done, so I came with my hot glue gun and assortment of other tools. I wore a fanny pack during set up. However, as prepared as I was, I felt overwhelmed with the onslaught of questions directed towards me. This was my wedding, and I was the lady with the plan, so of course, my kind and generous friends wanted my feedback. Regardless, I was like "why can't everyone just read my mind?" Anyway, during set up a bulb on the string of lights broke. Rather than telling me (and further stressing me out), my bridesmaid, Alexandria, drove to Target and bought another package and replaced it. I had no idea that it had happened, much less that she had left, and took care of everything. Thanks, Alexandria!
When I decided to have the oh-so-trendy giant balloons at my wedding, I failed to think about how balloons pop and how they float away without proper weight attached to them. I promise I thought through most non-balloon related stuff. Around 4 popped in transit, and then I realized I didn't have any weights. My bridesmaid, Jeleah, went to the parking lot, found some bricks, threw them on the ground so they would break, and then tied some extra fabric around them. I mean this is why you have friends that are smarter than you.
In lieu of cake, my family and friends provided cookies, tiny pies, and ice cream sandwiches. My biggest wedding regret was not eating an ice cream sandwich.
We had a long engagement, so I was just filling that time with any small and inexpensive project I could think of. Cue tiny place cards with peoples' faces on them!
I am grateful for all of the people who made all these little projects so memorable and worthwhile. The couple that counseled us helped create those tiny little diamond cubies that hung from the balloons. My roommates helped me collect paint stir sticks. My mom and I hand painted all of the candle sticks and wooden pieces. My friend, Micah, helped me make the decorative yarn garland. It was such a group effort. Thank you to my family and friends for making my vision come to life!
Ceremony and Portraits Coming Soon
Dance Party USA Coming Soon
Hi Folks! About a year ago, I was a bridesmaid in my dear friend, Jeleah's, wedding. We were taking photos when I asked a fellow bridesmaid to send me a picture she had just taken. She offered to set up an iCloud sharing folder for all of the bridesmaids to use instead so that we could all access the photos from our respective iPhones. I had no idea what this was or how it worked until after that weekend, and since then, I use this photo sharing technique all of the time.
The purpose of Photo sharing is to create a folder (on the oh-so-mysterious iCloud) that many different people/cell phones have access to. At the previously stated wedding, the bride and bridesmaids all could upload their individually taken photos to a folder where the rest of the bridal party could see and download the picture. Everyone might already know about this, but I thought I could share 4 ways to use Phone sharing with a quick tutorial.
*DISCLAIMER*
This is an iPhone specific tutorial; non iPhone users probably won't benefit. I'm sorry!
*END DISCLAIMER*
1. Wedding Party - There are so many photo-ops in a typical wedding weekend: the bachelorette party, the rehearsal wedding and dinner, the pedicure and hair salon, the lounging around and hanging out, and of course the wedding itself. With many people involved in the festivities, it makes sense to have a place to drop all of those photos. This will save you from a weekend full of constant, "hey, will you send me that picture!?"...let's get those pictures centralized for convenience sake.
(This photo was taken by Emily Moore)
2. Traveling with Friends - We set up an Photo sharing folder when my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew visited us in San Francisco. Instead of handing an innocent bystander 4 phones to capture us in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, we could just hand them one. That person would then upload that beautiful photo in front of the Golden Gate to our folder so we could all have easy access to it.
3. With Your Husband/Wife/Significant Other - Taylor takes pictures. I take pictures. This way we get to see all of the pictures that we want to share with each other. (They are mostly of our dogs. We have a folder titled "Our Puppy Children" for this reason.) Sometimes, I take pictures of Taylor taking pictures.
4. New Babies - The most popular Photo sharing folder on my phone is my nephew's folder! He is the first grandson on both sides which makes him the most photographed person in our family's history. Both sets of grandparents, his parents, and his aunts and uncles can view and add photos, so no one is missing out on his various shenanigans. Also, how cute is his Up! costume? My sister is so creative.
Here is how you can set up your own shared folder on your iPhone...
Do you use Photo sharing? How do you store and organize your photos? I want to take more photos this year, so I am hoping sharing this tutorial will encourage me to do so!