our wedding day!

They say rain on your wedding day is good luck, right? When we chose our venue for the wedding, we imagined rows of white chairs out on the lawn by the lake in the afternoon breeze. It was January then, but we knew the leaves in the surrounding trees would be lush and fully green by October, maybe even starting to turn with the fall weather if we were lucky. There was a huge covered porch for the reception attached […]

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my bachelorette weekend in charlotte

Even though we’ve lived in Charlotte for years we’ve never really gone “clubbing” or anything crazier than a brewery here in town. Eric decided to Asheville for his bachelor trip, but every potential bachelorette destination I looked into started to look like a logistical nightmare for me. I group texted my best friends one night, “What if we did it in Charlotte and stayed at my place?” and a plan was born. I wouldn’t consider my inner circle exceptionally large, […]

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my bridal shower in georgia

Honesty policy, I’m not the biggest fan of this whole “shower” extravaganza that seems the norm for every life event these days. I enjoy going to meet family or friends of the guest of honor and getting to celebrate a big deal with them (so feel free to keep inviting me, ha!), but like… once or twice. Not six times. Our family, friends, and future wedding guests are spread out everywhere and we are in the process of planning a […]

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our engagement photos, blue ridge mountains in may

Today was probably my favorite day of our “engagement” yet. The photographer we hired for our Georgia wedding lives in Kentucky, but is camping in the Mount Pisgah Forest in North Carolina this weekend. She offered to meet us closer to Charlotte for some engagement photos, but we wanted to see the mountains and decided to take the drive west. We left a couple hours after lunch and lost cell signal just as we pulled up to the base of […]

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a birthday surprise… we’re engaged!

My first real job was at a jeweler, where I eventually specialized in diamond sales and helping people plan their engagements and other big life events involving jewelry. Through those years Eric asked me if I wanted any sort of ring in particular if he were to propose one day, and I always said no, that “I would just like to be surprised; that’s really all I could want.” In the very early hours of January 2, the morning before […]

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