258 Days Until Our Wedding: Engagement Picture Ideas

I'm feeling really chipper today so I thought I would finally write a new post. I'm not sure why I go so long in between each post. I have plenty to write about but I just don't feel like putting it to the page so to speak.

So.

Engagement pictures.

I want our engagement pictures to really pop. These pictures are going to be on display at our wedding reception and go out in our invitations. Now I'm not worried about our photographer because she is AMAZING!!! The wonderful Miss Lilly Hare of Lilly B. Photography will be taking our engagement pics, my bridals, and the pictures on our wedding day. She is really talented. She took a pictures for us for our 1 year anniversary and they were so fun and so cute (I'll post a few below.) So, I am not worried that she will be able to mold us into something awesome. (Also, if you are reading this and want to check out her pictures, please visit her at http://www.lillybphotography.com/ or on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lilly-B-Photography/141416229307076 )

So here's my concern. I like to be unique. I'm creative and I like to stand out. So what can I do to make our pictures really special to us and really unique? I have a few ideas but I want some opinions.

1. Paint fight/ Paintball photo shoot: Basically, we go play paintball or fill balloons with paint (washable of course) and go at it. Then Lilly shoots the pics. I found a similar thing on Pinterest and it looked really cute.
2. Mad men styled shoot: Since we love Mad Men (in fact that's what we sent out as our Save the Dates) and I love the fifties and sixties. I would wear a ModCloth type dress and Devon wears a bow tie and suspenders (and maybe a fedora lol) I know you can rent old cars so maybe even something like that!
3. Guadelupe River shoot: Since we live in San Antonio, we spend a lot of our summer going to the Guadelupe River going tubing. It's incredibly beautiful there. So basically I'd wear a sundress and Devon would wear rolled up pants and we would go to the shallow part of the river and just play around in the water. And maybe take some shots in Gruene (an old town off of the river) before that.

Well all in all I know the pictures will be awesome because our photographer is awesome and my fiance is awesome.

Until next time, I'll be brainstorming and buying some waterproof mascara :)

275 Days Until Our Wedding: A busy bee am I

Whoo...I have been busy since I last posted.  I have done a few very important things for the wedding since I last posted.

First, I had my tasting at the Vineyard.  I don't know if I have mentioned, but I booked a vineyard for our reception.  It is lovely.  And last weekend we chose the food for the reception.  Well actually, Devon chose the food.  I wanted him to feel like he made a major decision in this other than just signing on the dotted line.  I don't want to give anything away, but he chose a really amazing menu.


Secondly, and most importantly, I ordered and got our save the dates together.  Being the wonder woman that I am, I was not satisfied with just picking some design and having them sent to me. I wanted to save money as well as doing something unique.  I ended up using a combination of the wonderful services of the Wedding Chicks free printable's and Vistaprint.  In all, before postage I only spent 44$, which is a lot cheaper than any of the printing services that I had previously looked at.

We went with the Mad Men themed cards because we both love that show and that time period (in fact our engagement pictures might have that sort of theme as well.)  We decided to have them printed as magnets because people can just stick them on the fridge and be reminded of us.

I think they turned out rather fabulous if I do say so myself.  After I got them, I bought some yellow card stock and stuck them to them so they wouldn't be sliding around the envelope.

And a few hours later (and by a few I mean A LOT!!!) I had addressed all 78 envelopes.  And they are ready to be sent out.  It is sort of a thrill knowing that everyone will be getting a little part of us to get ready for the wedding.  

Why yes, that is a giant stack of envelopes I hand addressed.

It gets more and more real each day.  I'm just so excited to become Devon's wife.  In the end, that's what this is all about.  None of this other stuff matters as much as that.  But it's still fun.

Until next time, I'll be working on the details :)