• Chraela,  In My Life,  Lifestyle,  Wedding

    Chraela Wedding Planning: One Month!!!

    Happy new year!! I know – two wedding posts in a row! If it seems like all I write about now is the wedding, that’s because all I think about now is the wedding. I hope you had a great holiday and lovely new years’ celebration. While January 1 represents a lot of things for many people, for us it means that we are only ONE MONTH away from the wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are equal parts stressed and excited. Well, honestly I’m actually probably feeling more excited than stressed, but rest assured I am definitely still stressed haha We are down to…

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    Chraela Wedding Planning: 1.5 Months to Go!

    I absolutely cannot BELIEVE how close we are to the wedding. It seems like just yesterday we were saying how we have so much time to plan and figure everything out and now…the time is running out!! We’re at the point now where it’s getting down to the wire and we have to make a lot of decisions…and spend a lot of money! We’ve made a LOT of progress since my last wedding planning update post though, so I figured it was time for an update. Here’s the big stuff… Hair Trial I had my hair trial a few weeks…

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    Chraela Wedding Planning: 6 Months Out!

    It’s hard to believe that as of today we are SIX MONTHS away from our wedding!! We are closer than ever and six months sounds like such a short amount of time. BUT I’m happy to say that since my last update post we’ve gotten loads of things done!! Engagement Photos Of course one of the biggest things since my last post was we got engagement photos taken!! Our generous friend Sarah took some photos for us at Epcot and we are so in love with how they turned out. I already wrote a whole post with all of them,…

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    Chraela Wedding Planning: Engagement Photos!

    Today I have another wedding update post for you, except this one is going to be less text and more pictures because we got our engagement photos back!!! As you may remember from my recent planning post, our friend Sarah agreed to take some engagement photos for us at Epcot. We got all of them back and they are AMAZING!! I am seriously so obsessed and I have so many favorites. We’re definitely going to use some for our save the dates and wedding website! I wanted to share some with you here as well. We got great shots all…

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    Chraela Wedding Planning: 7.5 Months Out

    Today it has been one year since Chris proposed to me!!!! In the spirit of all things wedding, I figured it’s been a while since my last update so it’s time for another post! A lot of good things have happened since then so I’m really excited to talk about it. We have 7 and a half months until the big day and things are starting to get exciting!! Venue Last time I wrote about this we had booked our venue and we just visited again last week to discuss decor and details. I am SO pleased with our venue…the coordinator…

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    Seattle/Disneyland Trip – Last Day & Wrap Up!

    This is the finale of a series about our trip to Seattle and Disneyland in April 2016. All the posts about our trip will be listed here! Make sure you read the previous days before this one Tuesday, April 26, 2016 So here we are… exactly a year ago today, Chris and I were flying out to Seattle to start our vacation extravaganza, and today I’m publishing the last post in this series! I have had so much fun writing about this, and I’m sad it’s come to an end now! But I’m getting ahead of myself – let me write about the last day first, and then…

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    Seattle/Disneyland Trip – Day 7

    This is part of a series about our trip to Seattle and Disneyland in April 2016. All the posts about our trip will be listed here! Make sure you read the previous days before this one We are almost at the end 🙁 🙁 🙁 I was going to write about the last two days together because on day 8 we pretty much just flew home, but I wanted to have a proper wrap up post as well so I figured I’d do that on the last day 🙂 Monday, April 25, 2016 Well, after all the fun we’ve had…here we are finally on…

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    Seattle/Disneyland Trip – Day 6

    This is part of a series about our trip to Seattle and Disneyland in April 2016. All the posts about our trip will be listed here! Make sure you read the previous days before this one Sunday, April 24, 2016 We’re nearing the end of our journey here and I’m getting sad all over again! No need to be sad though, because today was a VERY important day of our trip…..my birthday!!!! I was SO excited to spend my birthday in Disneyland, but not before a very delicious breakfast in bed of a Mickey waffle 🙂 I’ve never ordered room service or anything like…

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    Walt Disney World Date Ideas

    Happy Valentine’s Day! Chris and I aren’t hugely into Valentine’s Day like some people, but it’s as good of an excuse as any for us to do something fun and spend time together. This year is a special one for us because it is our last Valentine’s Day before we get married!! I thought for a special Valentine’s Day themed post I would share some of our favorite date spots at Walt Disney World <3 These are perfect places to take your significant other for Valentine’s Day or another special occasion, whether you’re a local or here on vacation. A Fancy Dinner Starting with the…

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    Seattle/Disneyland Trip – Day 5

    This is part of a series about our trip to Seattle and Disneyland in April 2016. All the posts about our trip will be listed here! Make sure you read the previous days before this one Saturday, April 23, 2016 When we left off last time, we had just fallen asleep in our magical Disneyland Hotel room. But we didn’t get to sleep for long because we were up bright and early the next day to hit the parks again! And we had big plans – our Welcome to Disneyland tour was today and we were super excited to get up and at em.…