Welcome to my first wedding blog post from after our wedding!! Now that we have successfully planned and executed our perfect wedding (seriously, everything was perfect), I’m really excited to write about all the planning after the fact, what worked and what didn’t, and all the stuff I just didn’t have time to tell you before. Even though I wrote about a lot of it along the way, there’s still a TON of stuff I didn’t touch on so I wanted to jump right in! I decided to start here – what I wish I would have known about planning our wedding.…
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Wedding Update: 2 Weeks Left!!
The wedding is all I think about now so here’s another update post!!!! We are TWO WEEKS away from the big day!!! I have felt very repetitive writing about the wedding and only the wedding lately but I have been told that people like these posts so I’ll continue! At this point the big things are mostly done – it’s just getting all the small stuff together, making decisions, and figuring out where everyone and everything is supposed to be. Here’s what’s new since last time: Flowers & Centerpieces This is definitely our #1 focus right now. Last post I…
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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: 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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Chraela Wedding Planning: One Year Out
Today is a very special day for Chris and me – it is February 2, 2017, meaning we are officially ONE YEAR away from the Chraela wedding!!! *insert iOS 10 confetti* I am SO thrilled that we’ve finally hit the year mark… our -1st anniversary, if you will! Today I thought I would share where we’re at in our wedding planning process. We don’t have much yet, but we do have a few things nailed down and ideas for mostly everything else. I can’t wait to kick planning into high gear and create our perfect wedding in just one year!! I figured I’d…
