• Chraela,  In My Life,  Wedding

    What I Wish I Would’ve Known About Wedding Planning

    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.…

  • 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…

  • Chraela,  In My Life,  Lifestyle,  Wedding

    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…

  • DIYs/How To Do Things,  Fashion,  Lifestyle,  Wedding,  Wedding DIYs

    DIYing My Wedding Shoes

    We are now under the 3 month mark for our wedding and I am decidedly beginning to panic..but within reason. As with many other aspects of the wedding, I had no idea what I wanted when it came to my wedding shoes. Heels or flats? Solid or a print? Sparkly or…just kidding, they were always going to be sparkly. I thought that maybe I wanted to have two pairs of shoes – one heels, and one flats, so I could wear the heels to the ceremony and the flats for the rest of the night. But wedding shoes can be…

  • Disney,  Lifestyle,  Thoughts & Inspiration,  Wedding

    Wedding Inspiration – Disney Wedding

    It’s been a while since I wrote a wedding update post but trust me when I say that a lot of planning has happened since then!! We’re under 100 days now (!!??!!?!) and it’s getting to the point where I’m still excited but becoming equally stressed haha. I don’t have as many photos or bigger updates since the last post (it’s mostly smaller purchases now) so I figured today I’d do a different type of wedding post. Over a year ago now soon after we got engaged I wrote about some wedding inspiration and ideas we were throwing around at…

  • Beauty,  Favorites,  Food,  Home,  Lifestyle,  Skincare

    Friday Favorites #2 – 1/27

    Welcome to the second edition of Friday Favorites! Again I have some fun stuff to share this week, so let’s jump right in 🙂 The Keurig K15 Classic Brewing System I’ve never been a heavy coffee drinker, but I like a cup every now and then. Our roommate is decidedly a coffee drinker though, and she recently acquired a new Keurig. It seems silly that I didn’t know how to use it, but I was clueless – my family never drank coffee at home growing up! She quickly taught me how to use it and I was mesmerized. I can…