Happy Valentine's Day

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In honor of Valentine's day I thought I would get a little sappy. After all there is nothing better than celebrating valentine's day when you actually have someone you love to celebrate with.

To the man I love and my very bestest friend, I dedicate a poem.

i carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate
(for you are my fate,my sweet)
i want no world
(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart
(i carry it in my heart)
-E.E.Cummings

I heart you and I can't wait to marry you!

Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovebirds out there!

Surf with Style

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A while back, pretty much out of nowhere, Mr. mentioned that he would really like to incorporate a surf feel into our wedding. Since Mr. almost never thinks about the wedding or offers up an unsolicited opinions I figured I should take this pretty seriously and see what I can do to incorporate his love for surfing.

Of course I haven't quite figured out how I am going to incorporate a "surf feel" into my whimsical, romantic, vintage summer wedding, but I thought I should do a little googling for inspiration and here were some of the most inspirational details I found:

I clearly won't be doing any of this... I am pretty sure I will fall face first into the water, thereby ruining my hair and makeup... so, um, yeah, no surfing pictures.
{Rock N' Roll Bride}
I love this surfboard chalkboard idea. I would also make a great seating chart. I also think that the chalkboard would fit into my theme... I don't really know what colors surf boards come in, but I think a vintage wood surfboard could look amazing and super stylish.
{Avant Bride}
I love this wooden board. However I don't know if we could bring TWO surfboards back to the US with us, since Mr. will already bringing his board down from LA. I also don't know where we would put a surfboard in our TINY New York apartment. Although I should keep in mind that we won't live in a tiny apartment forever!
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I thought this cake topper was super cute and appropriate because I will probably have to drag Mr out of the water on our wedding day!
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I just liked this picture. I think I could definitely pull this off during our trash the dress session. How hard can it be to lay on your stomach and paddle?? As long as the water is pretty flat, I won't get myself killed! (I'm actually a pretty good swimmer. I was on the swim teach for 7 years, I was a lifeguard for two summers, and I've taught swim lessons for the red cross!...I just happen to have a fear of the ocean. Blame shark week!)
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I'm gonna have to do a lot more thinking but I think there is definitely a way I can make this work.

Has anyone else incorporated surf elements into your wedding? What other weird/fun things did your SO ask you to incorporate into the wedding?

Coolest Wedding Pictures ever

You may remember this photo that I posted over seven months ago. Back then I thought that it was the coolest wedding picture I ever! Boy was I wrong! While I still love that photograph I recently ran across these photos:


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Here's the kicker! These photos weren't taken in a day after shoot, these were taken DURING the wedding day. After dinner the bride & groom decided to go wakeboard for a little bit before the party started. Is it just me or do you feel like some people are just too cool!? I LOOOVE these photos. I love that this bride and groom are truly enjoying their wedding day. Instead of getting caught up in the fact that people weren't dancing yet, they made their own fun. Not only that, they were also willing to trust that their guests are grown-ups who don't need to be babysat the whole time and take a little moment for themselves. It is after all THEIR wedding day :D

We are one of those horrible couples that will be having a 5 hour break between the wedding and the reception. Well, we are really having TWO receptions but that's another story for another day. The truth is we really wanted to have time during the day to be together and be married. I would love to just play on the beach, eat, cuddle in bed for a little bit and just savor the day.

Have you scheduled any private time into your wedding day? What do you plan to do during that time?

Friday Favorite Finds

It's been a long week. I haven't gotten a chance to blog as often as I would have liked but I did do a lot of blog reading.

That being said, every once in awhile I have a week that is just so choke full of good find that I have to put a list together of some of my five favorites!

1. An Amazing Wedding Dress...


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I don't know what it is about this dress, but I find it mesmerizing. I love love love this dress. To be honest, I would have never bought it. I probably wouldn't have even thought to try it on. It's just so appropriate for the setting (Costa Rica) and so easy. It isn't trying to hard to be a wedding dress... it's really quite lovely.


2. AN ENTIRE WEBSITE dedicated to etsy GIVEAWAYS!

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I love giveaways! As you may or may not know, I have won THREE things thus far: 1. an e-photo session 2. bridesmaids cards and 3. a birdcage veil.

3. My E-Pics on Wedding Chicks

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It's really just a vendor page but it's still kind of cool, right?


4. Vintage Stamps on Anthropologie

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I love vintage stamps and I had kind of given up on using them. Then I saw these on Grey Likes Weddings and was pulled back in!


5. The first online Costa Rica Wedding Magazine



Last but certainly not least, my oh-so-fab wedding planner is starting the very first online Costa Rican Wedding Magazine. It's so cool and I'm so excited for her so I thought I'd share the link to the blog. The E-Mag doesn't come out until Jan 1 and I can hardly wait!

How did I not know about this!?!?!

So today I discovered Wedzu via Jenn McMann at Destination Inspiration!! It's basically etsy but JUST for weddings! For all you brides-to-be who've know about this and haven't shared...shame on you! For all you brides-to-be who haven't been lucky enough to stumble across this site... enjoy!

1. Liza Printable - $35
2. Just Married Bag Tag - $20
3. Standard Calligraphy - $0.50
4. Ivory, champagne and gold bridal fascinator - $62

{ NYC Skyline Ring - $150 }
{ Bride & Groom Chair Signs -$31.55 }
{ Fingerprint Plectrum Sterling Silver-$89 }

I was a little worried that like everything else in the world these items would all be more expensive because they are being marketed to brides. From what I can tell, it doesn't seem like the prices are that different from etsy but there aren't nearly as many vendors so there aren't nearly as many options... but its nice to not have to filter through all the other distracting items!

Date Night!!!

The best thing about summer is DATE NIGHTS! The FF and I use to go on date nights once a week but since we're both in school its been really difficult to coordinate our schedules.
When we lived in Thailand 2 years ago, we would scour the city for delicious veggie burgers or pizza, and there was a vegetarian Italian restaurant that we loved. The reality was that after months of Thai food three times a day we would really crave a taste of home.
Now... we are always looking for delicious Thai food.
A few weeks ago a bought a groupon to a Thai French Bistro called The Elephant, and tonight we are finally going to cash in! It will also be our first date night since we got engaged :)