More Pics from E Session #2

Along with the vintage pics, we also took some great pictures in normal clothes. They were all taken at Mandalay Canal in Las Colinas.  Here's what we've seen so far....

You Are a Storybook Wedding

Love make you feel special and important. You want to be needed and adored by others, and you return those feelings with all your might. To be unloved would be a crushing blow for you. You would find it hard to love yourself if no one loved you. For you, romantic love is about finding someone as unique as you are... who thinks the world of you as well. When you find someone who sees things in you that no one else sees, then that's when you really know it's true love.

The Wedding Cake Test

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Bride's Bouquet

While I love real flowers, the way they look, the way they smell and feel, I decided to do artificial flower for all the bouquets.  Since we are doing the wedding ourselves, making the bouquets with artificial flowers saves us money and time.  You know what the BM's bouquets look like so here is a few pics of my bouquet that I made a few days ago.

 I used pink hydrangeas, dark pink and cream peonys, cream and pinkish purplish tulips, and small daisies to accent.  I love it.

I wrapped a blue and pink handkerchief around the stem.  This handkerchief was my Aunt's who passed away about 5 years ago.  It will serve as my something blue.

E Session #2

We had the most fabulous time with Marisa yesterday!  She is a very talented photographer and really out did herself.  We are very grateful that we had the opportunity to work with her!  We headed out to Mandalay Canals in Las Colinas.  It has a Spanish/European feel to it.  We took a lot of shots there in front of Spanish inspired doors, stone staircases and even pulled off a Spiderman kiss shot ;)

 I have been wanting to do a vintage shot to sort of bring out my personality in the pictures.  I convinced Justin and knew he would be great at it since he's such a good actor and we talked about it with Marisa.  She suggested going down to the old train station in Grapevine and using old suite cases as props.  We both loved the idea!  She took so many different shots at so many different scenes around the station.  The pictures turned out better than I could ever expect.  Even Justin loved them! (I have to admit, while he was willing to do them to please me, I could tell that he as a little apprehensive about it, ha).  Here are a few that she's sent us but there are way more to come!

           

E Session #1

Justin and I had our engagement session scheduled for this past Sunday.  I don't know what kind of weather you got in El Paso, Memphis, Corsicana, Tyler or Cisco but a huge cold front moved in on Saturday and it snowed!  Yep, that's right, it snowed.  Sunday was pretty cold (wind chill in the 20's) and there were gusts of wind up to 25 mph! We were tempted to just cancel for that day, but I paid $45 to have my nails and toes done so I was determined to at least get some hand/ring shots in to get my money's worth!  Justin and I weren't expecting Marisa (his cousin and awesome photographer) to take so many shots, but we are grateful that she did!  Here's a sneek peek of a few she took from that day.  We have another session scheduled with her on Friday so we can get some in the warm weather!  I'm super excited!  www.marisasphotography.com

 

These three were taken at Old Alton Park.  We also took some on an old, red iron bridge that are going to look fabulous!

We climbed up on the window ledge of a building on the square to take these shots.  I really love the colors of these.

  So far, this one is my favorite.  I've been eyeing this turquoise door for a while now and I'm so glad this shot turned out great!  

We got the hand shot in showing off my beautiful ring!  Don't my nails look so pretty!

We did this one for Marisa but I love it!  Very unique and different, which I love!

Color Swatch

Last weekend me and my mom went on a hunt to find fabric for the BM's sashes.  We found killer deals at Joann.  They have awesome coupons and sales that have really helped me out!  When I bought the burlap for the table runners, I got it half off by purchasing it online!  I also got all the fabric for the sashes half off as well because they were having some coupon mania event.  I feel like I'm in some sort of secret society since I'm just happening upon all these bargains!

Anyway, the sash itself will be light pink.  Then we are going to cut out fabric flowers to pin to the sash. Those will be in a darker pink so that we can tie in the dark pink shoes.  I love this so much that I'm thinking about wearing one for the reception!  Or maybe I'll make some flowers for my hair?  We'll see what I come up with.  Here is a color swatch card that I made Doris, a bridesmaid and best friend who lives out of town.

Sneak Peek of the Mason Jars

So many of you know that I'm doing a country garden theme.  For the reception, we'll have 8 foot rectangular tables covered in white cloth with burlap table runners.  The center piece for each table will be a metal garden bucket filled with pretty pink wild flowers (these will also double as ceremony decorations and will hang from the pews with brown organza ribbon to line the aisle).  For added decoration, different sized mason jars will be filled with different types of flowers to accompany the buckets.  Here is a sample off what each of the jars will look like.  Pictures of a sample of the garden buckets will be on its way soon!

Some of the jars are filled with river pebbles and others are filled with spanish moss.

Each jar has raffia tied in a bow around the neck.

I was really pleased with the way these turned out!  I wasn't expecting them to look this great and I can't wait to see what it's going to look like at the reception!  

Some of the flowers that I know the names of are (ha ha) are daisies, dark pink begonias, lilac, tiny pink mums and cream tulips.  I'm not sure what the others are but they are equally as gorgeous!