Love to New Heights.

Are you ready to pick your jaw up off the ground? I just couldn't NOT repost this artsyness via Chennergy (where there are even more of these incredible shots) by way of Ever Ours.

Love on display in the sky deck of the Sears Tower. Just... wow.

Stunning and so unique.

Gorgeous Coral and Green Real Wedding

You all know I am not only a sucker for green and coral colored weddings but also anything with big fat lucious peonies. So, though it takes a lot for me to melt enough over another blog's real wedding post to share it here (this one is via Ruffled), this one hits pretty much everyone one of my heart strings.

The colors, the flowers, the signage, the romance and the carefreeness... Just enjoy the heck out of it, wouldya?!

Major swoon.

Anika London Media Wedding Photography

Looking for amazing photographers for your upcoming nuptials? Maybe just some aqua wedding inspiration? Either way, husband and wife team Anika London Media will blow your socks off. They are the sweetest people and oh so in love... and who doesn't love that? Their most recent wedding is so colorful and romantic. Enjoy!

Swoon!

Check out their most recent blog for their personal love story...

Picking Our Portraits

Now that we have a place to call home and empty walls to decorate, it's time to pick our portraits! We are expecting all 1300 prints on dvd in the mail any day now so we should have an easier time sharing pics with the world. In the meantime, a few of the images I'm craving a big ol' 11 x 14 frame for...

Happy Birthday Lil Rachel!

You're HOT!

I LOVE YOU!!!

So Much in a Shoe

Wedding Detail: Professional Make-Up

When it comes to girly stuff I am usually pretty on-point. However, my true handicap in girldom is most definitely lack of skill in applying make-up. Due to a combination of my freakish "pure" side wherein I want most things that come into contact with my body to be organic, I don't take medicine of almost any kind, I wash my hands compulsively, I won't drink tap water, you get the point... and much of my formative years as a thespian spent in caked on theatrical make-up, I never really wanted to get close enough to cosmetics to figure out the deal with applying a full face of natural looking make-up for your every day.

Therefore, because my wedding was no normal day and I wanted to look as normal as possible but as GOOD as possible... (that's generally the goal with cosmetics, no?) I did not trust myself to complete this task. I was very fortunate to meet Holli Mediano of the Rancho Mirage MAC who transformed me, my mom and cousin on my wedding day.

Holli did an awesome job. I would highly recommend a make-up run-through to anyone who is going to have someone other than themselves working on their face on their wedding day. Holli was great and really listened to my "likes and dislikes" and also asked me to trust her when I thought I didn't like where she was going. After my initial trial, I was really pleased with the overall look but I thought the gold eyeshadow was a little intense and so were the fake eyelashes. I felt like a bit of a drag queen but everyone kept telling me I looked good so I was trusting that.



On the day of the wedding Holli toned the gold and the lashes down and gave me a very soft look that I was ecstatic with. I know these are professional pictures compared to the cell phone ones above, but I really felt beautiful and I know a huge part of that was thanks to my awesome make-up artist!

What do you think?

Our Wedding Highlights: Anika London Photography Blog

Our amazing wedding photographers Anika London posted the highlights of our wedding pictures on their blog yesterday and nothing has made me this happy since marrying my honey! Ok I know that was only two weeks ago, but still... The pictures are better than I ever thought possible.

I can not wait to get the rest. Aren't they AMAZING?!

Sneak Peek Photo Teaser

I'm dying to see our wedding photographs from our AMAZING photographers Anika London Media but they are taking their sweet time making them perfect and I'm good with that. Supposedly this next week is when all of the magic shall unfurl. In the meantime, they sent us ONE bad ass photo to sate our wait...



Pretty freaking sweet, huh?!