joined together, forever.

Here are some sweet photos from our wedding. I'm basically re-posting these photos from our wedding photographer's blog because I haven't received our CD with all of our photos on it, and I'm much too impatient to wait for it to come. I've already waited THIS long to share them. I find that very impressive.

Our wedding was perfect. It was at my grandparents house in the country, where I grew up. It was a romantic evening wedding. Just a tad of chill in the air. The sun sat as we said our vows and afterwards we went into the pasture and celebrated with all of our loved ones with campfire, dancing, and libations to warm us. We wanted our entire wedding to have a very community feel. We set the tables up in a large circle(ish) shape so we could all enjoy one another and the dance floor was in the center. For dinner, I asked everyone to bring a dish of any sort. We had such a fantastic turnout. It couldn't have gone better. I'm so thankful The Hibben's were there to capture it all. 

I didn't snag all of the photos from the photographers blog, but I snagged many of them. So if you'd like to go see a few more you can head here. 

Guest Post: Joyful Life

Hi everyone!! Im Hannah and I blog over at Joyful Life. I pretty much write about anything from motherhood, to DIY posts, to babies and birth ((is that the same as motherhood?)), faith, home and lots more! I am SO excited to be over here with you today while Shayla is off gettin hitched! So when I thought about what I would share with you, my mind of course went "down the aisle"... I love weddings, seriously love weddings. If I could have lived several other lives ((not that I believe in that)) but IF i could have, I would have loved to be a wedding planner! Now if I could have used one of those other lives I would have been a graphic designer. Now put those two together and whaddayagot? Wedding Typography. 

Now I've been to a lot of weddings. A.lot.of.weddings. And I truly love them all. But I think what really gets me excited is that little invitation I get to kick is all off. I could drool over a good invite. ((And I mean who doesn't like getting mail?))

I hope the art of graphic design and typography never dies so I thought I would share with you so amazing peeps ((via Etsy)) who are doing some downright amazing work in the ol wedding typography department.

<<<CHECK IT OUT>>>

Library Card Invitation, Library Wedding Invitation, Library Baby... / Library book wedding invitation set / Modern Block Type Wedding Invitation / Floral Wedding Invite with antlers Qty100 Wedding Invitation RSVP... / Tandem Bike & Birds Real Wooden Wedding by CheerUpCherup on Etsy / Modern Wedding invitation Arrow Pattern Invite set by ElloThere / Rustic Wedding Invitation Illustration Custom by ElloThere / Wedding Invitation Custom State and Symbol Wedding by ElloThere

Don't you just love those? Which is your favourite? I love the wooden one at the top right. I almost did something similar for my own wedding. The bottom right is also so cute, its a library card and it has date stamps for when the couple met, first date, got engaged and finally the wedding date. SO cute right? 

The three in the middle row are from an Etsy shop called "Ello There" I've got a mad crush on these two. They have got skills. I have never seen invites so unique and sweet. Definitely check them out. 

I hope you have enjoyed my little post, and for any of you who are soon to be wed, I hope it was helpful! 

I know Shayla's wedding is going to be so sweet, unique and creative, just like her. I can't wait to see all of the pictures and hear all about it when she gets back! 

Thanks for having me!

September Favorites: Wedding edition

Since my wedding is NEXT MONTH! I thought it'd be such a great idea to share with you some of my etsy purchases for the wedding in my Etsy Favorites post this month! I've had SUCH a blast looking through etsy to find just the perfect handmade touches for our wedding. I'm so excited to give you a sneak peek of all the little details we've come across. What do you think!?

1. Solitaire Necklace by Petitor

2. Cake Topper by The First Snow

3. Dried Flower Bouquets by Smoky Mountain Woodcrafts

4. Return Address Stamp by Red Cloud Boutique

5.Guest Book by In or Out Media

6. Flower Girl Dress by Maliposha clothes

I love details. 

Registering for items with no place to store them.

 A problem that has come up recently is registering for our wedding. One of the best parts, right? You get to go and pick out the dream KitchenAid mixer in the perfect color for your dream kitchen, the most perfect rug that you love, but would never spend that much money on yourself for the hallway, a bathroom curtain that matches the bathroom trashcan that matches the bathroom toothbrush holders!... I attempted this. I have to say, I'm GREAT at picking out my "dream items" for my "dream house".

Unfortunately, the two problems I came across, are:

a.) storage: We don't have an ACTUAL house to put any dream items in. Since we live with roomates (in the house above), and the three of us are in one room, most of our belongings are in storage as it is. If we got registry presents, they'd go right to storage. BUH- MER. 

but we could still do that.. at least we'd have stuff for when we DID get our own place. Then there's...

b.) I can't pick out the perfect large fluffy bathroom towels, or right COLOR KitchenAid mixer when I don't know what color my kitchen or bathroom is! I can't register for that super cute poofy net-y footstool thingy if I don't know if I have enough room in my future living room to put it.. or If I'll even like it by that time. Do I have a microwave in storage? I can't remember. 

It just seems like what we should be registering for is a house, rather than things to put IN our 'someday house'. One step at a time, right? But how do you tell everyone who is coming to your wedding .. "oh hey.. don't get us that blender you love getting people for their weddings, we just want cash." Can you do that? It's so impersonal, right? Have you met my dad? He'd rather go buy me an actual garage door to my new house than give me the money for it. You never know.. I might spend it on food, or drugs, or diapers, or THE WEDDING! (hi, dad. I know you're reading. love you!) 

Well, friends and family. Thanks to my oh so smart future sister in law, who created a registry for her honeymoon & knows all about everything involving the interwebs, We have registered at Hatch my House. It's perfect. You should go take a look-see if you're in the same situation. It's a virtual house, and your friends and family can purchase that garage door or window or flower box under the window, for however much they'd like, and it goes straight into your bank account (through paypal) and you put it toward a downpayment for a house. So smart, right? Everybody wins. Dad gets to buy my roof, and I get to ask for money for a downpayment, without actually coming out and saying "give us your money". I love it. We'll also have a little honeymoon jar at the wedding for cash donations if people would rather donate directly to the honeymoon. (all of which will be mentioned in our invitations)

What do you think? Brilliant idea, or straying too far from tradition? 

Honeymoonin'

I mentioned in the post before that we were getting on wedding planning (finally). The hardest part of wedding planning, so far, (in my opinion) has been deciding on a honeymoon location. We could go anywhere! (not anywhere, but a lot of places) It was difficult to even decide what type of place we wanted to go. City, beach, woods, mountains? After much, and I do mean much, deliberation... and me deciding and re-thinking until I gave up and let Tristan decide and then re-decided for him... We finally both agreed on Boulder, CO.

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We decided on Boulder, because firstly, It's beautiful. It's beautiful and it won't break the bank. My only requirements were that it was affordable, and that I could easily access a decent cappuccino at any point in my day. Boulder offers both of these things. We're actually looking into a Coffee and Pastry tour which I am very excited about.

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We also found this really neat bike to farm dinner which includes a bike ride from downtown Boulder to the farm, dinner, wine tasting, and live music. 

A few other things we wanted to do while in town, are: visit the farmers market, eat at Beehive( a farm to table dining experience), hiking trails (obviously), a beer tour, and possibly a drop in yoga class on the mountain. I've also heard a few places in Nederland are highly recommended. 

We've been asking around about more favorite spots in Boulder. I've never been, and it's been a very long time since T has. He doesn't remember much about the city. Have any of you ever been to the area, or have any recommendations?