fantasy wedding, mm huh.

sidebar before we get started: super encouraged by the feedback from yesterday's post. 

let's keep talking about the gospel and how hard it is to apply it to everyone, including ourselves.

So my cousin Brooke's wedding was GORGEOUS last weekend. 

Bridal luncheon, rehearsal, ceremony, reception - all perfect. Perfectly beautiful. 
At the very beginning of the weekend, my sister and I looked at each other knowingly. Yep, we'd of had some different weddings if we didn't get married as babies too. 


Now don't get me wrong, I LOVED my wedding. My parents indulged all my crazy child-bride creepiness and put up with all my shenanigans and threw one fun and worshipful party. But it was six years ago, I barely knew myself (I barely know myself now) and I had not even begun to develop my own taste. 


For example: my wedding colors were blue & green (my most unfavorite colors). 
It was fun and beautiful, I just would say it wasn't so much me. Or who I am now. 

I wouldn't change feeling this happy!

But everyone once in a while it's fun to dream. 
And pinterest sure doesn't hurt my cause. 
If you don't have a pinterest account, please get one. I can't even describe it. 
Except to say it's google search with style. 
So feast your eyes. 
Here's my dream wedding, if I got married this summer, instead of 6 summers ago. 

I'd use a color pallete similar to this. Lots of lavendar-toned grays and peach.
White, pops of torquoise (or mint) & yellow.

I'd go relaxed & ivory. Maybe one shouldered? On the dress.
The outer two are from jcrew, the middle from a local Charlotte designer. 

coffee bar, personalized coffee bags as favors, custom labs to cover twobuckchuck, and a coral cake. 

For Bridal style I'd get Kristin,
but maybe not Kristin since I'd want her to be a bridesmaid,
I'd get someone like Kristin to do a loose, messy braid or bun. And I LOVE these earrings from MaddyNBella, as well as the necklace from Noonday.
Obsessed with both! 

Bridesmaid style: I'd let them pick varying gray dresses and I'd gift them with these super cute splendor necklaces & Life at the table market totes!

For food, I'd go pizza. Vegan and non vegan of course.
Personalized sandwich bar.
Soup bar.
And diet coke in bottles. 

Lots and lots of peach peonies, diy hanging poms,
diy hanging homemade chandeliers, and tons and tons of greenery. 

Last but not least, I'd do all my own graphics since
Naptime Diaries is expanding into that arena! 

So there it is in all it's glory. 
But I'm thankful for what I had. 
Green & blue and just right for that season. 


And if you're getting married, or not, check out all the great stuff
Vie a la table, MaddyNBella, Splendor Shop, & Sara over at Noonday have to offer. 


And over the weekend I'm going to be cleaning up shop at Naptime Diaries and getting things set up so you can order custom wedding and other invitations for all your partying needs! I just finished my first (really, second) wedding invitation design and will show it to you soonly! 


I'd love to hear what your "fantasy" wedding would be like:)
Happy Friday!

And, there are new prints in the shop 

and as always, buy three get one free. Love ya'll. 

gimme some more.

Ask and you shall receive!

The wedding was BEAUTIFUL! The dancing was, AMAZING. The bride was BREATHTAKING!
more to come!







.... but BABIES & HUSBAND.... I'll be home tomorrow!

So....

I'm feeling a little sentimental. Today is a special, extremely special day for FOUR dear people in my life. On the East Coast, Leigh Hood & Gray Ladd are getting married and here in Puyallup - Jimmy & Faythe will be united. Let's start with one couple at a time:).

While she is now so much more - I met Leigh when she was a youth & I was her youth leader. I immediately loved her spunk and recognized that if I could get her to think I was cool, the rest of the Shandon Youth Group might follow. I'm not sure if the others ever caught on - but Leigh and I became almost mildly inseparable pretty quickly. During college, I'd spend a lot of nights at her house - watching Law & Order and talking baby talk to her bed, which is quite possibly the greatest bed in America. I grew to love her family, her spunk, her heart for Jesus, and her high-strung nature that made me laugh for hours. During the most type-A years of my life, knowing someone that was more intense than me was really helpful. The thing is - Leigh does EVERYTHING intense... this wedding, her Jesus, and loving others. I've learned a LOT from her and I'm dying not to be there.

When she told me her & Gray were dating - it all made perfect sense. He had helped lead her small group when she was in high school, so to some the age difference threw them off... but I totally understood. Only Gray can meet Leigh's intensity with extreme love & sensitivity. Only she can be so passionate to express to him what an amazing guy he is. From the minute they started dating, I was so glad to know they'd definitely get married - and their union is one that I intend on learning a good deal from.

I met Faythe when Nick and I were out here interviewing for this position. Debi, Miles, and all the Musicks were anticipating her visit greatly and so I knew she was something special. We only spoke a few words that day - but a few months later when I saw her for the second time, sitting at Debi's kitchen table, God spoke to my heart and told me that she really needed to be our assistant. I was back at my house next door, on the phone with my sister, when Debi walked in and I jokingly said, "So do you think Faythe would ever move in here and be our assistant?". Debi only looked mildly surprised when she replied..."That's exactly what she just told me she wants to do".

Over the past three months, I've come to grow intensely thankful for this couple. Faythe - with her passionate heart for Jesus and people, and Jimmy - quite possibly the nicest man alive. My favorite memories with them include laughing at our girls, watching them dance together, Jimmy coming over every morning and making Faythe get dressed, Jimmy telling us that we didn't know anything about dance & he really did, Faythe explaining to me what a true 'wanker' is & the first time I called Jimmy one. Tonight at the wedding, the memories only expanded: First, they walked out of their ceremony to a DC talk song. Then, as I was dancing with Faythe at the reception - she quietly informed me that Jimmy had asked her to meet him in the restroom. I love it.

Anyhoo - I'm so thankful for these four people. The world is richer for having them, my life is better for knowing them, & the Kingdom is advance because of their obedience.