Now that my save the dates have all been sent out (hopefully everyone got them!), I wanted to share the design with all of you out there:) I thought I’d take a stab at designing them myself, so one night I sat down ALL night long and designed my save the dates – I thought they were AWESOME (if I do say so myself hah), and there was no way to improve them – that is until I sent the file to my friend who is a graphic designer, and she asked if I would mind if she made a few “tweaks”. She sent this back to me:
Needless to say, I went with her version, I won’t embarrass myself by posting my original design:) Didn’t she do an awesome job? Thanks Julie!
(I just realized it looks a little odd because there is no border, but it’s just a 4×6 card, and the black swirls on the right mark the edge of the card:)
Well, it’s again time for me to get my butt into shape. I obviously want to look the BEST I can for my October wedding, but I’m SO bad about working out. I have zero motivation to work out on my own. Zip, zilch, none. In order to start working out, I always need an end goal in mind to force myself to work out, so this year I decided to do the Broad Street Run. Well let’s step back – some of my friends decided to do the run, and I reluctantly agreed:)
This is a 10 mile run that starts at Temple University, then you run through Center City and end at the stadiums in South Philly. I know I’m capable of doing the run, because I used to run cross country in high school, but I’m SO embarassingly out of shape right now. I’ve been going to the gym at 6am a few days a week for the past 3 weeks, and MAN, all of the sudden I am DRAGGING and it is such a struggle to just run 25 minutes! I’m hoping it’s just a bad week – does anyone else just have weeks where you can’t get going and working out is a huge struggle?
I have to keep the training schedule plastered right next to my computer to keep myself going:)
And here are all of the PSU girls that are doing the run – thank god you are all doing it with me, because knowing you’re all working out keeps me motivated to get up at 6am to run!
I’m excited to do the run because it will be awesome to do it with all of these girls, but I’ll be honest, I’m not looking forward to it. When it’s a struggle to run 25 minutes, I keep wondering how I’ll get up to 10 miles! Hopefully next week is a better work out week…
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how my wedding planning process is going, so I thought I’d start a little series on all of my own fun wedding details:) One of the first things Jay and I did was pick our reception venue, because at the point we got engaged, we decided we were going to get married in less than a year from that date – oh, our wedding date is 10.2.10 by the way….CAN’T WAIT! Anyway, it’s CRAZY how fast things book for weddings, so we knew we had to get a jump on the location. The one thing we knew for sure was that we wanted to get married in center city Philly – we met there, started dating there, and got engaged there….so it was the perfect choice:)
I went back and forth between two places….there was the Fuel House (the house they had the Real World in when it was in Philly)….which is an amazing, contemporary location for your wedding – and there was the Top of the Tower, which was right in Center City, and had STUNNING views. Ultimately I went with the Top of the Tower, because the views sold me – as soon as I stepped off of the elevator and saw the views through the floor to ceiling windows, my jaw dropped and I was sold….I just knew THAT was where I wanted to get married to my best friend. I feel like this city is so much a part of us as a couple, that I can’t think of a better place to have our wedding:)
So here is a picture of the city sky-line, the brown-ish building on the left is where we’re getting married, on the top floor:) And the little white building on the right is where I used to live when I was in the city – looking at this picture makes me TOTALLY miss living in the city….it was so much fun living there. Jay and I already decided that when we retire we’re just going to buy a condo in the city and live the city life again:)
As if you can’t tell, this picture was taken WEEKS ago, because now all of Philly is covered with ugly brown snow. I’m SO sick of all the snow we’ve been getting, and how gross and grey it looks outside….I can’t wait to see green grass and blue skies again!
Last week Rachel and I got together for her boudoir shoot in Philly, which is going to be a little wedding gift for her future husband on their wedding day:) Boudoir shoots are great gift options for your soon-to-be husband, or for an anniversary or Valentine’s Day gift for your husband/boyfriend.
Check out the amazing-ness that is Rachel:
Your boudoir shots are then packaged in this discrete little album, from the fabulous Leather Craftsmen:
I am in love with the quality of these albums – I love the thickness of each page:
These are flushmount, hingeless albums, which allows each page to lay flat:
And of course, the only boudoir pictures that appear on my blog are approved by my clients first:)
And now it’s time to brace myself for the next snow storm…..is anyone else totally OVER snow at this point in winter? Can it be spring already, or what?
Hope everyone had an amazing Valentine’s Day! Jay and I celebrated by going out to a nice quiet dinner, just the two of us. He took me to Devon Seafood Grill in Rittenhouse Square (it’s always so fun to pass by our proposal spot now:), so I was in a food coma for hours afterwards (from the lobster bisque to be exact…..I don’t know what they do, but that soup is heavenly). It was relaxing and delicious, and just what I needed:)
My Valentine’s Day morning started off in a GREAT way – I shot my first engagement session of 2010 in Center City! We met up at the Art Museum (the Rocky steps for all you non-Philadelphians out there) and hung out there for as long as we could last in the windy, cold weather. I should have taken pictures of people sledding down the stairs on random pieces of cardboard while we were taking these pictures….just keepin’ it classy Philly:)
Anyway, on to the pictures! I think BOTH Jenna and Ryan have the most amazing smiles ever – don’t you agree?
Love this city:)
Hot couple. That’s all I have to say about that:)
And I’ll wrap it up with my favorite image of the day:
Thanks Jenna and Ryan – I had so much fun spending Valentine’s Day morning with you – can’t wait for the wedding in July!
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