Thursday, July 8, 2010

The Feelings I have! -Owen


"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control."


In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away


"WHAT EACH KISS MEANS"- Kiss on the Forehead: We're cute together .- Kiss on the Cheek: We're friends.- Kiss on the Hand: I adore you.- Kiss on the Neck: I want you, now.- Kiss on the Shoulder: Your perfect.- Kiss on the Lips: I LOVE YOU...


Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.


People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.


When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?


Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poke me in the ribs and cackle, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Balanced Rocks & Balanced Life

After Stefani and I got engaged, we decided one day to grab a few Yinglings and walk down under Rt.83. We wanted to try our hands at rock balancing. I think there is a name for it but that's all I could come up with for now. We had a great time and it was cool to compare styles. Stef's was a tall tower that was stable but the main goal of hers I think was to go as high as possible. (In a nut shell that is Stef. Always growing, learning, pushing, but nothing is done half ass.) That's why I love her.

My Rock formation became more of a pile. It had a strong foundation. I thought if I made it wider at the base and focused on that my formation would last forever.
The thing that I learned from this little adventure was that Stef and I are a perfect match. She is reaching for the ski and has no limits. I am looking ahead and making sure that we have a strong platform. We can learn so much from each other and plan on doing that the rest of our lives.
I am really excited to move forward every day with the love of my life. This Sunday we are going to celebrate 2 years together. We are going to go and build a Rock formation together and hopefully we can come back to it years from now and remember where we started.





















Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The rings that washed off...But never came off.


My First Blog Post Ever.

We were on the Train coming home from New York (My Christmas Gift...Awesome trip). I had been waiting to propose for 2 months. I couldn't stand it anymore. After some great conversation, which made me fall in love with her even more, we started doodling. Which of course then led to us drawing rings on each other. I was so looking forward to getting home and having a little box waiting. No Little Box... (Whole other story). I knew at this point I couldn't wait any longer.

After coming home 2 hours before Baltimore got its 3rd snow fall of 20" that winter. Stef and I cleaned up and hung with the cats. I noticed that after our showers our rings had washed away. The only thing I could get my hands on that night was two ring-pops. So I kept a ring on her for a few more hours (FACT: My ring tasted better). The next day Stef was my Fiance.

Bloom Where You are Planted!

This past weekend Owen and I shared our first real weekend together. It was jammed packed with tons of fun stuff (including that Zac Brown Band concert we'd been dying to go to). We finished it off with a nice relaxing day by the pool, working on our adopted planter.

The way it works is, anyone who wanted to adopt a planter and maintain it for the summer is given one first come first serve. The only rule is that there needs to be a hibiscus in the center. There is a contest held in July, for who has the best planter- and the winner gets a pool party!

Owen and I are hoping that we can win, first off, and second, put the party option towards our wedding  venue!

Plan of attack: Stand out & Be different by using great smelling herbs & using a lot of textures



Friday, May 14, 2010

Missing Those Farm Days

Sooo, I came across this post on oncewed and instantly fell in love, once again. You may have seen a similar posting on Pat & Kay a month or so back. It is adorable, this girl on a farm with the new love of my life (sorry Owen), Mr. Baby Goat. I am missing Farm life a little, just because I want a goat- maybe married life will bring it to me??? Do you think I can register for a goat?...well, that and a couch. We definitely need a new couch.












































I love that idea for a center piece.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Feeling One with Nature

This is how my mind works:

I had to go in to the Police Station today to get fingerprinted for my job. I'm looking at my fingerprint card, thinking just how strange fingerprints really are. I mean, to some, the police world (more specifically), they signify identity. No one else has my  fingerprints. They are uniquely me.

The closer I look, the more and more they resemble a cross section of a tree. Now, without going total nerd, and without drawing any outrageous relationships to turn this posting into a 40 page thesis, let's just consider the most fundamental connection here--The relationship living beings have to trees & all the great goodies they give us to keep us healthy. Just on that relationship alone, I feel even more connected to nature, when I see the same trade marks hidden on our bodies.


   


   















Moral of the story: Don't kill trees, because they are part of us.

This inevitably led me to the beautiful tangent of creative guest book ideas.


Found Love in a Laundromat

I pulled this straight from Green Wedding Shoes and think it is such a cute idea for an engagement shoot. Very natural and playful! Isn't it great that our cheapest entertainment often turns out to be the best entertainment!






Thursday, May 6, 2010

"All you need is love"

Bought our Preakness tickets last week, and getting excited this year to see some horse racing! Zac Brown Band, OAR and some other band will be performing. O and I have really been getting into Zac Brown lately. Here is a song that just puts me in that peacefully happy mood:

















"So we live in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you

We'll end up hand in hand
Somewhere down on the sand
Me and you


Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be

Drive until the city lights
Dissolve into a country sky
Just me and you

Lay underneath the georgia moon
Do all the things that lovers do
Just me and you

Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Ever be

No we don't have a lot of money
No we don't have a lot of money
No we don't have a lot of money
All we need is love

Free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Ever be

So we live in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you..."
"Free" Zac Brown Band

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

MJM Nightmare

About 4 1/2 months ago, a ring was ordered. Not just any ring, the ring Owen wanted to propose to me with. Today, I look down at my my ring-less hands utterly perplexed to how this whole experience could have gone so wrong.

I'll spare you all the gruesomely boring details, and just stick to the key points of where MJM screwed my wonderful fiance over!

Part 1: Ordering the Ring

*Owen places the order at MJM in January.
*Owen & Stef go to NYC for the weekend, come back to no ring. A week goes by, the ring was supposedly shipped, but was sent back to Ca when it "arrived" in MD.
----No calls were made, and Owen was home all day & no delivery trucks ever came by.

*Owen calls to complain & MJM reimburses his money, gives him a money credit on their site & promises to re-ship the ring.

Part 2: Something Fishy is Going On

*2 weeks go by, no ring.
*Owen calls to complain, he speaks with someone new. Someone who makes him new promises. Says it will take another 2 weeks for Owen to get the ring.
*2 weeks go by, no ring.
-----At this point there is a lot of conversation between MJM & Owen. MJM says that production is taking longer than expected. Owen is fed up, but wants to get this ring after the energy put into the whole process.

Part 3: Deception

*It March/April and Owen calls infuriated from being strung along after all this time.
*A woman at MJM proceeds to tell Owen that they had to let some people go, her assistants, because they had been misleading customers, aka F-ing with them & feeding them fraudulent information.
*The woman promises Owen they will make things right, and asks Owen to give them another shot.
*A new ring is promised to be made.
*2 weeks go by, no ring.

Part 4: Last Straw

*April: Owen calls everyday, checking on the status of the ring.
*When the ring is supposedly completed, Owen is given a working tracking number. The package has been picked up, in transit for delivery.
----we are sooo excited! FINALLY, we get our ring...so we thought.
*Tracking said package had been delivered. Yet, no package to be found. NOTHING and NO ONE had come by the house.
*Owen calls MJM confused with what has happened. MJM tells Owen and man by the name of Steven Thomas, signed for the package @ our desired location.
*No one by the name of Steven Thomas lives or works @ that address.
-------SOMEONE is F-ing with us.

Part 5: "Hold Me Back O"

*I call MJM to give a piece of my mind.
*Sharron, the woman Owen had been working with, says that the last she spoke with Owen was 3 weeks ago. No package was EVER attempted to be shipped to us. No ring was EVER created for us.
------ Here a big old F you to MJM!!!
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Shame on us for falling for their lies every time. We were blinded by the beautiful rings, and were getting stomped on in the process. They truly spoiled a beautiful event.

Owen and I never wanted to make a big deal of the ring, its a shame it came to this. BUT what is fun now, is that we can go look together!!

Lesson Officially Learned!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

I'm in love

So new information has come to light about the "Lovely" photo shoot. I actually read the article this time. Lovely is a new beautiful dress shop in NY! I am completely in love, and will Hitch Hike my way to the store to find a dress if I need to :-)

Imagine this...




















How precious??

Lovely Life...

Yikes, so it has been ages since I did anything on here. But- it is mainly due to the fact I had absolutely nothing in the works. There is movement on the home front, and things are beginning to inspire Owen and I once again.

I saw this photo shoot by sweet little photographs posted on greenweddingshoes.com and had to snag it for our blog. Let's be honest, for the obvious reason, that it says "Lovely" over her head.

Friday, April 9, 2010

First Wedding Project

My first project is taking on the task of training Kensho to walk on a leash. If I can pull this off, the wedding ceremony will step up to a new level of class. :-)



















I haven't exactly run this by Owen yet, but once he see's Kensho's skills & how cute he looks in a tux, how could Owen possibly resist?

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Marriage Tips & Translations...

Does the minister/notary/judge hand me a Spouse Translator Book once I utter the words "I do" ??? Apparently people start speaking in coded language when they get hitched...








love you owen, look forward to all of our future coded sayings.

Inspiration: Colors of Nature

Love wildflowers...



Colors discovered by Vincent J Musi




Wednesday, April 7, 2010

My first DIY

So, I'm not going to wear this to the wedding, but needed to jump into a diy project to get the creative juices flowing!
I found the inspiration from a Cynthia-Dugan Navajor feather necklace design, and unfortunately- until I can purchase a new camera, you're just gonna have to take my word for the fact, it came out awesome! Here's a few pictures to show you what the original looks like:

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Trying on Dresses Today!

So I am trying on dresses today for the first time. Scared. Not sure why, but a bottle of red begs to differ.

Bringing the crew: Mamadukes, Dadio & the Bethster. I actually never call my sister "The Bethster," that was weird.

So I have a lot of style dresses that I find absolutely wonderful, but the one below by Valentino, is the dress that tops the cake (pun INTENDED). Siiigh. Maybe I can find some crafty designer to recreate this for me...[wheels...turning].
Wish me luck!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Feeling like this today...


:-) makes me smile.

-S

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Moroccan Decor


Great twist to standard white tents. Adds a fun burst of color!








LANTERNS!!!




The Location: A Torch Lit Wedding

We are lucky enough to have fallen upon this Baltimore gem.



Friday, March 26, 2010

Crate and Barrel Contest


Hi Everyone!! We finally built up the courage to enter Crate and Barrel's wedding contest! Below is the link to our page. If you haven't voted yet, we'd love your support. I know we started by saying let's do a $10,000 wedding...buuuut, by adding another zero on there could quite possibly create a very very very fun evening!

http://www.ultimateweddingcontest.com/entries/40680



S & O

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Hello Out There!


Hello and welcome to our first blog site! We are super excited to share this experience with you, and look forward to keeping you in the loop with all of our ideas and findings while being engaged and planning a wedding!!

We know there may be some struggles on our road to planning. Stick with us to see our progress or at least prepare yourself for the craziness ahead :-) !!

For those of you who need a little context, you can expect the love story soon!