• Sponsors,  Wedding

    Friday Giveaway: Simply Bridal (CLOSED)

    To end this week’s wedding-focused posts, I’m very excited to host my first giveaway ever: a beautiful, beautiful veil from the very lovely Simply Bridal! A few weeks before my wedding, Simply Bridal contacted me with the offer to send me a veil of my choice to either use in my wedding and review, or use as a giveaway. I chose this veil because of the beading and how delicate and pretty it is, but then just by chance I happened upon the 1950’s blusher that I ended up using… so guess what? I’m giving away this gorgeous, beaded veil to one of you lucky brides-to-be (or, y’know, if you’re…

  • Wedding

    Wedding Pictures, Part Two: the boys, and the ceremony

    There aren’t nearly as many pictures of Mr. Owl before the ceremony, sadly, because he got ready in a different place and I only had one photographer. But there was a little of Mr. Owl pre-ceremony in the wedding video, so that’s good enough. Mr. Owl’s younger brother was his best man, and their nephew was our ringbearer. He’s pretty adorable. IT really was a family affair, because Mr. Owl’s dad officiated the wedding; I was very happy about that. It made the whole day so special to have so much family involved! My second set of parents are pretty fantastic, and I love them. For the decoration of the…

  • Wedding

    Wedding Pictures, Part One: The girls

    We finally got our wonderful, wonderful wedding pictures from the awesome Ivory Button, and I’m SO excited to start sharing them with you! There are a million pictures and I love all of them, so I  will be doing an all-wedding week this week, ending with a super exciting giveaway from Simply Bridal on Friday (so be sure to stick around and see what it is!) Part one, as the title of this post might suggest, is all about me and my girls (and my family). Mr. Owl and I elected not to see each other until I walked down the aisle, so we took all of these pictures before…

  • Love

    Wedding: Video

    I was so excited to have a very talented friend of mine do the video for our wedding, and what better way to start the new year than with a reminder of the best day of my life so far? I think this video is absolutely amazing; seriously, my friend has such a great eye! I can’t stop watching it. Of course, that also might be because it was the best day ever, and I love re-living the wonders of marrying my best friend. You can see the rest of Josiah’s works here, at his Vimeo. Be sure to let him know how great of a job he does! And…

  • DIY and Recipes,  Wedding

    Wedding: Planning on a Budget

    First of all: this is the veil I wore for my wedding. I adore it, and I cannot wait to show you how the entire ensemble went together… but I have to wait for wedding pictures to share it all. So, there’s a tidbit for you. 😉 Someone suggested the other day that I do a wedding-planning tips post, and since I’m a huge fan of staying on budget and not overspending on things, it sounded like a fun idea to me. So, for all of you brides-to-be who are overwhelmed by the cost of weddings, or who are on a very tight budget: here are the things I learned…