Category: Wedding

wedding photos (finally!) & 5 year anniversary!

September 12, 2020

Life, Wedding
wedding photos (finally!) & 5 year anniversary!

today is our FIVE year wedding anniversary! of course, any anniversary is worth celebrating, but five feels like a milestone. our wedding was on September 12, 2015 near my parent’s home in northwest Ohio. strangely enough, even though i’ve been blogging for years, I didn’t ever share wedding photos on my blog. I  started to share with this post of getting ready photos with my bridesmaids and this sneak peek, but just…forgot to share everything else. OOPS! the entire day was a labor of love that couldn’t have come together without family and friends. My mom sourced all of the decor pieces and basically decorated […]

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wedding, part 1

January 19, 2016

Wedding

I’m excited to share the first in a series of blog posts from our wedding! These are the getting ready photos and I love looking over them again and again reminded of that fun and special morning with my mom, sisters and cousin Erin! The morning was fueled by lots of coffee, a little bit of champagne and Taylor Swift on repeat. Totally perfect! The girls picked out their own neutral bridesmaid dresses – I love the way they came out together! Their look was tied together through peony floral crowns and simple shoes. Stay tuned for more…! All photos by JR Magat // Makeup by Sarah […]

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CHEESE PLATES!

November 12, 2015

Wedding

let me just put this out there: I LOVE CHEESE. i could have cheese plates for dinner every single night. i love putting together perfect cheese plates – a variety of cheeses, nuts, dried or fresh fruit, olives, spreads and of course, bread and crackers. when we were planning our SF wedding reception, we wanted it to feel very us and we decided rather than cater something, we would make epic cheese plates. here’s what we served! cheese: we had six different types of cheeses, hard and soft, creamy and nutty. olives nuts: walnuts, almonds and {my favorite} marcona almonds with rosemary fresh and dried […]

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wedding photos: sneak peek!

September 15, 2015

Celebrations, Wedding
wedding photos: sneak peek!

hi friends! sooooo…. i’m married! eeeek! we had such a special time last saturday at our wedding and reception celebration! friends drove and flew in from all over – SF, LA, Seattle, Vancouver, Denver, El Paso TX, Boston, NYC, Washington DC and several parts of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. it was so special to be surrounded by so many people who love us and have invested in our lives. the day felt truly magical and exactly what we wanted: authentic. today, i’m super excited to share a super short sneak peek at our wedding photos! the photos feel very us – and very reflective of our wedding day. […]

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my san francisco bridal shower!

August 27, 2015

Celebrations, Wedding
my san francisco bridal shower!

i have the best friends ever. a few weeks ago, they threw me a super fun, beautiful bridal shower at one of my favorite places in the city, ampersand. ampersand is an adorable flower shop in the mission {which you’ve likely seen me post pics of, like here & here…}. the shower was perfectly timed because all three of my sisters were in town visiting! it was seriously one of the most fun and special nights ever, having all of these people together celebrating. ampersand is such a beautiful space that decorations aren’t necessary, but the girls ordered these gold YAY balloons to make the space […]

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3 Lessons I’ve Learned While Wedding Planning

August 10, 2015

Lessons I've learned, Wedding
3 Lessons I’ve Learned While Wedding Planning

Nope, this post is not about how to have the most epic, organized Excel doc of guest lists or how to make amazing place settings. Instead, it’s about a few lessons I’ve learned – about myself and about marriage – while planning a wedding. The lessons are an a-ha moment, an I-should-have-learned-this-earlier-but-didn’t moment and most certainly “you-definitely-won’t-read-this-in-a-wedding-magazine” type of advice {or at least I haven’t read it in one yet!}. Keep in mind, these three life lessons aren’t just for those who are engaged. These are lessons that relate to our larger life experience outside of getting married, but for some reason or another, they really hit me during […]

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