Things I love...

Good evening family, friends, and whomever else in cyberspace might be listening...

Happy fourth of July! I hope your holiday weekend has been wonderful!

First, the credit for the 'title photo' belongs to Jessamyn Harris photography via the stylemepretty.com wedding blog. Gotta give credit where its due... great picture! And, definitely something I love... milk glass & flowers (2 for 1)! This picture is truly SO me. Its simple, beautiful, and embodies something antique, traditional, and classy. I always feel like an old soul.

I am currently reading (in addition to the, ahem, 3 to 5 other books on my nightstand daily) Altared, edited by Colleen Curran. I very definitely recommend it to anyone interested in a good story relating to weddings, life, love.

I have spent the last three weeks of newly-blinged-left-hand happiness enveloped in a sea of internet frenzy. Who knew there were so many darned wedding websites? All full of great information and ideas (okay, most anyway). So, in my point-and-click mania I found a couple of standouts. On the photography side, though these peeps are quite far away and won't be on hand for our party, they are super cool!

http://www.justinmarantz.com/

This is the first part of their biography as printed on their website:

He picks up our new Crate & Barrel Rococo stripe dish towel and snaps it lovingly in the general direction of my backside. My posterior. Derriere if you prefer. "You wash, and I'll dry." For us, this one simple statement has become much less about a division of labor and more like a mantra for life. He's the rock in our marriage, but he never forgets that rock would be nothing without the roll. And I'm that high wire tight rope walker, who always remembers how lucky she is to have him as her soft place to land. I'm up and I'm down and everywhere in between and he just stays the course, steadily pushing us, moving us further along the journey. He may be dirty dishes and kitchen cabinet doors standing wide open, but I'm three day old glasses of milk on the nightstand. And for us, it just works. Because at the end of the day, we know we'll fix it all. Together. We're better together. We're stronger together. And together we know we can always count on... "You wash, and I'll dry."

I couldn't read that without thinking of Andy & me. I don't know about the milk, per se, but I have been known to harbor some unintentional science experiments from time to time :-p

So, in the end, I'm not sure who will read this and to anyone who does there are NO guarantees it will even be entertaining or useful in any way... but, its fun! Stay tuned, maybe I'll get more clever as time goes on! :)