Here’s a wedding day photo our photographers have shared with us!  Talk about a teaser!!!! Ahhhh can’t wait for more!

Engagement Photos:

Jonnathan and I opted to have our engagement photos done at the same venue as our wedding.  We loved the natural beauty, the towering Oak trees and especially the field of tall grass (actually oats).  I had been going over many of the engagement shoots I had fallen in love with over the past year and felt that this was the best location to get the mood and tone we were going for: romantic, laid back, peaceful and naturally gorgeous.

You may recall my design board a couple of months back “Our Engagement Photo Session Plan”. With that in mind I emailed Ryan and Joelle from FS Photography our plans and they were completely on board!  I’m pretty sure they were just as excited as we were.  July 7th came fast – really really fast. I had started a new job and was working non stop and found myself scrambling for every free minute here and there to wrap up wedding details and prep for the shoot. The day before the shoot I rushed to the salon to get those stubborn gray hairs covered up and oops….instead of dark brown with natural looking auburn highlights…I ended up with black cherry…  Of course, I had to work and had no time to turn around and fix it. Little did I realize that the next day in daylight I would see just how red it was…

We drove down to Portland after work and my Mom’s first reaction to seeing me was: “OH! You’re hair is PURPLE!” Oh dear… She kept me laughing about it, even though I was ready to start crying.  We had to spend the next two hours trying on strapless bras that would work under my dress, I swear I tried on over 50!  While I’m trying bras on all I could think about was having maroon hair for our engagement shoot coming up in a couple of hours.  Photoshop can fix that right? Well, a few phone calls to the hair saloon and some hair experts we then spent the 3 hours shampooing my hair in the sink. Thankfully, we were able to get most of the pink/red out and it looked waaaaay better. Mom threw hot rolls in my hair and I ran to the car as we were late for our shoot.

Thankfully, Ryan and Joelle were AWESOME about everything. They calmed us down, eased our concerns and immediately got us into the right mindset for a fun photo shoot.  It was so wonderful to have time to be close to Jonnathan; to reconnect and refocus on us amidst all the chaos of work and wedding plans. We had so much fun! I even pulled off wearing a sweater in 90 degree weather! I’m completely in love with these pics! Hope you enjoy them!

You all rock!

Blissfully Yours~

Heidi

It’s nice to slow down tonight and just be still.  As a Type A Personality Bride I get easily caught up in alllllll the many details, the to-do lists, the plan A, plan B, the what if’s, the worries…all of it.  It’s a catch 22, on one hand it’s a awesome to be planning an event and be a person who thinks of the details, however on the other it can be very overwhelming if it’s your own wedding you’re planning.  I’m thinking of all the hours spent focused on the details wondering if the day will be what I hope it to be.  Is it normal for me to wonder if I’m going to be let down?  Is it normal if I want it all to slow down even though it hasn’t even begun? I hope I can take it all in. I hope that the entire day I will be focused on what it’s all about – Jonnathan.  All those hours spent planning our wedding, yes was partially because of the little girl in me loving the dreamy wedding, but mostly because I wanted to do all I could to create a day that best represented Jonnathan and my relationship and our love.  As a man who often doesn’t want the focus on himself, I want him to feel more love and more joy than he has ever felt in his entire life. I want to put the biggest smile on his face and the most joy in his heart.  That is my number one goal for our wedding.  If I can do that, then that’s all that really matters in the end.

Since things have been so crazy busy lately I found myself getting to a point where I was just so emotional.  I didn’t know what was going on and went to Jonnathan and told him I needed a hug and that I just felt sad.  I didn’t know why or what had caused it, but I just did.  He of course wrapped his arms around me with all the love in the world and brought me immediate comfort.  He too was feeling a little sad and we realized that part of the problem was that while we are both running around with our crazy schedules, that we were missing one another. Stopping and realizing that we had lost focus of making sure that we were connecting and getting the time we needed with one another – thank God we realized this now!  So, we have made a pact that come wedding week and wedding day that we will make sure we get the time we need with one another.  I have written into the schedule just the two of us on our wedding day in the morning alone and away from all the hustle and bustle to enjoy morning coffee and one another. I think it’s important to do what you can to slow things down and focus on what really matters.

Did any of you brides go through a roller coaster of emotions leading up to your wedding?  How did you deal with that?