One of my best friends is getting married!!  July 10th, 2010!! 

Who can wait?  not me.  I'm terribly excited!!

Cami has the purest heart and the best taste.  

All of her bridesmaids have different gray and yellow dresses.  it is going to be s o o perfect!  

And just look at how she asked us:

She is so talented... so we know this Wedding is going to be pure bliss.  

We are throwing her a shower March 14th, 2010 to kick it off.  Any gray and yellow inspiration is more than welcome.  Also, any fun (relaxing i.e. not awkward) bridal shower games?

<3

Jeanne Ciasullo, love.

Here are some photos from a beautiful day spent with Jeanne Ciasullo.  She is a photographer and make up artist in the Bradenton-Sarasota area.  She and JB have been good friends for years and now I have the honor to call her a friend too!!  oh my, lucky.  

The Wedding

The Wedding was perfect!  Here are some photographs from The Incredible Jessica Lorren

The full blog is here!

E-shoot

My favorite engagement picture that Jessica Lorren took in Jupiter, Florida.  Here is the full blog about it:)

wedding harp

one of the things that was deeply important to my mother: a wedding harpist.

So expect a very tall HARP throughout the wedding ceremony and into the cocktail hour.

i can't wait... i've heard it is a treat to the ears.

garter sweetness

This little guy may just have to be purchased.  (:

invitations!!

I didn't anticipate having problems with finding the right invitation and its companions.  But it wasn't easy.  after searching and searching we went with ajalon!  And they are letterpress invitations.  : )  They are 100% eco friendly and tree-free, as well as printed on cranes thick stock.  Here's a peak... but know they will look even better on ecru.  They go out in the next week.  Lida, my mothers dear sweet friend, did all of the calligraphy.  She even matched the ink to be the exact same turquoise.  She's precious.  Anyway, here they are.   P.s. TWO MONTHS TILL THE WEDDING!  I'm excited, can you tell?  xoxox

a boston terrier wedding

Let me just throw this out there. Lucy, the boston terrier (who also loves penguins dearly), happens to be made of rainbows, sunshine, as well as the contents of kids dreams.  Naturally, I want her to be there on the wedding day.  She has been by my side through thick and thin.  How could I not include her?  Problem: she is completely spastic. Not your normal spastic dog.  She seems to have a constant supply of crack cocaine.  That's Lucy.  She's a firecracker who has put me into some very uncomfortable situations with strangers.  : )  And so I had given up my dream of incorporating Lucille into the wedding.  That is, until I saw This!  All previous rationale thought has been thrown to high heavens.  alas Dear Internet, Lucille Morrison will be in attendance on January 16th!  mark my words.

Lauren F. Winner says it best

Lauren F. Winner on best friends & also how I happen to feel about mine:

"There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dying your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered."

fascination with stirrers.

They are just popsicle sticks/coffee stirrers with tags on them.  Yet I am a little more than obsessed with these guys.  Thinking of creatiing a "Sarasota Sling".  Do you have any better ideas for a Sarasota/Florida drink name?  I have no idea what such a concoction would entail as liquor makes me sick as a dog.  But I thought these were too sweet to pass up ... and actually something i may be able to do myself.  maybe.