Hi!  I am absolutely STOKED to be hanging out here at EAD and to start sharing all my crazy wedding planning-ness with you!  Back before getting engaged I was a closet wedding-blog stalker.  EAD was one of the first sites I stumbled upon and I have been reading daily ever since!  In fact I’m pretty sure my productivity at work …

I never thought it would feel this good.  Frankly – I was worried I would be disappointed.  After all the years of lusting after this ring, and months of waiting for it, I thought – for sure – I would feel a twinge of disappointment once I put it on (a twinge I was ready to hide for the rest …

Salutations EAD readers!! My name is Mo, and I am a quirky, creative, and thoughtful girly-girl living in San Diego with an adorable boy and a really crazy (but cuddly) cat. I am thrilled to be a blogger here at EAD. I’m embarrassed to say how long I have actually been reading wedding blogs, but let’s just say it was …

Tomorrow we are welcoming two new brides to the EAD family – Mo and Stephanie.

Keep a look out for their first posts – can’t wait for you to meet them!

xo,
E.

Remember last week and my meltdown with my wedding dress? I was having second thoughts about my wedding dress and wasn’t sure if it was the right one.

Through the advice of all of you fabulous girls, I got an overwhelming response of suggestions of what to do! Thank you so much!

The day after I posted my dress dilemma, I made …

Dr. dave and I were laughing the whole day of the wedding about my “plans” for the ceremony.  I had “planned” this and “planned” that…and the one thing I didn’t plan for, rain, was what happened.

The day before the wedding, Friday, was just beautiful.  The rehearsal dinner went off without a hitch (other than there being quite a few confused …

I’ve mentioned that I get a thrill from considering the many different ways to arrive at married, right? Well, I get a more specific thrill from seeing different ways people have gotten married at our Barn.

A Practical Wedding has photos from a familiar site but a snowier season.

I’m reposting the next picture with the full knowledge that once DJ sees …

When it came time to think about our save the dates, I knew I wanted something casual yet classy that tied into the vintage feel of our wedding. But the most important thing to me? The budget, of course!

I didn’t want to spend a ton on our save the dates. We looked at some invitation websites and the prices were …

The most difficult step in creating our invitations was not coming up with the design, or choosing the supplies, or even printing with the Gocco … it was finding an adhesive that worked!

I went through SIX products in an attempt to secure the invitations to the mats to the pocket folds and the stamped monogram to the cardstock to the …

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At the moment, as I am quite hyped up on caffeine, I’m finding looking at vintage/pin-up and boudoir pictures irresistible. I want to be in a vintage shoot and almost as much I want to buy a bunch of furniture and photograph people with fake eyelashes (you are confused, and that’s okay. I’m in possession of a …