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First Glimpse, Beach-Style

Posted 08/18/2009 by Maggie in photography \ 3 comments

Trevor and I decided to see each other before the wedding for photographs. By doing so, we could maximize our time with guests and not miss a significant portion of our cocktail hour. (I was especially excited about making it to the reception in time to taste a mini shrimp and grits hors d’oeuvre that we dreamed up with the …

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Lace and Seersucker, Blue and Red

Posted 08/18/2009 by Maggie in what to wear \ 10 comments

I’m going to tell it like it is: nothing made me feel less in the mood to get married than shopping for The Dress. Some girls get goosebumps just stepping into a bridal salon. Some girls hear chords from above when they try on The One. I was not one of those girls. Dress-shopping was the opposite of a fairy-tale …

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Electing Letterpress

Posted 08/17/2009 by Maggie in stationery \ 3 comments

So now that you’ve seen the fantastic “campaign logo” created us for by ABCD, can you guess what happened after that? As much as I love paper, and as much as Amy loves working with fresh, outside-the-wedding-box visions, we  couldn’t stop our collaboration at the logo. We asked ABCD to design our entire wedding stationery suite, and let me tell …

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Inspiration Strikes!

Posted 08/17/2009 by Maggie in color palette, inspiration \ 3 comments

So how do two stridently independent and opinionated lovebirds get married in the age of Platinum Weddings, anyway? Like so many things that would follow, we found our inspiration in the world of wedding blogs.

After months of floundering for a wedding vision that felt like our own, I stumbled upon a blog post featuring a wedding “monogram” that looked like …

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Unconventional from the Start

Posted 08/17/2009 by Maggie in getting engaged \ 2 comments

Hi everyone! I’m thrilled to be among the fantastic group of women on EAD who have documented their respective journeys down the aisle. You might already know a bit of my wedding story if you followed my wedding blog Eat, Drink, Marry, which I began shortly after our engagement and continued through our wedding over Memorial Day weekend. During our …