Thank you for all of your sweet comments regarding L and I's engagement news last week! We cannot wait to start this next chapter of our lives together. I recapped our engagement story last week and am looking forward to sharing many more details of the wedding planning process on this blog and instagram.  

I think it's important to preface this post by letting you know that this is a project that I have been working on for a while now. Long before I opened my Etsy shop and was engaged, I had been designing a wedding planner that could be downloaded, printed, and digitally distributed. I had the best of intentions, however I kept putting it off and eventually grew tired of the format and original design. I have since begun updating and redesigning the original planner and will hopefully have it up and ready to go sooner than later. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you the five page wedding checklist that will be included in the planner. (:

These five pages are a fraction of the amount of content that will be in the final planner, however, they are the most important. My goal was to design something that was clean and easy to read, as well as a resource to keep your thoughts and ideas organized. Each "time period" is squared off with the corresponding month(s) until the big day, which is labeled above each box.

The extra space makes it easy to check everything off, or circle items that have yet to be completed. If I forgot to include something (which is certainly a possibility, as all brides have a unique list), there are 15 lines on the fifth page where you are able to include other important details.

I put aside a binder, with a bookplate that has our hashtag to work as our wedding bible. All important documents, checklists, receipts, details, invoice's, EVERYTHING wedding related will live in the binder. Once it is full and working for me, I will give you a tour of that as well!

There aren't enough dancing emojis to express how pleased I am that this checklist has been designed, printed and put in my binder. Having something that L and I can reference to throughout the planning process is gold!

WEDDING CHECKLIST
WEDDING MAD LIBS

We're Engaged!

I am so very, very happy to announce that after six and a half years with my high school sweetie pie, we are engaged!! L asked me to marry him a couple weeks ago while we were spending some days up in North Conway and I am STILL on cloud 9! 

Our intentions were to hit the slopes, however the whole week it had been overcast and rainy forcing us into more activities indoors like shopping the outlets and eating (no complaints here!). The last day we got extremely lucky and were able to enjoy the beautiful weather outside! We opted to hike Cathedral Ledge (a trail I had never hiked before, but L had) which offers beautiful views over North Conway and the mountains. We took a less "traveled" trail and found a small ledge, with a view, tucked away from the road. While I was looking out over the ledge checking out Mount Cranmore, L called my name and I turned around to see him down on one knee with a beautiful ring!

To say I was shocked is an understatement, as he truly had caught me by surprise. We have so many big changes and expenses coming our way (graduation, we both have to buy cars, probably moving, potentially buying a house/land -- I'll touch on all of those later) that I certainly was not expecting anything for awhile. Nonetheless, I was floored and said YES after staring at him for a few seconds in shock! SHOCK, I tell ya!

After I hung my phone up in a tree to get a million selfies, L and I found rocks and carved "L + K engaged 03-16-16" into a tree nearby. I'm aware that this is not nature friendly at all (I already got the side eye from my mother), so if you are ever hiking Cathedral Ledge and see a dead tree hanging off the side... that's our love tree! I'm sorry tree!

He has had the ring since January and had done an excellent good job at keeping it hidden from me. He picked it out while he was visiting family over Christmas and had it adjusted a little so that it included both of our birthstones (December) and matched another ring that he got me six years ago. I LOVE the stones next to the diamond!
So. Wedding planning will not really start until after the summer is over and we have a chance to sit down and discuss important details like the date, location, venue, etc... but in the meantime, I did think of a hashtag that I am mighty proud of.
#gettingfritched
Follow along! It will be a truckload of fun (:
Now I have enough motivation to finish the wedding planner that I have been working on forever!
I guess we can put this in the books for the first official Wedding Wednesday!! (: