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  • Do or Don’t: Dogs in Weddings

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    Okay, I admit it. I’m totally completely a dog person. I’ve been known to squeal at baby puppies and pretty much any other fuzzy baby creature. My dog and our 2 cats are all adopted from local animal shelters and I can’t help myself when the yearly fundraisers come around. At some point one of…

  • Wedding Flowers On a Budget?

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    I’ve been working on this post for a while and last night I had the pleasure of sitting down with Julie McKenney of Bliss Elevated who told me she has tried DIY flowers and she says,  :::::drum roll please:::::: “They’re not that hard!”. Her words finally made me feel justified in getting this post up.…

  • Great Deals on Designer Wedding Dresses and more!

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    Check out this great article about RecycledBride.com on the www.marriage.com blog. I had no idea this site existed, but what a great resource for ensuring your wedding is both affordable and green too! According to the marriage.com blog, the owner of Recycled Bride donates 15% of ad revenue to Global Green. Seriously that’s some spending…

  • The Average Cost of a Wedding

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    Today is Valentines Day, so I thought I might tackle the topic of WHY people get married and what exactly weddings are all about. My two cents? Love. It’s about the love, people. It’s about the person whose eyes you want to stare into for the rest of your life. Its about celebrating that giddy…

  • Long Road Home

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    Sometimes home calls. The calls don’t always come for the kindest of reasons, but these are hardest to ignore. I left Denver on a red eye last weekend for a trip back to Philadelphia. My Aunt, only 41 years old, had passed away. Brain Cancer took her too soon–leaving behind my 3 young cousins (all…

  • Under the Sea

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    I was doing some hard drive house cleaning this morning (heck of a way to ring in the new year I know!) when I came across some photos I never posted. In fact I hardly even looked at them until today. This past November when we visited Drew’s grandparents in Florida we went to Mote…

  • New Years Resolution: Dream

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    For the past three years I’ve had the pleasure of volunteering with Wilder Elementary’s Kindgarten classes. The whole school participates in creating collective class projects, which are then auctioned off at the annual silent auction. The students create everything from mobiles to Eric Carle inspired art that helps to raise funds for the school. The…

  • The Fruitcake…

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    Today some Christmas packages arrived from our wonderful family back east (and midwest!). Drew and I were excited to open them, but figured we’d hold off for Christmas morning. But someone became so relentlessly infatuated with the box that arrived from my grandparents we had to open it to see what all the fuss was…

  • I’ve changed, by not changing at all… (or under construction)

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    Yes, that’s a Pearl Jam lyric. Once upon a time a fellow high school freshman tried to wax philosophical, saying the lyric somehow applied to the 15 year old version of Kristy. I’m still not sure what they meant, but as I was taking a trip down memory lane today it popped into my head.…