JR + AK's Wedding

I finally got to work on what is the equivalent of my dream stationery project. It was the wedding between one of my longest bud Jeremy and his now husband AJ. Jeremy and I go back till the days of architecture school. I got to see him come out, go through meh relationships, walk down next to him during graduation (which included my tripping on my floor length graduation dress and 4-in heels), meet AJ soon after graduation. They have been together ever since. When they told me they were getting married, I was like whoah, so awesome, and my hands start fluttering because my eyes are getting sweaty. Then they told me the wedding was in Charlottesville, BOOM, and they asked me to help with the papery stuff. DOUBLE BOOM!

The wedding could not have been  more perfect. I roped one of my gay men as my arm candy for the weekend. Ari the Texan, accompanied me sporting some sweet cowboy boots of course. It was such an awesome weekend and I had a lot of reflection time being back in Charlottesville and drinking in memories by everything I encountered. I drove by Foxfield and it was studentless and horseless but my memories of it are still filled with girls in spring dresses, my running around in the same 4-inch heels and I don't recall ever seeing horses then either. I sat down by the campfire for warmth towards end of the evening and realized that I sat on the exact same log when I was 18, attending my first Beaux Arts ball filled with students, professors, alcohol, my first feeling of yeah I'm an adult and I'm partying in college whoop whoop!

What started out as a fun weekend ended up being a great soul searching weekend. While I can't go on a walkabout in Australia, I know I can always go back to C-ville and recenter myself... and I did while sitting on the cold, windy, studentless Lawn, the day after the wedding.

Now for the papery pics! 

 

Papery goodness photos are by Ben Hallissy, the photographer of the wedding.

tease

Almost sad that this wedding project is done. As a final piece of the project I was tasked by the bride to go basket shopping for something that would go well with the programs.

ta-da

My only IPhone envy is the sweet camera capabilities. This is taken with my Blackberry and all I can do is squint and tilt my head and pretend it's exactly how I wanted it to look. Until I find my Nikon cable (and wedding taking place this Saturday) hopefully I will be able to start unveiling projects I have been working on so you can check see more of the 'ta-da's.

p.s. - upon reviewing the post i realized my 300th post was posted at 4:20 pm. The teenage 15 year old in me is giggling my head off behind the locker door!

Lurves me a good wedding

(i love brides who don't cover up their ink)

I got to go to a pretty cool wedding this past Saturday. The bride and groom had a small family gathering on one of the outlooks at Great Falls. The whole event was very earthy, right down to the bride's dress and her barefeet, and groom in flipflops. The cool part was I got to play around with TTV on a day that turned out incredibly gorgeous after what felt like a week of water dumping on us.

(holy cow that kid is only 10, she's like my height already.)

Because I got a free trip into Great Falls, (oooh I also got to see Bambi the size of a chihuahua, but my camera hands weren't fast enough), i got to take more pics of just an awesome site. The rain from previous week really made Great Falls look, well, great, unlike a the calm trickle I've seen after a summer of drought. Also found was a little snake napping under the sun-warmed rocks of a retaining wall. I was able to be cool for like a minute when I made friends with two little boys who were impressed with my knowledge of snakes. (That's right, stay in school kids, you learn about that in 6th grade)

(eat your heart out Samuel L. Jackson, Snake at a Wedding!)

(Hey Trekkies, those lens flares are pho real son!)

I proudly did not shed a single tear at this wedding, probably because I was "and Guest," and wasn't personally connected with the bride and groom. There was a moment that I cam close when the bride and groom were taking off. The groom's mom started tearing up the moment the groom hugged her to say goodbye. That sucks about being a mom, when your babies say goodbye.