ABSOLUTELY in ♥ | wday photography

Thank you Samm Blake for these beautiful & stunning photos. Tough they are simple, they embody the newly weds love and personalities. Two great characteristics of beautiful photography.














...and what a coincidence that these are our wedding colors too.

a wday vid #1

Wedding Preview: Noah and Rachael 8.14.10 from Ben Potter & Drew Barefoot on Vimeo.

i am really loving the simplicity and detail of this vid.

meet the bm's dresses

**missing octavia's dress

Here is a sample of the bouquets i may have for the bm's. i am also thinking of something more tropical looking.



photo credit via

our Wday colors (finalized)

dresses & venues & more...oh my

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so... im happy to say that the dress(es) are bought & venue is picked (but not finalized yet, that'll happen later this year.)

remember this dress here and here... well i ended up getting it today for 1/4th of the cost. can you believe it. i was window shopping yesterday at the waikele outlets and happened to find myself in bcbg with their great additional 50% off sale. to my surprise they had a couple of these dresses and they were marked down to $149 and with the sale they were an additional 50% off, making the dress $75. so i tried it on & again i was in love. just like i was when i first tried it on a year ago. i mean what are the chances, right?

along with the dress i also found another great short dress that i need to reconstruct a little before its perfect for another wedding event. that dress was $25. (sorry no picture.)

i find it funny (& so me) to have found my wedding dress on my own by myself. :) Though i'm sure I would of totally had my girlfriends b.k.a my bridesmaids see it in person if they were here on this rock with me. :)

there were a couple of legit reasons to why I'm ok with a wedding dress that costs $75. reason #1 i could save some money for my top choice awesome venue, the cupola, #2 the dress is simple, classy, flattering, and a champaign color, #3 if i decide to not use it for our wedding, at least it was just $75.

there are also some legit reasons to why i really, really want the cupola. #1 its interior is bare & modern, #2 it's air conditioned, #3 there is a parking lot, #4 they have nice chairs that are grey (that are included to renting the venue), #5 venue includes lighting, sound system and projector, #6 there is an awesome wine bar right next to it so guests can help themselves #7 leena (lady in charge of renting venue) is very sweet, nice and personable, #8 their food menu looks good (the taste test is TBA), #9 it's close to town, #10 the venue supplies the tables, chairs, flatware, glassware, linen

beautiful dresses

a personal escort card diy

via

an interior | Wday colors

meet the bm's

{ maid of honor}

heidi partida

est. 2000

met through past relationships

{ bridesmaids }

octavia sisley

est. 1997

met through a mutual friend in seventh grade.

devon vandervort

est. 1998

became friends through drill team in eighth grade.

anna mariano

est. 2006

met through work at the pasadena playhouse.

ciana biscano

est. 2007

became friends through the "boys".

more bm's with different dresses.....

{images from links on the right}