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Happy Sunday!!

Sunday is usually a day of rest for me, but today I am just on a roll and can't stop going. Cleaned the house, washed clothes, even cleaned my CAR..

Anyways, I wanted to share a few of the outtakes from our Save the Date session. Kevin and I are REALLY on a budget with our wedding and are trying to save as much $$ as possible without sacrificing too much of what we want. For our save the dates, I knew I wanted to send postcards so I scourged the internet and found Vistaprint.com (which im sure every one else has heard of but me). If you ignore the actual 'save the date' section you can get 100 postcards for $24.99! What a deal, right?! Even more so that they took an extra 30% off my final order! It also allowed you to upload your own image, so I got my roommate to take pictures of us in a park across the street from our house one Friday evening. Basically the whole shoot was accidental since she was trying to figure out how to work my camera and catch the light just right the whole time, ha! She isn't a photographer but I think she did pretty dang good! So here are some unedited outtakes. I can't wait to show you the finished product!!!

love, m

picnic-ing

For easter, I received the perfect easter basket from my future mother-in-law: a picnic basket!

I had been dying to use it, and this past Saturday the weather held out for us to have a picnic lunch at Freedom park. It actually turned out to be a really beautiful day.


We went to the farmer's market beforehand and picked up a bunch of fruits and veggies for our lunch!
We made turkey avocado wraps with curry mayonaise (soooo goood!), a fresh asian inspired salad of cukes, tomatoes, and red onion drizzled with mirin and rice vinegar, fresh peaches, and lemonade!
It was perfect :)
m.

hey, i'm still here

I know it hasn't seemed that way since I haven't really posted in what seems like forever, but I'm still here!

and I've missed my tiny space on the interwebs.

(ok, for the next few lines I'm going to talk about wedding stuff. so you were forewarned.)

We have found a place AND set a date!

OCTOBER 27, 2012

ahhhh!! I can barely believe I am going to be a married woman in 6 months! And to get to marry such a handsome stud, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world :)

We've also got all of the catering, venue rentals, etc. - and a dress. I am so excited!!

It has all come together so quickly and seamlessly so far. And my family and friends have been so willing to give their time and talents, I am truly a blessed girl. 

I still have a loooong way to go, a lot of projects to tackle, a lot of loose ends to tie - but I am still trying to have fun in the process. Kevin and I still make sure we have date nights where we don't talk about the wedding and just focus on us, which is a nice breather!

It is nice to see everything begin to come together, but we are still on the hunt for a photographer and a cake, so if you know of any good (and reasonably priced) bakers and/or photographers let me know!

I'll keep ya posted, 

m.

Seastation Giveaway!

My friend Charis, over at Seastation, is currently having a Birthday-Giveaway! Click the image below to visit her blog and enter for a chance to win some really neat things!

HERE'S HOW TO GET ENTRIES:

1. follow her blog

2. leave a comment, and tell her your birthday

3. tweet about the giveaway

4. facebook about the giveaway

5. blog about the giveaway

6. leave a comment with your favorite item from either shop 

7. follow their blogs here and here

xo

M.

fauxtoes

I'm really getting behind on posting, but it's been pretty busy for me lately!
K and I are oh-so-close to deciding on a venue.
I am getting excited/nervous/joyful about all the plans that will be in the making soon.
I have been gathering all sorts of ideas and inspiration and thoughts, I can't wait to see them all come to life in (hopefully) only 7 months!
with that said, I leave you with a random assortment of photos from here and there:

1. my riiiiiiing :) 2. Trader Joes trips 3. collars 4. healthy lunches

(and ya know, just playing n64)

xo

m

colorful sunday

hope you all had a colorful weekend :)

 

our story

Our story is nothing monumental. It’s not a storybook romance, and it definitely would never make it to the big screen. Our story may be lost through the years and our love may be easily forgotten by others, but it changed my life: and the boy I fell in love with turned my whole world upside down.

I first met Kevin shortly after I moved to Charlotte in 2009 on a Tuesday night at CharlotteOne. I went with my friend, Whitney, and her younger brother and his friend drove up from Asheboro to see Donald Miller speak that evening. It definitely wasn’t love at first sight, but I immediately felt a strange connection to this boy in a plaid shirt and skinny jeans, who I barely said a word to that whole night.

Over the next coming months, I became really good friends with Whitney. Her brother would come up every now and then to visit for the night or for the weekend, so I occasionally saw him. The funny thing is that we really never said much to each other at all, but I was always so aware of his presence. I remember eating dinner one night with a ton of friends while he was in town, and the whole time all I could think about was how he was at the other end of the table and how I could capture his attention! I hardly knew him, but he had made such an impression on me. He was funny, and confident and absolutely adorable.

One of my favorite memories of those in between stages was once when we were leaving downtown and I was heading the other direction on the opposite side of the street, I jokingly yelled to him that he needed to hug me goodbye; so we both ran into the middle of the road and he lifted me up in a hug. He said, “You’re really cute” – and I was hooked.

I’m not sure if I ever really thought something would happen between us. He lived in another town, we dated other people, and he was my best friend’s younger brother. Plus, I had no idea if he was at all interested! But, secretly, I was. Sometimes I would even joke to Whitney, “I’m going to marry Kevin some day.”

Fast forward to December 2010; Kevin had just auditioned and received an offer to play guitar at my church here in Charlotte. Whitney and I’s office Christmas party happened to be on the weekend he was in town playing so he ended up coming with us. Out of the middle of nowhere standing with me and Whitney and another friend from work, he blurts out “Meagan, I would like to take you out sometime.” And the rest was history. Well there was obviously more to it than that, but that was the beginning.

In a Reader’s Digest version of the highlights: we started dating; we became “official” in March, had our first kiss, went on a trip to Hartsville, SC in the summer where I fell head over heels for him; and then a year later on March 6^th, he asked me a question that would forever change everything. And I said yes.

I don’t think I could imagine my life without Kevin. It feels like I have known him forever, but it still feels so new at the same time. I have learned so much from him about myself, about life, about relationships, about God, about love.  

He taught me that love was not just a feeling, that it was a choice. A choice to wake up every morning and choose to love that person every day no matter what challenges, what heartaches, what tests we are put through. I choose that.

I know choosing that won’t be easy. It will be flawed, and we will falter, and we will struggle sometimes. But I can't wait to spend the rest of my life choosing that with Kevin.

Our love and our story may be simple and nowhere close to perfect, but it is mad and it is deep, and it is true.