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Celebrating Two Years, Savannah Style

We had a wedding in Atlanta to go to on Saturday, which we decided was the perfect excuse to head down to Savannah for a couple of days for an early celebration of our 2nd wedding anniversary. First off, can I please say what a relief it is not to...

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Flip the Switch

It’s been months now since we moved into our new house, and you have yet to properly be introduced to my kitchen. That’s because I’m too lazy to figure out how to use the panorama feature on my new iPhone. And because my kitchen is always, well, messy. Never in...

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Let’s Eat Year-Old Wedding Cake! An Ex Post Facto Examination of an Odd Tradition

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You’ve all heard of the tradition of saving the top tier of the wedding cake for the couple to eat a year later on their anniversary, but I bet most of you don’t know where that tradition came from. I know I didn’t. In fact, I recently ate year-old cake...

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To My Husband, On Our First Anniversary

One year ago today, I stood at the head of Forsyth Park, and surrounded by our closest family and friends I made these promises to you. I cannot believe that a year has passed since that beautiful day in Savannah, and I am even more in awe of the wonderful...

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Moving Day and Early Thoughts on the Joys of Homeownership

After over three weeks of being in two places at once, we are finally completely moved into our new home. Organized or able to find anything, ever… that’s another story. But all of our stuff is physically inside of our new house. Saturday was moving day. We are lucky to...

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Big News and Spring Rolls

My posts have been relatively light on the life side of the life update to recipe ratio, but that’s not because we haven’t had lots going on! First of all, I should probably introduce you to our new addition… That’s Gentleman Jim, Lila’s new boy friend. He’s actually a foster...

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Ode to Etsy

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When I started planning our wedding, I had no idea how many do-it-yourself projects we’d undertake (and Courtney had no idea what a do-it-yourself project was). But like many brides I became obsessed with making our wedding beautiful and unique, in making our guests think “this is so Courtney and...

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DIY Guide: How to Make Your Own Brooch Bouquet

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The very day that I met with our florist to discuss the beautiful sunflower bouquet I would carry down the aisle, I saw a picture of a vintage brooch bouquet and fell in love. I convinced myself that it would be too much work, that I’d never be able to...

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A Brief Explanation of my Absence

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I would imagine that a career blogger’s challenge must be to balance blogging and doing the things worth blogging about. I personally, have found myself so busy doing things that would make really excellent blog posts that I have no time to blog. In the perfect world, I will get...

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The Do It Yourself Aspirations of a Self-Proclaimed Pack Rat

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Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been quite the collector. I collected stamps, pogs, snow globes, stickers, zwibbledibbles, beanie babies, salt shakers, rocks, coins… the list goes on. And there are certainly times that ‘collector’ is an overly kind description of my pack rat tendencies, such as...

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All about our wedding: proposal, planning and the big day.