RedRedOrange on Oh So Beautiful Paper!

In case you don't know, Beautiful Paper is the most amazing site, filled with invitations and other gorgeous paper treats. I started visiting Nole's blog pretty much the day it started, after seeing pictures of her own lilac filled wedding..  She continues to amaze me with the jaw-dropping inspiration her site is famous for, so when she posted my wedding invitations and Save the Dates today, I seriously almost had a heart attack. In a good way.

Thank you again to Nole, and to read about more of the inspiration behind the designs as well as more photos, please visit here and here. I am off to eat cake!

Wedding Recap- Part 3

After our "first look" we ventured out around our South Philadelphia neighborhood and had a blast taking pictures. I was stressed out in the days leading up to the wedding that I hadn't put enough thought into where we would go, but our photographer was amazing and made even the most ordinary backdrops look extraordinary. 

We live in an area filled with really cool mosaic murals and went to a little alley that was covered in them.

All pictures taken by the wonderful  Alyssa Maloof

For more pictures from our wedding, check out the first two posts here and here.

Wedding Recap- Part 2

Instead of riding in a limo from the hotel to the wedding site (it was only three blocks), I decided that I wanted my parents to walk with me. This was a really hard decision for me to make. Was it rude to ask my bridesmaids to hang out at the hotel for an hour while we had our first look and took photos around the city? Was it weird to walk the streets of Philadelphia in a wedding dress while this lady took pictures of me? Perhaps, but do you think I noticed? All these random people congratulating me, my beautiful mom and handsome dad on my arms, I wouldn't have done it any other way! The plan was that Jon would be waiting in the garden for me, sweating profusely and getting really nervous. Too bad he doesn't sweat or get nervous.

Note the skyline in the background.

Don't worry, I won't make you look at pictures of us kissing after this, but you can see how awesome our secret garden was. A little oasis in the middle of the city. All pictures were taken by the amazing Alyssa Maloof! For part 1 of the Wedding Recap, click here

Wedding Recap- Part 1

On September 6th, 2009 I was finally married to my bestest friend, Jon. I say finally for a few reasons; we had been dating for almost 10 years, we had been engaged for almost 2 years, and lets just say that while I didn't realize it at the time, I was really stressed out from planning and worrying and crafting and being pretty much encompassed by this one day that was, according to everything I have ever read, supposed to be the best day of my life. Well, it turned out to be the best day of my life (so far), and most everything went just as we had (meticulously) planned.

My awesome hair lady, Ali, styled me up just how I wanted, even though I had completely changed my mind after my hair trial, and decided I wanted my hair half up. For anyone that knows me, I am rarely without a ponytail. I have A LOT of hair.

My Beautiful Bridesmaids, all in their own blue dresses that they picked out themselves! This was awesome, each girl wore their favorite style and it couldnt have worked out better. My only criteria was that they were blue. My sister in law, Alexis on the left had just given birth to twins, and my dear friend Nicole on the right was 7 months pregnant! Can you believe that!? They are all so gorgeous.

Our friend Eleanor was in Israel at her Mother's wedding, but we wanted her to feel like she was part of the day, so I took a picture of her and taped it to a chopstick. She was a hit! Bridesmaid Hedy shares a glass of champagne with her just after Eleanor's long distance call from Israel.

All of my wedding photos were taken by the AMAZING Alyssa Maloof!

I was getting really excited at this point and started jumping on the bed, because that is the kind of person that I am. That was the nicest down comforter ever. Stay tuned for more recaps and photos of my groom!