Engagement Photos!

As you can see, we had a blast taking our engagement pictures! My photographer (who is a good friend of mine) is amazing! I'm so glad that I chose to go with someone that knows me personally - she knows what I like (and don't like for that matter) and used that knowledge to create some of the most beautiful pictures I have ever taken. I can't wait to see the finished prints and to see what she comes up with for my bridals!

My Wedding Shoes

My wedding shoes have arrived, yay! 

I absolutely love them!

Our Ceremony Venue!

We have booked our ceremony venue, yay! 

I'm super excited about the location - it is so beautiful 

and the atmosphere is perfect for our intimate, southern

style ceremony and family dinner. Our dream 

wedding is actually becoming a reality! 

Here are the details:

Wedding Ceremony

Date:  Saturday, November 10, 2012

Time:  6pm
Location:  Degas House Courtyard, Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans

Before we made any decisions pertaining to our marriage, Mitchell and I had a heart-to-heart discussion about our dream wedding. We talked about the things that we wanted and what would make us happy and decided that a big, traditional wedding just isn't our style.

Although many people may disagree, having a huge ceremony in a beautiful church is not all that important to the two of us - we want our ceremony to be special, unique, and most importantly, shared with the individuals closest to our hearts. So we finally decided that an intimate ceremony in a New Orleans courtyard would be the perfect fit, and after seeing the venue, I know that we made the right decision. I couldn't be happier and more importantly, I am sure that the two of us and our guests will forever remember this special day.

Here are a few pictures of the ceremony venue!

Front of Degas House

Courtyard

Estelle Suite 

Front Parlor

Evening Courtyard Wedding

Night Time Reception

Well, that's it! Don't you just love it?!?

So many ideas...how to choose just one?

My Dilemma: Choosing a style that (1) I can use for all of my wedding stationery, and (2) I can construct from scratch that will look professionally made.

I finally decided that I am going to make our ceremony save-the-date cards from scratch, so I headed to a few craft stores to purchase supplies. I was overwhelmed to say the least. I had so many ideas bouncing around in my head, so I bought wayyyyy to much stuff - card stock, tags, ribbon, labels, accent stickers and cutouts, stamp kits, pens, paper punches, and so on. Then I made the mistake of searching for designs on Pinterest. I am now even more scatter-brained than I was before I began the save-the-date process, ugh! What's a girl to do?

Here are some stationery styles that I'm loving...

Any suggestions or feedback? I need all the help I can get!

Mandy Lum

So Much To Do

I never realized how much time and effort goes into planning a wedding, even a simple one like ours. I am so frustrated for not having completed our blog and website, but I just can't find the time to sit down at my computer and work on them.

Hopefully I will have lots for you to look at next week. Well, I say "you", but I'm really only talking to myself  because, at this moment, I have no followers. 

Well, back to work. Check back next week to see how the planning is coming along.

Mandy

Getting Started

Hi all! Just put together our wedding blog yesterday - hopefully I will have much more content up by the weekend. There is just so much to do and so little time to do it, but I'm still having lots of fun planning our wedding!

Check back later this week for more details about our upcoming wedding!

Mandy