When I was a young girl, I went through a phase where I dreamed of getting married barefoot in a backyard-style wedding. I also went through a phase where I couldn’t imagine getting married wearing any shoe other than a Converse. Both dreams seem strange to me now. Even as a teenager, I was a […]

“Just a small-town girl, livin’ in a lonely world.” – Journey That is until that small-town girl met the big-city boy. Megan & Kyle met like so many 21st-century couples do, online. They had both recently moved to Durham, NC (Megan from Lynchburg, VA, and Kyle from Los Angeles, CA) and were looking to make […]

“Going to the chapel and we’re gonna get married” – The Dixie Cups Grace & Richard met at church and bonded over their love for the outdoors and hiking. It wasn’t long before they fell in love and Richard proposed in the middle of the Maury River. Then, on October 23, 2021, the couple was […]

I hope you’ve enjoyed this vendor spotlight series as much as I have. This is our last week of the series and it’s time to talk about… PHOTOS (as if the title of this blog didn’t give it away already). You know we couldn’t end the series without talking about our favorite thing in the […]

If you haven’t heard, a lot goes into planning an event… especially a wedding. While a wedding can very much be done as a DIY, often any big event involves vendors. Since we spend so much time with fellow vendors, we thought we’d take some time to ask them what goes into getting ready for […]

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” […]

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle According to their wedding website (spoiler alert, they get married), “Caroline and West began not meeting, starting with their childhood, living just neighborhoods apart. Still, they never met. Then, later, they overlapped, at the University of Richmond, while Caroline was working towards her teaching […]

“Distance means so little, when someone means so much.” – Tom McNeal He slid into her DM’s…  Alissa and Paul met in a very 21st-century way. “Paul started following me on Instagram after a picture of me came up on his ‘explore page’. I had gone to brunch in NYC and somehow that made me […]

“They say love hides behind every corner…” – Joe King  Who says love can’t find you in the most unexpected places? Christen & Will met at a work conference in West Palm Beach in 2017. A year later, they ran into each other again at a conference in Charlotte, NC. “Fast forward a few weeks […]

Dating in the 21st century is a lot different than it was when I was a kid. If you’d asked me in 1998 what it meant to swipe right, I’d think you were making some kind of a reference to Karate Kid. Now, in 2022, it means something completely different.  The Meet-Cute For Loryn & […]