I am fond of DIY projects, so I decided to take on designing my own Save the Dates. I had a great idea inspired by Dandelion Bud’s postcards, but the end result didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked:

I printed one out and they looked great at a distant, but even at a comfortable reading distant, you could see the pictures were pixelated and overall quality fuzzy. The poor quality comes from using a less than stellar editing program. Of course, I didn’t notice this at first because I had just spend several hours staring at a computer screen and blamed to fuzziness of that…

The next day, I sent the file to my sister to get her opinion. Was the quality too poor to print? In her brutally honest fashion (which is exactly what I was looking for), I got a resounding “Yes!”

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Although me and Calla Lily Dude don’t consider ourselves to be the most photogenic people in the world, let me start off by saying that I am VERY HAPPY with how our engagement pictures turned out.

By Sargent Photoworks

But, I do have some “regrets.” By “regrets” I don’t mean “this was a mistake and I wish I had never done it,” I mean more like “I’m very happy, but I wish I had done a few things differently so I could be extremely happy.”

“Regret” #1: Not voicing my thoughts to our photographer

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Any good piece of wedding advice that I have gotten so far has included talking to your partner about wedding-related stuff and making important decisions together. I mean, how hard can it be to talk to each other?

From lifeinbonitasprings.com

I thought I was doing pretty good at keeping the communication lines open between me and Calla Lily Dude even though he doesn’t really want to be involved in wedding planning (by his own admission). For all the talking that Calla Lily Dude and I have done pouring over wedding decisions, I realized that our communication is not as free flowing as I had thought… Here is a prime example:

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