I am so excited to begin my recaps! I just got back my professional wedding photographs from Julie Dreelin and i am IN LOVE with what she has produced from the wedding. I just went through them again, (for the millionth time) trying to think about which of my projects/topics to do for my first official “recap”, when I needed to start of all of the amazing recaps with an ode to how amazing they are and how happy I am that we did “splurge” and picked her to chronicle our wedding. Here I have attached my favorite “portrait” of Moon Dude and I under the Kitty Hawk Pier. This is the image we chose to include in our “Thank You” cards, (hence the “thank you”), while I have another post coming about our stationary and the thank you cards, I wanted to use this image to thank YOU for reading, and sharing the journey with me! Below the cut, you’ll see a wonderful collage of photos that Julie did for her blog, that I have included. its a great preface to all the details that I’ll be sharing with you over my upcoming posts! Great job Julie! It was great working with you!

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So I always knew that I would get my wedding dress custom made. And I don’t mean always as in since I’ve been engaged. I mean since I realized that I am one of the pickiest people on the face of the planet when it comes to dresses – so basically when I started to dress myself for special events. This little part of my personality still comes as a shock to most, as they all know me as a “Comfort Cootie.” That nickname was lovingly bestowed on me by Dahlia Dude, and has since stuck exceedingly well. And I must say that it rings true: I’m a jeans and tshirts kind of girl. Anyway, back to being picky.

When Dahlia Dude and I first started talking about getting married, I knew that I would never be happy with my dress unless I picked it to match the venue. And so, as our ideas of venues changed and evolved, so did my mental image of my dress. And you’d be surprised at how many mental images of wedding dresses I’ve had floating around in my head. I could probably open up a boutique at this point!!

When we finally decided on a beach wedding in Cape Town, I started working on narrowing down the images that I could find online into an inspiration board of dresses. And this is what I came up with:

All Dresses Taken from Designer Sites

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