The other day while I was getting more supplies for my wedding invitations, I came across these really cute red hearts.  I thought, why not just play around with them and make something fun!  So I went back home, thought of an idea…and walaa…I made hearts on stick that can be used for engagement shoots, DIY photo booth, or you can even make a whole bunch for your guests as fun favors!

They’re super easy to make, not time consuming, and most of all…budget friendly:

Do you remember the story I shared with the garden back in August of Matt Cawley and Stacey Scanlon?  Well, it turns out their experience is not as uncommon as you might think!  Just ask Trey Turner and Kelsey Kramer, who experienced a similar mishap at the end of September in the big apple.  You know the story: boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy decides he wants to marry girl.  Typical love story, right?

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Wrong!  In this case, boy decides he wants to marry girl so he attempts to propose but instead he drops the ring off the Brooklyn Bridge.  Oops!

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We just celebrated our one year “engage-iversary” — the Fourth of July! How fun, right? We celebrated by going to the Pittsburgh fireworks. They were absolutely incredible, and I got to spend the evening with my family and fiance — the most important people to me in the world. In the 12 month time frame of our engagement so far, there has been both spikes and lulls in our wedding planning. Actually, to analogize,  think of your typical fireworks display.  It always starts off with a bang! (boom your engaged), and it continues with much ferocity. Then after some time passes, it kind of gets a little less exciting and you start to just anticipate the finale. Then comes the dramatic pause, when all is quite and you know the spectacle is just moments away. Finally, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Its here! And you realize what you’ve been waiting for the whole time – and recognize how much it was worth all the wait! So yeah, I guess its pretty obvious how much I love fireworks, eh? As our  engagement is quickly approaching the finale, let me reflect back on the fireworks display that was my wedding planning:

Pittsburgh Fireworks (taken by MoonBud)

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I don’t care what anyone says: being engaged is difficult. I don’t believe that I’ve changed since getting engaged, and I can for sure tell you that Dahlia Dude hasn’t either, but it’s definitely been harder than it was before. So if we aren’t different people, what changed? How can a small piece of white gold and a gemstone make such a difference in a relationship?

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During the wedding planning process, it’s easy to get caught up in the little details of the wedding – “this flower or that flower”, “which centerpiece looks better?”, “should we serve crab puffs or crab cakes?” That’s not to say those decisions aren’t important, but they aren’t everything, and they probably won’t matter much in the long run.

Sometimes, it’s nice just to think back to the beginning, and recently I’ve spent a lot of time thinking back to when we got engaged.

The Bling

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Hello garden!  Now that the big day is over and I’m back in action, I intend to share ALL the juicy details of our wedding planning experience with you.  I can’t think of a better place to start than the beginning of the whole process — our engagement night!  The date was Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2008.  Periwinkle Dude and I enjoyed a delicious early dinner at Wallse Restaurant, and then he suggested we go out for a little after-dinner fun, which I agreed to on the condition that he choose the location.  So, he brainstormed and then we hopped in a cab and Dude directed us to an “undisclosed location”.  I really had no idea where we were headed, and was very surprised to end up at none other than… drum roll please… the Empire State Building!

Empire State Building

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