So far this planning ish has been nothing but fun! My MOH and bridesmaids ROCK, and I'm excited to go BM dress shopping with them in a couple of weeks! BTW, here's a GREAT pic of my husband-to-be and Jenn, my MOH... aren't they the best?!?!?!
But yeah, planning has been fun, and we're definitely stoked on the accelerated schedule that we are on. I could not imagine doing this over a whole year or more. 6 months is PERFECT! We met with our photographer last week. Her name is Trista Lerit. She is amazing! We found her when we first started doing wedding research. Cory googled "Falkner Winery photography" and her blog popped up with a wedding that she shot at Falkner last year. We immediately fell in love with her work and were excited to meet her. We pretty much knew we were going to book it the minute we set up an appointment! So, we met up last Thursday, spent a couple of hours there just chit chatting, checking out her work and even pics from her own wedding. Our personalities immediately clicked... she's like one of those girls you meet and you say - "She'd totally be one of our friends!"
If you're planning a wedding or need a photographer, definitely check her out:
http://tristalerit.com/
We met up with the florist yesterday. Funny story about how we came across Kristin... in that same blog where we found Trista (our photographer), we loved the floral and decor that we saw in the pictures. At the end of the blog was the name of the florist. The Treasured Petal - in Rancho Santa Margarita. It was a sign!!! We checked out her address, and she is literally across the street from us. So, we contacted her on her website to set up an appt: http://www.thetreasuredpetal.com/
In the meantime, we continued checking out both websites for the photographer and florist. While I was going through some engagement sessions, I noticed that one of the couples looked familiar, at least, the groom did. I looked closer, and I could have SWORN it was Joe Brancaleone... from good old MVHS drumline. Joe had recently found me on facebook. So, I sent him a message on facebook asking if that was him and his wife on Trista's website. When he responded, he said that it was indeed them... then he proceeded to tell me that his wife, Kristin is in the flower business, and if we haven't started looking at florists for our wedding to check out her website. Would you believe the coincidence... it's the same website we found on Trista's blog and had already sent a message to... It was another sign! Long story short, we met up with Kristin last night at Starbucks and went over some ideas. Joe stopped by to say hello, he has not changed at all! What a small world, huh?
Don't forget to check out our wedding page:
http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AnnalizaVictoria&CorySmith
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