One-derland

Wow, it's been forever since I've even had time to THINK about a wedding blog post! God has been so good and blessed me with a job that keeps me busy 99% of the time. If you know me at all, you know how miserable I am to not be swamped. I love being busy, and am happiest when I barely have time for myself. Adam has been super busy as well, finishing up this semester, and working every hour in between. Luckily, being busy also means the time flies by just a little quicker. 

We are officially in the 100's!

Only 199 days to go! 199 sounds a bit more daunting than something in the 200's or 300's. It's hard to believe we've been engaged for over 6 months now. I swore when we got engaged that the time would pass as slow as molases--not the case. I remember May 16 as if it were yesterday, and know I always will, but I also know that once the clock strikes January 2012, the big day will really be here before we know it!

Quite a few things have developed since last time I wrote. Let's see. 

First, we took our engagement photos with the always fabulous Sarah Barlow. It was such a blast. I absolutely love the results! Here are a few of our favorite edited ones, really, just a few! We loved them all!!:

(Adam's favorite...what are we doing? Our first..Tango?)

And now...here is a small chunk of some of our favorite unedited ones...outtakes and all!

And there you have it. Never before seen. 

Back to wedding updates.

My dress and veil came in, and I got to go try it back on a couple week ago with my mom, sister in law, and two of my bridesmaids. I. LOVE. IT. It is still more than perfect, and Adam is going to just melt. I can't wait to go back for fittings in Jan/Feb. 

We also just ordered our Save The Dates, and don't worry, the picture on them is not on this blog post so it will be a surprise. They're super cute, totally us, and I can't wait to send them out! 

Our videographer should be booked sometime in the next week, and I am so excited with who we are using. His name is Jake Morgan, a fellow Lipscomb alum, and he is extremely talented! It will be oh so great, I just know it. 

I think we've decided to start out in the Nashville area for the first two years or so, until we get fully on our feet and decide where we want to go plant ourselves next. But who know's. That could totally change!! We've got our whole lives ahead of us, and we're so excited to start thinking about the possibilities!

The other day my mom and I explored several apartment complexes. The result: holy moly LIVING is expensive! Whew. 

For crafts, I have two headboards in mid-craft down in the garage just waiting to be finished. Should be interesting to see how those turn out!

I guess that's about it. There are some little things in the works here and there, but the majority of things will have to wait until Feb/Mar to really start cracking. 

GETTING EXCITED!!!!

And as one of my crazy 'maids said jokingly tonight, "you're officially in one-derland!!"

--The future Mrs.

Canvas Art

My crafty self is back! I don't think Adam knew what kind of DIY-er wife he was getting himself into when he asked me to marry him. Lucky for him though, that means we will have a super cute place, at a super low price. Crafting is so fun, and I feel like when I walk into Hobby Lobby or Joann's, my head just spins with ideas and inspiration! Well, I was at Joann's today shopping for materials to make our headboard, which I'll blog about later this week, when I made the mistake of walking down the discount fabric aisle. There was no turning back. Immediately, my eye caught this cute green paisley pattern, which so happened to be laying by this cute brown pattern. I decided I just had to use these patterns somehow, so I looked for one more similar fabric, and headed towards the canvas aisle to finish my impromptu craft list. 

My plan was to cover three 12 X 12 canvases with my three new fabrics, and hang side by side on a wall as accent art! They'll look great above our future bed, couch, or even in our dining room/kitchen! 

Here's what I did:

Here's what I started with. I also ironed all of the fabrics first, since they had some pretty serious creases from being in the bag all afternoon. Side note- the canvases were also half off, only $4 something a piece!

I used my staple gun and pulled the fabric extra tight all around the canvas and stapled it into the wooden part of the back side.

On the corners, I wrapped them like I was wrapping a present.

Finished product! Can't wait to hang them in our new home as a pop of earthy, yet modern color! 

Until then, away they go into storage!

Stay tuned to see our headboard! Sneak peak-- it's going to be chocolate brown!

249 days.

-the future Mrs.

Shadowbox & DIY Whiteboard

So since this is partially turning into my crafting/wedding ideas blog, I wanted to share the two crafts I made yesterday! Both of these things could be used at our reception or at our future home!

Craft 1- rustic shadow box!

I have been wanting to make one for the oodles and oodles of little gems here and there I've saved from things Adam and I have done or things he's given me, and I finally got inspired to just do it after Anna made a suuuuuper precious one for Mr. Jack. 

I hit up Hobby Lobby once again, and bought a shadow box that would match some of my frames and some really cute fabric, and just went with it! Here's how it turned out!

the shadow box & fabric

the result on my wall!

Craft 2- rustic whiteboard

I got this idea from combining a few different ideas I've seen on Pinterest & other craft blogs,
and just made it my own.

I found a destroyed wood frame and used the other half of the fabric from the shadow box, hot glued everything, and voila!

the frame

the frame with the fabric hot glued to the cardboard piece that came inside the frame

a homemade whiteboard! The only marker I had was on the verge of death so it didn't show up very well, but it will be super useful in a kitchen or office or at our reception as a welcome sign!

That's all, for now!

-the future Mrs.

Tagteam

This past weekend Adam came to town!! It was a long overdue visit to the Pence homestead. 

Saturday morning, we did something a little crazy. We drove out to Manchester and ran in the 

Warrior Dash! You can see more about this crazy race HERE.

I'm so glad we did this! It was amazing and such a fun way to us to push each other and really work together. The race was a little over 3 miles, with 12 huge obstacles along the way. At the very end of the race, we lept through two big fires and swam through a huuuuge mud pit. 

Here are a few photos from our adventure.

After we made it home and washed all of the mud out of our ears, we headed to Target and Pottery Barn to begin our wedding registries!! We still have lots to add, and  I'm super excited to register for our bedding this spring and really start picking out what our room will look like!! So fun!! We're also planning on registering at Crate & Barrel next time we're in Dallas, and making small wish lists at REI & Home Depot.

Here's a quick look at a few of my favorite things we registered for so far:

a precious little kitchen set!! I love this table!!

Yes, two tree-base lamps! with coordinating burlap shades!

two matching bookshelves. love these!!

our shower curtain!! we also picked out all of the bathroom coordinates and towels!

panini maker- we hear these are pretty awesome. cough cough Andy & Becca.

an awesome 4-slice toaster with retractable cord! we're doing all of our appliances in black & stainless. 

our nice dishes!! I'm obsessed!! They're called Cambria Mushroom at Pottery Barn.

and our nice flatware!! also at PB, called "arctic." These were the shallowest spoons of all the collections. Adam has an issue with overly deep spoons. 

We may or may not have also registered for an Xbox 360 and several more board games, including a Star Wars version of Operation. 

I mean, why not?? haha. 

Making our registry together was quite the tag-team effort. I think we worked really well together picking and choosing what we definitely wanted while both getting things we each really liked. There were some things I Adam completely picked out, some things I completely picked out, some things we both immediately said yes to, and some things we both said, okay which do you like, which do I like, ok let's get the one in the middle.

On Sunday, we went to church and breakfast with the fam, took pictures, and went to lunch with one of my sweet bridesmaids, Liv! Love her so much!

Such a productive weekend!!

Tonight, I crafted two more fun projects and I'll show those off tomorrow!

Missing my future Mr,

-the future Mrs.

Compromise

Who knew that planning a wedding would take a huge amount of compromise, even with someone who's your other 75%. Well, obviously I knew that, but everyone always says, the bride does everything and the groom has no say. Not the case. It's half HIS day too. Luckily I think there is only one main category right now that we are in disagreement about: music. 

And luckily, we've got 267 days to decide on something!
Which by the way, is starting to fly by! I can't believe it's already mid-September!

For instance. 

I found a song the other night and thought, 

"oh this would be PERFECT for us to leave the ceremony to!!"

Adam thought, "it's too fast."

Well meh meh meh. 

Another instance. 

Adam insists on walking into the ceremony to something...grand. 

Like THIS.

One can only assume how the bride-to-be felt about that one. 

I guess I'm learning that not every wedding idea I have is going to pass the a-ok from my groom, and I have to be ok with that. I want it to be just as special for him as it will be for me.

And in the end, who really cares what music we use. Who's going to remember it anyways? 

We will be married and happy and that's all that matters. 

I guess you'll just have to come to our wedding to see what the final decision was!

Either way, I know it will be perfectly "Adam & Sarah."

-The Future Mrs.

p.s. I think we might start registering this weekend!! 

I'm sure it will be an afternoon full of compromising and dreaming about OUR future home!

p.s.s We both recently got jobs!! Maybe we won't live in a cracker box after all! Only kidding. But God is so good, right when you need Him most.

Witty titles aren't my strong point

Here we go again, I know it's been a while since I've been on here, but I just like to build up anticipation.  As I sit here watching Tron Legacy and finishing up some homework, all I can think about is that a year from now I won't have any homework...but I'll probably be watching Tron Legacy then also.  Sarah seems to be doing a great job at keeping the interwebs updated on how our wedding planning is coming along.  Looks as if all things are coming together quite nicely.  The whole thing going through our heads right now is looking for a job.  I just want to be able to finally get out into the world and have some fun.  But I digress, this isn't a married blog (yet at least) and you don't particularly care about my job search so lets get Adam back on topic.  So roughly 274 days and 18 hours until I get married.  That's a pretty crazy fact to think about.  After going to Andy and Becca Sawyer's wedding, I got pretty excited.  Having all of my best family and friends there to just have some fun and be around will be great.  Though Sarah has shown some of the plans made so far for the wedding, believe me, there some great surprises that are going to be there.  Now to wrap up my time of blogging, let me leave you with this little bit to get you guys excited about that day next June: I have full control of my groom's cake...yes FULL CONTROL.