I feel like I’m just overflowing with love and happiness and gratefulness (is that a word!?) We’re home!!! We made it back to the states early Monday morning and wow, I can’t even put into words how amazing our two weeks in Mexico were. It was so surreal, I feel like it
It feels so surreal to me that there is only ONE week until our wedding day! We leave in the wee hours of the morning to make the trip down to Mexico. Some of our family and friends have already landed in the sunshine, but most will be coming on Wednesday to kick
Now that we are only 3 weeks away from the big day (ahh!!) our guests have definitely received their invitations and it is safe to show them all to you! Our invites took a looooong time to make and even longer to deliver to each of our guests. They were a bit…
Adam is a very creative and handy man. He loves to get into different projects, mostly building things (tool sheds), restoring things (the airstream!), but he can get down with some crafty things too- like my hand-carved engagement ring box! However, to be honest, I was a little bit surprised when he started
The honeymoon was easy to choose once we finally chose our wedding ceremony location! Adam and I love to scuba dive and we have both been dreaming of diving in Cozumel. Since we are getting married about an hour south of Cancun we are planning on taking the hotel shuttle up from Tulum
You might find yourself in need of creative ideas for a bachelorette party, so I wanted to share some ideas for a scavenger hunt! I have found myself looking on Pinterest many times for different friends bachelorette scavenger hunts and it would be nice if they were all in one place. So, here are some
I looove crafting! I can seriously search Pinterest for hours and hours just looking at different DIYs. I think that is one of the things I was most excited about when it comes to wedding planning… all of the crafting! I wanted a creative way to ask my friends, “will you be
I knew from early on the general color scheme that I wanted for our beach wedding, and I knew Adam would probably agree because it’s his favorite color: blue! The thing is, there are about 42 million different shades of blue and I really didn’t care too much which we used as long as it
I can’t believe we are already this far into November, time is seriously flying by, and our wedding is slowly sneaking up on me! So my plan as soon as Adam and I were engaged was to let my bridesmaids decide on their bridesmaids dresses in a general color palette as these cute
I’m a little less than 3 months out from our tropical wedding in Mexico! I can’t believe how quickly time has been flying, but we gave ourselves quite a bit of time to plan (thank goodness!). Now that we are down to the final months before, and they also happen to be
Destination weddings are known for being more affordable than most traditional weddings, and that is mostly because they usually have a smaller number of guests. However, the tab can start to creep up for both the bride and groom and especially for guests. Once you throw in the plan to have a
The first time I went to a little shop in my hometown to try on wedding dresses I had no idea what I wanted. I thought I wanted a super low back beachy wedding dress. Funny thing is, I didn’t even try that style of dress on. They were actually difficult to find and/or
After Adam and I finally settled on the country we would get married in we set to work looking at different venues. After looking around for a few weeks we sort of got lucky with this one because I remembered seeing the photos of one of my friends weddings in Mexico. I
I thought for my first true post I would share the rocky start our wedding planning began with. I’d like to share our wedding “vision”… except it might be more accurate to call it a non-vision. We didn’t start planning much to do with the wedding until we were engaged for about
Hi BSB! I’m Cortni! I am so thankful and excited to be joining the budget savvy bride community and have the chance to be a featured bride! Currently, I am an Oenology (wine!) scientist and cider-maker. I’m also a part-time marine biologist, and I blog over at yakkafit.com. It’s a strange combination,
