in shock

so here is the deal..... i'm in complete shock that there are only 80 days until our wedding. i'm excited, nervous and practically giddy over the fact! not to mention that in less than two weeks i will be celebrating my single days at my bachelorette party planned by the best maid of honor, my sister, taylor :) i couldn't be happier with her incredible planning skills and creative mind!!! oh and let's not forget the planning of my bridal shower which will be this month yayyyyy! so now on to some updates

in january mom and myself ventured down to the outerbanks to finish up all of the nitty gritty. we went through the house again (it's still perfect!), lined up all of our rental items and we got to meet with our fantastic caterer, Deb from Argyle's! We couldn't be more thrilled by all of our incredible vendors. Oh and not to forget the beautiful Ginger Harvey from GingerSnaps Photography introduced us to the most precious coffee shop for our finalizing meeting. we thank her for the newest addition to our home decor, a beautiful picture frame with one of our engagement shots already in it.

side note..... many of you know my dress is in and looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!

oh and another side note WE GOT A PUPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! many pictures to follow :)

love, ashley

engagement session.

it's been way too long since we've blogged, and not to mention we have had our engagement photos taken!!! while we were on our family vacation in the outer banks we met up with Ginger in Corolla to take our engagement photos. We started our morning off on a tour with the Corolla Wild Horse fund. It was an incredible experience where we learned about the wild mustangs as well as got some awesome pictures :) After we finished the tour we made our way to the Corolla lighthouse and the Whalehead club. We had an incredible day of being super giggly and got to show tons of affection in public, hahaha. We loved getting to know Ginger with Gingersnaps Photography, and here are some of our favorite pictures!

www.corollawildhorses.com

my absolute favorite

this is love

look at him model!

giant ampersand :)

these are our save the dates

love this tree

awesome bridge

<3

photog.

I like to think of myself as a photographer, an amateur one, but still. This being said I knew that I had to find an awesome photographer with the personality to go with it. While my sister, mother and I were attending the OBX wedding expo reception I noticed this bleach blonde running around taking pictures. I managed to track her down and got as much information as I could from her in that moment. The next day as we were walking around the expo we got to her booth. It screamed clean, modern and talented. I know that she is not the most expensive or probably not the most experienced, but her personality had me excited. We booked her that day and I couldn't be more thrilled to have our engagement session this summer or to have her document our wedding :) I introduce to you, GingerSnaps Photography!!!

http://gingersnapsphotos.blogspot.com/