With the stay at home orders in place for COVID-19, I’ve finally had the time to clean and organize our home. We moved in over a year ago and because I was pregnant at the time, we packed and unpacked fairly quickly and once…
Last September, we returned to France to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary at Fontevraud Abbey. Our agenda for the two nights: the three Rs – rest, relaxation and reminisce. The Frenchman got a bit emotional as we started to drive into the village.…
In Part 1 of our wedding invitation series, I talked about the design process and how all the major elements came together. In this post, I’ll go through how we selected the paper and the process of choosing a printer for our letterpress invitations.…
I love everything paper and stationary and I’m known to send my friends and family written correspondence – whether it’s birthday and holiday cards, thank you’s or just “thinking of you” notes. So, it was important to me to have wedding invitations I love.…
This time last year, we were on a jam packed trip in Europe. First stop was a trip to Ibiza to celebrate the wedding of one of the Frenchman’s best friends, and then back to France to take care of our own wedding plans…
As it turns out, Fontevraud Abbey was one of the first wedding venues we contacted. It was recommended to us by our friend, François, who lives in the Loire Valley, and while we liked Fontevraud’s proposal, it was hard (at least for me) to choose the…
After deciding on where to have our destination wedding (read about the areas in France we considered), we had to decide on the actual wedding venue.…
It’s #weddingwednesday! I’ll be posting about our destination wedding in France on Wednesdays. As an event and wedding coordinator, it’s fun for me to share the process and I hope I can help out couples who are planning their wedding (destination or otherwise). When…
It’s #weddingwednesday! I’ll be posting about our destination wedding France on Wednesdays (realistically, twice a month). As an event and wedding coordinator, it’s fun for me to share the process and I hope I can help out couples who are planning their wedding (destination…
Kernville, California | April 2016 Camping… For those that know me and the Frenchman, it might be hard to imagine us camping. It’s hard for ME to imagine us camping. Don’t get me wrong… I love the great outdoors. I just don’t like…
When the Frenchman and I got engaged, there was no question of where we would get married — France. We chose France because it’s the Frenchman’s home country with a majority of his friends and family still living there and I also knew our…