enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: wedding

  • a little big project.

    A while back I saw a wedding on Snippet & Ink where the bride cross-stitched her table numbers. The wedding stayed in my head and I think I want to do something similar. I realize this is a little crazy – I don't have a reception venue and I don't even know how many tables…

  • envelope pocket love.

    I am planning on having five bridesmaids (and a possible sixth depending on the Peace Corps and the price of flights from Guatemala) and I asked them via phone, email or text message last week. I told each girl to wait for the "official invite" which would come in the mail. I printed up 4…

  • yes, i have seen the j.crew wedding dresses.

    I have stalked the j.crew wedding section long before I was in the market for a wedding dress. They are lovely. Here are six sweet ones and my humble opinions: The front of this one is similar to the dress I posted this morning, but the back is just too plain. Beautiful, don't get me…

  • the one dress of probably 364 that i will love.

    Dress by Jenny Yoo via 100 Layer Cake (fabulous blog, btw.) Today's "ooh la la" is over a dress. So far, the dress has been the hardest part for me to visualize. I am going to shop for one in real life with my mom, but for now I am just getting familiar with what…

  • maybe we’ll just make it a feature.

    Photo from j.crew via Green Wedding Shoes So the word from P is that it is too early to commit to colors. But these shoes fit my orange + gray plan so fabulously. I do not have a theme for the wedding. But I do want it to feel warm. Warm and sunny like California.…

  • currently.

    Photo by Zoom Photography via Style Me Pretty. I am feeling a bit ahead of the game here on the wedding planning front. I am just a little bit impatient by nature and I love to arrange and rearrange and make lists and cross out. This whole part is FUN for me. It is crazy…

  • and we’re off!

      It has been a week since the transfer of the ring and I feel like we have an outline of a plan. On Saturday, we met with friends of ours, who are getting married in July, and I was given the Real Simple Weddings Book. It is beautiful and also insanely overwhelming. It details…

  • all i know.

    photo credits : 1. Happy little trees, 2. ranunculus print, 3. inspired:august, 4. 308: 12.5.07, 5. hello spring, 6. film.174, 7. bumble and bumble in the meatpacking, 8. 09.28.08 {running}, 9. oranges, 10. Untitled, 11. Untitled, 12. spare, 13. Fresh, 14. to: you, from: me, 15. Above the crib, 16. Untitled At this point, all…

  • the e + p engagement.

    It was not a big surprise. Not in the sense that we have always talked about getting married. Not in the sense that on New Years, Paul asked my parents for the OK. Not in the sense that on a rainy day in January we went to look at rings. And yet, it was. As…

  • last night, in our kitchen, in our pjs, paul asked if i would be with him forever.

    Edited to add: yes that is the ring, yes it is on my left hand. The photos are from my Mac and therefore backwards. Much more info to come + thank you for the well wishes. We are, of course, excited.