enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

  • our wedding programs.

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    I made the programs from two half sheets of 8.5×11 cardstock. One text weight cream and one cover weight gravel.

    I embossed "e&p" on the front using a custom embosser ordered from Paper Source. On the back, I stamped "celebrate" with a custom stamp I had made of my own handwriting. I also added a date stamp with our wedding date.

    The inside was designed in PSE and ran through my printer
    twice to get the double sided text.

    I folded both pieces in half together, added the holes and strung the sheets together with divine twine.

  • the honeymoon (part 3).

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    And that's that. Our favorite food was Tahiti's national dish – Poisson Cru. It's raw fish (tuna for us) marinated in lime juice and coconut milk. Paul ate it almost every day and is convinced he can make it at home. The plan is to "go to the docks and get some fresh tuna." I'm like "dude, you trusted me on an orange wedding, I'll trust you on this."

    There was an octopus hiding under our hut! We only saw it one day, but I am pretty sure that's the most photographed octopus in all the land. I think I have a future as a fish paparazzi. 

    My dress pictured above was from Martin & Osa.

  • right now i :

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    + am still obsessed with the orange and gray.

    + fully realize that this has become a wedding blog. just a bit longer folks, hold tight.

    + have three leads on 2 condos and 1 apartment in our price rang and fave San Diego neighborhood.

    + miss Paul. he's in Maryland for the next week and a half.

    + need to get two underwater cameras to the developer.

    + have 888 unread posts in my google reader.

    + am excited about a lot of projects on the horizon.

    + am so anxious to move down south.

    + need to come up with a way to get semi-famous so I can go on dancing with the stars.

    + feel busy and that's just great.

  • we danced all night.

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    I keep stumbling on more fun photos on Facebook. These make me so happy. Paul makes me so happy.

    I will be sharing full stories and details from the wedding late next week when I have the professional photos to share.

    (thank you, Christy & Mike for snapping these.)

  • omgosh.

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    We have received so many amazing wedding gifts that I cannot wait to start using in our new apartment. (BTW – we really need to start apartment hunting.) But these two, I wanted to share here right away.

    The E, P and heart cookie cutters were tied to the outside of a cookie baking stone. Such a fun gift. How cool to collect the whole alphabet?

    And the frame with our anniversary came from our friends Sara and Matt. Sara took the photos around capital hill in DC and Matt cut the matte. I love it. I love the different numbers, the colors, the idea. So perfect.

    We need a place to live. I have so much to hang up and so much to bake.

  • the facebook photos kill me.

    Eanddad I am anxiously awaiting the photos from our professional photographers, but until then am loving what pops up on Facebook. When I saw this one of my dad and I halfway down the aisle, I gasped.

    The whole experience was so surreal.

    The doors opened and the only thing left to do was start walking. I remember hearing the music. I remember seeing three distinct faces. I remember thinking, "Oh, good! Paul sees me!" I remember trying so very hard not to cry and failing miserably.

    I adore my dad. It was such a cool moment for us both.

    (thank you, sarah for the photo.)

  • the honeymoon (part 2).

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    We stayed at the Pearl Beach Resort. For the most part, we kept to the resort except for one fail of an excursion to the main island and a boat snorkeling trip. We loved the local beer. I loved my sun hat. Paul beat me by about 100 in miniature golf. And I got a kick out of building a swimsuit rainbow.

    Thank you for the comments about my clothes! From yesterday : the black and white cover up is from Target. The orange and blue short dress is from Jones New York. In this post, the blue long dress is Old Navy and the pink romper is Gap. I bought a lot of clothes for the trip but fortunately, they were all pretty inexpensive. My swimsuits are mostly Victoria Secret.

  • this is us the morning of the wedding.

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    On Friday, I had my girls help with making boutonnieres. It was hilarious and much more successful then I anticipated. (Did anyone take photos?)

    On Saturday, I had them making centerpieces. The hotel gave us a conference room for prep work and we piled in. I had already trimmed off the leaves so it was just a matter of chopping the stems and placing them in water. It was easy. SUPER EASY. So easy that I walked around the hotel bored for two hours after we were done.

    This is a internet high five for anyone who wants to do their own flowers. Keep it simple. Organize your time. Smile when people think you're nuts. If you want to, you can totally do it.

    Our vases were margarita cups from Crate & Barrel and the roses were from Costco. I had them delivered on Tuesday, and they looked lovely for the wedding on Saturday. We probably only had to throw out 15 out of 500. I hope to have more photos to share of the centerpieces on the tables as well as the bouquets soon.

    (thank you, michelle for the action shots. xo.)

    p.s. my heart headband is ban.do.

  • the honeymoon (part 1).

    I can't for the life of me figure out how to format our honeymoon into a blog post. So I finally settled on a post with a few words and then a few posts with photos. I will probably use a few other posts to share smaller stories of what we did. In the next month or so, I am going to make a digital album of our trip (similar to this) which will include photos and my commentary on what we did and all that we saw. I will be sure to share the finished product.

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    Right after the wedding, we spent a week in French Polynesia (if you were like me and are not sure where that is, it's marked with the "A" above.) One night in Tahiti and five nights in an over-water bungalow in Bora Bora. It was the most beautiful setting I can imagine. Pinch-yourself-and-shake-your-head-in-awe-beautiful.

    We had a great week. It was romantic and un-romantic. It was serious and hilarious. It was completely what I thought it would be and also totally unexpected. So basically just how our daily life rolls, except we were in paradise. We ate breakfasts outside and fed fish through our floor. We went to bed early and woke up early. We got long massages. We accidentally got sunburned. We snorkeled. We people watched and made up stories for what they were really like. We fished watched and made up stories for them too. We planned our future and laughed about our past. We celebrated happy hour every night. We learned tiny bits of the local language. We ate amazing food.

    I hope the photos do it justice. I can't wait to start getting them printed and used in projects.

    I also cannot wait to settle into a normal routine as husband and wife.

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    All photos taken with my little point-and-shoot (a Canon PowerShot SD1000) and a lot of help from the 10 second timer. So much more to come. Thanks for letting me share.

  • a peek.

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    Thanks, Lisa, for the preview. So excited for more!