▣ Save the Date Postcards | Kayla & Adam Sneak Peek

February 12th, 2012

 

It's february in Pennsylvania - also known as winter - also known as - wedding planning season.

 

Today I wanted to share a great website with all of you engaged couples out there getting ready for 2012 and 2013 weddings who are shopping for save the dates and invitations.  Minted.com is a fantastic company that I found through a wedding blog that offers high quality stationary with the option to add photos and tweak the design yourself!  We used Minted.com for our wedding invitations and later purchased matching thank you cards (which I'm sad to say have not all been sent out yet - but I'm working on it). 

 

For our save the dates, we made photo magnets with a photo from our engagement session.  We knew we wanted something functional that folks would hold on to because I sent them out waaay early (almost 10mos before the wedding but it was on a holiday weekend so I felt it was necessary) and looking at our own refrigerators still covered in the save the date magnets from friends' weddings in years past - the magnet was the way to go for us.  Magnets come with their own set of needs though, you have to purchase the magnet itself, purchase envelopes that fit, and sometimes based on the size or weight of the magnet - special postage is required.  If that seems like a lot to deal with, or you'd just like something more streamlined, I suggest the Save the Date Postcard.

 

 

 

Once you've designed the front of your save the date postcard, you can add photos and text to the back.  Add the URL for your wedding website, a special message or just a greeting. 

 

 

If you're shopping stationary and want something your guests will really appreciate, check out Minted.com!

 

 

 

Here's a sneak peek from Kayla and Adam's session, we froze our toes off for these shots but it was worth it !

 

 

Stay tuned this summer for their outdoor wedding at Succop Conservancy !

 

 

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▣ Levi | Newborn Session

February 2nd, 2012

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▣ February 2012

February 1st, 2012

 

Here we are, February 2012.  No snow, 55 degrees.

 

What's up with that?  We'll have to ask the groundhog tomorrow.  Six more weeks of winter, did winter even start yet?  I'm not actually complaining, it's kind of nice to have some snow and then it goes away and the driveway isn't icy.  But one snow squall, seriously?  If we don't get some real snow soon, it's going to throw my year clock all off.  There needs to be snow, and therefore hybernation during these off season months.  Just yesterday I seriously entertained the notion of stopping for ice cream - in January.

 

This is a spot I pass along the rode not far from home.  This farm was established in 1798 when it's founder, a carpenter named George Sober, came here from Northhampton County.  He purchased 325 acres and settled down with his wife, Anna.  They had four children and farmed the property  until it was passed down through their descendants with more than three generations passing their entire life on the farm.  Now 214 years later, the farm still stands.

 

 

 

 

Some things are meant to be preserved and remembered.  Sometimes the very spot you drive past every day has centuries of history you'd never know if you didn't pull over once in a while to really look at it.  All it takes for history to disappear is for everyone to stop remembering.

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