amen.

the portraits are in! i have to say my initial response wasn't one of excitment but when i calmed down and actually looked at the pictures i was impressed. he did a fantastic job on them and there are quite a few that i loooovvveeee. i'm going to have a hard time picking out which one i want to blow up! i think i have an idea tho. =]


im super deee duper excited and can't wait until the big day! <3

50 more short days.

drip drop woops did he get that shot?

hahahha. today i was scheduled for bridal portraits at 3 pm at the gallery. so i woke up at 9 o'clock and started running all around town trying to find some hair accesories. i went to like 4 different places and was unsucessful. so i went to my hair appointment at 11 at visible changes to get my hair done and was there til 1! geesh talk about numb! once i finally left there i headed downtown and i was sceptical of the place at first because i knew what part of town it was in and well let's just say it wasn't the best. but i was shocked when we got there! it was tucked away behind these rod iron fences in between to apartment complexes which was totally weird. hahaha. so when i arrived i saw dilauro setting his camera equipment and i went to the brides room to start getting ready even that room was beautiful. it would have been an amazing place to get married but its too far. so i got all dolled up and started slipping into my dress. which i might add was a tight fit! haha. as soon as i stepped out the door sweat began pouring off me! it was insanely HOT! that satin dress prolly didn't help. i was shy at first but towards the end of it i started warming up and feeling like a movie star. my dad was screaming america's next top model lol because that's what i've wanted to be my whole life. *side note* i don't know why my dad wanted to come so much but i wasn't gonna argue.
once he finished he asked "is there anything you see that you want to do?" and i had already looked at his website and saw this really cool pose where a girl was laying down and had all of her legs showing by propping her feet up on a gate. well i attempted to do that and flashed some guy all my secret stuff in the process . see what happened was i had my legs sticking straight up in the air so my dress fell in the back exposing my goods and some guy walked out the door to this underground thing where i was laying. ttoooootttalllllyyyy embarassing! lol but i had soooo much fun and am super sad that it's over now. i want more pictures!!! ( never thought you'd hear me say those words did ya?)

51 more days nukka.
<3

p.s. that's not me in the picture. that's just the place i went to.

trying to decide

so of course i'm not gonna put the good ones are here cause they've gotta be a suprise but here are a few shots we took that i just really like.

ok, so it's been two weeks since i started this "nanny" bit and it's taking a toll on me. i'm there for approx twelve hours a day and it's a drag but hey i'm making good money, i take naps, i work out, i drive her car, i have a key to the house and we get to go fun places everyday like to the movies. :) so on tuesday my best friend/maid of honor came to visit me and aris and we went and took pictures at this little white church in kingwood that i had originally wanted to get married at but it wasn't big enough. we got some really great shots! we did some studying online of engagement pics like popular positions, angles and stuff like that so when we went we weren't clueless on what we wanted. espicially since so many of our friends are either gettting married or are married the hunt for ideas wasn't that hard. in a previous post i mentioned that we had already got the wording picked out and now we just needed to put everything together. aris works at fed ex so we're getting all this stuff free! what a blessing! saving our families a big chunk of dinero. lol. we're still stuck on what pic we want to actually use tho we've taken so many and there are so many good ones we dont know which to choose!

bridal portraits

since i didn't have the blog at the time no one really heard about my whole wedding dress shopping experince. well let me just say it was deff unique! let me just tell you exactly how it went.
i had been searching online for an idea of a dress style that i wanted. i had no knowledge on any styles of wedding dresses except for the big poof princess dress which was just not me. so me and aris' sister really started searching for something more along my style. i looked everywhere alfred angelo and even searched usedweddingdresses.com , i even had the idea that i was going to get my dress hand made custom just so i could get exactly what i wanted and just to try and find something different. then one day, i found the dress i thought i wanted no doubt in my mind. that was the dress. so i searched for shops in the greater houston area for shops that carried the dress and it was like a sign, the neighborhood i grew up in had a bridal shop that carried the dress. i made and appiointment and me and my mom and my mother in law and the lady that was personally going to hand make my dress AND my maid of honor all stomped into the bridal shop all SIX of us. let me just say total choas. it was like shop til you drop in that bridal store. we picked out about 25 different dresses for me to try on. and the ONE dress i had went there to try on turned out to be a dud. it was nothing like the picture. it wasn't shiny , the color wasn't the same, and overall i was just not satisfied with the dress. so we started looking for something else. luckily i found a dress that was stunning. it turned out to be half the price of the original one i wanted which was amazing and it looked amazing on me. so we bought it. i learned don't bring anyone with you to pick out your dress except for your maid on honor cause it was total chaos! hahahaha. good times. so now my dress is here three months later and i've gained a couple pounds and it's kinda hard to get my dress zipped so me and my baby are on a wedding diet/work out and he's losing it but mine is just shifting to different areas of my hips!

as soon as i can get my dress on to where it fits comfortably i'm on my way to take my bridal portraits with Mr. Dilauro, which i LOVE his work is beatuiful. i think his style is very classy and vintage. nothing about it traditional which everyone knows is something im not going for. i love the new modern wedding and that's what he's giving to me. the only problem is i dont know where to take pics at. i had originally gone with his suggestion to go to pmhouston.com but i found out a lot of girls go there to take pics so im on a hunt now to find somewhere origianl.
http://www.ddphoto.us/

87 more days til i become mrs. sharp <3