Wedding Wednesday: Engagement Photos

 

Kyle & I got our engagement photos done over my winter break when we went back to Colorado, and I cannot stop looking at them! Taylor Jones Photography did such an amazing job. These are just a few of my favorites, but you can see more in her blog post about our session. 

I was so happy with how our outfits looked; I coordinated us perfectly! The weather was perfect in the sense that snow on the ground, made for gorgeous pictures, although I know we were both a little cold; Kyle especially since he doesn't have good shoes for the snow. Overall it was a fun session, and I can't stop looking because every picture makes me smile! I'm glad I already ordered our Save The Dates uniting photos from the proposal, because I have no idea how I would have narrowed pictures down otherwise!

--Caroline

Five Friday Favorites

Man this week has flown by! It seems like only yesterday we were in Colorado and I was being proposed to! :) Here's a little bit about how my week went...

1. I celebrated St. Pratick's Day a day early by wearing this green dress to Jeweler Training. While I was still tired from traveling over the weekend and I didn't feel like going, I am glad I did. I just love my job and my sister jewelers! 

2 & 4. The flowers around campus this week have really started to bloom. It seemed like every day I was seeing something new and beautiful and I really loved it. 

3. To combat the cooler (ish) mornings and hot afternoons, I brought back out my peachy linen pants for a mid-week #ootd. I love how these colors bring out the rose gold of my ring.

5. I still can't get over this ring!!!! Eeeppp! It pairs perfectly with the Lillian Eve Ballet Slipper polish  I am obsessed with. I sent it off to be resized this week, and I already feel naked without it!

I have a weekend full of homework ahead of me, but I hope y'all have something more fun planned!

Happy Friday! 

--Caroline

Marry Your Best Friend

So something kind of big happened this spring break... I got engaged!!! My sweet, handsome boyfriend of 6 years got down on one knee and asked for it all to never end, and words cannot even begin to explain how excited I am for this next chapter of our lives! I cannot wait to marry my best friend! :)

Keeping the minute details between Kyle and I, he proposed on a hike around our favorite lake up in Estes Park, after spending the day up in town like we've done on many a date. He asked me on the rock outcropping that overlooks the whole lake, and it was just perfect! Then we went back home to a reception where he had arranged all of our family and friends to be there in celebration. 

A few snapshots from the day...

I was so oblivious to what was about to happen... the last photo was taken just before Kyle proposed! When I turned around I also somehow managed to miss the photographer hiding just off the trail that he hired to take pictures of the whole thing. Phew! 

It was so nice to have some of my best friends at the reception party he organized... 

And then I enjoyed keeping it enough of a secret to have an special Alpha Phi ceremony and share my excitement with all my sisters!

We are really excited--Kyle because his long period of secret planning is over, me because my wedding-related Pinterest boards will finally be used!-- and excited to start this next chapter in our lives and to see what God has in store for us. He has blessed our lives thus far in many ways, and I know he will continue to do so.

And because I'm sure you're wanting to see a close-up picture of the ring... 

He did such a good job, with the ring, the proposal, with everything! I truly have an amazing fiancé (ahh! such an exciting word!) and I feel incredibly blessed. I think I'll keep him :)

Have a fantastic Monday!

--Caroline