CreativeGenius Girl Inc.

It's Here!

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:05:00 +0000

It's the week of the wedding!!! Only 3 days to go till Saturday!

We are both so excited, about the celebration, about seeing all those loved ones, and I'm most excited about looking into his big, beautiful blue eyes and declaring I will love him forever with all of my being, and be the bestest version of myself for him!

We can't wait. Then the honeymoon, the sun, the beach, the fun. We are ready for that too!

Weddings are a lot of fun, a labor of love, joy, and work. But I know when we dance our first dance I will be glowing in every which way.

We just listened to the song last night in the car on the way home from meeting our photographer for last minute details. And then I just looked at him, our song in the background, and all was well with the world.

I can't wait for these moments!!!!

Love to all!

Union

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:27:00 +0000

I really like this poem. It's beautiful...

Our union is like this: You feel cold, so I reach for a blanket to cover our shivering feet.
A hunger comes into your body, so I run to my garden and start digging potatoes.
You asked for a few words of comfort and guidance, and I quickly kneel by your side offering you a whole book as a gift.
You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep, and I say here is a rope, tie it around me, I will be your companion for life.

Our Union” by Hafiz

It's Fall...

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:49:00 +0000

It's fall now! Pumpkins and mums and spiders alike have been lining our neighborhood streets recently! It's wonderful.

Even in the midst of our busy season aka wedding in less then a month we've been partaking in fallish activities.

- Homemade lasagna for Sunday night dinner
- Reading "Where the Wild Things Are"
- Packing up the Boy - that's fallish right, new beginnings, new starts, and fall cleaning!?
- All things burnt orange and chocolate brown
- The witch hanging on the front door of our new home! Our first fall season in our new house!

I'm so ready for the wedding to get here now. I had my makeup and hair trial, and as much as I want to post pictures, I want to keep it a surprise for my darling fiance`. I'm just thrilled that my vision for the wedding is coming together, I can see it all now!

I'm so excited, I can hardly wait. A few winks and slumbers and itll be here before we know it! But between now and then we have to get him packed up and moved, and then we can get this E and C party started!

Well on Our Way

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:33:00 +0000

We are well on our way to the wedding date! On Wednesday it will be a month! Wow. Woot! Yay!!

So for those of you who don't know I actually designed our wedding invitation myself, with the help of my fancy (my fiance`). It came together quite nicely! I have put in generic info. and scratched our names out for you to see our design/protect our privacy. We are going for old fashioned meets charming. I will be wearing a birdcage veil if I can get it on right! :)

God has been really good to us. We've gotten so much support and love from our family and friends through this whole process. We are excited about the day to come!

There's just lots of anticipation now!

E and C!

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:00:00 +0000

I'm updating.

My aunts hosted a beautiful bridal shower back up in the Chicagoland for me this past weekend. It was so cute. My very creative aunt had even suspended an umbrella over my seat, for me to sit under and a sign that said "shower the bride with gifts and kisses"!

Darling!

I'm also giving you a glimpse today into our wedding logo! Now announcing E and C! Just a little taste of the wedding to come!We can't wait. My fiance` kindly reminded me how many days till the big day just the other night, as we were dancing at my childhood friend's wedding. I whispered to him "next time this will be our first dance!"

As my relative said on her rsvp " we will see you in a minute!"

51 wows.

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:57:00 +0000

51 days to our wedding.

I'm SOOO excited! Everyday when I get home from work, I open the mailbox. I see little rsvp postcards. And I read the notes. I put a special place our invitation rsvp with a place for a note! People have written cute, sentimental things, and then there have been those that just write about UT's opposing football team! Ha.

Besides that I'm still getting some last minute things together --- like the bridesmaids gifts. I need some inspiration. I'm trying to find the right jewelry! And then choose the wine.

But we are working on it! The Boy has gotten the flu and been out the past few days! Tomorrow we head to Chicago. Back to good health hopefully too!

I can't wait to marry my best friend!!!

Our Weekend

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:33:00 +0000

Our weekend was made up of:

Invitations in the mail
Trip to middle TN
Cheering for UT
Barbecue
Afternoon chat in the hot tub
Spontaneous ice cream cake from DQ
Road trip back
Boomsday from the deck of the Roaming Gnome
Dexter
Shelving for the garage
Friends over for dinner
Nap on Labor Day
Cuddling on the couch to wrap up the weekend.

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:03:00 +0000

It's not just one moment, it's the day to day steadiness. It's looking out at the future together, and knowing that no matter what is to come - you know you have someone there to help you approach it - with the same hope (the attitude), the same faith (values), and love (the unselfish and unconditional).

Last night C worked on the ceremony. The thoughtfulness he's approached it with what really gets me. They words said on that day, will not just be words, but rather some of our hearts deepest truths and core of what makes us so strong. I can't wait to make this commitment to him.

The Simpleton.

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:47:00 +0000

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you HOPE for. And the most you can do is LIVE inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

Just Because I Can

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:41:00 +0000

When we interviewed millions of photographers, there was a reason behind it. The below photos say it all. We didn't want to sit in any weird or "hoo hoo formal" positions. We didn't want to be tied up in suits and strings like puppets in a 2 man show. So this is what we ended up with...timeless photos, so natural, and one heck of a memory filled with fun.

Right before we left for the e-session I remember it feeling just about 100 degrees out. It was hot. It was going to get sticky and sweaty. I was a little nervous. Did I really want to have someone take zillions of photos of me, in the heat, of me and my most favorite -- capturing our intimate looks on film...and could it be done?

But once we got in front of the camera, against the brick walls and inside of the old window frames, my perception of what could be and what was - was well, completely different. And boy, our photographer is what I call a rockstar.

I won't forget the tickling that ensued almost immediately, as we leaned against the brown wood and red brick background. We laughed, my mouth open in so many pictures because I couldn't contain myself. The sheer joy on our faces. The raised eyebrows and the way that the Boy can almost completely wrap his arms around me twice.

I love the angles, and the raw edges, and the light.

And when we got in the car after having 400 photos taken of us, we both looked at each other and knew we had done good...and had TONS of fun. In fact, it was the most fun we've had during this whole process. We just played. We were just ourselves.

Now when we are old, and gray haired, and sitting in the little rockers looking out at the mountains we can no longer physically climb, we will look at these photos. We will remember when the Boy could easily sweep me up in his arms and lift me. We will remember the laughter, the jumping, the young spirits. We will see us.

There will be more to come. No worries. Sit tight.
E

More e photos.

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:49:00 +0000

More. This is only a little glimpse. She actually released 172. We really are crazy in love. You can check us out here: http://www.jennieandrewsphoto.blogspot.com/
etm

It's Beginning.

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:46:00 +0000

Today marks the start of...

Team

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:53:00 +0000

Most days you need a teammate. When the house needs to be picked up, a bunch of errands need to be run, when the dinner needs to be made, and the dog needs to be taken out. When the blinds are too heavy to install on your own, and when the lawn mower could roll you straight down the hill...that's when.

That's when you see why you need a teammate. That's when you are so glad you are about to marry a guy that will keep the promise that he makes. The promise to make dinner when you need to just sit and look at the mountains.

I'm so glad I have that guy.

Love Storm

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:48:00 +0000

I consider myself lucky to be in this love storm.

You dote on my with hearts and splash in my smiles. Your thunder comes in like a strength. Your lightening awakens my spirit.

Love storm away.

sneak peak. our engagement photos.

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:47:00 +0000

Here is just a one glimpse shot at our engagement photo session with the most awesome photographer - Jennie Andrews of Knoxville, TN.

We wandered around Old City Knoxville and then ended in downtown, capping off the evening by the Tennessee Theater marquee and then playing in the fountains.

Here is one she sent me as a sneak peak, she couldn't help herself! She is a master with light and angles.

I love it. I seriously can't stop staring. smiling at it. And yes, it the desktop background on my computer.And on my heart.

I love this man.

I love Caligraphy

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:12:00 +0000

I love the art of the written word - both a good book and a good font!

Love Jar

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:27:00 +0000

I've decided to that I love this idea - a Love Jar. A place to write little things down, special moments, memories, to capture them in a jar.

And you can't peak or read them until the one year anniversary. Love it.

First Bridal Shower

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:17:00 +0000

Aw. It was wonderful! The boy's hometown church threw it! People were so loving and generous. We are just blessed!!

the simple.

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:07:00 +0000

anyone can make the simple complicated, creativity is making the complicated simple.

Dear Blog

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:31:00 +0000

Dear Blog,

I haven't been the bestest of best friend to you, huh. We'll I'm being creative in lots of ways, and I think you would appreciate that. Like photo collages, and designing our wedding invitation completely, and well keep all of this stuff in my head at once.

It's actually a lot of fun. For you ladies out there that dream about what the wedding planning process is like, it was a bit stressful in the beginning when we interviewed lots of vendors - but it was so well worth it! Now I know that the vendors we've chosen fit our personalities and wedding style - which we are going for a classy and personal feeling. A little vintage here and there.

Anyways, here's one of the songs that fits C and I and that we like to listen to when we think about our wedding.

Anyways, it's a rainy evening here in TN. I'm headed out of the office in a moment to make up some baked spaghetti for dinner and just enjoy having our very own home. The boy reminds me, it's nice to be home in the rain.

Au revoir`
Me

In Love

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:31:00 +0000

I'm in love. We've been engaged for 2 months now. And I love him. I can't wait to be his wife! How do you love someone everyday a little bit more? I don't know. But that's just it. We do.

It's magical and playful, and real and full of life. There are challenges and laughs.

And it melts my heart, and you tell me "you're going to be my hot wife"

Honey, you amaze me and you're my best friend. I Love you!

And soon, in fact in 3 months we will be...

Wedding Entrace Dance

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:31:00 +0000

How about this for fun!

Ha. It's great!

It has personality written all over it ;)

Wedding Fun

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:52:00 +0000

So the fubs and I got a bunch of stuff done this weekend, and had fun doing it!

It was really special to go and look at wedding bands, and specifically figure out what the Boy likes and doesn't like. It was great seeing him slide the band over his ring finger. Then I'd look at him, and he'd put his hand out for me to see it. I told him now we are going to have to take a bunch of pictures with him and his ring in the near future!

He has it down to three different types of bands. It was really cute, I took a picture of him with each of the different bands.

We also took care of some other little detail things and taste tested cupcakes! That's right we are going for the non traditional route and doing a tier of cupcakes (think fun stand!) instead of a cake! The little cupcake place we have here in town is really cute and makes the most delicious and moist cupcakes. They also come with unique little toppers, which is fun!

And most importantly I found the shoes I will wear with my wedding dress!!! They are so fun and comfortable!!!! And they are a ...................surprise! You'll have to wait after the wedding to see!

November 7th, 2009 we are a few more steps closer!
Yay!

My Sister's Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:00 +0000

My little sister just got married this past weekend. It was beautiful, and I already miss her and my new brother Mike!

I have so many fond memories of the wedding. Honestly it represented the two of them perfectly and the outpouring of friends and family who came showed how loved the couple truly is!

I love you Heidi and Mike! Congrats!

Lunch By the Seashore - yes please!

noreply@blogger.com (CGGI) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:02:00 +0000