Wow! It’s so exciting to be guest blogging this week for Elizabeth Anne Designs. I starting planning my wedding on April 28, 2007 and got married on May 3, 2008 and I’ve loved reading this blog to find inspiration for our big day. The images, the ideas, and the advice were so valuable to me throughout the process!
I am going to start by introducing myself. My name is Erin and my new husband and I live in Columbia, South Carolina. We love South Carolina, but I’m a Louisiana girl at heart. I have a blog (Blue Eyed Bride) that turned into a wedding blog shortly after I started it. I have loved catching up with other brides and can’t believe the great big world of wedding blogs that I never new existed!
Planning our wedding wasn’t completely foreign to me. Actually, it wasn’t foreign at all! I am an Events Manager at a major university in South Carolina and love the excitement that comes with my job. I couldn’t wait to plan an event for myself, with my budget, without having to ask permission and get a dozen signatures to do something beautiful! I was the girl who collected Martha Stewart Weddings and InStyle Weddings for 10 years– tearing out my favorite ideas and pictures and filing them into My Big Fat Wedding Binder. I just couldn’t wait to start using some of those fantastic ideas.
My husband is an attorney in Columbia. We actually met at the law firm when I was working there planning small scale events and he was a first year attorney. We would swap pleasantries and had a lot of small talk and then we ran into each other in the frozen foods aisle at Publix and had a real conversation. Then we began swapping emails and flirting until the time was right that we finally had our first date. We started dating in December of 2005 and got engaged on April 27, 2007. He makes me laugh like no one else can and I am so excited that our life together has begun!
We also have a gorgeous Golden Retriever named Boudreaux. He always steals the show!
You can see him here in a sneak peak of our engagement photos. More of the engagement photos by Kelly Moore Photography next.
