Bonjour & Hello.

Hi there! After much procrastination (and plenty of comments from Tristan) I have decided I should write a post. First of all, welcome to our blog! I'm hoping that friends and family find this to be a simple way to keep up with what we're are doing here in central Florida. I'll just give a brief summary/update in this post.

Living here is okay, but I think that both of us are ready to be done with this big city and move somewhere else. Our wedding will be in May(unless something dramatic happens to change the plans) and I will graduate then as well. After the vows we are free to do just about anything. Tristan has promised that we'll be able to get a puppy after we're married and settled.

Hopefully he's ready for something like this.




I'm not sure where we'll be living after here. Hopefully it will be away from the traffic and dense population we are in the middle of right now. Living anywhere near family would make my heart happy. Kenya is a possibility and Tristan has mentioned both Colorado and Arizona as places with possible job opportunities for him. So we'll see! It's intimidating but exciting too. Between planning the wedding, school, and work, I don't have time to worry about where we'll be this time next year. God will work it out so we'll just keep listening.

As for right now, I am so excited about our wedding! I am going to try to post some of my ideas on here. I want to share all of my DIY plans :) Here is the first of my projects, a brooch bouquet. I found the idea from a wedding blog and I absolutely love it.

This particular bouquet was made with decorative ceramic knobs from Anthropologie.


I've been collecting brooches, pins and knobs for months now and I think I've got just about enough. Now I just have to figure how I'm going to arrange it. Our wedding will be a vintage theme with lots of mason jars, handmade paper flowers and simple, rustic decor. I can't wait to share more on here, but I'll save those for future posts.

Thanks so much for reading and I hope you'll find something interesting about our story and our lives on this blog. We hope to hear from family and friends and we want to know what you're up to as well!

-Laura Leigh