a dress.

Amidst some difficult news this week, something amazing happened - I purchased my wedding dress.

Can I just say, wedding planning has (generally) been a breeze. Fun and exciting with little to no pressure...what the joys of a long engagement will do to a person! But before I get carried away with gumdrops and rainbows, I'll just say this one thing: I freaking hate wedding dresses. I mean if I was being totally honest, I'd have some other colorful words to embellish that sentence.

Wedding dress shopping has been my personal nightmare. I just don't like most wedding dresses in this world, and they don't like me. But - joy of all joys - all of that is behind me! On to more exciting wedding things, like accessories and decorations. I feel like we're finally approaching the creative, fun part of planning.

For obvious reasons, I'm not going to post my dress here. So instead, here is some of my favorite wedding inspiration...

(Photos above: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6)

santa barbara wedding.

Not traveling for the weekend is kind of the business. Had a wonderful sushi date at our fave local spot (walking to dinner in LA = win) with some good friends last night, cleaned the apartment today, and finally got around to uploading pics from Annie and Edge's wedding in Santa Barbara last weekend. Also, Google is telling me that today is the 125th anniversary for the world's largest snowflake, so there's that.

new york.

A few favorite pics from our trip to New York...

A visit to my NY office - fun views (though I admit I like our LA office views better!)

I could stand there all day long.

Hotel lobby (not ours).

Saratoga Springs got some freezing rain, so we decided to bowl.

Front porch views.