Weddingbee

When I get nervous, I tend to stick out my tongue and make extremely unflattering faces. Despite the fact that our photographers are also our friends, I just couldn’t help but turn into a fidgety spazamatazz when the lens was pointed at me.

Proof:

© Michael Alan Goldberg

Instead of having a nice, romantic walk through a field, I was a total goof and pranced around while singing a “The Sound of Music” medley that would’ve certainly cracked glass. In this shot, I am pathetically attempting to kick Mr. CC in the bum as we walked. Graceful ballerina I am not.
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Here’s our second batch of engagement photos by Laura Kicey (all photos © Laura Kicey). It was an absolutely beautiful day out, but it was hotter than a red-assed bee, so please forgive my humid-tastic hair and lack of piggyback riding.

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Today is Mr. CC & my 6th anniversary, so it may seem a bit strange that we waited until this past weekend to have our engagement photos taken (since we’ve been engaged for four years now), but that’s just how we roll! I had planned on bringing my point & shoot digital camera and a tripod to the Valley Forge National Historical Park and taking our photos myself, but our photographers and good friends, Laura Kicey and Michael Alan Goldberg offered to take our photos for free (way too nice!)!

Ok, enough rambling. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

© laura kicey
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As the wedding date gets closer and closer, most couples have fun watching their countdowns tick down to the double, then single digits.

Some people use countdowns on sites like Facebook:

Me? I have a unique approach to counting down the days…
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If you’re like me, you probably hadn’t heard of boudoir photography until the beginning of your wedding planning process. I remembered immediately shuddering when I first heard about it, as I imagined myself trying to be sexy in front of a photographer. I saw myself striking a George Costanza-like pose on a chaise, in my socks and underwear. The idea of wearing lingerie in front of a stranger, or even a friend, gave me the heebie jeebies.

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Since we’re having our guests choose from nine flavors of Jones Soda for our toast, I thought it would be wise to make a sign for the soda table with all of the flavors being offered. I wonder which flavor will be the first to go…

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(Let’s Just Pretend that Mostesses is a Word, mmkay?)

Since our shower was hosted by my maid of honor, my mom (and dad) and Mr. Candy Corn’s mom, I set out to get them gifts that said “thank you for being such rockin’ chicks!”

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I just wanted to round up the last batch of wedding shower pictures to finish up my shower recap!
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I had my makeup trial this weekend and it went way better than I could’ve imagined! It seems pretty rare for a bride to be happy with her makeup on the first try, so I was thrilled to luck out at Jason Matthew Salon in Philadelphia, where the lovely Karen made me over. My daily makeup ritual consists of some lip gloss, a little foundation to cover up my ginormous nose pores and a swipe or two of eye shadow. So to have someone apply makeup to my face for an hour made me have flashbacks of my ***wee ballerina days (I hadn’t seen an eyelash curler since then). As an added bonus, there was an opening with Anthony, the super fabulous gent who made my spermified eyebrows go bye-bye painlessly. I also scheduled an appointment (50% off, score!) for my first ever microdermabrasion session with him in a few weeks. When I was getting my makeup done, Karen said it is a great way to remove dead skin (ick) and clean out the pores, which I could certainly use. I’m going to test out how my skin reacts and then if all goes well, I’ll schedule another session about two weeks before the wedding day.

Anyway, enough babbling and onto the before & after photos!

Before (wearing no makeup and still half asleep):

*dun dun dun!!*
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Mr. Candy Corn and I have been engaged for nearly four years (on September 1st) and I’ve just started wondering, why haven’t we ever done engagement photos? I guess I figured since I have hundreds of photos of us, we didn’t really need any more. However, my snapshots aren’t exactly wall-hanging material and I really wish we had some photos of us where one of us isn’t making a crazy face or getting into some sort of trouble (see example below):

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