Bridals

13 Jun 2011 1 Comment

by hmpohlig in Uncategorized

On Saturday I had some bridal photos taken by my engaged friends Nate and Rachel, who will also shoot our wedding. I had so much fun! Without going into too much detail, since Jimmy might stumble across this post, it was so lovely. Rachel did my hair and makeup, and we shot in front of a field in the afternoon light, as well as in a field (yeah, that was an adventure in a wedding dress), at the opening of a wooded driveway sparkling with fire flies, and in my dad’s chapel. It was fun scouting photo opportunities with Nate. The man has a good eye. I felt really comfortable with Nate and Rachel, partly because I’ve known them for a bit, but also because they’re such laid back people. There was a lot of joking and laughing, but of course classy posing. I actually feel less nervous about my wedding day since doing the photo shoot. I guess it’s because I have an idea now of how I’ll look (and I like it), and I am confident in my photographers’ abilities. That’s cool.

Today I’ve been sorting through a lot of stuff, mainly letters and cards that I’ve collected over the years. I don’t want to take a lot of stuff to our apartment, but I also don’t really want to leave much here. There’s an art to this moving thing. I am ready to move on with this new chapter of my life, or our life, I guess I could say. To me, that is somewhat synonymous with getting rid of things that don’t exactly fit into it. It was okay for me to keep stuff since grade school in a box in my closet up until now, but I just don’t feel I need most of it anymore, and I’m good with that. It’s a nice feeling. On the other hand, I’m trying to hold off on throwing away some items that I’ve grown tired of; my reason for this is that the other day Jimmy proposed decorating our apartment with some of his high school art. In what I hope was a gracious manner, I told him that I just wasn’t envisioning Bill Cosby looking down on me as I sleep. So I’ve decided maybe I should hang onto some wall art just in case I need to pull it out later…