E Shoot Planning: Part Two

So planning what to wear for the E Shoot is the best part, right? I think so! Currently we have two outfits picked out, and I love to come up with a third but I'm not sure yet. We have a fancier look and more casual one picked out. In order to blog about it (and email it to BM Marie), I used Polyvore. I'd never used it before, but its fantastic. I highly recommend it for making inspiration boards!

E Shoot 1 by one23mad
(For sources, click on the e shoot 1 link)

Anyway, after pending way too many hours looking at dresses and trying to plan a trip to Anthropologie, I visited TB and tried on some dresses at the mall by him. I was super shocked to find a dress I loved. It was cute on the hanger and double cute on me. It fit perfect (unlike a dress from VOn Maur I would have had to get altered, but it was a runner up). It was listed for $100. . . but I got it on clearance for $30 from JC Pennys. I was surprised to find anything at Pennys, especially because the one by TB is super super small.

So I couldn't be more excited about the dress, and I'm still shocked I found it. It must have been my lucky day! After setting aside $120 to buy a dress, finding one I like just as much for way less was a great feeling.

TB also bought some nice pants from gap (the pink shirt in the photo is from gap, but TB is just using a pink shirt he all ready owns). The pants were 25% off and he got a Gap card too for another 10% off. In the end, he got 3 pairs of pants (for student teaching) and 3 pairs of shorts. He now has shorts that fit without holes! Yay!

Next are those amazing heels. I actually found them at Famous Footware for $30 (they're listed for more on the website). Seeing as I have no heel experience and they're crazy tall, I've been practicing. Once I got over feeling fifty stories tall and super wobbly, I started to get the hang of them. And Confession? I love them! I've never been very girly but I feel super hot in those shoes. I finally get why ladies squeeze their feet into crzy shoes now. . . You feel like a rock star!

And, as I've all ready mentioned TB's Samba Obsession, he'll of course have to wear them! (The new pair he just bought. . . that look like the same ones he just wore out).

Anybody else rockin' crazy heels?

Some SUPER E Pics!

Yesterday on the Rock 'n Roll Bride Blog, I saw the cutest E Pics I may have ever seen in my entire life. Never having seen this blog before (and its definitely worth a good look!), I had to scroll though a few older posts to find these amazing photos.

As if the couple wasn't cute enough, here they are parodying some art work (which you all know I love).


But, believe it or not, those aren't the photos that made me so excited! First, I have to admit that I may be a graphic designer, but I do moonlight as a bit of a comic book geek. I can't help it, I guess I was just born that way :). I'm not a big fan of DC comics (I'm a Marel girl, myself), but I still appreciate them and Mr.TB likes them a lot. My inner geekiness has just made me fall in love with this E shoot. If TB and I end up getting E photos done, we're totally going to copy this idea, I think. (Now I just need dark hair like Lois).


Check out the whole set here, which I totally recommend because it's awesome. Those two are too cute!

I Want Engagment Photos!

So Mr. TB have not had engagement photos, but I would love them! I feel like we don't have enough photos of use as a couple (it seems like they're all from our first 6 months of dating) and E-pics would be a great way to celebrate our future and the wonderful part of our lives we're at right now.

I've always wondered if E Photos had an expiration date? Unlike most couples, we're having a long engagement - 2.5 years to be exact. Now, we're about 6 months into the engagement and I feel silly like we've waited too long. I feel like since we've been engaged for a while, its too late for photos - and that breaks my heart a little. Mr.TB is a fairly traditional guy (albeit, while I'm not) and I'm worried he's a little off put doing E-Photos so late into the engagement. We still have 2 years to go though, so maybe they're all right because we are engaged (and loving it, no less)!

Anyway, as if I needed a reason to want E-photos - isn't how great they look reason enough?

Unfortunately, I do not live anywhere near a place like this (source):And I'm determined to have balloons (source)
As a Chicago Girl, this next one is near and dear to my heart. I would love something like this (source).