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Celebrating Wedding Season with the Best Wedding Registry Cookware

In celebration of wedding season and our 3 years of wedded bliss, today I’m marrying (pun totally intended) my love for all things wedding related and my never-ending mission to give you guys the inside info on the best of the best home decor and essentials we love that genuinely enhance our everyday lives by offering our expert insight into one of those wedding traditions that can be a little tricky to navigate, as guest and bride and groom – the registry!

Lifestyle, Men’s Favorites, Spring, Style, Travel

Hotel Walloon: The Most Magical Small Town Travel Destination

Today we’re showing you around one of the most magical, luxury small town travel destinations in the world, the beautiful Hotel Walloon in Northern Michigan, which serves as perfect spot for a romantic weekend getaway or a week of family fun in winter, spring, summer and fall!

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Our 2nd Wedding Anniversary & Our Best Wedding Ideas

We’re celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary by reflecting on our incredible vintage-inspired country wedding day in Northern Michigan and spilling all about what our very favorite elements of our day were, why and where we got those wedding ideas!

Fall, Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Fall & Winter Wedding Guest Outfits

Fall and winter weddings and holiday parties are the best, but do you get stuck wondering what to wear to a fall wedding or winter party? From long sleeve midi dresses to berry lips to the “new” blue suit to pocket squares, we’ve got you covered in this post all about dressing up for those special fall and winter occasions! 

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His & Hers 4th of July Style Inspiration

We always get so excited to celebrate the 4th of July with our family, so we’re offering some serious 4th of July style inspiration for both the men and women so you can bring your best outfit game this Independence Day!

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Our Wedding, Behind the Scenes

You may have recently seen our wedding featured on Style Me Pretty, so we though it would be fun to show you some of the photos of what went down on our wedding day behind the scenes. Here we’re featuring the photos that you didn’t see on SMP, with plenty of laughter and love to go around!

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Our Wedding Invitations + Paper Designs

Our wedding invitations were one of our favorite wedding details, so we’re sharing our cute country and summer inspired watercolor wedding invitations with you guys! The theme of our wedding was “summer in Northern Michigan” and our red, white and blue wedding invitation suite fit into our vision perfectly.

Lifestyle, Style, Summer, Travel

Petoskey, Michigan

Read our detailed travel guide for the best restaurants in Petoskey Michigan, along with our favorite Petoskey wineries, hotels and activities.

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Summer Weekend Getaway: Beverly Hills, California

Details from our girls’ weekend in Beverly Hills, my wedding dress fitting at Monique Lhuillier and why Palihotel is one of the best hotels in Beverly Hills, California.

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100 Engagement Photo Ideas

Read all about a exciting new tool that helps you find beautiful engagement photo ideas for every kind of couple.

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Engagement Photos: Part 2

We’re SO excited to share the second half of our desert engagement photo session with our amazing photographer, Ashley Slater. If you missed the super fun, Route 66-inspired first half of […]

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Engagement Photos: Part 1

Since we got engaged back in October, we’ve promised to share more details from this exceptionally exciting time in our lives with all of you and chronicle more of our […]

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I still can’t believe she’s here and she’s all ours @olcartier ! Theophilia “Tilly” James, may you have your mom’s spunk & your dad’s level head. That should keep you sticking to only the good kinda trouble 😉 Let this be your sign that the baby-in-a-bucket photos are absolutely equal parts ridiculous & adorable & 100% worth the effort it takes to drag everyone out of the house 1 week postpartum 🥰 @taq.photography.llc I love you to the moon for always filling these first months with so much joy! #newbornphotography #babygirl #babyphotography #momlife #cottagestyle
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I can’t even believe I’m writing this. I just can’t believe it. We’re still so shocked & sad & just plain, all around devastated. It still kind of doesn’t feel real, but the hard truth is, it is real. And it sucks. Our beloved pup Elvis, the guy who has brought so much love & joy & mischief & laughter into our home & our family for the last 2 years crossed the rainbow bridge this week after a shock cancer diagnoses and an all too quick decline. We never in a million years thought that the pup we brought home 2 years ago, the dog we envisioned growing up with our kids, being a central part of our family dynamic and our memories for years and years to come, would leave us this soon. It’s not fair. He didn’t deserve this. He was always so healthy & so loved & the helplessness, sadness & anger we’ve felt over these last few months as Elvis declined & we got his diagnosis was just beyond brutal. I haven’t really been able to find the meaning in it right now, but what I do know is that we loved him with our whole hearts, and so did everyone else. And I still believe that although loving something, anything this much can be hard & heartbreaking at times, it’s worth it every single time. I’d do it all over again for 2 years with Elvie by my side & so would Chris. He was truly a 1 in a million companion. 🌈
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All about this perfect neutral paint color on the blog! Link is in my bio. We gave this dresser in our bedroom a little paint facelift & tried the color “Shiitake” by @sherwinwilliams . And we’re LOVING it! It’s such a beautiful grey-beige & would be so good in so many different spaces. #sherwinwilliamsshiitake #swshiitake #neutralpaintcolor #bedroompaint #cottagestyle #shiitakepaintcolor
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On the blog now w/ links to decor sources! 👩‍🍼

We’ve made so many special memories in this nursery with Emmet and I can’t wait to reimagine the space for our sweet baby girl! The entire design plan w/ links to all of the decor sources are on the blog (link in my bio) & I’m so excited for everything to start coming to life in here 💕 #babygirl #nurserydecor #babyblog #nursery #nurserydesign
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Been cooking up something special for 2023! 💕@olcartier #baby #babygirl #babyblog
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Game. Changer. 🥰 This was my first request when we talked about the shower with our builder @hill.farm.design & now that we’re in here, I can confidently say that it was 100% worth it! #bathroomdesign #bathroomremodel #bathroomdecor #bathroomrenovation

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