Southern Weddings

Link Love:  The amazing people who linked to us or featured SW last week… {Top 100 Wedding Blogs}, {Sarah K Chen}, {OnceWed}, {TM Photography}, {Weddingbee}, {Junebug Weddings}, {Monogrammed Life}, {Growing Up Southern is a Privilege Really}, {Joy Marie Photography}, {Platinum Weddings by Kerrie}, {Teardrop Weddings}, {Weddings with Tara}, {Best Wedding Sites}, {Weddings by Michelle}, {Joyful Weddings and Events}, {Heather Crabtree interviewed on The Smart Planer}, {In This Instance}, {Orange Tree Weddings}, {Huckleberry Karen Designs}, {Brides Little White Book}, {Love and Splendor}, {Bridal Bar Blog}, {Untitled Bride Blog}, {Budget Savvy Bride}, {Style Me Pretty}, {The Finer Things}, {Cook Images}, {The Wedding Workroom}, {Bridal Opulence}, {Jeune Marie}, {Head of the Table}, {Fickle Bride}, {Southern College Girl}, {Wholly Matrimony}, {Victoria with Roses}, {A Lovely Morning}, {The Wedding Planning Audiocast}, {The Unbride}, {Wedding Obsessed}, {Your Dream Day – South Africa}, {Meant to Bee}, {That Bride}, {Weddings & Celebrations – Tara Lazar}  As always, if you added a link to us or featured us last week and don’t see your link here, be sure to leave a comment with your link and we will add it.  Thank you so much for the link love!

Must Read: Lyndsey Hamilton emailed me about her new fabulous blog, {LHEverything}!  Be sure to check it out.  So many fun and inspiring posts – a definite must-read. How about this gorgeous Prairie Chic spread they put together for The Knot. “We were so excited by the theme and called Matthew Robbins from Artfool. We came up with some cute ideas and are so pleased with how everything looks!  Bubby’s provided the pies, Mira Aster provided the invitations, and Matthew provided the floral arrangements and place settings. Hope you enjoy…”   We certainly do!  Lyndsey and her fabulous team will be guest blogging on SW very soon. Stay tuned…

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I’ll be out of the office until next Wednesday doing a wedding and visiting family in FL, but take care of the blog while I’m gone with all of your comment love.  We have some killer posts set up while I’m gone. I promise to share pics from the wedding when I return.  I’ll be working with a really fun team this weekend including {Cook Images} and {KH Floral}.  You can follow my week ahead on Twitter.

The {Hello!Lucky Contest} winner will be announced in the next couple days.  Sorry for the suspense!  We will post the winner ASAP.

OK, forgive the gushing that follows, people.  I am just feeling the love right now!  On a personal note, after seeing the ABC Diane Sawyer special on Randy Pausch, I will be shutting off the computer for most of the week to spend some time with family.  My 90 year-old grandmother, my mother and I will be spending some girls-only time together sans my dad.  My father (in his mid-seventies) is taking the ultimate adventure trip with my brother for the next 8 days.  This is such a significant trip for them that I am tearing up as I type this.  My brother broke his spine 3 years ago in a snowboarding accident and was unable to walk.  By the grace of God, he is almost completely healed now and has taken on intense long-distance biking.  Just him being able to walk amazes me daily, but in the last year he has gone back to the site of his accident at Vail….  zoomed right past it on his snowboard in fact!  And now, he and my 70something year old dad are spending the week in Alaska hiking, dog sledding, salmon fishing (a life-long dream of my father’s), camping, and to top it all off biking near 150 miles together through some of the most beautiful terrain on the planet.  My dad (who has had two knee surgeries this year) started training for this trip a couple months ago with daily 20 mile rides and double on the weekends.  My mom says, “he could have worse hobbies.”  Ha!  I agree, mom.  Dad and Stephen, I am so proud of you both.  I feel so blessed to have such an inspiring pair of men to call family.  I hope this week fulfills your dreams and you wake up every morning invigorated.  I can’t wait to hear all about your Alaskan adventures!

Have a great week everyone!