The Wedding Register

Ringing it in

I love this sweet little wedding cake ring

via designsponge

Our Labor of Love

I've been following Atlanta based photographers Our Labor of Love for awhile, but I had to post what may be the most beautiful wedding I've ever seen. The pictures are absolutely brilliant. Let these images dance in your head and carry you into the weekend...

The Book is almost here!!!

The next couple of weeks promise a flurry of activity. I leave next week for what promises to be a game changing photography workshop in Santa Fe, the Sweazys return to LA for a wedding, and my beautiful, magical daughter will celebrate her second birthday.

But I have some news I've been dying to share.

My book is finished. This sucker has long been a labor of love and has been through so many draft changes and agents and artists that I'm amazed we both survived intact. But it's finished and almost ready to make its debut. I'm 99% certain that I will be selling the book through the Veiled Remarks website, and my media blitz of one will be coming to your blogs and cocktail hours soon.

But here is a little sneak peek. Isn't GORGEOUS??? The artists of Harvest patiently brought my story to life, and for that I am just beyond grateful.

More news and hopefully a link to a shopping cart soon! Have an awesome weekend!

The Corpse Bride

I'm still not exactly sure how I stumbled onto this story. I don't routinely surf websites entitled Malaysian Babes, but for some reason the links I followed brought me to a post about this super spooky photo and tale:

p.s. For the easily creeped out, i.e people who can't watch The Ring, let alone Watcher in the Woods, skip this post.

Trust Me.

I mean it.

Still here? Ok.

At first look, nothing amiss, right?

Well?

She dead.

According to the internet story - someone helpfully translated from the original Malaysian which was translated from the Chinese (so you know it's reliable), a historian unearthed this photo and revealed it's story. The wedding photo was taken in 1922, the bride the daughter of a wealthy Chinese family and the groom a poor but extremely handsome fella. Tragically the bride developed a high fever and died before she could be buried. But that didn't deter her parents who were unwilling to send their daughter to the grave unwed. The groom, rightfully unwilling to be married to a dead girl, fled his village and joined the army. Her parents tracked him down, and six days after the bride's death, they was joined in holy matrimony.

For the J-horror twist, you aren't supposed to look at her photo too long. Because she just might smile at you.

Love Match

Some say there are matches made in the stars.

There are matches made by exceptionally wise/meddlesome family members.

Match.com anyone?

For these folks, their kidneys were a perfect match.

Good thing he'd already given her the ring.

image from cnn.com

Happy Valentine's/Darwin's Birthday

Whether you are celebrating Darwin's birthday or the day of the Whitman Sampler, I hope you have a lovely one.

Ever the thinker, Darwin composed a practical pro and con list debating the merits of marriage.

Oh, that Darwin. God's gift to evolution. To the ladies? Eh, not so much...

Pros:

Children (if it Please God)
Constant companion (and friend in old age) who will feel interested in one
Object to be beloved and played with. Better than a dog anyhow
Home, & someone to take care of house
Charms of music and female chit-chat
These things good for one’s health—but terrible loss of time
My God, it is intolerable to think of spending one’s whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, and nothing after all—No, no, won’t do
Imagine living all one’s day solitary in smoky dirty London House
Picture yourself with a nice soft wife on a sofa with a good fire and books and music perhaps compare this vision with the dingy reality of Great Marlboro Street, London
Cons:

Freedom to go where one liked
Choice of Society and little of it
Conversation of clever men at clubs
Not forced to visit relatives and bend in every trifle
Expense and anxiety of children
Perhaps quarrelling
Loss of Time
Cannot read in the evenings
Fatness and idleness
Anxiety and responsibility
Less money for books etc.
If many children forced to gain one’s bread (But then it is very bad for one’s health to work too much)
Perhaps my wife won’t like London; then the sentence is banishment and degradation into indolent, idle fool

Etsy

Valentine's Day is approaching, if you hadn't already noticed by the onslaught of red rose specials and heart shaped boxes virtually lining your path toward the checkout. Fortunately somebody invented etsy to remedy the generic, traditional offerings, and Poppytalk Handmade took it a step further with its curated marketplace. In addition to the adorable, quirky valentine day cards and gifts, she has some wedding day offerings, like this beautiful, handmade ring bearer pillow from paperhill.