August 29, 2020 was nothing short of a dream. After a year of planning through a pandemic, Cameron and I could not have asked for a better celebration of God’s love and His work in our relationship. We are officially Mr. and Mrs. Smith! Our biggest dream for our wedding day was to show God […]
My Wedding Beauty & Fitness Plan
For some reason I always used to read these types of posts on blogs when I was far too young to be making a wedding beauty and fitness plan. They were absolutely fascinating to me. I thought to myself, ‘wow, when I grow up, I am going to follow a ‘plan’ for 6 months just […]
Valley Forge Engagement Photos with We Laugh We Love
As we received our engagement photos in the midst of the holidays, the hustle and bustle got the better of me. But I would be remiss if I didn’t permanently publish a bigger spectrum of our photos on my blog for all the world to see 🙂 We found Justin, of We Laugh We Love, […]
How I Proposed to My Bridesmaids
Follow me on Instagram for more DIYs, fashion lifestyle, and home decor! If you were to look around my childhood bedroom, peel open some old journals, or uncover loose sticky notes under my bed; you would find various lists of combinations of friends and family written at different stages of my life. These lists, in […]
5 Quick Tips for Wedding Venue Hunting
If you are recently engaged and starting on the journey of wedding planning, you might be in for a rude awakening when you start searching for your dream wedding venue. When Cam and I got engaged in August (and immediately got grilled on when it would be), we pretty instantly knew that we wanted a […]
We’re Engaged! Our Proposal Story
I had never thought too much about Labor Day weekend. Before I met Cam, it was always a big beach weekend that I would spend with my entire family in Cape May and inevitably the end of summer and beginning of a school year. But when I started dating Cam, I began to attend his […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Love Notes from Jesus
Single? Dating? Engaged? Married? It doesn’t really matter what your relationship status is this Valentine’s Day. Jesus is writing your love story. Jesus’ Love > Human Insecurity I remember being a single girl in high school and college and being told that it was a time to focus on my relationship with God. It was […]
JoJo & Cameron: Long Distance Relationship Update
Distance means so little when someone means so much. I had the title of this post drafted for many months with no content written and a “sorry for myself” attitude. I had grumbled and cried and prayed (and probably grumbled more than prayed) and cried myself to sleep and got on my knees by my […]
5 Essentials for the Perfect Summer Picnic
This past weekend, I visited Cameron in his hometown of Carlisle, PA. There is nothing like going out to “the country” in the summer. It always reminds me of our first summer dating, when I visited him for the first time. He showed me all of the local haunts, we went hiking, fishing, and visited […]
What’s Your #1 Love Language?
From the time I was a little girl, my mom used to talk to me about love languages. She knew exactly what mine was as soon as I was old enough to talk. Whenever I had a story to tell her, I made her sit down with me so that I could have her undivided […]