Photo Challenge: (cook)Books

This week's photo challenge is Books.  Now for a person that doesn't have a lot of physical (or virtual, now that I think about it) books, this one could have been challenging.  I do however, have a good collection of cookbooks.  Although these books aren't filled with stories, they are just as vaulable to me since I need a lot of direction in the kitchen.  I almost always follow a recipe when I cook and one day I hope that I can start to improvise on my own to find out what goes with what, but for now, I am very "by the book" you could say (see what I did there?)

I have a lot of vegetarian cookbooks (duh!) and even some great ones that I got for the wedding/showers.  I got a mexican cookbook from my mother-in-law.  I also got a vegetarian cookbook from Danny's grandmother which is one of the last things she gave me before she passed away this past April.  I was looking through it the other day and came across her card that came with the gift which made me miss her so much!

We also have a "Cooking with Beer" cookbook in our collection that my parents gave Danny for Christmas last year.  I need to cook a recipe out of it for him but a lot of them include meat which means I wouldn't be able to try it (bummer).  I have a lot of vegetarian cookbooks since its easier to add meat than to take out of most recipes.  Cooking is one of my favorite things to do even though Danny will tell you I haven't been in the kitchen in awhile.  Maybe this will spark a new recipe this week? Keep reading to see!

#WeddingWednesday: Photography

So now that I'm old and married and can never plan a wedding again, I decided to create a weekly blog post devoted to my big day.  Since I didn't blog during the wedding planning process, I wanted to reminice and create a collection of the amazing details that came together for our special day.

This week I wanted to blog about our wonderful photographer, Little Tree Studios.  The wedding is only one day, but the photos will last forever!  Since I live in Cleveland and the wedding was in Columbus, I didn't know any vendors to use.  The Knot was a huge help for me and I ended up finding our photographer and also our venue and baker on the site too.

Shortly after we started planning the wedding, I started stalking The Knot for the best photographer.  This search eventually brought me to Little Tree Studios.  We called and booked them for our engagement photo session in September of 2012.  Little Tree Studios is owned by an amazing woman named Kyle and from the very first time we met her at our engagement session up until our wedding day, she was so sweet, easy-going, and has an absolutely amazing eye for photography!  Below are only some of the great photos from our engagement shoot.

Fast forward to the wedding day and Kyle and her husband blew us away!  We were SO blessed to have them be a part of our special day and capture the amazing memories we had that day.  Below is a (very) small sample of the beautiful photos that were taken at the wedding.  If you are looking for a photographer for your wedding, check out Little Tree Studios.