And this one was our save the date photo!

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The next step is well underway too – last week I put together our wedding website and sent out save the dates! It was a busy week for wedding planning, that’s for sure! Now that the save the dates are out (with the wedding website info on them) even more people are going to start booking their hotels. Eek! So fun.

I’m thinking you’re probably excited to see the picture we used on our save the dates, right? Maybe you’d even like to see our favorite pictures from the engagement photo session? Remember these are the ones that came from the engagement photo shoot we did back in December in Jamaica. I love these pictures because we’d only been engaged for about three days, and it makes me so happy whenever I look at them.

Without further ado, here are our engagement photos!

We used this one for the main picture on the website.

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For the save the dates, we had this picture printed on magnets from Minted using this design. They came out really beautifully, and even came with free pre-addressed envelopes that matched the design! I can’t tell you how nice it was not to have to write out the addresses on the envelopes, and I loved that they looked the same as the save the date inside. It was really easy to upload my contacts too (once I finally had everyone’s address). Minted also gives you a discount on your first purchase, so the save the dates weren’t too expensive either. All in all I had a really wonderful experience with Minted, and I’m definitely planning to use their services again.

Here are the rest of our favorite photos from the day!

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We used this one on the invitations to our engagement party back in April.

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As for other wedding updates, we’ve made pretty good progress on list to data selecting our vendors! We’ve decided to go with Crow Entertainment for our DJ and Lauren Nievod for photography. I’m especially excited to work with Lauren since we met over Skype and clicked right away. The slogan on her website is “where every sparkly detail counts,” and if that doesn’t scream Chelsea then I don’t know what does. Lauren usually includes an engagement session in her pricing but since we already had the photos from Jamaica we asked if she could do our engagement session on the day of the rehearsal dinner and sneak some photos of the rehearsal dinner in as well. She agreed to work with us on that and now I’m thrilled that I’ll have some professional photos of the rehearsal dinner as well as the wedding! Both vendors have been great to work with so far.