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OUR WEDDING VIDEO

January 24, 2016

Filed Under : WEDDING

JANELLE + KYLE from Ellay Films on Vimeo.

So I haven’t shared much of the wedding yet because I’ve officially deemed 2015 the fastest year on record. Who’s with me? It feels like I blinked and now we’re halfway through 2016 (kind of though, right?). Anyway, consider the wedding posts UNDERWAY. They are happening. We’re kicking it off with our wedding video by the amazingly talented Ellay Films.

You should’ve seen our faces when we watched it for the first time. Sobbing messes, the both of us!! I’m sure Kyle appreciates me telling you that. We’ve watched the video nearly a thousand times now and love every single second of it. We can’t thank Ellay enough for creating such a beautiful video. Not only are they our best friends (LITERALLY. Hi Jayadores!), but they are the MOST talented wedding videographers out there, so we were truly honored to have them shoot our day. Jaymee was actually a bridesmaid in my wedding so she had some double duty while filming!

Jaymee + Kim, we love you. Thank you for PERFECTLY capturing the best day ever.

P.S. They captured my absolute favorite moment from the day and I will be forever grateful for it. It’s minute 1:47, when Kyle and I exchanged our wedding cards for each other and they ended up being the exact same card (which I bought 8 months before the wedding and he bought the week before lol MEN). It was the only part of the day where I ugly cried. Like full-blown really embarrassing sobs. Thank goodness that my Kim Kardashian cry was OFF CAMERA.

THE SHOT

June 30, 2014

Filed Under : MY LIFE

proposal shot

This photo isn’t a particularly great one, nor does it come close to capturing the beauty of a New York City skyline at night. The exposure is a bit off, the colors aren’t all there, and the graininess is a little too visible for my liking. But for me, this photo doesn’t capture an image. It captures a precise moment in my life, timestamped at 1:01 AM on May 28, 2014, on the rooftop of The Nolitan Hotel in NYC, when my boyfriend of 8 years (is it 9, now?) proposed to me. At the exact moment I took this photo, he got down on one knee and I’ll be honest with you, I was one sappy mess.

It was perfect, just the two of us on that roof, and although I have no photos of us from when it happened, I’ll forever have the moment captured. You see, the sneaky guy suggested we go up to the roof to take night photos of the skyline. Well, gosh darn, that made perfect sense to me because OF COURSE I need photos of that exact thing for the blog, ya know? I’m always looking for that perfect photo op. Well, he had other plans, which, in retrospect, seem really obvious – who wants to go up to a roof at 1AM? But at the time, it just wasn’t on my mind. That’s not to say that it wasn’t on my mind during other parts of the trip – you know, the sweet stroll through Central Park, the talks of going to the top of the Empire State building, the romantic dinners. During those times, I was like YUP I think I might get proposed to. Aaaaaand it never happened, so I guess you could say I had given up by the time he actually did ask me – HIS PLAN ALL ALONG. After 8 years together, it’s hard to surprise me because I know all his moves, but he somehow managed to do it. And I said yes, of course.

More NYC photos coming soon.