Engagement Party 2.12.11

We were so excited to celebrate our engagement with many of our close friends!  My dear friends Natalie and Jessica threw us a fantastic party with lots of love and liquor!  Even my sister came down to celebrate.  Everything turned out perfect, even tough we had a hair disaster earlier that day.  My roots were getting pretty bad a couple weeks before so I went and bought this touch-up product that is supposed to help you last a few more weeks before getting it colored (by the way, it didn't really work, I still had roots).  Well, when Mandy came down she dyed my hair just like she always does and when we took it out, my roots were orange where I had used that product!! I was kind of freaking out, but I knew Amanda would fix it.  It looked like Ronald McDonald...it was bad!  So she ended up dying it two more times to get it to look right, but by the end it looked great!  Good thing we started early because we ended up working on it all day and barely had enough time to get ready.  

When we got to the party, Shabby told me, "Well, for having a hair crisis, it sure looks great!" so I must have looked good!  Everything at the party was so cute and just perfect!  It was Valentine's weekend so the theme was love.  There was red and pink decorations with craft beers and martinis to drink.  It was exactly what I would have wanted...lots of drinks and appetizers, good friends and laughs!  It really represented Chris and I as a couple.  Thank you so much Natalie and Jessica!! Love you both :)

xoxo,



Bride Abbi

Engagement Photo Session

The weekend of January 8th, Chris and I went up north for my sister's birthday.  We were so excited to celebrate with her and do some wine tasting in Livermore!  Mandy thought it was the perfect opportunity to have dad take some engagement pictures of Chris and I.  I wasn't sure about it because it was her birthday and I wanted to make sure we didn't take away from that, but she insisted and really wanted us to! 

It was cold so I couldn't wear a cute dress but I found a cute long sleeve shirt with gray pants and boots.  Chris wore a new shirt (that I made him buy) that was blue and purple plaid and jeans.  The first winery were we stopped at was beautiful and after our tasting we ventured onto the property.  Dad wanted to take some of us on the stairs with the building in the background so we started with that.  It was really weird kissing for my dad and having everyone watching us as he took our picture; we eventually got used to it though.  Then we went into the vineyards.  It was winter so they were pretty bare but still beautiful!  At one point, dad was taking pictures of us kissing in the vineyards and we were holding it for so long I started laughing and I kind of snotted on Chris' face!! Oops!  We both started laughing historically!  Then, Nick was signally Chris to grab my butt when we were kissing so he did it and I snotted on him again!  Ha ha! It was so funny!  Dad got a picture of him grabbing my butt and it is really funny! 

As we went to other wineries we found more beautiful backgrounds for pictures and we really started warming up....maybe the wine helped too!  We found a winery with old cars on the property that were really cool looking.  So Sara went in and asked if we could use take pictures in them and around them.  Of course they said yes to Sara, so we were able to get some great shots! 

We also found some vineyards that weren't pruned so it made for a different style.  They also had this cool building and windmill in the background that looked so cool.  This location was just perfect for us and for our engagement photo shoot because Chris proposed at a winery and we are probably going to get married at a winery.

We got some really great shots and had a lot of fun!    It was so nice to have my dad take photos of us and really capture our love in the pictures!  I am so glad Amanda pushed us to do it....Thanks Mandy!  I am so thankful to have this photos and will cherish them forever. 

xoxo,

Bride Abbi