Hold up! Wait a minute!

I was all set to come home and write a little bit about how my first three venue tours led to a serious bit of thinking about budgets, discussions with the fiance about what was really important for our wedding and a major change in the direction of the entire plan...

Then, I got home and found something in my mailbox.

(I tore into the envelope before I even thought to get out my camera...  So exciting!)

Engagement pictures!!!

First thing I noticed was the adorable packaging.  The note attached to the case said the following:
"The DVD case in your hands has been hand made using recycled Floppy Discs and love letters from the World War II era.  We hope you enjoy the old school packaging as well as the modern technology inside."

Adorable.

Then, I popped the CD into my laptop and reveled in the glory of beautiful pictures (quality of the pics, not necessarily the goofy couple included)...

We started at 21st Street Coffee, in the Strip District...  Where the barista made a heart in the milk foam.

Then, we headed across the street for some posing in front of the warehouses on Smallman Street.

Then a bit further down the street for some time with the iconic Acme Banana Co. (Maybe not iconic generally speaking, but I see a ton of this in e-shoots...  Can't always be the first.)

Notice the quick costume change?  Actually, it took forever and involved me dropping a large earring into a very disgusting sink drain, fishing said earring out with my finger and trying feverishly to wash it off enough not to feel like I'd get bacterial meningitis when I put it in my ear.

Close up of the boots I bought in Detroit over Thanksgiving.

Random parking lot shot.  That's normal, right?

And, lastly, train tracks, a kiss and a popped foot.  Now, that's iconic.

I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a bunch of cringing as I paged through the pics.  But, overall I was so pleased with the results.  I definitely have enough for facebook sharing, save the dates, our wedding website and mini moo's (if I go that route).

I realized that I like the pictures where I was more comfortable (read, in jeans) a bit better.  But, I'm really glad that we have a few dressier pics.  

I also realized that I need to get in gear with the fitness/diet aspects of my wedding prep because I do not want to have to build an entire wedding album based solely on those pics that don't show my many chins (actually, it's more like a single, frog type chin, but I digress)...  That is a topic for another time.

For now, I'd just like to give major props to Rodger Obley Photography and thank them for all the great pictures above.  I know they are going to do an amazing job shooting our wedding and I'm so happy that we hired them.

Now, back to regularly scheduled programming...