愛在鐘樓下

以前剛進大學在新生訓練的時候

就有聽說

"An ISU woman is not a "true coed" until she has been kissed under the Campanile at the stroke of midnight. After the kiss, she must anonymously drop jelly beans outside each girl's door in her house. Any senior who hasn't achieved coed status before graduation must drop lemon drops.

This legend lives on during "Mass Campaniling" at Homecoming or during the Friday night of Senior Week."

呵呵

所以不免俗的我也去鐘樓下親一親啦!!

但是不是半夜12點

>///<

鐘樓是在1897年蓋的

天阿!!超古老的!

可是粉羅曼蒂克feel

身為Iowa State的一分子

當然也要去照一下阿!!

擬補一下談戀愛時沒有去照的遺憾

所以當初要找照相地點時

我就有要求要在鐘樓照一張

歷經113年的差別

但是由照片看起來鐘樓根本沒變過的感覺

"a student officially becomes an Iowa Stater when kissed under the campanile as the carillon tolls midnight. This tradition is called 'campaniling.'"

拍engagement picture 之 準備篇

明明是過一天的旅程

我偏偏準備了兩個小行李箱

老B回家看到都問我幹嘛要帶兩個.....

呵呵呵

我當然是有原因的啦!!!

另外一個行李箱是要來裝我的法寶的啦!!!

小小一個被我塞得滿滿的

衣服...

不敢擺下去

弄皺了 又會被念 ><

只能用手拿

哀~

老B看到飯店的洗手台都塞滿了我的"雞絲"

都忍不住照相留念

哈哈哈

但到這一堆垃圾了沒!!

這就代表了 美麗的背後 是需要很多東西來輔助的!!!

老B被我抓來幫忙

足足花了一個小時呢!!!

老B都被搞到火大 :P

後記:

照完照片後

很神奇的是發生了!!!

我的身體居然會對維多利亞的雙面膠過敏

但是.....

普通的封箱膠居然沒事!!!

金害

^^

the homegrown dress for my engagement photo shoot

I saw this dress online and I couldn't stop thinking about. Mostly, I was thinking about how great this dress would be for the engagement picture (I can totally picture Brian in a blue/ gray suit while I paired this dress with a brown colored belt and shoes- so cute!). I love the bold pattern, but I am scared of the white background. It would get dirty easily and would be hard to wear.

Firstup,

It's the beautiful 1950's style homegrown dress.

I love the volume on the bottom, paired with the tightness of the top.

(guess I need to wear 2 nubra to fill that up :P)

and most importantly, it does a great job of camouflaging parts that I don't want to showcase
like my....giant ass >///<

I fell in love with this dress in March when it first came out.

I planned on buying it during April for my engagement picture, becuase I got birthday coupone for 15% off.

But I didn't tell Brian until the end of April...then when he finally permited that...the dress SOLD OUT on the website!!

I was soo mad then kept calling the customer service and asked them to search this dress for me. At first, they told me it's totally sold out. I was sad for the whole day.

Then suddenly, at 8PM!!!

A weird phone number called!! Of course I didn't pick it up.

But l did check the voice mail.

It's a lady from Chicago store!! They still had one dress left, and IT'S MINE SIZE!!

So I took out the credit card (without asking Brian XD), and had it shipped from Chicago to my little house.

I waited patiently for one weeks for the dress to make it's way to me.

mmm

I need to wear it in 1950's style :D

with little red shoses

發此文 做紀念

找這件衣服的千辛萬苦

現在就希望下禮拜可以拍的票漂亮亮的 :D

照engagment picture

因為我跟老B是請完客才要照婚紗照

所以之前一直在煩惱到底禮桌檯上的照片要怎麼生出來

(這樣客人才不會跑錯場 XD)

後來就決定先在美國照一些enagement picture好了

在美國通常engagment picture有點像平常的生活照

一班都是呈現談戀愛常去的地方

經過一輪的research

發現其實madison的攝影師style我都不喜歡 ><

之後其實已經敲板要去芝加哥照

(我想因為城市大 競爭大 style也多變吧)

但是

老B又說.....

"芝加哥....對我們來說有啥特別的阿......"

也對

既然是engagement picture

那我們還是挑一些我們有感覺的地方吧

所以就決定回iowa

我們在那裏讀書 生活 因而 認識

所以回大學拍照 對我們來說是最多回憶的

有美美的鐘樓 因我們打工的飯店 :D

今天跟攝影師敲定了時間

還有一個月的時間減肥

加油!!加油！！！

我的Vera Wang Chime系列的相框

最近隨著婚期漸漸的逼近(其實還有七個月 ><)

但是已經開始著手準備啦!!

前幾個禮拜在上網時被我發現了.....

一個必需品

(因為我回台灣時婚紗根本還沒照)

(所以我會在美國先拍一些engagement picture來撐場面)

(所以本小姐就覺得我需要一些票漂亮亮的相框來裝啦!!! XD)

但是買了之後......我一直忘了跟老B講

直到昨天老B剛剛下班回來

就那麼剛剛好ups送貨來

.........

老B一問我直好屁股夾緊說....{那是相框}

(金害~~感覺好像做錯事的小孩怕被罵毆><)

老B就回了一句:{幹嘛要相框阿.....}

我:{因為要擺engagement picture阿}

老B:{隨便你......不要給我超出預算就好...}

呼~驚險的過關 :P

這次我定的是"chime"系列的相框

我知道vera wang其實最出名的是Love Knots系列

但是不知道為啥

我就是不喜歡他的蝴蝶結......

盒子整個給人的感覺很棒

很有質感

拿來送人也不錯 :D

這次我買了兩個8x10 跟一個5x7的

因為4x6太小了 我根本不考慮

買了都浪費

(因為照片小也看不到我:P)

邊邊的角也很有質感

裡面還有一層"絲帶框"

後面的絨布也有vera wang的標誌

站立的角角可以完全收入進去

(跟其他的凸出來是不依樣的)

但是很機車的是.....

老B居然說:{這跟walmart的拿有差別}

...............................

無言

哀~