Growing up, I complained ad nauseam about living in such a small town. The local Wal-Mart and bowling alley were about all we had going for us on the weekends (for once, I don’t exaggerate). Currently, there’s a rundown mall that no longer even boasts a legit clothing store (R.I.P. Dillard’s). You have to drive [...]
I Believe They Call It a Labor of Love
December 9, 2009 By 38 Comments
When SVV asked me to marry him, I was stoked (obviously), but I sort of figured I’d be hiring people to do all the work for me. I mean, I’d never so much as flipped through a single issue of a wedding magazine, Style Me Pretty was a foreign concept of which I was then [...]
Enough About Travel, Let’s Talk Weddings, Shall We?
October 28, 2009 By 34 Comments
SVV says my little nook of the Internet, my beloved Camels & Chocolate, has been left relatively unattended these past few weeks months. He’s right (as usual). And for this, dear sweet blog, I apologize profusely. It’s not that I don’t love you, it’s not that I want to break up in any way, shape [...]
Hatmaker, Hatmaker, Make Me a Hat
September 8, 2009 By 26 Comments
I’d known about this wedding for nearly a year, and hardly anyone was more stressed than I, except perhaps the bride (kidding). Why, you ask? Because it was a very English wedding thrown by a very classy, English family, and my monster noggin does little to accommodate hats (and don’t tell me I don’t look [...]
Four*
September 2, 2009 By 30 Comments
*By now, those of you who have been my blog friends since Camels & Chocolate has been up and running are probably sick and tired of the tale of Scott + Kristin: Through the Ages. Well, then, you should probably divert thine eyes, as today is our fourth anniversary—or “Happy four years since I ignored [...]
Oh Right, About that Wedding
July 8, 2009 By 50 Comments
Disclaimer: I promise, under no circumstances, will this become a wedding blog. I know many of you come here, first and foremost, to see pictures of pretty exotic places and for a temporary escape from your cubicle jobs. Also, I’m going at this blindly—I have to say, I never really thought I’d get married and, [...]
The Story of You and Me
May 27, 2009 By 76 Comments
When Moose and I saw He’s Just Not That Into You a couple months ago, she turned to me and said, “You’re the exception. What you guys have been through, doesn’t usually work out for the rest of us.” (For those of you who didn’t see the movie, in a nutshell (from Film.com): Those stories [...]
Photo Friday: Sierraville, California
May 22, 2009 By 88 Comments
Way back last fall, SVV told me he wanted to take me to some bad ass natural hot springs way up in the Sierra Nevadas for my birthday. There would be camping involved. I’m kind of a snob with my hotels these days—go figure—but I said sure nonetheless. February rolled around. There was never another [...]
