Bucket List: Check Off # 11

# 11. Picture featured in a national magazine 


Okay, so this wasn't on the official bucket list I did at Christmas time, but it is too cool to not add it just so I can dip my quill pen and put a nice long slash through it....or select the strikethrough font and pretend it is my quill pen.

Check out the fall edition of The Knot Magazine....the national edition, not those piddly regional editions:

Yes, all of you who said my brother's and Jen's wedding looked like it belonged in a magazine were right! Someone at The Knot saw their photographer's photos on a blog and contacted her for more info. There are  3 real weddings featured in this fall's edition. Christopher and Jenn's is the "Farm Fresh" wedding.  How cool is that?!

Okay, I love this page because it explains some of the details like the escort cards where "each table had a symbol" or the "cupcakes were served on stands made of tree stumps" or "This sign, made of boards from a broken fence" They don't say that Jenn designed and cut out the rubber stamps herself to make the escort cards or that my brother cut the tree stumps and made the signs themselves.

But don't you worry, if you can't do this yourself, turn the page and find the "Get The Look" page where you can buy a similar wedding look from places like Anthropologie and Alfred Angelo.

I admit maybe I'm stretching it just a little bit by saying "I'm featured in a magazine" I'm bridesmaid next to the bride.

...and really what did I do except complain about how hard it was to find an orange dress, provide the most adorable flower girl and have my jaw drop at the wedding when I saw every detail? Just under a lucky star to have such an amazing brother and sister-in-law.

Jenn and Christopher--I know you will have an amazing, successful marriage, and I'm so happy for you. Sorry the photos are so blurry! Can't wait for you to see it in real life. Hopefully it takes less than a month to get to Chile!

I will say if I was editor of The Knot I'd do a slight addendum as there was maybe one more important picture that could have been included:

We'll leave it on the Strand Family Knot edition!