2025 Black Friday // Cyber Week Sales + What We Did for Thanksgiving

      Happy Black Friday + Cyber Sales Weekend! I was reflecting while writing this post about how Black Friday for me has changed over the years. During high school and college, I never missed a Black Friday at the mall. I truly looked forward to it all year!! I even once had the experience of being on the other side when I had to work at my mall retail job on Thanksgiving night in 2016. 

     The last time though that I went physically out shopping at the mall for Black Friday was in 2021, my first holiday season living in Virginia Beach. Being in a mall setting just wasn't hitting quite like it used to. These days I really do feel like all of the best deals and steals are to be found online. I still very much enjoying shopping in-person throughout the year, but on Black Friday I prefer to be home and shopping from my laptop these days. 😊

Pretty foliage outside of work earlier this week!

Wedding Wednesday: One Year Since Our Wedding + Our Formal Portraits

      Ryan and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary over the weekend! And today is the second anniversary of the day we got engaged. What a joy it's been to be sharing monthly Wedding Wednesday posts for the past two years during our engagement and wedding seasons! It is bittersweet that these are now coming to an end. 

      I have written some very lengthy posts over the course of the Wedding Wednesday series, so I'm going to keep the text shorter in this one and let the photos do most of the talking. 😊 I wanted to finally share our formal wedding portraits of ourselves, our families and our wedding party!

     All of the professional wedding photos were taken by Vinluan Photography.

{Monthly} Midweek Ramblings: October 2025

October 2025: 

Holiday 2025 Shopping Finds + Picks! 🎄

       Happy November! We haven't started decorating for the holidays quite yet in our house (hoping to next weekend, which is also our first anniversary!), but I have been in the full Christmas spirit when it comes to my recent online shopping browsing history. I've been finding so many cute and affordable holiday fashion, accessories and seasonal decor items. I wanted to do a little round-up here of everything. 

      You can find all of the graphics below on my LTK page! Please follow me on LTK if you aren't yet, I share extra content each week exclusively in the LTK app that I don't share always on Instagram or my blog. 

Wedding Wednesday: Our Wedding Registry

       I'm excited to finally share our wedding registry items with you today! This was one part of wedding planning that I didn't want to write any blog posts about last year before the wedding. I wanted to give a good bit of time after getting married to get the chance to use most of our registry items and be able to share what I thought of them once we'd actually used them. (Spoiler alert: all but one registry item have been great! We only had to make one return.) Let's dive into what stores we registered at, and what items we registered for!