Since the traditional theme for the 1st anniversary is paper, we had to get a bit creative with our gifts. Mike sent me on a scavenger hunt around the house looking for little paper clues that each had a letter on them. After I collected all the letters, they spelled the word "ALBUM". He sat me down and we looked through our wedding album together, and in the back of it there was a print out image of the How I Met Your Mother complete 9 season boxed set DVD collection, which he preordered for me as my gift!
Great minds must think alike, because I had ordered him a HIMYM fan art print of Ted and Tracey at the Farhampton station off Etsy a month earlier. A woman in India illustrated the print herself, and I bought a custom matte and frame to really make it pop.
I also bought him tickets to the Phillies game for that day, so we went to the ballpark together to cheer for the only sportsteam we agree on.
After the game, we went to our absolute favorite restaurant for dinner: Maggiano's Little Italy. If you've never been there, go, and preferably do it up family style. For $30 per person they just keep bringing out plate after plate of each course until you tell them to move on to the next. And the food is just incredible.
After dinner we went home and enjoyed champagne in our toasting flutes, and the top layer of our wedding cake, which, thanks to my mom's preservation efforts, was so yummy you'd never know it was a year old.
Of course, I couldn't go out in my fabulous hot pink Michelle Obama inspired dress without doing my nails up to match. I recently ordered right angle Nail Vinyls and I have to say, they may be my favorite shape yet. They are SO versatile it's incredible. I decided to recreate a mani I saw by sassyshelly129 on Instagram, using pinks instead for my color scheme.
I have lots of goodies coming up for you guys. I just wrote out 8 different blog post ideas that I'll be rolling out starting next week that will take us clear into November. Keep your eyes peeled!
