Hi Friends!I cannot believe it has been an entire year since I have been present on StylesByMar, but to say the least, 2021 was a YEAR!To pick-up where we last left off, Brendan and I got engaged back in July of 2020 and immediately began the wedding planning process (mid-pandemic, which looking back was crazy in itself)! While planning a wedding and working full-time, we also got our sweet pup, a yellow lab named Nash, in October 2020, which was a whole other full-time job in itself. I was working from home full-time during this time period, ...

 For this week's Friday wedding post I figured it would be useful to talk about some of the wedding planning tools that I have been using to help me plan our big day!My Wedding PlannerThe first tool that my Aunt gave me a few short weeks after getting engaged was an actual wedding planner book. I was SO excited to go through it and immediately start filling out as many sections of it as I could. I will link here the one that she got me, it includes pretty much everything and anything you can think of when it comes to wedding planning!As I brie...

After becoming engaged and the wedding planning began, I tried to start imaging what I would love for our wedding day to look like. Brendan and I had discussed a few times what type of wedding venue we would like, and where we would like to be married, so naturally the search began with looking for places in that area. We always knew we wanted to be married in Maine, or New Hampshire just because we love being up north so much.Unfortunately, being engaged during the height of a pandemic has given us some issues with booking a venue. The venue ...