• TRAVEL,  WEST COAST

    Colorado Weekend Getaway

    Hi, friends! Rex and I just returned from a long weekend in Colorado (flew in Friday morning and flew back Monday morning), and I wanted to document the trip on the blog and share more details than I did on Instagram so here we go! Since we arrived super early local time on Friday (around 7:30am MST), we had a full day ahead of us. After grabbing some coffee and a pastry and a breakfast burrito at a local neighborhood coffee shop, we headed over to Denver Art Museum. The admission is not free ($19 for out-of-state, non-member adults) but it is totally worth a visit! There is so much…

  • LIFE,  WEDDING

    My Strawberry Bridal Shower

    Last weekend, Rex’s mom Ginger and one of his sisters-in-law Cait threw me a strawberry theme shower and it could not have been more perfect! My older sister Jiyoung offered her home to host the shower, which I was so thankful for too. Rex gifted me these flowers the morning of the bridal shower day per my request, which we ended up using on the drink table as decor. He requested flowers for a “strawberry themed shower” from TG Floristy and they really delivered! Ginger and Cait drove down to North Carolina from Tennessee Saturday morning with a car packed full of stuff for the shower. They were so prepared…

  • BOOKS

    What I Read in June 2023

    Hi, friends! I can’t believe we’re officially halfway through 2023!!! Life keeps coming at me, and I’m sure it is for you too. Hope you’re taking care of yourself, whatever that looks like. Here’s everything I read in June: LADY TAN’S CIRCLE OF WOMEN by Lisa See – 4.5 stars Inspired by real-life Lady Tan Yunxian from the 15th-century China, Lisa See shares with us another captivating story about strong women. Born into an elite family, the expectations set for Yunxian is to become a proper lady, marry a man from a respectable family that is chosen for her, and birth a son (or multiple) to continue the family line…

  • LIFE,  WEDDING

    My Wedding Dress Shopping Experience

    In honor of FINALLY picking up my wedding dress from the store last weekend, I’m sharing about my wedding dress shopping experience and (almost) all of the wedding gowns I tried on today! I was one of those people who knew exactly what wedding dress they wanted. For me, that was Jenny by Jenny Yoo Lawrence Gown. Since Anthropologie carried that dress, I booked an appointment online to try it on. (If you’re looking, this was the North Hills location which has a BHDLN corner in the store). Tragically, the dress was not everything I dreamed of… it was good but not great?! I tried on a few more dresses…

  • BOOKS

    What I Read in May 2023

    Hi friends! Now that it’s June, it’s finally feeling like spring in North Carolina. May was not my favorite reading month but I did cross of a couple of newer releases that had been on my TBR! PINEAPPLE STREET by Jenny Jackson – 3.5 stars I had pretty high hopes for Pineapple Street based on some of the rave reviews I’ve been seeing on the Internet. While it is not as offensively bad as Every Summer After, I don’t get the hype. Pineapple Street is about the three young women in Stockton family: the eldest child Darley gave up her career and trust fund money to raise a normal family…