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customer love – celebrating wedding Anniversaries in style

customer love – celebrating wedding Anniversaries in style

It’s no secret that we love seeing the photos our customers take with their purchases, and especially when it involves celebrating milestones like wedding Anniversaries!5 year anniversary photo shoot | the Path Less Traveled This lovely couple ordered a custom version of our Gold Glitter Banner to use as a prop as they had a photo shoot to celebrate 5 years of wedded bliss {and the bride and groom still fit in their wedding clothes!}.One Year Anniversary Cake | the Path Less Traveled And you have heard of the tradition of saving the top layer of your wedding cake to eat on your first anniversary? This couple took it to the next level with these gorgeous photos featuring a custom cake banner, their wedding rings and the serving pieces from their wedding – gorgeous!

One Year Anniversary Photo | the Path Less Traveled

 

Thank you {and congratulations on your anniversaries!!!} to both of these couples for allowing us to share these photos with you!

 

Do you have photos that you’d like to share? If so, you can either email them to me at elizabeth@pltmarket.com or tag them with #thepathlesstraveledmarket on Instagram {as long as you have a public profile :)} – we’d all love to see your ideas! Also, I often send “thank you” coupons to the lovelies who let me share their photos with you – so if you’re looking for a coupon for your next order, sharing photos is a great way to get a discount!

 

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add a little LOVE

add a little LOVE

Are you looking for the perfect finish to your Valentine meal, a way to set your wedding dessert table apart from the rest, or remind your spouse of your love?

DSC_0002 Just add a little LOVE to the top!DSC_0004Our Monogram Syle Dessert Toppers can be ordered in any configuration of letters to spell whatever word your heart desires (perhaps “WE DO”? or “MARRY ME”?), and we were smitten with the idea of a customer to spell out LOVE – just so perfect!
DSC_0006 DSC_0007What would you use them to spell? A special name? A word? We’d “love” to hear!

 

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How Tuesday: DIY Love Note Tree

How Tuesday: DIY Love Note Tree

So, perhaps you noticed that this How-Tuesday is on a Wednesday? Yes, it’s taken me a few days to get back up to speed after coming back from the wedding. But, even though it’s Wednesday and not Tuesday, I still wanted to post this for you {Valentine’s Day is coming! And you’ll want to start this as far ahead of the special day as possible, I imagine, so I didn’t want to wait until next week :)}.

DIY Love Tree Tags from the Path Less Traveled

Kind of inspired by Emily in this post, this is a “Love Note Tree” that, as each day goes by, will get another heart added with a little note telling your love what it is about them that you adore.

DIY Love Tree Tags from the Path Less Traveledmaterials needed: 14 paper hearts, hole punch, twine {or ribbon} and scissors, and a pen

DIY Love Tree Tags from the Path Less Traveledstep one: punch holes in your hearts

DIY Love Tree Tags from the Path Less Traveledstep two: write “I love:” on your hearts, filling in the things/reasons as you hang them on your “tree” {in my case, a branch}

DIY Love Tree Tags from the Path Less Traveledstep three: cut the twine in 4-6″ lengths, thread them through the hearts and tie DIY Love Tree Tags from the Path Less Traveledstep four: hang them on your “tree”

 So there you have it! By the time Valentine’s Day is here, this little branch will be full of hearts. <3 And each one will have another thing about John that I love, written on it for him to read.

Do you have any little projects that you’re doing for your love? Or, if you have kiddos, that you’re helping them to do? I’d love to hear about them!

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almost 3 years

almost 3 years

3 years ago today John and I were finally able to be together after not seeing each other for over 4 months. We were finally in the same time zone, same state, same city, same car. It was wonderful.

(photo from the rehearsal dinner – we both needed sleep!)

3 years ago today we were not only finally together, we were finally alone and on our way to our last pre-marital counseling session with our pastor (and the only one that happened in person). The next stop of the day was to get our marriage license. We were sorely tempted to pay the extra $25 and get married then and there – so that we could not only be together but be man and wife just a few days early. But we waited.

It was so good to finally feel each other’s touch again, see each other’s face … four and a half months apart just before a wedding is really, really rough. But our God was so faithful.

Our love story is just riddled with bits and pieces of the faithfulness of God, so much so that we asked a friend to sing “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” (using Fernando Ortega’s new score) as part of the music for our wedding.

Great is thy faithfulness, O God my father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou for ever will be

Great is thy faithfulness
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To thy great faithfulness, mercy and love

Great is thy faithfulness
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me
Great is thy faithfulness

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside

Great is thy faithfulness
Great is thy faithfulness
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me

And you know what? He hasn’t changed, He is still faithful.
We’ve had a very good three years. Interesting, exciting, sometimes trying and sometimes overflowing with joy – but it has been good.
Right now we are in a place that I truly never expected – or dreamed – to be in, but He is faithful. Would I change our current circumstances? In a heartbeat! But then we wouldn’t be in the prime place for us to see the greatness of God’s faithfulness.

Darling, I love you. I’m so very glad that I am yours and you are mine. You make every day brighter, hearing your voice lifts my heart, and seeing your face … is wonderful!
I don’t know that I’d recommend any other couple taking the path that God has led us on together, but Darling, it’s been so good going down it with you.

my husband knows :)

my husband knows :)

John knows me so well, and he loves me. :)
When we were packing up our apartment he knew that I would need my box of shoes nearby, no matter how long we were in limbo, so he labeled them as Very Important.

I love you too, Darling. :D


faithful living

faithful living

“This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.” -Elisabeth Elliot
I found this quote on someone’s blog this morning. So good.
I’ve been pondering – what’s my job? What does this look like for me?
Job – wife. Mother.

So the quote could read like this: “Being a wife and mom is the job that has been given to me to do. 
Therefore, it is a gift. 
Therefore, it is a privilege (sometimes this is more evident than others!). 
Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. 
Therefore, being John’s wife and a mom to Emma and Ian is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. 
Here, in my days at home, I may learn God’s way. 
In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.”
pondering and applying this truth today.
"The will of God is … bigger"

"The will of God is … bigger"

John and I have been married for 28 months, and it’s been good. Not always easy, but very, very good.
“The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It my seem much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.”~Elisabeth Elliot

I found this post in my drafts file, originally written last June. It’s still true (all I needed to change was the number of months). God’s ways are not our ways.
His thoughts, plans and ways are ever so much bigger and better than ours.
If He had given me the chance to opt out of certain experiences over the past 2 1/2 years I certainly would have! But then I would have missed out on the blessings.

Isn’t it good that even though we can’t see the end, God can?

ah, commitment. and love that’s been tried and found true.

this couple is just darling! they honestly recognize each other’s faults, but then love them anyway. day after day, and year after year. that’s what a lasting marriage takes!

poem for today, part II

poem for today, part II

As I was thinking about it yesterday, I came to realize that this poem is (or can be) about more than romantic love (which is what I thought of when I first read it, when I made the page in the album I gave John, and every time I’ve seen it since then … until yesterday).
It can be about being a parent, too.
Because it’s true.
It’s true about love in marriage and love in parenting.
It’s an incredible and wonderful thing that God enables us to love our children more and more each day.
And it’s a really good thing, too, since, even though we love our children enormously on the day they are born, every extra little bit of love is needed on days when they’ve been grumpy since they got up and nothing will pacify or get them to snap out of it and you are about to cry yourself (not that we are having one of “those” days, not at all).

Today less than tomorrow ….