WEDDING UPDATE: WE SET THE DATE!

We've been patiently waiting and quietly planning while making sure our finances were in order to be able to stay in NYC after we got married. Jeff and I are pleased to finally announce our wedding destination as well as our official wedding date!

The Fearrington Farms in Chapel Hill. 

It's only 20 minutes down the road from my parents house so it will be easy for everyone to attend. 

Even though the outside venue was beautiful, we decided it would be more suitable for pictures. We want an indoor area to avoid a rain plan and ruined hair. That NC humidity is a pain.

This is a view from the indoor venue, which will be exciting to decorate. All the other walls are just giant windows so it's a great outdoor feel with an indoor setting. Here is a photo from their Pinterest of another wedding in this location.

Here is our reception area at the barn.

We were greeted by swallows.. Although they were promised to be gone by October for our bird haters.

The very spacious interior of the reception venue, which again I'm very excited to decorate.

Testing out the chairs in the bridal party waiting area. I will confidently say that these chairs and floral patterns really sold it.

So, we are happy to announce that on Sunday, October 6th we will be getting married. 

We will be collecting addresses very soon to send out announcements and RSVPs.

We couldn't be more thrilled with the place we have chosen! Especially when we saw a wedding being set up today and the mother of the bride stopped us and asked if we were thinking about getting married here. She gave the place 5 stars in terms of them taking care of everything perfectly and how wonderful it's been to work with them. 

The place is stunning, everywhere you walk is picture perfect, and the only time you really smell cow poop is when you make a point to go find and be near the cows, so I hope everyone is able to attend.

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In terms of the next steps we have to start booking odd end things like an officiant, and of course a photographer. Which brings me to the sneak peek of our next update.

We are looking to meet some new friends in NYC through Instagram. Believe it or not, I am horribly shy infront of the camera, especially for couple-y photos. It's awkward and just not us. 

So, we are wanting to meet some of our favorite and inspirational NYC based instagrammers (or those who will be visiting this summer) to meet up with us, get a free breakfast/lunch/or dinner, and just get to know each other and hopefully capture us completely naturally when ever the moment strikes. 

Really, let's just have a fun day of being new friends and remembering the moment.

More details soon! 

But if you are an Instagrammer and already know this is something you are interested in, email me at paige.e.hogan@gmail.com. 

I'd love to meet you!

Hope everyone has a lovely rest of the weekend, and if there any questions or comments about what's going on right now, don't hesitate!

xo,

Paige

PS: Happy Birthday to little cousin Sophie! 2 year old troubles now! :)

Over 50

It's finally over 50 degrees which means Jeff and I can go out with out feeling like it's a chore. When you live in East Harlem (now), you only really have to worry about the long trek to the 6 train. At 10 degrees and snowing, this is your nightmare.

Now that it's feeling like spring, we can finally go out and do something that isn't just a 5 mile run.

Jeff's boss gave him two passes for the MoMA because he's never been. Since I've been once before, I decided to take the trip to make art out of art after.. Mostly I was a little bored of the thought of walking through another museum and not because I'm just uncultured considering I've spent the last 4 years studying all the works featured. I really started thinking about which pieces were working, and which weren't for me and why it had that effect.

"Art is just your impressions mixed with your oppressions.. I nailed that in one sentence." - Me
"You said opposites. You can nail anything when you say opposites." - Jeff

Really, I narrowed it to connecting with consciousness. Obviously, all the work in that museum has thought behind it but how do we see the artist consciousness (if it's even there at all?) I know what looks good together, I do it every day. Composition just takes a good eye finding the balance or the chaos. With years of training, it could literally be effortless and have no second thought, because you know it's just esthetically pleasing (ie golden ratio.) It's tapping in to the why that I think separates it. Why am I doing this, how do I do subconsciousness.

Philosophy aside, museums are all the same.
1. You walk in
2. You look around
   2a. You goof off to be cool because you are too cool for this.
   2b. You snap a picture of the Scream or some showcase because it's famous.
   2c. You listen to/are some annoying over analyzer thinking they know everything art.
   2d. You are stuck trying to get around a large tour group of all the things mentioned above.
3. You leave and visit the book store for a souvenir.

While this visit started out as every expectation, we hit a groove towards the end when we stepped in to a blank room where you could walk on a black slab on the floor. Since it was an interaction piece, I could take a picture of this piece how ever I saw fit. Which, with my thoughts now open to this concept, could be said for all of the work in the museum; which is what we did as you can see from the gif above. So, next time you are bored in a museum, grab your friend and do some selfies for IG that add to the piece. I would say use some tag like #myart but I'm sure that's already used for high school artists sharing their neat-o works. So, if you come up with a cool tag, let me know. I would love to see some interpretations!

Later that night I saw man who's music has inspired me for 10 years.

BT

What a treat. I thought I would never get to see him live let alone meet him.


Have I said that I'm happy spring is here so I can start going out again?
Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!


xo,
Paige



Side note: Trying to get better at selfies/having Jeff take better pictures of me and feeling less awkward. Since I'll be launching a product in the next few months, I have to get use to modeling.