Tia Things

 Ah hello gems! Welcome back to a wedding tip blog and one of the key items is the DAY OF! The day you have been planning comes quick but it also passes in a blur. Here are some tips to make sure you are fully present and enjoying it to the fullest: 1. Prioritize your partner: From the moment you are together, and throughout the reception, ensure to focus on time with your partner. A lot of people are there to celebrate you but don't get distracted taking shots or photos with friends when the truly important item is making memories together. You want to look back and have a similar recollection of the day's events, especially that you were side by side. This was a tip we were given a few months prior to the wedding and it was so true! 2. Something will go wrong, accept that: Something will go wrong inevitably, no matter how much planning you do you cannot control all items and that is something that is better to anticipate rather than trying to avoid. Big or small, the unavoida...

Hi gems, after soooo much time away from the blog I am back with a life update! I have now been married for a month and had the most incredible honeymoon! We are just getting back home and resetting into a routine. The switch back to reality isn't an easy one but we are still on cloud nine from the events of the summer so that certainly helps! So with that said I think we are well overdo on a life update! Your girl is welcoming fall after a month in Europe and an incredible summer! Not only did my bestfriends get married in the most magical day, but we got to have a summer filled with so many celebrations. Summer 2024 will go down in the history books for sure as a summer of love. I also had another major life change earlier in the summer, I changed job! After five years at an agency, with the people I loved and who taught me so much. I got an opportunity at a company that is HUGE and rated a top company to work for. The job itself and benefits made it a deal I could not turn down....

 Hey gems,  Reporting live is your 2024 bride here! Happy to report most wedding planning is complete, but we certainly aren't done just yet! As the process of planning a wedding is always both fun and stressful, here are a few tips I learnt along the way: Photo by Brightsight visuals  1. Have a vision Yourself and your partner should have a vision along with some general guidelines for the event and how you see it coming to life. Big, small, theme, style, etc. This is something that we were pretty lucky to align on from the start, but even then, when family and friends start offering input and suggestions, pushing for you to say YES to what they are thinking is a brilliant idea, it is sometimes so confusing to stick to your original vision. There are plenty of ways to compromise and make everyone happy, but knowing what your basis vision is really helps field some of those moments.  2. Learn about your circle Listen, everyone says you learn who your true friends are...

 Hi Gems,  Wow it has been a while. The last time I wrote and published on here was in October which honestly feels like a lifetime. As the holidays came and went, we rang in the new year and I find myself thinking a lot about not only lessons learned this year but the direction I want to aim for when going into 2024.  As you may know if you follow my other platforms, I am getting married this year which feels surreal! It's been so far away for so long and here we are counting down less then a year! I also am so proud of Tia things on Instagram , TikTok and Youtube because I really have pushed myself to create more all while having fun! With all of this in mind, here are some of my goals going into 2024: 1. Have a life outside of wedding planning  Wedding planning has genuinely been so fun and even in the stress-inducing times, I would not change anything for the world. I am so proud of how much we have done, saved, planned, etc. as we put together our perfect day....

Hello hello beautiful people! My goodness it feels like a lifetime has passed since I last typed onto this page. I have had a tone of TikTok success and I won't lie, it took all my attention! Lately my life revolves around my full-time job, wedding planning and trying to save money... not easy considering the wedding planning.  Here are some high level updates as to our wedding planning and stay tuned for a tone more updates and wedding content coming! 1. The venue, the vendors and the plan are all set! I was pretty lucky that my fiancé and I had a very similar vision for our wedding- a big vision. Unfortunately, we were a bit naive as to what the cost of that would be, but we are certainly learning to plan and save money more than ever. It is also the first time we are in situations where we need to decline plans because they are simply too expensive. Overall, the quick first months of engagement were really successful in planning and locking in location, vendors and putting down...

 Hi gems,  Happy happy Wednesday!  Today we are chatting about The Good Sister, my May book of the month! This is definitely not my usual romance or fiction recommendation, it is a bit of a mystery thriller because as you read, you are putting together pieces of a puzzle that don't fit. You have an eerie feeling the whole book, and are waiting for the other shoe to drop! The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth, is a fiction novel that follows two sisters through the diary of Rose, and the live perspective of Fern. Fern is such an interesting character, this is the first time I have read a character that clearly was on the spectrum of autism but it was never clearly said, this was something that readers gathered through her actions, social interactions and such. The whole book seems to be Rose taking care of Fern after a difficult childhood, but things quickly go darker.  As Fern gets pregnant, you start to see a lot of red flags as Rose is clearly more and more controllin...