Remember this awesome giveaway for a free day of wedding photography by Kirsten Manick Photography? Well the day has come to announce the winner, and I couldn’t be more excited about it! The lucky couple who have won a full day of wedding coverage by Kirsten Manick and a second shooter, DVD of edited high res images, and an online gallery of images to share with friends and family is…….

The two cutie pies seen above, Michaela + Josh! Congratulations!!!!!!!

Here is a bit about their journey as a couple from Michaela …

Josh and I met in a more than puzzling marine science class at our nearest community college. We only attended around four sessions before we both dropped the class due to the inability to understand a word the professor was saying. We spent those few sessions joking and clicking stop watches as fast as we could in attempt to stimulate brain activity. We drew a few “enhanced” pictures of our professor and then couldn’t see ourselves solving such a riddle of a course, so we both dropped it. I didn’t see or hear from the boy in my class till around 2 years later when we re-met at a wacko bible study. It was truly wacko to say the least but regardless, we quit attending that together and together we stayed. We both worked little and spent most of our time hanging out in San Clemente like kids in love. One day, as girls tend to do, I emotionally blurted something along the lines of, “are you going to marry me, or are you just teasing me” he responded with something like “Michaela, pump the brakes, I love you.” We did love each other I had no idea, that almost 2 years later he was going to ask me to marry him.. Not even when my eyes were closed for a “surprise”. It really was the best day of our lives, the way it all came together. It was like a Disney fairy tale on a mini electric party boat in lake forest. We were even surrounded by a hundred plus geese after I whispered “yes”.

Love that story! And just because they’re adorable, here is another photo of Michaela + Josh, taken by their friend Bryce Souve.

Now, on to the weekly wrap up!

{Monday} French Countryside Wedding

{Tuesday} Liz + Colby’s Utah Wedding

{Wednesday} Gilded Hearts

{Thursday} Valentine Garland

How will you be spending your weekend? Will you be celebrating Valentine’s Day early? Mine will be spent feverishly organizing and packing because yesterday we found out the offer we made on a home had been accepted! We will be homeowners soon and have a lot of preparing to do! Ahhhhhh!!!! I feel equally excited and overwhelmed by everything we have ahead of us…ok, maybe a little more excited:) You all will have a lot of before and after home posts in your future!