Welcome to the #RnGinItaly wedding blog!
our love story, our memories and our wedding
Format:
Share a throwback pic & write Gabe a note and vice versa (I think he’ll do it too.)
What we are doing for the wedding on the day we end up blogging each blog. Sticking to ONCE or Twice a Week. Monday for sure and then a random whenever day. Check back on Mondays tho!
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We are praying, dreaming and hoping….. (please-pretty please!) ….. that friends and family would comment with stories about how you know us, or a memory with us, or advice for us!! Comment below and on any blog post and TITLE it or Header it: TO BE READ AT RECEPTION
We will be sharing it at the wedding reception LIVE and you will see the video if you can’t catch it. Anything and everything people! Roasts preferred
Thank you so much for being apart of our lives. I hope this is a way for us all to connect even though we will be 1/2 a world away.
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY on a Monday. perfect.
R+G || 2013 || iphone4 for sure #bangs and you still have that shirt!
Dear G,
We were so young and smitten. This photo was a couple days before we were going to tell everyone we were pregnant with Maxen. We were standing under the tank at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA with Hunter and my parents. We walked the Queen Mary hand in hand like Jack & Rose (gawd we are so gross in love sometimes), got legit frozen in a giant ice sculpture exhibit and Hunter got to go ice skating. It was a great weekend. Every-time you touched my belly I felt us dive deeper into our connection. I had the most beautiful time being pregnant with you. It was the second longest secret I have ever held in my life btw! The first was holding onto the words I love you. It was the perfect moment when it happened tho. Viva Las Vegas was always lucky for us. But I knew I had to hold onto those words for as long as possible, so they would mean everything they were meant to mean. Thinking about how we got here is so rad. I love loving you.
Love,
R<3
Reader: none of this will be in order and it also should be noted that Gabriel spent 2 years in Vermont and detests being cold. He is a tropical creature like me and the boyz. #sunshinecrew
I promise I am going to video tape him being cold in Italy because.. just watch.
Ok Wedding Websites & registries>>
I am a soon to be bride and obviously a wedding photographer, so this is starting to feel crazy real & awkward. Oh man. SO many times my clients have been here. I’m exhausted & need a nap and it’s 1pm. I am also a photographer without the availability of the correct personal hard drives and personal photo backup to upload anything. The mechanic’s car is always broken. This feels so funny. Either way, it is happening, and we are getting married, and friends and family were/are asking if we have any plans or how they can help or if we have a registry.
So now we do! it’s really hard for us to accept gifts because it is not a love language we participate in often, Side fact; we stopped gift giving to each other 2 years ago because we didn’t want to have those expectations anymore for each other.. By no means am I saying that I don’t appreciate and or love gifts. We do. Gabe and I will just usually ask those we want to celebrate with to coffee, tacos, lunch or dinner at the house or to join us on an experience instead of buying gifts.
We had to do some heavy work on letting go of emotional ties to tangible items before, during and after the Thomas Fire. We are constantly focused on finding that balance as we foresee another move in our future. We want to adopt minimalism, and the art of tidying into our lives. You heard it here first folks. We want to, and it feels slow, but it’s just one step at a time. Time is realative.
We are learning everyday how to figure this out, but we know we want less “stuff.” That’s what usually makes a wedding registry right, stuff?
Well no, no we don’t have to buy more stuff. thanks to modern technology, if people want to send personalized options our way, they can!
((we are just lucky enough to be able to get married in Italy so anything more than that is just more, and we are so blessed and grateful)) . BUT………..
This is what we decided:
Our first choice is charities:
“For it is in giving that we receive.” ―St. Francis of Assisi
Autism Speaks (also connected through theKnot’s registry)
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Our second choice would be an experience & gift registry:
“Y'all gon' make me lose my mind Up in here, up in here” —DMX
1.https://www.honeyfund.com/wedding/RnGinItaly
2.https://www.theknot.com/us/rhianna-and-gabriel
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! XOXOXOXXOXOXOXO
We are so excited to update the site and share our love story on Instagram and Facebook, we hope you will join us in whatever way you can!
Namaste-Gracias-Thank You-Grazie!
Aloha,
R+G