Well, here it is folks!! My new blog, in all it’s shiny, pretty, floral glory. I don’t think it’s possible for me to be happier about how it looks and runs. I am very excited about the gallery feature, so take some time and click the link above to see tons of photographs from past weddings all collected into one mega portfolio. You can find some more information about me by clicking the “about” link above. Want to know what my favorite color is? Or my favorite snack? Go ahead, you know you want to.

I’d just like to say thanks, again, to Nicole Balch. She is the brainpower behind Smart and Lovely, the design company who created this rad new blog.

Anyway, on with what you really came here to see!

I am convinced that Nate and Gretchen have done something really, really nice to someone else at some time in their lives. All week leading up to the wedding, you heard the weathermen talking about “thunderstorms, rain, and clouds.” I am a firm believer that overcast days make for the best photographs, but it was very nice to see nary a cloud in the sky most of the day on June 21st. All in all, Nate and Gretchen’s wedding was spectacular. Their good karma spilled from the skies into every facet of their wedding day.

Congratulations you two. Enjoy your honeymoon!

P.S. My first ever wedding day slideshow will soon follow.

It looks like “the switch” I’ve been talking about is going to happen some time between tonight and tomorrow, and over the next couple of days, I am sure I will have to fix and patch a few things. So, the dot com will be down for a period of time and my email might get really, really icky as well.

This here old blog, will be the only thing up and thriving through the changes.

But once kimberlyhurst.com is back up and running, a brand-spanking new blog will have been born. The brainchild of Nicole Balch of Making It Lovely and her design company Smart and Lovely and myself, it’s totally rad and makes me giddy just thinking about it!

If you need to be in touch with me over the next couple of days, try my email address kim at kimberly hurst dot com. If I don’t get back to you within a reasonable amount of time, you can try my old email address kimbermiller at hotmail dot com.

Let’s hope this goes smoothly and I will be back in touch in a few days with a hot, new, updated website, a rad new blog, some sweet photos, and a lovely little slideshow.

Just a heads up. There is alot a-brewin’ over here at Kimberly Hurst headquarters. A nice, new, updated website is on it’s way as well as a new blog!! But there’s a lot of moving and shifting of web hosts happening over the next few days. So, if you stop by for a visit to the main site and it’s magically not there, try back later. Or, if you try and write me an email and it gets unanswered, please try and email me again. I promise, I am really not trying to ignore you, your email might have gotten lost in the vast ether of the internet. I won’t be ticked if you email me a couple times. You could say I might even be flattered!

Anyway, there’s lots of new and exciting things happening here, so stay tuned for all of it! As well as some photographs from a darling outdoor wedding in Rochester, NY this past weekend.

Where has the time gone? Can someone tell me, please? It’s been two years since Kyle and I were married, and magically, it still feels so new to both of us! Maybe this newlywed feeling will never go away?

I knew Kyle before he knew me. We were both going to school at Rochester Institute of Technology and had a couple of mutual friends. I’d seen him around a few times, been introduced more than once, and for the longest time, if you asked Kyle “when did you guys meet?” He’d tell you a different version than I would. But that’s just who he is. He now says he remembers the first time we met, but part of me thinks he might just be telling me to make me feel better (love ya, babe!).

Well, to make a long story short, I eventually left RIT to finish school at Hofstra University. One weekend, I went back to visit some friends and guess who happened to be invited to come along?

We sat across from each other at the table and chatted (and flirted) the entire night. We exchanged emails and phone numbers at the end of the evening, and I headed back to Long Island thinking to myself “Nice one Kim, give a guy your phone number who lives 6 hours away from you! Genius!”

I guess we were compelled to just, stay in touch. After a couple months of our phone and internet courtship, Kyle came down to Long Island to visit me. We spent that Saturday walking around the city. We crossed over the Brooklyn Bridge and that seemed to seal us to our fate.

Next thing I knew, it was trips up to Rochester, or weekend visits from Kyle to come see me.

That went on for three years.

I won’t lie to you all and say our three year, long distance relationship didn’t have it’s ups and downs. It certainly did. But we really loved the great times, and somehow always worked things out during the bad times. There was a break-up (or two), but we always came back to one another.

We moved into Brooklyn with our dear friend Gretchen, and it. was. awesome. There was a fear that being in a long distance relationship for so long would leave us incapable of living together. But that was not the case at all! Finally, we could spend all the time together that we had always dreamed about!

There were a couple adjustments we each needed to make as you do with learning how to live together. I learned early on that Kyle has a “problem” with closing cabinet doors and drawers. Any kind of cabinet or drawer he opens, there is a very large chance it will not be closed. I’ve learned to follow him through our home and shut doors and close drawers as he moves along. It’s actually gotten charming.

I will speak for Kyle and say that he has learned to adapt to plenty of my quirks as well. I will abstain from sharing them, but I am sure if you asked, he’d smile and let you know one or two.

So, at some point during all this, a question was popped in such an endearing way. And we were off on this 9 month chase to plan a wedding! It was such a lovely day. The best one in my life so far.

I love you husband, so very very much. You are my rock, my buoy, my friend, my divining rod. You keep me centered at times, as well as provide that little bit of adventure for a girl who otherwise would walk the straight and narrow far too much. Your patience is the stuff of legend, your encouragement is heroic. You make me laugh til my stomach aches. You got my back babe, and I got you. So very lucky in love.

*first photo courtesy of David Lyons Photography.