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Sarah Parrott is not the only one who’s counting down the days to her wedding to Rich this September. I am too! I cannot wait to photograph this DIY, homegrown, on-a-farm wedding. Their lovely letterpressed Save the Date card, which Sarah designed and produced herself, just landed in my mailbox this week. If so much love and attention to detail was poured into this little 5×7 piece of paper, I can only imagine what would happen when given a whole farm to dress head to toe! (Oh there IS another indicator: Sarah’s growing vintage plate collection to be used as the china at he wedding!)

This past November we had our engagement session and Sarah brought along her magnesium plate that would be used for her letterpressed Save the Date card.

Since then she’s been busy putting the plate into action, and you can see it as the rectangular piece raised slightly between the red sparrows. It’s actually a magnet!

Calligraphy by Grace Edmands Calligraphy. I want to be a calligrapher too. So badly.

The wedding will take place at Pineland Farms, an equestrian center and working farm in Maine, and so of course everything horse-y, farm-y and Maine-y is reflected in the cards, right down to the vintage postage stamps.

Yes Sarah has introduced me to the strange and wonderful world of vintage stamp collecting. Now, I’ve heard of collecting postmarked stamps of course. I did a little of that myself as a kid. But this notion that people have held onto sheets and sheets of stamps for ten, twenty, thirty years – unused! – that then sell for 2 to 3x’s their face value is something else altogether! I am fascinated. And here is Sarah painstakingly collecting and using only the right ones, some of them from the 80′s I think, for her Save the Dates. I can only imagine what the invitations are going to look like…

Read more about Sarah’s Save the Date cards here on her wedding blog.

Today’s post is brought to you by the color orange. And when a post is brought to you by the color orange, that can mean only one thing…

THERE’S A FAT ORANGE CAT IN THE HOOooooOOOOooUSE!

The fabulous orange goodness in question is a 3 year-old rescue named Hobbes. His owner is Jennifer Cox, a contractual lawyer by day and wedding planner extraordinaire by night. And weekends. What a lovely combination of skills! I have had the pleasure of working with her at a wedding that she helped me book, and Jennifer has had the pleasure of revising my wedding contract. Fair trade, right? No? Okay well then here are some photos of your feisty little Hobbes, who is meaty, chewy, but mostly annoyed that I didn’t let him play with his tissue paper in peace.

Hobbes has a pretty tortoise-shelled sister named Hazel, and she made it be known that she hated my guts. But we shall see her shortly because my goodness do I love cats, disdainful looks and gut-hating and all. I haven’t photographed nearly enough felines, so if you have a cat, you need to call me. You need to call me.

xoxo Hobbes!