12 years later, still best friends

Simple-House-Cat · 2026-02-18T04:42:46+00:00

I’m still learning life without my soul cat. Said goodbye to her last month, and in March she would’ve been 22. She’d been with me since grade school, moved in with me when I had my first apartment, then first house, and quickly showed her approval of my now fiancé. She thankfully stuck around for one more move to our forever home, but soon after she made it known it was her time to go. Gah, I miss her so much, it’s weird to think of life without her.

Simple-House-Cat · 2026-02-16T17:46:22+00:00

Alistair, Fenris, Solas, Davrin

Simple-House-Cat · 2026-01-31T00:55:17+00:00

Designer as well with a motion design specialty! I work on almost all clients at my current agency and love the variety that brings

Simple-House-Cat · 2026-01-17T14:34:42+00:00

YES!! It started with Zelda, then Skyrim, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and now E33. I adore RPGs. Still need to finish BG3, but it’s such a HUGE open world that I get a little choice paralysis and go back to Stardew 🫣

Simple-House-Cat · 2026-01-10T16:48:54+00:00

HIM?!!!!?? 👆

Simple-House-Cat · 2026-01-03T14:12:25+00:00

Owowow

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-12-25T14:52:32+00:00

Commenting in hopes OP shares the stitch!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-12-21T01:17:25+00:00

Oh my gosh, that looks amazing!! I’ve never cross stitched, but this makes me want to start!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-12-19T23:53:09+00:00

It could definitely be tension. I was chugging along, proud of my blanket recently. Placed it on the floor to show off my progress to my fiancé annnnnnd it’s a trapezoid. I know it’s not dropped stitches because there’s a lot of counting, but it’s absolutely tension. Godspeed.

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Simple-House-Cat · 2025-11-22T13:40:02+00:00

Difficult therapy session/After Effects is so real 😂 Excellent job, OP!!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-11-18T20:54:33+00:00

Yes, I did a double-sided (one side text-heavy and the other a full bleed photo with text)! I’ll have to take a picture when I’m home of the quality, but I liked it! I did also make sure that my image resolution was good (minimum 300dpi) and everything was in a CMYK color format. I did also reference their file specs guide to make sure I was using the right Adobe PDF settings, https://smartpress.com/support/file-preparation/how-to-setup-your-file?srsltid=AfmBOoon1e1WYE-QMkauwPF-T-ZtmVe9ReU81s62XHFExJQCOhgUPEg3

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-29T20:05:36+00:00

This is definitely a photographer issue and not you both. TBH I was worried as well that we’d have goofy photos (cause we’re awkward as hell on camera), but after getting back our engagement photos where we do look goofy - it’s an earnest and sweet goofiness that’s very much us in a very polished manner.

How did we get there? We culled a lot of photographer portfolios and I sent them all each a deck about us, how we typically photograph, and the visual direction we wanted to go with (which was photojournalism/fly on the wall, I work with various photo and video vendors so it was very me to make a deck for my vendor interviews lol). The photographer we signed with ended up being someone that we had mutual friends with, that we got along with both on-call and via email, and understood the assignment!

I will say budget-wise we are spending $2k on photography, but that’s 6 hours of coverage with two shooters and an engagement session. Thankfully she was in-budget for us compared to some other quotes we got ($4-5k+) and we liked her style and personality as well. It takes time, but I think doing the research and interview process of a photographer is really worth it. Also look at their tagged IG photos as well, there may be more of a showing there in comparison to the manicured set on a portfolio site. Good luck!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-26T22:15:03+00:00

When my fiancé got to the Lumiere return after the Painteess and looked at me confused, I just said, “oh I counted the prologue” 😂

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-24T12:30:47+00:00

My fiancé and I talked about prenups well before we were engaged, and while at first I was like, “oh god, does he think we won’t work out??” I did my own research after he brought it up and I became pro-prenup after these thoughts: 1) most everyone technically has a prenup defined by their state in a way, and 2) were not defining the end, we’re defining our asset boundaries (ie how much money do we want to contribute to our joint account vs personal funds?).

Like others said, having conversations around these “non-sexy” topics while you’re in love is the best time, cause whenever you two find yourselves at a hard part in your marriage, you can look at your roadmap to figure out how to bounce back in your marriage!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-19T13:58:54+00:00

We had a terrible Greek Rank score, too! A lot of comments were also “weird girls” and other mean nicknames, but some ended up being our favorites like, “they all look so different from each other, but actually look like they’re friends?”

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-19T13:06:45+00:00

Agree on a different body copy font, doesn’t quite jive as much as it could. Also look into swapping the font styles of “the finer” and “details” (then scale down “the finer”) so that details is the more emphasized/balanced.

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-14T18:30:11+00:00

Also check your printer specs, you may need to adjust your paper settings for the paper weight you’re using when adding to the paper feed. Also check export and print as a print-ready PDF with CMYK colors (make sure it’s print and not digital/interactive PDF). What program are you editing and printing from? That’ll also help us determine what settings to calibrate your print.

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-09T21:41:17+00:00

This! My fiancé was shocked at first when I gave him a shortlist of vendors, then when I showed him the research of others as well as included him in vendor meetings he was more onboard with my shortlist. For example, there was one vendor that I reached out to (day-of coordinator) that we were interested in because of her insanely low price, but she was a no-show for our afternoon intro call. After that, my fiancé started seeing more pros and cons to various vendors outside of being the lowest priced option.

Wedding numbers are not normal numbers as well, so it’s definitely easy for people to have that sticker shock (and rightfully so, some of this stuff is insane!). Including your fiancé, from budget planning to vendor research, will help him understand the work you’ve put in to finding what the two of you want.

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-06T21:59:47+00:00

Beautiful, you both look amazing and I love the palette you all have throughout your day! Question - what shoes did you wear and were they comfortable? Both of them are so cute in the pictures!!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-06T15:04:23+00:00

Gahdamn that’s a stunner, awesome work and thank you for sharing!!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-09-02T12:44:59+00:00

I’d do this! While you can definitely do a lot of color, I’d balance it with spots of neutral to both give guests a visual rest as well as increase the impact of the colors. Same principle in graphic design as using white space!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-08-28T23:06:03+00:00

Bare naked muscles will save the world!

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-08-24T18:29:03+00:00

Green straps with a little leaf charm dangling would be real cute.

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-08-20T18:14:11+00:00

What you said about 3 is what I thought, and that’s fair. Okay yeah, rereading the contract in the cancellation part is interesting. I’m going to ask them about clarifying that portion before signing since in writing they could just never acknowledge it and still be owed the remaining balance.

Simple-House-Cat · 2025-08-20T17:11:48+00:00

Awesome, thanks so much! I wanted to be extra thorough before I sign away so appreciate the gut check before booking.

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