The One Day Bouquet

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When I was 22, I went on a trip to Israel and my friend and I bought beautiful, vintage brooches at a street market. We thought brooches were the perfect small, unique souvenir and it started a pattern for me to search for special brooches on all my adventures. I decided back then that “one day”, I would use all these beautiful pins in my collection as flowers in my wedding bouquet “one day”… The more I gathered throughout the years, I realized each brooch was a kind of puzzle piece, leading me to my person. And I finally found him! HOORAY!

Because of COVID, we decided to wait til 2022 for our wedding, so that gave me time to start putting my “One Day Bouquet” together. It’s been such a joy to see all these years of collecting come together to make such a beautiful bouquet. Each brooch has a story and I’m so excited to share them all with you.

xo, Casey

 
On the back of these little buddies , “Love Birds” is carved into the pin. When I bought this brooch with my maid of honor @aohernandez6 in Portsmouth, little did she know that two lovebirds (Dave and I) were planning to elope in just a f
I bought these brooches with my dad a few weeks ago on Valentine’s Day as we wandered throughout Meredith. The antique shop is a short walk from where we’re going to have our rehearsal dinner this summer. After my dad and I got these pins
One thing my mom loved were garage sales- and don’t get me started if they were the “town wide” kind, especially the ones with maps… The day before her memorial service this September, there was a town wide garage sale in our
I’m a sucker for anything floral, handpainted, and with birds on it…🦜💐🎨I found this pin at an antique mall in Oklahoma City when I was playing Janet in a production of “The Drowsy Chaperone” at @lyrictheatre. I’m pre
In the “before times, whenever I would go home to NJ to see my family, one of the “must visit” places in town was the Top of the Barn- a thrift shop connected to a church in Califon, right along the river. This pin came from the fir
The fact that our wedding is in less than 7 months (after so many months of waiting!) is so unbelievably exciting. I’ve been so busy these last few months that my brooch bouquet project has been on the back burner (the corner of my studio, to b
I bought this brooch for $5 the other day to commemorate another exciting purchase (that was not $5)… I saw an antique post office letter sorter at the beginning of the summer and have been able to stop thinking about it. I had never seen a pi
Two years ago today, I bought these vintage buttons here in NH at the @laconiaantiquecenter 💐Lake Winnipesaukee was our “happy place”, a vacation spot in the summer we could getaway for a week… and now, at least for the time being
A year ago today, @davefarah asked me to marry him 💛 I have felt loved by him every day since we became a “we”, but on June 27th, 2020, I felt even more loved than ever. I’ve had this pin since I was young. It sat hidden in a lit