Friends, we are over the moon to be just days from The Captivated Issue launch! Today is the last day to preorder The Captivated Issue as well as the captivated candle created by Silver Cup Artist Bisby! We are offering two captivating covers containing the same lovely content as well as a captivating collection including both magazines, original and limited edition cover, and the captivated candle! All orders placed by midnight CST will be received by late next week! Orders placed after this time will not be shipped until May 15th so order now!

It's been a few weeks since we've had a CH Original story and we are so excited to share this lovely shoot by Silver Cup Artist Alex Meyer. Inspired by the spring gardens slowing yielding blooms, this story is inspired by fresh herbs, like lavender in both the floral arrangements and perhaps infused in lemonade. We love the concept of garden-to-table cooking and decor, and growing fragrant herbs in your garden is a perfect touch to bringing something new to your wedding or dinner table!

I often think people forget how important the moments just before a wedding ceremony are. These images are of a bride and groom who got ready at the bride's family home. She has 8 siblings and the most special family. The bride's mother made her earrings and veil! They spent all morning preparing for a wonderful day with the people that mean the most to them. Getting ready somewhere that is comfortable and beautiful is sometimes underestimated, but on this wedding day each and every image holds unique memories.

Silver Cup Artist Lauren Jolly had the opportunity to spend the day with the Rays. Nancy Ray, also photographer, was featured in The Homecoming Issue and we are overjoyed they are excepting a little one soon. Lauren had some thoughts to share with us along with her lovely photographs. Enjoy!

Eating dinner, on a dining room table, together, is for many couples no longer as ubiquitous as it might have been just a few decades ago. Faster living, mass-produced food that takes three minutes on high to cook and our slight dependency on media makes the couch or the desk in front of a screen a more desired setting for the evening meal. Staring into the blue light at people who we don't sincerely care about while the people who matter most sit along side us to make minimal eye contact and single line comments on the day's experience and what is on the screen before them.