My friend Olivia and I were just talking over YM about how frequent we’ve been receiving wedding invitations from friends these days, and how many people our age are, at this point, settling down and starting their own families  — another obvious indication that we, indeed, are coming of age.

While I don’t have any plans of tying the knot just yet (and this post has got nothing to do with getting married), I admit that I like browsing through wedding blogs lately because let’s face it, weddings (excluding all the marital shenanigans that come after the wedding) — the color motifs, the photographs, the flowers, laces, and ribbons, the diamonds, the giveaways, the letterpress-ed invitations — are just so pleasurable to look at.

Check out these two unique wedding invitations that caught my attention while weddingblog-hopping. Promise me you’ll read ALL OF IT.

Hannah and Lee’s Save-the-Date (Source: A Day in May):

“Confused, she opens it to read, ‘Will You Marry Me?’. Lee is on one knee. She says yes.”

And Jill and Matt’s Wedding Invite (Source: Share Some Candy):

“(Dinner and dancing and eternity to follow)”

I’m really digging the vintage-inspired wedding effect (okay, okay, I’m digging vintage, period). I find letterpressed invitations with layouts that look like they’re from some advertisement from the 70s so chic and classy. But vintage aside, I like wedding invitations that tell a story. There’s got to be more to a wedding invite than date, time, venue, map, and seat numbers, right?

Lastly, I’m not saying go and be inspired to get married. I’m saying, go and be inspired to do something out of ordinary. ;)

This caught my attention big time. (Feel free to think that it’s my vintage radar at work.)

Entertainment Weekly’s July 17 Issue’s cover story featured Harry Potter’s Cast in yummy vintage get-up. At the risk of sounding sentimental, I feel like I grew up with these guys *sniff*. I’m sure you, like me, still associate Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Ginny Weasley to their younger versions from way back Sorcerer’s Stone. It’s interesting to see how the adorable little Hermione grew up to be kindof hawt. *girlcrush*

Here’s what’s inside the EW’s July issue, I’m glad someone took time to scan the pages.

Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, & Bonnie Wright

Emma Watson is looove <3

Some interesting trivia about these people:

• Rupert Grint missed a couple of days filming The Half Blood Prince because he was infected with H1N1 (swine flu). Sounds familiar, hmm.
• Emma Watson is doing a Natalie Portman and going to Columbia University to study English Literature. Beauty and brains. I think I’m in love.
• Bonnie Wright is going to film school after Harry Potter.
• Daniel Radcliffe is only 5′6 tall. In the movie, take note how shorter he is beside Rupert. Verrry noticeable, indeed.

Tonight is the second time I’m going to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. My thoughts about it, to follow.