I learned something new in Photoshop

This is really exciting because i taught myself something new in photoshop whilst playing with the pictures i took at my cousins wedding at the beginning of thsi year.

For those interested, In this image i wanted to blur around the subject inorder to draw your attention to her face. (and away from my not so good composition) So what i did was i added a duplicate layer of the background and put a blur on that. then i used the history brush to show through the background layer on the area that i wanted clear. then there is a vignetter on top of that.

Ive probably dont it different to the usual or wrong or something but it did what i wanted to do and im really proud of myself so in the end i dont really care if tis wrong. I think shes beautiful.