Quilt ceremony

Yesterday Mike and I sent an email to several friends and family asking them to participate in an important part of our wedding ceremony. Awhile ago I was looking for a symbolic gesture that would, well, symbolize our unity. Like the unity candle. Only I don’t really like the unity candle or the mixing of [...]

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Shan’s shoes

One night last month I was g-chatting with my friend Katie, and we eventually started searching for shoes I could wear to the wedding. With her help, I soon landed on a gorgeous pair of ivory 1950s boudoir slippers on etsy. With shipping they were only fifty cents over what I had budgeted for shoes [...]

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Mike’s wedding ring

Mike’s ring came in this weekend, and it came with all the same excessive packing that mine did. I think our rings look nice togther even though he is Tungsten and mine is white gold. Mine is a dainty size 5.25 while he is a 12. I was kind of hoping I’d wear a 6 [...]

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Pausing… but still thinking

Wedding planning has taken a backseat in the last month. Hell, wedding planning is way in the back of a damn stretch limo. Besides the holidays this time of year, I’ve also had a birthday, we’ve celebrated our anniversary, I started a new job that includes a long commute, and my sister brought my beautiful [...]

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Happy Holidays!

I don’t think everyone got that we were trying to be over-the-top cheesy with the holiday regalia and decor in our card. That’s about right though, since my wit and humor seem to go right over people’s heads quite often. The best part of this is that just as we were getting ready to create [...]

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Celebratory slip-up

A couple weeks ago… S: So should we celebrate my new job? M: We celebrated last night with ice cream. S: I thought we could go out to dinner. M: Well we’re going to a movie on Saturday. S: You don’t want to go to dinner? M: Yeah, I guess we could go to dinner… [...]

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Anniversary Adventures

One year ago (yesterday), Shan and I met. Crazy. We went on what started out as a typical first date. I picked her up for dinner, and we went out to a semi-fancy tapas restaurant downtown. We drank sangria, ate interesting food, and played the get-to-know you game. What’s your favorite movie? How many siblings? [...]

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Christmas With a Family

“On Tuesday, the tree fell over.”

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Wedding Traditions Explained: throwing rice

Wedding traditions are traditions for a reason: they’ve been around a long time. But where did they originate? Our Wedding Traditions Explained series attempts to find out. We have no real evidence to back up these claims, but they were gathered from various online sources. Take them for what they’re worth, and if you’ve heard [...]

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Wedding Traditions Explained: toasting

Wedding traditions are traditions for a reason: they’ve been around a long time. But where did they originate? Our Wedding Traditions Explained series attempts to find out. We have no real evidence to back up these claims, but they were gathered from various online sources. Take them for what they’re worth, and if you’ve heard [...]

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