Banquets and Catering

In my pursuit of a culinary degree, I have to take a class in banquets and catering, which I started last week. On our first day, we discussed different occasions that customers might seek to cater with a plated banquet or buffet. This discussion naturally progressed to weddings, at which point the Chef asked if [...]

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Slippage

As I mentioned before, I’m about 10 pounds heavier now than I was when I purchased my dress over a year ago. I got a bunch of slips and shapewear (I figured out that’s the technical term for “sucky inny thing”) from my friend Robin (who got them all free somehow), but none of it [...]

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A hairdo on a budget

After the fight-causing hair dilemma of last week, I vented to my friend Robin who generously offered to come over on Saturday and help me figure something out. She’s no hair expert either, but we were confident she could do a better job than I managed on my own. It took awhile, a couple different [...]

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Paper pinwheels

I had yesterday off, so in a fit of inspiration, I decided to try to make paper pinwheels, thinking if it was fun and easy, I could make a bunch to decorate our FMGSS. We aren’t doing much in the way of decor because it feels like a waste of resources, but these pinwheels would [...]

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Men in Monkey Suits

First of all, yes…I’m still alive. I’m finishing school, and as a result have 16-hour days right now. I’m sorry for my lack of presence in cyberland. There. Just wanted to get that out of the way. Speaking of school, I’ve been talking about our wedding a lot at school. My classmates have been intrigued [...]

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Our first fight!

We got in our first wedding-related fight! I’m just going to go ahead and admit that it was all my fault. Poor Mike didn’t do a darn thing, and I made it seem like all the problems in the world were his fault. It all started when I tried to put hot rollers in my [...]

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Save the Date

Just in case the short list of people we’re able to invite to our wedding and/or reception haven’t figured out the date on which we’ll be getting married from this website, our FMGSS invitation or word of mouth, we sent an email Save the Date. It didn’t go out to everyone we’ll invite (for various [...]

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Served softly

Mike has secured the most awesome thing for our wedding reception. A soft-serve ice cream machine! Rather than a cake, we’re having cupcakes and an ice cream bar. The sundaes were going to be just scoop ice cream, but Mike’s work has a one-flavor soft-serve machine we can get for free! So yeah, we’re all [...]

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My makeshift fitting

My dress. Oh man. It fit great when I bought it over a year ago, when I was about 10 pounds lighter. When I tried it on again a few months ago, my body fit inside, but I wouldn’t it say it was as flattering as it could be. This was when I first bought [...]

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The photographer

One way that we’re able to keep our budget low for our wedding is by getting a great deal on photography. My thinking with photos was that we didn’t need to spend thousands of dollars on them. I know a professional can take AMAZING pictures, but I didn’t need to look like the pages in [...]

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