Making a map for the wedding

Over the weekend, I made a map to accompany our invitations (which are SO cool by the way – I’ll show you when they’re done). I wasn’t sure how to go about it, but I found this tutorial incredibly helpful. Basically I pasted an image from Google Maps into PowerPoint, then drew over it, added [...]

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Party people

As Mike mentioned, our Family Meet and Greet Slash Shower was this past Saturday. I think it went really well. We had about 30 people there, and we heard a lot of compliments by the end. “This was a great idea.” “We had a good time, great job!” Mike’s mom, aunt and dad helped us set [...]

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A Shower of Love

“If I’m not mistaken, we gave you your wedding shower here. We all came into this room and gave you a golden shower.” Michael Scott–regional manager, Dunder Mifflin. Yesterday was our family meet-n-greet and wedding shower. Being a man, I have very little experience in the proceedings of a wedding shower. Men don’t go to [...]

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Getting to know you

Saturday is our self-hosted Family Meet and Greet Slash Shower. I’m a little bit nervous because not only are we the hosts, but we’re the guests of honor, too. That’s a lot of pressure! Make sure all the little details are taken care of AND be social the whole time. What if people are bored? [...]

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Quilt progress

The last week and a half, I’ve been working on our Unity Quilt. It was pretty daunting at first, but thanks to Mike and his mom, a plan (sort of) has emerged, and I’m off and running. The first night I worked on it, I nearly had a mental breakdown. I just couldn’t figure anything [...]

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Let Them Eat Cake

I’m kind of nervous. I don’t usually think about these kinds of things, but being in the food service industry has me wondering about the reactions people have to food in different situations. We’re buying a sheet cake for our joint shower/family meet and greet. We figured since we’re not having cake at our wedding, [...]

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Unidentified Fabric Object

I’m embarrassed. I started putting our Unity Quilt together, and realized there is one piece of unidentified fabric. We took pictures of every piece as it came in, and included the name of the sender. But one slipped through the cracks—no picture, no name attached to it. I’ve got nothing. And of course now I [...]

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What are you eating?

After we finalized our menu for the wedding, I thought it would be fun to use my stitching skills to make whimsical food labels. I think most of the cuisine will be self-explanatory, but these signs were easy and cheap to make, and I think they’ll help the buffet table set up in a garage [...]

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Cake toppers

Mike’s mom is making cupcakes for our wedding, and her idea is to make a tower of regular-sized cupcakes with a large one at the top. She asked if we’d like a cake topper, and even though I thought we wouldn’t, we decided to look around a bit for options. Turns out there’s not much [...]

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Age of marriage

I don’t know the average age of marriage in America today, and I don’t feel like looking it up, but I’ve heard it’s much higher than it used to be. Which is strange because I swear to god everybody from my high school graduating class was married within five years. Many of my closest friends weren’t, [...]

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