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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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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Supporting marriage equality

The recent vote in Maine reminds me how far we have to go in marriage equality. I don’t get it, I really don’t. I don’t think a gay marriage would cheapen my own marriage in any way, and I think that justification is malarkey, quite frankly. It doesn’t compute, it’s not logical, and it’s downright [...]

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A lasting impression

What do you remember most about a wedding? The dress, the flowers, the food, the toasts? The Etsy Wedding Team says its the bride’s dress, followed by the flowers. And as  much as I love that site, I gotta say, for real yo? If I’m being honest, I NEVER remember the dress. Ever. In answer [...]

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Hint hint…it’s Mint

Have you heard of mint.com? Trying to save for a wedding has really opened my eyes to my money situation. I’ve managed to skate by every month, but sometimes barely, so trying to save a certain amount of money in a set amount of time has posed a major challenge, and it was a big [...]

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Wedding planner

So far our wedding planning has mostly consisted of several Google Docs. Right now we have Docs called: Wedding/Reception Guests – it’s a work in progress Wedding Budget – our 2,000 dollars in line-item form Wedding Ideas – just a smattering of random thoughts and maybes Invitation Wording – I’m working on something fun And [...]

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Ring around the canyon

Cheesy, we know, but we did it anyway. Dang my ring looks huge here. I don’t think it seems so giant in real life, which for me is good. Also Mike’s ring looks huge ON him, but that’s because he has to get it over his giant manly knuckles.

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Months at a time

My name is Shannon. His name is Mike. We learned of each others’ existence only nine months ago. We met in person only eight months ago. We moved in together three months ago. We started planning our wedding one month ago. And ten months from now, we plan to be married. Follow along for the [...]

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