Wedding budget break down

When we first got engaged, Mike and I determined our budget to be $2,000. My dad and stepmom provided all of the beverages and most of the food, and a few others contributed food as well. We borrowed as much as we could, and bought cheap on everything else. We also decided to include our [...]

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Our take on wedding traditions

My friend Lindsay suggested that we break down the wedding traditions we’ve been detailing in our Wedding Traditions Explained series from our own point of view. We thought it was a good idea, too. So here it is: Tossing the bouquet and garter We will not be doing either. In fact, we won’t even be [...]

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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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Shannon’s wedding band

I got the call yesterday that my ring was ready, so Mike and I went to pick it up when he was out of work. It’s a tiny little band, but it came with some extensive (and superfluous) packaging. First the bag: Then a box: Then a box inside the box: Then finally the ring: [...]

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Wedding bands: check!

We bought wedding rings! It wasn’t on our To Do list to accomplish until March, but I had the brilliant idea to take advantage of the holiday sales instead. We revisited the jeweler that sold us my engagement ring, thinking it’d be nice to have both of my rings from the same place. Convenience for [...]

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Wedding Traditions Explained: wedding rings

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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Tidbits of fun

We’re off to another wedding this weekend, but here are some pretties to keep you occupied: I love this dress Allyson Hannigan wore to some event or another. I saved this image years ago, and if I was wealthy and could have a wedding dress custom-made, I think it would look rather similar to this. [...]

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Four sisters, four rings

There are four sisters in my family (actually five, but one is only 8 years old, so I can’t really include her in this post). As of Saturday, two of us are recently married (Andrea in August, Kelli in September) and two of us are engaged to be married next year. Within 12 months, all [...]

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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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Engagment ringS

That is an intentional emphasis on the S. Plural. That’s because Mike and I both have engagement rings. This wasn’t a big feminist In Your Face to the outdated tradition of women-only engagement rings (ok maybe a little); it was just something we both felt strongly about. For us an engagement ring shows the intention [...]

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