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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Wedding recap: the ceremony

While everyone got seated, Mike and I stayed inside the house. Through the windows we could see some chaos happening with the chairs – people were scrambling to find more and we weren’t sure why. A couple people came into the house to grab a thing or two, and told us that apparently there weren’t [...]

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Final Unity Quilt

Just thought y’all might be interested in seeing the final product of our Unity Quilt project. This was one of the very coolest things we did. It took quite a bit of work, and I got worn out (and sloppy) toward the end, but it was so worth it. I love how it turned out, [...]

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Unity Quilt update

The Unity Quilt is taking me a little longer than I had planned. I made the fabric contritubution deadline March 15 so I’d have plenty of time to put the quilt together and be done by mid-May. I wanted to have the last month before the wedding to focus on details, so I wanted the [...]

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One month to go

In one month, we’re getting married! Unfortunately, wedding planning has taken a serious backseat as we get ready to move. Yes, we’re moving out of our apartment two weeks before we get married. It’s not what we wanted to happen, but it’s the way the timeline worked out, so here we are. Knee-deep in boxes [...]

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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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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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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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The fabric of our lives

The official deadline for our Unity Quilt fabric is tomorrow, and we got a lot of contributions at the eleventh hour! A couple people have also said they still have something for us, but we haven’t yet received it, and since I probably won’t actually start working on a plan for this quilt until next weekend, hopefully [...]

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Unity Quilt cutoff

In our original post about the Unity Quilt, we didn’t indicate a deadline for fabric contributions. But in order to give myself enough time to inventory the fabric, create a plan and execute that plan before crunch time for wedding planning is upon us, I need a deadline. Right now it’s pretty chill, but I [...]

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