Anniversary, so many, many weeks later

Our first anniversary was over two months ago. I’ve been waiting to write this post because we totally failed at anniversary-ness, and I was hoping someday we’d catch up with ourselves before I had to tell you how much we sucked at it. When we got married, we started a tradition that involved a Love [...]

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Our photographer is having a wedding contest!

My friend Erica, of Photography by Arika Reed, the photographer at our wedding, is having a wedding contest. It’s a pretty sweet deal, so if you’re looking for someone great for an upcoming wedding, you should check it out. She did an amazing job at our wedding, and I’m in love with the photos we [...]

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Premarital counseling

Did we ever tell you that we were rock stars at premarital counseling? We were pretty much star students, the valedictorians of premarital counseling, as Dooce might say. Before our first appointment, we were given an assessment to take separately. It was supposed to tell the counselor what areas we needed to work on, where [...]

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Winner chosen!

Thanks to everyone who entered to win the $75 Nordstrom gift card, and thanks again to DesignApparel.com for offering such a great prize! It was fun to read all the ways you’d spend it, but I promise I didn’t use those ideas to pick a winner. I used random.org. And the nifty random number generator [...]

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It’s a wedding giveaway!

Mike and I were contacted by DesignerApparel.com who asked us to host a contest to give away a $75 gift card to Nordstrom! Of course we said yes - you people deserve something nice for being so awesome. Though I have to admit that I didn’t use their website when putting together my wedding, I appreciate that [...]

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Four sisters, four weddings

Two of my sisters had their weddings last year. My sister and I each got married this year. Four sisters in less than 12 months. And when all was said and done, my stepmom very aptly observed, “All four weddings were different, but each of you had the perfect wedding for you.” She’s right. August [...]

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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: photo session

Asking my friend Erica to photograph our wedding was one of the best decisions we made. She did a spectacular job and we love all the photos she captured. As I’ve said before, we bought her a ticket to Michigan from California (where she moved several months before the wedding), and that was it! $375 [...]

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Wedding recap: the reception v.3

By about 8ish, about a third of our guests had left already. The only survivor from Mike’s family was his mom, all of my grandparents and all but one of my aunts/uncles had left, as well as a few friends. But it was about that point that Mike and I got to sit down and [...]

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Wedding recap: the reception, v.2

One thing I will always remember about our wedding was how EFFING HOT it was! I couldn’t be more grateful though because there was a threat of rain, and hot thick sticky air is better than rain any wedding day. I tried to encourage people to dress comfortably, but several men had long pants or [...]

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