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New old treasure

Last summer we went home to visit for the first time in two years.  Rediscovering all of the cold-weather clothes I’d left behind in my closet and all of my possessions waiting for me in Minnesota was so exciting.  I didn’t want to wear any of the clothes in my suitcase, just the sweaters and [...]

The world wide wedding web

*Warning*
This post is 100% wedding-planning-induced rant.

Dear wedding vendors,
I’m a little frustrated with planning right now, so please bear with me.  I just have a little request that I’d like to put out there.
Please, for my sake and yours, get a decent website!!!
Actually, for some of you we may need to start with get a website, [...]

Check and check

We have a photographer!  And a DJ!  More on this later.  I just wanted to note the occasion.  Progress has been made!

Yellow dresses

The search is on for yellow bridesmaids dresses.  I asked all of my girls to choose a yellow dress, roughly knee-length.  So they are the ones choosing.  And actually, I don’t know that anyone except for my sister (MOH) is actively looking yet.  Which might worry me if I weren’t way the heck over here [...]

Centerpieces…check!

While we were home this summer, we did check a couple of things off of the wedding list.  I went to IKEA three times.  That store is so much more wonderful after living on a remote tropical island for two years.  Let’s just say our apartment is not very homey here.  Because selection is terrible [...]

Canning lemonade

How come I’ve never seen lemonade served in mason jars with the lid on before?

Perfect!
Photo from ::here::

Planning a wedding is like teaching first grade

Hear me out on this one.
All the wedding mags and websites like to point out the average person’s inability to plan a party as large as a wedding. Because most people don’t have experience planning and carrying out huge shindigs, they need to hire a wedding planner to do it for them. That way [...]

Overwhelmed

The word of the day today is overwhelmed. As in overwhelm. You know…

o · ver · whelm

to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by stress.
to overpower or overcome, esp. with superior forces; destroy; crush: the independent and distant budget wedding planner was overwhelmed by the stalwart wedding industry.
to cover [...]

Choices, choices!

You’d think that with all these weeks of being home, I’d have something to show for it on the wedding front.  Alas, nada.  For the past year, I’ve floated along in a sea of excess time.  Things were too far out to really plan and I had all the time in the world.  I perused [...]

Yellow it is.

Once we decided on the location, my vision for our wedding started evolving.  I should note, this process of planning our wedding has really made me aware of how much I have changed these past two years.  Living on this teeny tropical island has removed me from fashion trends and most of pop culture.  I [...]