Wedding Blog

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I can’t wait to start sharing our wedding plans so far. Because we’re only five months out (yikes!) we’ve got some major catching up to do. You can expect quite a bit of back-story from me over the coming days and weeks to get you all up to speed, interspersed with bits of the here and now.

By way of an introduction, let me tell you a little about myself, Mr. Cherry Pie, and our pending nuptials. We’ve been together for nearly 8 years since we met during my senior year of high school. HOW we met is another (convoluted and awkward) story entirely, and I might get into that a bit later.

First, I picked the name “Miss Cherry Pie” because Cherry Pie is the mister’s absolutely faaaaavorite dessert. Sometimes I wonder if he’d leave me for an infinite supply of pies. In fact, he loves cherry pie so much that we’re going halfsies on the wedding desserts and supplementing our cake with cherry tartlets.

Aside from eating way too much dessert, we’re both avid outdoorspeople– we love hiking and backpacking. Mr. CP… err, let’s call him Mr. Cherry so as not to be confused with Mr. Cream Puff… is also very into rock climbing and I’m a 2-time marathoner and running fanatic. We get plenty of wilderness time because Seattle is so close to the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges, but consider our yearly trip to Glacier National Park as the pinnacle of the summer season.

This is us on our ’07 Glacier trip all schweaty and rugged and stuff.

We’ve been engaged since August 2006 and we spent a lot of that time fantasizing about, rather than planning our wedding. Suddenly, it’s time to get down to business! We’re planning an outdoor tented wedding in Polebridge, Montana, a tiny town just outside Glacier National Park.

We’re asking a lot of our guests to make this journey, but most of our families are based on the East Coast or Midwest, so they’d have to make quite the trip out to Seattle even if we were to do a local wedding. By getting married in Montana, we have the opportunity to share a place that is truly special to us while celebrating our journey together. Plus, how cool is it to plan a rustic wedding in the “middle of nowhere” set against THIS backdrop?

Expect more to come very, very soon as I fill you in on our engagement and venue. I look forward sharing all of our ambitious planning escapades!