Weddingbee Blog

We were really excited to check “marriage license” off our to-do list today! During lunch, we went to the Arlington county courthouse to get it. They don’t allow photographs in the building, so we took this outside—all the better for the world to watch our cheese happening. (Mr. P was such a good sport!) Goobers!

Then we went to the bank to combine our accounts—another milestone!

Going to the bank (which we haven’t done in many years) is like going to the post office, or the DMV. It’s tedious and slow! So we made the best of it by taking some “documentary” photos. Here, Mr. P decides a wink is necessary. (He’s going to kill me for posting this!)

We were happy and felt like we got a lot of important things done!!!! BUT, when we got home and looked closely at the marriage license information, it read that it was good for sixty days. Then the two morons (that’s us) counted the days ’til the wedding: over sixty days away. IDIOTS!!! So we’ll have to either go back or get an extension or something. Surely others have made the same mistake!

However, one bit of very nice news came in the way of a surprise gift (with a thank you card) from Lindsey Ryan, our invitation designer: a box of macarons!! They were delivered (still chilled) today! So nice!!! I should be thanking her!

And it was fortuitous, because I was planning on doing another trial run (my third one in about a week and a half) of the macarons.

I had left out some egg whites to age… and the results: THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM!!! Success!! (More on those later.) Here they are:

I just practiced the cookie part and added some red food coloring. Instead of a real stuffing/center, I just put blackberry jam between the two cookies. Here they are compared to one of the Payard macarons Lindsey gifted. What do you think?

Failures, surprises, and success, all in one day!

Did you run into any snafus obtaining your marriage license?