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Mrs. Duckling, San Diego Age and Occupation: 23, Psychology Grad Student, Youth Diversion Specialist/Marriage and Family Therapy Trainee and an Executive Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Marketing and PR Coordinator Engagement Date: May 17, 2008 Wedding Date: September 2009 Venue: Rancho Bernardo Inn About Me: I'm currently living in Orange County, but planning our wedding in my hometown of San Diego. We are a DIY wedding "2fer", as I'm the crafty one and Mr. Ducky is in charge of all of our graphic design and technical aspects. When not wedding planning or reading wedding blogs, I'm attending grad school and rotating between two different jobs to keep things exciting. My favorite things include shoes, Post-Its, Labrador Retrievers, traveling, psychology, delicious food, photography, reading, craft gadgets/supplies, and of course, my wonderful Mr. Ducky!
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Moving Amid Wedding Chaos

August 25th, 2009 @ 5:00 pm by Mrs. Duckling

Did you wonder where I went? Well, last week I basically put our wedding to-do list on hold (including blogging, unfortunately) to get ready to move into our new place! A few weeks ago after we got approved for our lease, Mr. Ducky brought me this cute sign and roses to surprise me with the news. Since then, between the wedding and preparing to move, it’s been a whirlwind.

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This is right after Mr. Ducky brought home the good news. Excuse the makeup-less picture. At least I’m real with you all, right?

The packing seemed to never end last week. Mr. Ducky and I were basically moving from 3 places; my house, his house, and my parents’ house, where I had a lot of stuff stored. The process was a little crazy. For example, we’d take a box of computer stuff from my house, a box from his, and try to combine it into one box. However, we finished everything we needed to do and were prepared for the move.

Because we moved to a new apartment community, it wasn’t available for move in until this past Saturday. Yes, it was a little hectic considering, there is less than 2 weeks to the wedding, and my bachelorette party was this past weekend (more on that later). However, my dad, brother, uncle, and cousin came up to help Mr. Ducky with the move, since I was gone all day Saturday. They were such a huge help. Mr. Ducky treated them to dinner at one of our favorite BBQ places, Bad to the Bone, as a thank-you.

Sunday was spent unpacking, and my parents and brother came up again when I got back to help unpack the kitchen. It was so fun to unpack all of our registry stuff and fun appliances. There was just something so exciting about unpacking things into our own place. Our community is an all-green community, so everything is energy efficient. Double paned windows, high efficiency washers and dryers, and a toilet that has flushes for #1 and #2. TMI? Maybe, but all the guys were laughing about it, so I thought I’d share with you. What’s with guys and bathroom humor?

I was absolutely thrilled to get our KitchenAid Mixer from my grandparents. Mr. Ducky documented the opening to send some pictures to them for thank-you. I can’t wait to start using it.

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Want to know about our “freak out” of the weekend? As we were unpacking our dishes, Mr. Ducky noticed that the backs of our dishes didn’t say “dishwasher safe”. Well, we went to check on the Crate & Barrel website and sure enough, we found that it said “hand wash”. We were so disappointed! We reluctantly set the boxes aside to exchange at another time. We told my parents about it and started looking at new sets. Well, yesterday I decided to check one more time, and suddenly I found in the description that it read, “dishwasher, microwave and oven safe up to 300 degrees”. What!?!? Well after a little investigating. I figured out there was another dish set that looked similar to ours that were hand wash only, and ours were really okay. We put them through the dishwasher last night and everything was still perfect. We were so happy and relieved. We love our dishes! They are the Stockton collection at Crate and Barrel.

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Now with less than 2 weeks to go until the wedding, we have some SERIOUS DIY to get done. I’ll try to keep you guys as updated as possible. We are going to be working away and I have some friends coming this weekend to work on an assembly line. Don’t worry, the invitation tips & tutorial post is coming up this week, though.

I love our new apartment, but am still waiting it for to transition from being that really nice place, to being our new HOME. We have lots of work to do and some will probably wait until after we get back from the honeymoon. I’m stocking up on my design blogs now in Google Reader. We feel so blessed are excited to make it home.

What do you do to make a new place feel like home? Anyone else move right before the wedding?

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32 Responses to “Moving Amid Wedding Chaos”

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mkat88
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mkat88 (message)  289 posts, Helper bee

Congrats on the new place!!!! We are moving in to ouor first official place together next week. Man, moving is a ton of work!!!

 
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LatteLove
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LatteLove (message)  5,590 posts, Bee Keeper

non dishwasher safe dishes would have killed me. I’m glad yours worked out. Things must be crazy for you, but how exciting!

 
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Miss Beagle (message)  1,381 posts, Bumble bee

I love those dishes! Honestly, I am soooo glad I did the moving in with Mr. Beagle prior to planning the wedding. It took me/us several months to get situated in my new home with my new roomies. I am looking forward to the day when Mr. Beagle and I will get to have a home to ourselves. Painting and hanging pretty things on the wall is always a good way to start settling in. Good Luck!

 
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CHK (message)  597 posts, Busy bee

Sold Boyfriends condo 2 weeks ago. Signed papers to build a house 1 week ago. Pre construction meeting on house 6 days ago. Engaged 4 ddays ago. Moving to interim apartment in 4 days. Building House. Moving into house in December. Trying to plan a 2010 wedding…

It’s a lot of decisions made quickly!

 
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markyk
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markyk (message)  227 posts, Helper bee

love the first dress and necklace! congrats on the new place!

 
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Mrs. Espresso (message)  1,310 posts, Bumble bee

Congratulations on your new place!! How exciting! I much more enjoy unpacking than packing. And I love your dishes!

 
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Miss Scissors (message)  7,343 posts, Busy Beekeeper

That’s so fun to be able to unpack all your fun new stuff at the new place. It sounds like an awesome apartment, as well!

 
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tea
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tea (message)  7,278 posts, Busy Beekeeper

i would love to be able to pop dishes into the dishwasher! growing up, we WERE the dishwasher. lol.

congrats on the new place! i just started planning my future move! so exciting

 
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Miss Elephant
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Miss Elephant (message)  6,209 posts, Bee Keeper

Congrats on your new place! When FI and I moved into together, that packing seemed like a chore but the unpacking was exciting since it was our place.

 
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ScotIrishGirl
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ScotIrishGirl (message)  307 posts, Helper bee

Wow! You’re getting a lot done in a short time! Good luck with all and congrats on your new place!

 
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Charm bracelet (message)  1,935 posts, Buzzing bee

Congrats Miss Duckling! I am so excited for you that you now have your apartment together. I can’t wait for that day. I have been thinking that we might want to get the apartment a two months before our wedding day so I don’t have to stress.

 
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Gator
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Gator (message)  607 posts, Busy bee

Congrats! My fiance and I just moved in together and it was so hard. I couldn’t imagine being 2 weeks to the big day! Good luck with everything :)

 
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Turtle

I know about several moves in the last few weeks before the wedding– my fiance was also taking the bar exam at the same time– so I packed up his hole place. Luckily we hired movers to do the heavy work. Phew. I’m glad that’s over!! Enjoy your new place together and your final days before the wedding.

 
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kmattso2
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kmattso2 (message)  1,046 posts, Bumble bee

Congratulations!!! I bet it’s really nice be able to use all your new stuff in your new place =] Have fun decorating and making it home.

 
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Miss Star
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Miss Star (message)  2,063 posts, Buzzing bee

Oh, I hear you about the moving. Congrats on the new place!

 
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ladybuglove
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ladybuglove (message)  740 posts, Busy bee

congrats! i love how green your new place is! so exciting!

 
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TravelBug
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TravelBug (message)  68 posts, Worker bee

It’s a potential for me - I live in Chicago and will be relocating to Indianapolis to move in with my fiance (and be close to both of our families). At least he currently has a home there so it wouldn’t be both of us, but I’m scared of what it would be like to move states and get married in such a short period of time! Best of luck with your move AND wedding!

 
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Mrs. Peony (message)  314 posts, Helper bee

Aww that sign and flowers are too sweet! Will you/have you hung it up in your new home?

I once read somewhere that most people take an average of 3 weeks to get acclimated to a new home. And on a personal note, I first noticed that my home was “my home” when I was away for an entire day and found that I was glad to get home! So maybe spending a long day away might help you realize this also? Good luck and congrats!

 
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Miss Dew Drop (message)  381 posts, Helper bee

Congrats on your new place! And I love the dishes! I think decorating goes a really long way in terms of making a new place feel like home. But you’ll have plenty of time for that after the honeymoon. :)

 
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pvaulter718
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pvaulter718 (message)  2,116 posts, Buzzing bee

I have pictures of me opening my KitchenAid too! I love that big old mixer :) It makes everything so much fun - and it makes GREAT brownies!

 
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Mrs. Duckling, San Diego Age and Occupation: 23, Psychology Grad Student, Youth Diversion Specialist/Marriage and Family Therapy Trainee and an Executive Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Marketing and PR Coordinator Engagement Date: May 17, 2008 Wedding Date: September 2009 Venue: Rancho Bernardo Inn About Me: I'm currently living in Orange County, but planning our wedding in my hometown of San Diego. We are a DIY wedding "2fer", as I'm the crafty one and Mr. Ducky is in charge of all of our graphic design and technical aspects. When not wedding planning or reading wedding blogs, I'm attending grad school and rotating between two different jobs to keep things exciting. My favorite things include shoes, Post-Its, Labrador Retrievers, traveling, psychology, delicious food, photography, reading, craft gadgets/supplies, and of course, my wonderful Mr. Ducky!

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