Wedding Blog

Well, this is it! The start of my recaps. It’s going to be the worst kind of recap though: the kind with no pictures. Sorry, next time, I promise. I’ve been posting sparingly over the past few weeks, but I hope most of you will remember me: the courthouse bride. I was married on September 9.

If you’ve been following my posts, you’ll know that Mr. Mary Jane and I hired very few vendors for the big day. So on Tuesday, September 8 (the day before our Wednesday wedding), I had some running around to do!

I knew my day would end with me picking up my parents at the airport in Fargo, so I woke up early in the morning and did a whole bunch of last-minute cleaning. I needed to have the home looking its best, you know?! Then I was off.

My first stop was a little hole-in-the-wall nail salon in a local strip mall. I decided, last minute, to get a manicure. I have awful, chewed up nails and I really didn’t want them featured in photos. An hour later, I was cruisin’ across town with new French tips.

My next stop was the jewelry store, where I had my e-ring shined up. Sparkly!

And finally, the fun part: flowers.

I needed flowers for my DIY bouquet, and I’d decided to buy them the day before and wrap them the day of. I was pretty lax on what I wanted: I was looking for a variation in color, nothing too dark, and I didn’t want to pay a ton. I went to several grocery stores before settling on two bouquets, both from SuperTarget. One was a bouquet of white roses for $10, and the other was of mixed flowers for $20. I debated the $20 bouquet for at least 10 minutes because of the expense! Haha. Finally, I decided to splurge: they were for our wedding, after all! And it contained peachy-colored roses, which I really wanted. I paid my $30 and headed home, stopping just once more at a thrift store to buy a couple of sub-$1 vases to hold the flowers. (I had given all of my own vases to my MIL to use at the reception - oops!) My next recap will cover the flowers in detail, I promise!

After trimming the flowers and putting them in the vases, I had to head to the airport to greet my folks! The night ended with a relaxing dinner (caprese salad and sweet potato fries, yum yum!) and an early “goodnight”. And a call from Mr. MJ’s mom telling us that there was no way to get our cake to Grand Forks for the next afternoon…

Crap.

Stay tuned!