Wedding Blog

What do a baby bear…
… and a cutie-patootie poodle have in common?
Se hablan español, they love weddings, and they want to spend Saturday evening with YOU!

Sometimes I think I’m crazy. What was I thinking when I decided it’d be "great" to sign up for a marathon? While planning a wedding??

Oh right. I wanted to look like this.

Last weekend our long run was 14 miles. Let me tell you, that’s a lot of running. So. Much. Running. Every day - running. Get home from work - running. Plan some wedding on Saturday? Running. It really feels like I’m planning two marathons. Or running two weddings. I can’t remember.

There’s one picture I left out of the virtual venue visit the other day. Although I won’t experience it until the wedding weekend, I’m 100% confident the food at Westwind will be delicious.

Mmmmm…. Three types of heirloom tomatoes with fresh (buffalo, I hope?) mozzarella make quite the delectable Caprese Salad!

The best part (which I’ve mentioned before) is that everyone I’ve spoken to says the food is…

As I touched on the other day, a large majority of our wedding plans feel to be theoretical right now. Ninety percent of our planning gets done via emails, and I won’t see the final product until a week (!!!) before the wedding day.

Immediately after moving to Chile in October 2008, I started to get withdrawal anxiety over our beautiful wedding venue. How would I…

This is not the easiest post for me to write. It means I need to be honest with you about myself - honest about my faults.

With less than two months before Mr. Bear Cub and I are back in Portland, I feel like I don’t know what to do. Oh yes, I know there are tasks that need to be taken care of - check…

Tomorrow night at 7:30pm EST, I’ll be broadcasting on BeeTV! With a glass of Chilean wine in hand, and maybe an empanada in my belly, I’ll be ready to chat the night away! Mr. Bear Cub will be gone on his adventurous bachelor “party” - keep me company!

Spend your Friday night with me on BeeTV at 7:30pm EST!

Mr. Bear Cub and I have been busying ourselves with quite a lot of wedding tasks recently—one of which is dance lessons! We’re making some headway on our fancy footwork, but I’ll save the details for another post. Right now, our lovely dance instructor is helping us choreograph our first dance. You need a song to be able to choreograph, so we’ve been pondering the…

While my plans for dressing up the dinner tables are slowly coming together (thanks to you guys! ), I have a solid idea of how I want to decorate the tops of the tables. Like a lot of you, I swoon over aqua-blue mason jars.

source via twobrides

Since our venue doesn’t allow open flames, I plan on filling our mason jars with pretty vegetables and flowers.…

You know how when you spend a lot of time with one person, you kind of create your own language? Mr. Bear Cub and I spend a lot of time together. We live together, we walk to work together, our offices are next door to each other, we shop for food together, go to Spanish class together, run together, eat (almost) every meal together… you get…

Hi!

I’m a table! Just your regular 8 by 3 foot wood table with wood benches. Normally cute little kiddies put their tushies on my benches and joke and giggle while they eat on me. But sometimes… sometimes I get to go wild! Ladies who can’t stop smiling dress me up in new cloths and crown me with beautifully fragrant flowers. I wonder what I’ll wear…

Mr. Bear Cub and I both have a deep appreciation for poetry. When we were getting to know each other three years ago, he chose to learn more about me by looking in my bookcase. I had recently acquired a book of love poems by Pablo Neruda. Amidst our tiny circle of friends in graduate school, Mr. Bear Cub was surprised to find another person…

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about “The Wedding”. Not the marriage - we’re firm of mind and heart that we want to spend our lives together. I’m talking about the party.

I’m talking about the 100+ guest list, the menu that takes months to perfect, and all the little details that (don’t kid yourself) no one really notices. Except you. (And, of course, if it…

After our full day enjoying the architecture and beach in La Serena, we jetted on over to Coquimbo with our photographer Kyle Hepp. Coquimbo is the neighboring port town to La Serena. At the edge of Coquimbo is an old fort that looks like ramparts of a castle - a very romantic location for an evening photo shoot!

There’s a café at the fort, and in…

I didn’t think I’d be too inspired by wedding hairstyles, but this…. this is captivating -

…what do you think? Too much hairspray?

Have you found some inspiration for a more au naturale wedding hairstyle? Any suggestions?

Our engagement pictures are in!!!

Kyle was really awesome to work with. There was a whole slew of locations I wanted to shoot at in La Serena, and she entertained all of them! Even though we’re getting married in the States, we thought it appropriate to document part of our lives in South America.

Let’s take a tour of our little town in Chile, shall we?

We started…