Wedding Blog

I mean, not my wedding. But the one we thought about having, with the original color scheme and the non-lace dress I was searching for. I was in Huntington Beach, CA for work and I saw girls in dark purple bridesmaid’s dresses, with the bouquets (cymbidium orchids, purple lisianthus, eggplant calla lilies, other structured flowers, etc.) floating through the hotel. I went to check out…

I know I know, you want pictures. I need to wait for online reviewing to end first, then the recaps shall begin!

A few weeks ago our DJ, Evan, emailed me asking if I’d be willing to write a review for them, because he’d like it to be their 150^th review on WeddingWire. I said, “sure!” Because not only do I love reading reviews, I enjoy writing…

Why, you say? Because we’re waiting on more pro pics, I just started a new job, and I’m adjusting to not blogging about the gazillionth DIY project I planned for our wedding. While wedding planning, I kept thinking, ‘I can’t wait ’til I can blog about real life!’ But the reality is that for 12 crazy topsy-turvy, country moving months… that was my real life.…

So… I know. I said I was back… and then I was gone again. The truth is, while you’re waiting for your pro pics, it’s hard to feel like you have anything to say! I just started a new job, and I admit that I’ve lost some serious blog time. Miss Cowboy Boot’s recent post about Mr. CB’s ring reminded me that I needed to fill…

Well sorta… I’m (obviously - it’s been less than a week!) waiting on our pro pics to begin my recaps, but I just wanted to buzz by and say hi. And that our wedding was awesome.

It really was. In lieu of providing you with recaps, I’ll start by providing you with several posts I started and stopped writing in the weeks right before the wedding.…

It’s time. After 8 months of blogging with you, my day is here. People have been asking me all week if I’m nervous, and I can’t figure out what they mean. Nervous about my marriage? Nope. Nervous that the centerpieces won’t be just right? Yes.

Such is life, though. Friends and family keep saying what’s important will be done, and what isn’t—isn’t important. HELLOOOOO? Don’t they…

For the past month and half I can honestly say I’ve spent a fair amount of time wishing for all the planning to just be over, and for us to be married. Which in retrospect, is a complete shame. Yes, planning has been stressful, but I won’t ever plan our wedding again, so wouldn’t it be better to remain present and enjoy this stage of…

Do you follow your vendors? I do! I recently joined Twitter, and since Twitter pulls your email address to help you find people you know, it naturally pulled my vendors who tweet. Instantly, I was following along with our DJ, Photog and Officiant. I already followed some of their blogs (and Laura and I go to TaeBo together), but this new social media makes me…

Yeah… so the story goes like this. While in PaperSource, Mr. D hears a song he wants for the mother/son dance. Yay, finally! So, we’re listening to the song at home and ask my dad for his thoughts. His thoughts? “Isn’t this the song from Midnight Cowboy?” Then, my dad proceeds to fill us in on the movie, which is one about broken dreams, heartbreak,…

Any clue as to what I’m referring to? It’s my ears, and in particular, how I plan on decorating them on the wedding day. Or really, how I planned, then couldn’t decide, then lost one pair of earrings and am back at square one with two weeks to go to the wedding. hmmm.

At first, I considered wearing smaller pearls and a cameo necklace. But that…

Alaska… no, not that proposal!

The proposal involving this!

I recently joined a book club and the first book the group chose to read was The Time Traveler’s Wife. The movie apparently has a different ending, but I’m sure the same points regarding fate/determinism/chaos are likely still explored.

We were discussing whether the two characters really had a choice in meeting and being together or if it was all pre-determined by fate. This then brought…

When Mr. D and I first started talking about marriage, weddings, and rings, we went shopping together to see what was out there. I’d try on a few rings here or there, trying to figure out what we both liked best. I’m not much for surprises, and he wanted to be sure we both loved the ring because we’ll both have to look at it…

When it came time to plan and write out our ceremony, Mr. D and I were considerably overwhelmed. After all, neither of us had any experience writing a marriage ceremony. After turning to the internet, we then turned to our officiant.

We’d been having a particularly difficult time when it came to wedding rituals. None of the ones we could find really spoke to us as…

I’m finding with the wedding drawing closer and closer each day, my fitness goals seem harder to reach. I had been constantly trying to figure out how to add more cardio to my workouts to supplement my personal training sessions. Go to a class you might say? I don’t belong to a gym, and sadly, I’ve worked my JM Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism DVD into the ground.