Wedding Blog

I got a few questions regarding my escort card table in my last post, so here’s the dirt (or the rice, har har har ). I was waiting for a good picture of it before I posted, so here we go!

YAAAYYYY, after a nail-biting month, Dennis Lee emailed us the link to our online slideshow!! He also sent the link to our online order website, with an unbelievable 959 pictures! And there are SO many good ones! I can’t wait til we get all the pics on DVD so that I can share them with y’all, but for now, here’s a snippet borrowed from his…

I love love love my wedding band and my engagement ring… but as individual pieces! What exactly do I mean by this? Well, my engagement ring has a very dainty band, it’s literally 1/16th of an inch (no joke, I just busted out my ruler and measured it!). So I picked out an equally dainty eternity band to match. However, I’ve recently decided that I prefer…

Part One: Kauai

Day 5 - Friday
 
We took an all-day catamaran excursion with Trilogy. Even though we picked what’s called their “Sunset Tour” we still had to arrive at 10am. They sailed us to the private island of Lanai where we had a driving tour of the quaint town, and then some time to snorkel on the famed Hulopoe Beach, supposedly one of the best beaches…

Part One: Kauai

Our Hawaiian honeymoon came and went in a blink of an eye! We only had 7 days to split between two islands, Kauai and Maui, so I really wish we had the luxury of a two week honeymoon! I decided to list some prices to hopefully help anyone considering some of these activities. Please keep in mind that the prices I list are…

Oh, how I miss my wedding! How I wish it wasn’t over and just a beautiful memory in my mind… just kidding, I love being married! But all the same, I miss the whole process, all the minutia, the DIY, the excitement and the anticipation…

But let me recap one of my favorite aspects of our wedding, one which we dedicated a lot of thought, effort…

by Sister Emerald

[My sister’s paper, How to be Maid of Honor for Your Big Sister’s Wedding was a big hit, so as promised, here is her toast! She actually chose to write a poem instead of a traditional speech, and she was still writing it the morning of the wedding!]

To write a speech for two people so dear
And have it sound perfect, so very sincere.
You’d…

We have just completed Week Two of married life, and it sure is blissful! I love knowing that we are a Team for LIFE!!

Anywhoo, our major task over last weekend was tackling our wedding presents. Strangely enough, our guests bought the majority of the “miscellaneous” items off our registry such as vases, crystal, candle holders, etc., instead of the “practical” items such as our dishes, pots and pans,…

by Sister Emerald

[My sister, who is a Junior in high school recently had to write a "How To" paper for English class, and this is what she wrote. I don’t think she meant to be intentionally funny, but seeing how she translated her experiences from my own wedding, I found the whole thing to be super cute and rather tongue in cheek! Yes, it’s super…

I know I haven’t really gotten into all the meaty, nitty gritty details of our wedding day yet, but I’m going to jump ahead with a brief overview of our Chinese Banquet the next day.

That Sunday morning, we had brunch at my parents house with most of my extended out-of-town family. It was rushed but fun, and we were still exhilarated (and pooped) from our…

It was no surprise I cried multiple times during our wedding day. I cry at everything… sad books, sad tv shows, sad movies, sad commercials…even HAPPY books, tv shows, movies and commercials. So I was prepared to be a teary mess on our big day and just hoped that I wouldn’t have the “ugly cry” face in half my pictures (thank goodness for waterproof mascara…

I mean our photographer… Dennis sent over some pictures for us to potentially use on our thank-you cards. These were from our brief portrait session right before the ceremony. I am absolutely ITCHING to see MORREEEE!!!

Miss Emerald is alive and kicking, and unfortunately, already back at work!! These past 2 weeks went absolutely way too fast, and I’m still trying to live on our wedding-day high. The weather was spectacular and everything went without a hitch. I have never shed so many happy tears, and Mr. E shed some too!!

I have tons of blogging to catch up on, but I’m…

After many technical difficulties, I can finally post my menu designs!! I wanted to design something a little different than what’s normally been done for menu cards, so I decided to have them printed by the same online company that printed my invitations, OvernightPrints. This may sound a bit strange, considering that they are actually a commercial printing company (postcards. letterheads, envelopes, brochures, etc), but…

After mulling over the zillion drink options, I finally decided on our specialty cocktails! This could only mean… design time! I needed to come up with a drink menu to be displayed on the two bars. This time, I decided to K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid), and went straight to Microsoft Word instead of messing with Illustrator.

Voila!