Wedding Blog

I’m still waiting for the professional pictures from our photographer, but I stumbled upon another awesome courthouse wedding this morning and just had to share!

First off, San Fran courthouse = amazing. Second, check out this bride’s beautiful dress! See all the photos over at Rock ’n Roll Bride (that’s where I got the three photos below).

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I’m in the process of trying to create our wedding announcements. These’ll be sent primarily to out-of-staters and others who could not join us at our celebratory picnic.

With our other paper products, I knew what they needed to say (and pretty much what they should look like, too). They were serving a specific purpose. These wedding announcements? I thought we could have a little more…

If you do a Google search for “Courthouse Wedding”, you’ll come up with links like this and this. The first one has statements like “More than 4 out of 5 marriages that start at the courthouse will end at the courthouse. The courthouse is where you go for a divorce, not a marriage.” That other one paints a really vivid picture: an arguing couple on…

Before my first wedding, I didn’t actually know that weddings were supposed to take place on Saturdays. It never really occurred to me at all. I picked a date that worked with our schedules, and thought nothing of it until the responses to the save-the-dates started coming back:

“Did you know that’s a Thursday?”

And then I found out that People Get Married On Saturdays. Oh well.

When…

Mr. Mary Jane and I took our rings to the jeweler today. We really didn’t want to part with them, but we had a few matters to attend to.

First off, I needed my wedding band re-sized. I had the e-ring re-sized back in March, but never the wedding band. It was a bit too big, and I need that corrected. It’s a little weird wearing…

I read a lot of wedding planning blogs. No surprise, right? Wedding blogs are different from many other kinds of blogs because usually they have a climax: the wedding. When you start reading the planning posts of a bride (or groom), you generally expect to see the result of all that planning come to fruition within a period of months. As you read, the blogger…

We did it!

I am still amazed by that, considering how many variables I’d only “loosely” tied down. Heading in to the week of the wedding, I didn’t have a photography contract, a venue contract, a restaurant reservation, an idea of what the cake would look like, a source for flowers, or even a guarantee (aside from a verbal “OK”) that the JP in Hillsboro would…

It’s our day.

When the two of us met a little over two years ago, neither of us would have ever dreamed that we’d end up together. But six months ago, he proposed. And today, we’re officially becoming a family.

A lot has happened in half a year:

• It took me four changes of heart to find the right dress.
• I centered my colors around a shoe and a…

Not everyone lives in L.A., Chicago or New York City. Some of us also don’t live in Atlanta, Tucson or Colorado Springs. Hell, Mr. Mary Jane and I don’t live in Knoxville, Syracuse, or even Fargo.

We live in Grand Forks. It’s a decent, small city. A college town, too. We’ve got access to all of the basic stores: Office Max, Michaels, Target, Walmart, JCPenney, Sears……

How’d you spend your Labor Day? I spent mine (or at least a small part of it) making a 3rd (and final) sash. See, on Monday morning, I tried on my dress to make sure my undergarments were fitting properly with it. They were, but I saw something else — something kind of bad: my sash was entirely the wrong color.

It was lime, and my…

Green!

I decided very recently that the pearl necklace I’d planned to wear — while absolutely lovely — just wasn’t fitting my “look”. A delicate white gold or sterling silver necklace was what I needed. After scouring various quick-shipping resources online, I came to the conclusion that I really liked the idea of wearing a peridot necklace. Peridot is not only Mr. MJ’s birthstone: it also…

When I first started planning our wedding, I knew one thing for sure: I was going to make/wrap the bouquet myself. Then somewhere along the line, I changed my mind. I received the name of a local florist who can ’work with any budget’, and started to daydream about how nice it would be to have a professional bouquet ready-made (with no effort from me).…

Ever since Mr. Mary Jane and I decided to get married at the courthouse, I’ve waffled repeatedly on whether to create some type of invitation for our very small amount of guests.

There were a few reasons I didn’t want to create these invitations:

1. Lack of time. I have tons of other things going on.
2. Possible tag-alongs. If FMIL were to put it on her fridge (for example),…

You could probably tell by my previous post about the sash I made that I wasn’t entirely pleased with my sash-sewing skills.

I looked at the original sash (the black one) and made the realization that it was nothing special: it was just a piece of ribbon! *I* am capable of cutting a piece of ribbon! This was one craft I could definitely handle without too…

Mr. Mary Jane and I won’t be doing the “groom’s cake” tradition. Since our wedding will only be attended by 7 guests, we’ll all probably have trouble finishing the normal wedding cake. Even though I’ve never been one to complain about too much cake, I just couldn’t justify spending the extra money on something I was going to have to explain to room full of…