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This is only a burning question because I am wondering if these could be my “something blue.” Or do they only count as my something bluegreen?

These are not the exact sandals I have chosen, but the color and feel is the same. The style I purchased has a little more vintage styling, but I can’t seem to find a picture and my digital camera is…

I am very sorry to have been absent from writing all week. There were two very different reasons for this.

One was that I have been feeling the pressure. With only a little more than a month left to go, I have had to really think about what it possible and what is probable in terms of projects. I have a million ideas for programs, guest book,…

Having decided that we were not participating in the usual Black Friday craziness this year, Mr. Robin and I instead launched ourselves into a road trip down the breathtaking Columbia Gorge under the guise of running some errands for the wedding - first drinks, both wine and beer, and then gathering intelligence for possible mini-moon places for the week after the wedding.

(the Gorge, Portland Ground)

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I admit it, I was a gown novice.

It was soon after I started looking online that I realized I was a little out of my league, which was an odd feeling for someone who usually considers herself pretty stylish. I didn’t even know what the names of the styles referred to. When someone started discussing “girls with pick-ups,” I knew that the mental picture I…

Well this part had a lot more actual invitations, and a lot more challenge if not disaster.

We were on a very tight time constraint for invitations, due to the fact that there was simply not very much time between beginning planning and the actual wedding date. Also, my roommate donated her time and talent to make these, and I did not really want her to…

Sometime during the endless rounds of conversation about where we should register and for what, Mr. Robin came up with the idea of asking our guests to consider gifting to several charities that we either donate to, or are actually involved with. I loved this idea of giving more through our wedding, so we wrote the following note to accompany our invitations: 

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It is amazing to me how quickly things can spiral out of control. The invitation creation has easily been the most stressful part of wedding planning so far, and that’s silly because it was one of the pieces that I would have sworn I wasn’t so interested in.

We started with a simple concept for invitations, a brightly colored one sheet announcement with the all information and RSVP by…

The Story of a Practical Theme

You may of heard a little something about Portland, Oregon… it rains. According to our reputation, almost incessantly. It is my opinion that generally the city gets a bad rap, because the rain is fairly seasonal and the natural beauty it creates is breathtaking.

Suffice to say that, like any stereotype, there is a part to this one which is true…

I am serious. I didn’t realize it before now, but I don’t know many of my friends’ addresses. I know their personal e-mail addresses, their work e-mail addresses, and their cell phone numbers. I am their myspace friend, and their facebook friend (but I refuse to join friendster). I read their blogs, watch their videos online, and have long instant message conversations.

I have been to…

Why pick only two wedding colors, when you could have three. And why stick to only three, when you could have three different colors and two shades of each of those.

At least that is my motto. I am a big fan of color, as anyone in my life would tell you. My shoe collection is such a rainbow that the other day I was bemoaning…

Chalkboard Spray Paint.

I like to play with things. I admit it. I will buy paint, art supplies, and vintage furniture with no real idea how I will use them. I just like the idea of some things, and this is how I came to have a can of chalkboard spray paint.

I desperately want to find some element in the reception to which I could apply this…

It seemed innocent enough. Go to wedding show last weekend, enter contests, see if you win, and while you do that search for a florist or at least floral ideas. Right?

Apparently not.

Not even four hours after departing the wedding show I get a call from the show sponsor saying that I have won some toasting glasses and a hotel stay for two nights. Well hooray……

I wish that I could say that my desire for a ring without a diamond was due to a higher sort of emotion: a concern for the growing problem with conflict diamonds, and the ways in which the diamond trade leads to violence, war and death for the peoples of the African Continent. Or from a desire to say no to consumerism in a culture that…

I sort of knew the proposal was coming. The minute Mr. Robin told me that we would spend the rest of our lives together on the phone, I knew. We had been very careful to make no statements of commitment that we could not back up out of respect for each other. This is mostly because last February we took four months apart while Mr.…

Getting this event together in only a few months means there are a few things that I have to keep in mind as I proceed.

First, priority. Decide which things are important to you. For Mr. Robin and myself, this is setting and food. With only a little over three months after we arrived back engaged from Mexico, a venue was actually the first thing that needed…