Wedding Blog

Okay, well, that isn’t EXACTLY true.

We’ve already set it. A few times…

Mr. D’orsay and I were engaged on August 10th, 2008. I think we set a date the following weekend and wrote out our guest list on the back of a used envelope at happy hour on the beach. There are some days that I really miss Miami… I digress.

I mistakenly thought setting a date…

Since getting engaged over a year ago, I started thinking about the next round of brides out there who are waiting for a proposal as we speak.

With the holidays approaching, there has to be a few grooms-to-be holding on to a ring waiting for the right moment. And then I found this article. It’s a few years old, but it states that 26% of couples…

A big day has come in the course of Mr. Dragon’s and my journey towards the altar: The engagement ring has been bought, set, picked up, and is now hiding somewhere in my apartment (he made me promise not to snoop). We have been saving up for this for a long time, and selecting, and then making the Big Purchase was an adventure, to say…

I have to say, unlike most girls, I had absolutely NO CLUE that an engagement was near. Now, don’t get me wrong, Mr. Powder Puff and I had definitely discussed marriage, but he had me so convinced that he wasn’t going to propose for a good long time that I was completely surprised by it when it happened!

In May I went on a short family…

I am just now realizing that I never posted our engagement pictures! I posted about having them done, but never the end result. So, without any further ado…

Mr. Sushi and I had talked about our life together and marriage in the past, but I honestly never expected to receive a ring from Mr. Sushi. I always thought we would just go and do it… no ring needed. Plus (no offense, Mr. Sushi!) Mr. Sushi isn’t exactly Mr. Romantic.

We had just bought a condo in May 2007, so money was kinda tight. That Christmas, we decided to…

August 28, 2008 was an awesome day. It was a propitious date on the Chinese calendar (the word “eight” in Chinese is a homophone for prosperity and “two” is a homophone for easy, so 8/28/08 = prosperity, easy prosperity, more prosperity). It was the day of Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech. And it also happened to be a very special day in the Hot Cocoa…

Well let’s just dive right into it, shall we?

Mr. Dumpling and I have been together for a long time, y’all. I tend to ramble, so the short version is that we did the long distance thing for a while, then I made the big move to Las Vegas so we could be together.

Fast-forward to almost two years later and there we were, happily living together and…

Monday as I was about to leave for work, I received a text from our photographer saying our engagement photos were ready and up on her blog. What?! Spend the last 10 minutes doing my hair or looking at our pictures? Um ya- I went to work that day without even running a brush through my hair… but the stray strands and knots were totally…

As I mentioned earlier, the trip to Naples, Florida with Champ our sophomore year of college was where I really fell in love with my best friend. So it only seemed fitting that five years later we would visit the same spots, swim at the same beach, and enjoy the same company we had enjoyed so much before. When Mr. C asked if I would be…

We were fortunate enough to have two engagement sessions - totally unplanned! The first was completely unscheduled, but impromptu plans sometimes turn out the best, yes?

The first engagement session was inspired by my lovely FSIL who also happens to be an extremely talented photographer. We all happened to be meeting up to welcome home my FBIL from Iraq. My Future-In-Laws were gracious enough to host…

I’ve always loved taking pictures. I’m not particularly good at taking them, but I’m very good about pressing the snap button…A LOT. So you can imagine my delight when I discovered photography blogs! Jessica Claire, Susan Stripling, Chenin Boutwell…OH MY! Yes, these names are second nature to me now, it’s quite pathetic. I’m a super photography blogstalker, LOOK OUT!

Naturally, the first vendor we booked was our…

We’ve been best friends since we were fifteen. And just in case anyone out there is counting, that’s almost half of our lives.

In high school, we’d show up for first period in the same outfit. She’d look at me and say, “I knew you were going to wear that.”

We lived together all through college…and we not only survived, we’re still as close as ever.

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I’m going to backtrack a little while I wait for our professional pictures to come back…

In May, Mr. Jasmine and I met our valima photographer, Laurie Tennent, in Millenium Park. My mother-in-law wanted to create a photo guestbook for the valima and she asked us to take some engagement photos with Laurie. We met Laurie in the park on a *ridiculously* cold day for May. I…

Now that you know our photographers, onto the engagement picture discussion! We’re having them taken in 3 weeks, which is a huge “holy s@#$!!” in my world. We scheduled the session back in February, when June seemed like such a long time away…and here we are. How is it possible that it’s June?! When I looked at my calendar last week and realized the pics…