Wedding Blog

Now that Mr. Lily and I have been married for a few months, we decided it was time to take another new step in our relationship: buying a home. Looking for an apartment in Manhattan, as those of you who live here can attest, is a trying process. We **think** we have found a place we like (do you ever really know after a 5 minute…

Happy first monthiversary to us! Exactly one month ago today, we were married in the best. wedding. ever (at least, in my opinion)!

We lived together for almost a year prior to getting married (and spent several nights a week together before that), so it’s not like we had to deal with the transition of merging lives and belongings. A lot of people who live together…

1. He thoughtfully cleans up the mess from me making dinner, even though he didn’t eat what I made.

2. He takes me to 7-11 at midnight to fill an ice cream craving.

3. When I bring home the supplies for an ice cream sundae (that I’ve been talking about for literally 2 weeks), he laughs that I bought light vanilla ice cream, but doesn’t judge.

4. He’ll…

Mr. Peppermint and I made our first purchase for our apartment together. This may not seem like a “big step,” but it was an instance when we had to come to agreement on this new addition to our apartment. It’s especially difficult for me (not just because I’m a control freak!), but also because he’ll be moving into my apartment. Granted, he helped me pick…

Life has been a whirlwind this past week! We just started looking for our first home recently, and didn’t expect to find something so soon… but we did! It’s a new construction building in Chicago’s West Loop, and even though it won’t be completed until July/August of 2008, there has still been a flurry of activity. Meeting with realtors, MAJOR number crunching, upgrade negotiation/discussion, contract…

Mr. Bluebell and I have been living together for almost 4 years, renting all the way. It’s not really because we’re getting married that we started thinking about buying now, but it seems like there must be some correlation since so many people buy their first home to move into when they get married! So, it’s time for a few polls on living situations:

Not too long after our wedding, Mr. Bird of Paradise and I took super fun newlywed pics. Kenny from Kenny Champagne Photography so kindly offered to take our pics for free. Love that. Here’s how it went down.

We arrived at Rip Van Winkle Gardens and changed into our wedding attire, complete with bout and bouquet. We were able to truly see each other as we…

Mr. Bluebell and I did the dishes together last night, in our own particular way. We have long had the agreement that, if one of us cooks, the other one does the dishes. But if neither one of us cooks or we both pitch in, we always fall into the same pattern: I unload the clean dishwasher, and he rinses the dirty dishes and loads…

Like a few of the other Bees, Mr. Plumeria and I do not currently live together — so starting out together as a married couple is REALLY starting out together for us. In terms of furnishing our home, I have a lot of decorator odds and ends and kitchen items from the college days, not to mention plenty of paintings and artwork (also from the…

Last night, as my loving fiance was slaving away over dinner in the kitchen…

…he yelled out to me, “What are you doing?”

“Catching up on today’s weddingbee to make sure my post doesn’t overlap with anyone else’s.”

“Well why don’t you bring the computer in here to read while I’m cooking?”

So into the kitchen my trusty laptop and I went, where I caught up and then sat…

After we got engaged my FI and I moved in together. Right now we are living in a 1 bedroom apartment in Long Island close to where we both work. Prior to that we were both still living with our parents. We are planning to buy a home for ourselves in a few years, when Mr. Orchid is finished with his residency. Planning and financing…

I’ve never lived alone. I went from living in my parent’s house to living with Mr. Kiwi. When I moved out of my parent’s place, I was about to turn 25 - yes, a little bit old. Why did I never move out? I’ve always gotten along with my parents, and never felt the need to “escape.” I came and went as I pleased, sometimes…

Mr. Strawberry and I recently moved from our nice new townhouse into a considerably older and not so nice apartment, all in an effort to save money to buy a house. It’s been a little bit of an adjustment. We went from having stainless steel appliances and a large counter island in the kitchen to very old and dated appliances that you can barely navigate…

I was just reading our new Reader’s Digest in…well…the place where everyone reads Reader’s Digest (c’mon, it can’t just be a coincidence how neatly it fits on the back of the toilet!) and stumbled across this little gem:

(in an article on The Joy of Cooking):
“Recipe testers used 485 pounds of red meat and 3,000 eggs to guarantee that each recipe was worthy of inclusion.”

Don’t they…