Wedding Blog

So, Mr Pretzel and I had a trip to New England planned since this past spring. I grew up in NH and most of my mom’s family is in Maine or Massachusetts, so this was our “meet the rest of the family" trip. My mom made the trip with us---making it even more special. My heart was set on being engaged for this trip, so we could celebrate our engagement with my family. As the days ticked by and our trip got closer, I got more and more stressed out. Had he bought the ring? Was he going to propose?

For you girls in the waiting section, I thought I’d try to help you and your SOs out (I know you made a vow to say nothing until Christmas, but just hear me out). Maybe your SO is trying really hard to come up with a creative idea or way to propose, but just can’t figure out what the hell to do.

Well, that’s where your…

I know that everyone says their proposal reflected who they were as a couple perfectly, and I have to say, mine was no exception. It was exactly what I had dreamed of, only a million trillion times better. Here’s how the whole event went down:

One random weekend in March, Mr Trail Mix and I had made plans to meet my parents upstate for brunch. Now the…

Let me just start off by saying that I’m a nervous laugher. Awkward situations? Giggle. Unexpected moments? A frenzied grin and apprehensive chortle. Some people handle life’s situations with grace and a quiet calm. I’m not one of those people.

So it came as no surprise that even after the mans presented me with the perfect proposal (private, at home, no JumboTron involved) and I had…

In the first part, I explained how me met. This story is how, six years later, we became affianced.

Although our anniversary is on New Years Eve, we always consider it a pretty lame holiday. Yaknowimean, right? The pressure to find something LEGENDARY to do before the clock strikes twelve? We usually spend it with friends, maybe in a rental house in the Cape, rather than in a noisy bar. So when NYE 09 came rollin’ around, I was groan-y as usual, like, “What are we gonna doooo?? Is it gonna be lame??”

It was a Saturday like any other. Driving down to his house in the morning with the windows rolled down, boxes of things for her upcoming move loaded in the back. When she got to the house, he helped her unload the boxes, and she started to unpack. He seemed insistent that they take a walk, but she was trying to unpack.

“Just let me get…

In my earlier posts, I hinted at the bunny theme in our wedding. I will tease you no more; here’s the scoop!

Mr. Parfait’s last name means bunny in Serbian. Within the family, there have been cottontails worn at weddings, children named after famous bunnies, and numerous rabbit-y nicknames! I love it, and I can’t wait to be his Mrs. Bunny (and Mrs. Parfait)!

I realized I haven’t even told you how the whole engagement happened. Well, sit back my friends, here begins the story…

Texas is a weird state when it comes to politics (in more ways than one, but let me bite my tongue), and we only have a legislative session every other year. During that time, I find myself much busier at work and a hell of…

How it all happened…

The proposal story, in all of its glory. Unabridged.

Soooo, once upon a time, Mr. Ramen and I went hiking on Camelback Mountain. We like to hike when it’s cool enough in Arizona and we actually have free time. So… uh, not a lot, but we like it. Annnyways, we were hiking, and Mr. Ramen mentioned that we should return and watch the…

Alaska… no, not that proposal!

The proposal involving this!

Some of you have asked us to share our engagement story, and I am happy to oblige! After nearly nine years of dating, the big day had arrived. Here is how Mr. Sunbeam told the story on our personal wedding site, with a few added details by me:

“At the time of our engagement, Miss Sunbeam and I had been dating for almost nine years, so…

The story of our proposal still makes me shiver with excitement. Reliving it every time I tell someone (or write about it) makes me more and more ready for the actual wedding.

Mr. Sprinkle and I had been talking about the possibility of marriage for a long time. We had read the marriage books, taking the time to go slowly through each chapter and answer all…

I thought that at this point it might be fun to tell you all about our engagement story. Mr. Star did such a great job of making it everything I wanted in a proposal, and he definitely deserves some props!

We had been talking about getting engaged for months. I’m not the kind of lady who really wants to be surprised by that kind of thing,…

I knew he was going to do it. For months I had been hounding him about when we were going to get engaged. He kept telling me to just give it time–he wanted it to happen, too, but he wanted it to be a surprise. I’m not very good with surprises. He finally caved in and told me that he was planning on proposing. So…

“I knew what I was getting.” That’s what my high school calculus teacher Mrs. Edgar said after she told us the story of her proposal.

Apparently, she and future husband (our gym teacher) were sitting around one afternoon. He was watching basketball and she was flipping through a wedding magazine because one of her friends was getting hitched in the near future.

Spotting a particularly lovely dress,…