Wedding Blog

Here are some pictures from our first dance as a married couple. It took us a while to find our song, but eventually we found the perfect song for us: ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me”. It was wonderfully upbeat and it made all of our guests laugh, so it was our perfect song.

We took two dance lessons, which were totally fun. If you can…

This post is slightly painful because it’s a reminder that the sun went away for a moment during our portrait session. Ever the prepared bride, I had set aside plenty of time to get portraits. Unfortunately, Mother Nature didn’t agree with me, because it rained for a few moments, causing the sky to grow black. Our photographer, bless his heart, had to pull out the…

I’m going a little out of order here, because we took portraits and group shots before the ceremony, but I really wanted to share this first!

(All images by Jason Angelini.)

Here’s a shot of the chair signs I made for the immediate family.

Here are some pictures of our “first sight” moment. Pardon my lack of captions, I just wanted to get these up quickly, but I think the pictures are self explanatory.

The morning of the wedding was in a word, awesome. I was surrounded by the coolest women. My sister was my rock. My best friend, Ashley was my whip. The other girls were just marvelous, too. I could not have envisioned a better start to my first day of marriage. Makeup and hair started early and on time. I had pre- loaded my iPod with…

Originally I was going to split up the honeymoon into three parts, but I’ve decided to combine the last two hotels into one. That way we can get to the wedding recaps that much sooner! Woo hoo!

After a week in Playa Hermosa, we traveled four hours southwest to Nosara. Nosara is predominantly owned by North American hippie surfers, so there was a very relaxed vibe…

Hello to the Hive! Sorry, I’ve been so absent lately. I hate to admit it, but things have been moving slowly for me lately. I haven’t had the desire to blog; I know it’s shameful to admit, but true. It wasn’t until Sunday night that I started to feel that urge to share with my dear friends again! I had read about the rumors, the…

Well, like Mrs. Cherry Pie, I went ahead and did it. Oh yes, that’s right. I joined the Post Bride Hair Chopping Club! I’ve always planned to cut my hair after the wedding, not because I hated my long hair but because it was just time. Now, it takes only 10 minutes to complete my new do for work, and I’m looking mighty professional, to…

I hope everyone had a very happy Thanksgiving weekend! I’m starting to feel normal again after all the wedding hoopla, and I’m ready to blog! First up, some after pictures of our tiny apartment. (We’ve actually started discussing renting a larger place, so this may have all been for naught. Oh well, ya gotta roll wit’ da punches.)

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Hello Hive!!! Mr. Coconut and I are back from Costa Rica! We had an amazing time and I can’t wait to share all of the pictures with you! As the other married Bees have said, getting back from the honeymoon and settling into married life is… HECTIC! Well, in a very good, cleansing way, if that makes any sense??

Let me explain. I have a ton…

Hello ladies!!! I’m blogging from Costa Rica! I can’t stay long, but just wanted to say that our wedding was so much fun and our honeymoon has been a blast so far! I’ll be back with a full review of our amazing day in the next week or so! Don’t forget about me! In the meantime, our fabulous photographer, Jason Angelini has posted a few…

Earlier this week, Mr. Coconut and I trekked down to the clerk’s office for our marriage license! The process was easy and painless, but also a little nerve wracking! (In a good way though!) I had to take a picture on my Crackberry!

I’ll be busy from here on out with last minute errands and hosting family and friends, so this will likely be my last…

When it came time to do our wedding programs, I took the easy way out. I had Kristen from Twin Ravens Press letterpress the covers which saved a bunch of time. For the inner pages, I used Microsoft Word to write out the program and printed them on metallic champagne paper using our Canon Pixma. It’s a pretty basic program, I sort of lost energy…

As the wedding is now just days away, I guess it’s poignant to post some additional bridal portraits of myself. I’ve had the most wonderful year and a half, planning this wedding and learning from all of you out there in blog land. Thank you so much for your compassion and creative energy. I’ll do one or two more posts this week!

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