13 posts tagged “wedding”
I emailed my Daddy to tell him I was going to stop by and pick up my veil from his house for my hair trial. He said:
"Not going to ask what a 'hair trial' is, but I'm sure its really important."
I think thats pretty much describes the entire wedding process from his perspective.
Just some random musings on a beautiful Friday morning:
A good way to make the county of clerks chuckle at you while you apply for your marriage license is to argue semantics with your attorney fiance in front of her. Nice work.
I haven't had Starbucks in who knows how long, and on the two block walk back to our cars we stopped at one on the way. I may have to start going to Starbucks regularly because this is the best coffee ever and its sugar and fat-free!
We had a really great trip to Maine last weekend. It was beautiful, relaxing, and fun. It was a blast to spend time with Dave's acapella friends, and they decided they must initiate us into the world of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" which is happening in a marathon session tomorow. I hear there's going to be pizza involved and I can't wait. Finally! I will know wtf they're talking about.
It's been a perfect morning. The weather outside is gorgeous, and it was great to spend the morning with Dave - every day should start like this one.
Our wedding is in just 29 days. Thats like, soon and stuff. Hm.
I was talking to Mike again today because he's awesome and everyone should talk to Mike everyday. But you can't because he doesn't have that much time. Also, I've called dibs. I was telling him about how he can convince people of anything because he's sexy like that, and then launched into some solid reasoning for why my wedding should include a dramatic dance to "Always" by Bon Jovi because when I say his name? I understand. He's made mistakes. He's just a man. And Mike said to me:
"PS, nice touch on flirting with me and talking about your wedding in almost the same sentence"
And while I'm telling you about funny conversations I've had with Mike, I should share with you another story. I'm going to Geneva in August for more Thunderbird deliciousness, and I was talking to Mike about how I really wanted to be roomates with Cameron in Geneva. But what if she doesn't like me? Or thinks I smell funny? Maybe I should just pass her a note in study hall saying "Will you be my roomate? Check a box: Yes, No, Maybe?"
When we found out we do indeed get to pick our roomates in Geneva I got a message from Cameron that said "You + Me = Roomates in Geneva? Yes? No? Maybe?"
Awww. Its like we have ESPN or something. We're totally soul mates. Or Mike told on me. Either way, our room is totally going to be the "Room of Hotness" while we're there.
I recently saw Paige, and she suggested I start a wedding blog, like this one from Holly. And I thought to myself, "Self, thats a good idea!" and self responded "Or you could just write on the blog you already have." Or I could do that. So if you have no desire to hear about my wedding planning adventures, just move along and stop back another time when I'm telling a very boring story about how funny my cat is.
At dinner the other night, Dave and I were talking about the readings for the wedding. One side of my family is Jewish, and I thought it would be nice to do the Seven Blessings, but in a slightly more modern version. For example, the third blessing in original text is:
"Let the barren city be jubilantly happy and joyful at her joyous
reunion with her children. You are blessed, Lord, who makes
Zion rejoice with her children."
Uh. Zion might be a little much for us. We were thinking something more like this:
"May you encourage each other in whatever you set out to achieve. May you share each other's dreams and meet life's challenges together."
The neat thing about it, is that a different person can read each one - so we can include lots of people in a brief reading. Dave thought we should balance this with a Christian/Catholic reading that maybe our siblings can read together. He suggested the "Love is patient" reading thats very popular. But when Dave described it to me, it went something like this - and I had to write it down as soon as he said it, because its just classic Dave:
"You know that Love thing. Love is always kind, love is never angry and it closes the door when the bathroom is smelly and has a mohawk - you know..all that stuff thats in the Bible."
Yes, that "Love has a mohawk" passage from the Bible. Let's do that one. Maybe Grammy can read it for us.
I confess, I sometimes peruse theknot.com for ideas and tips and such for our wedding. I stumbled today across their "workout and nutrition" advice. It made me throw up a little in my mouth. Particularly this article about nutrition. Some of my favorites:
The number one tip listed on that site for healthy eating? "1. Get plenty of sleep." Want to lose weight? Take a nap!
Touting that every person metabolizes food differently and therefore, some people can eat ice cream and lose weight! Yes, we all have metabolisms that operate at different speeds and you can do things to help improve that - but HOW your body metabolizes food is the SAME. You're not special. Get over it.
I love this quote too: "However, the fact that so many people follow some diet or another and are still overweight indicates that something isn't quite right." Yes, you know whats not quite right? Those people either didn't actually follow the diet, because any diet out there will work - any of them! if you follow it, or they didn't choose a diet that was sustainable for them. Atkins or The Zone or any somewhat proven diet will make you lose weight, but if it isn't something you can follow the rest of your life it isn't going to work for very long.
What a bunch of hippie bullshit.
*Please note - this is for entertainment purposes only! I'm not a professional!*
My week at Thunderbird was one of the best week's of my life. It was exhausting, and exhilarating, and tons and tons of work - but I loved it. I have always liked school, but I am FASCINATED by this kind of school, the kind where I get to learn all those things I have always wanted to know more about.
Our opening lecture for the week consisted of a professor who had been doing extensive research about Thunderbird students, and why people are drawn to this quiet school in Arizona. He started out by describing "A Thunderbird Student." Imagine sitting in a room of 23 people where a professor stands in front of you and proceeds to describe your life ambition. We're not talking about "Oh, I always wanted to be a teacher because I love to see children learn." We're talking about "You have something in you that gives you this drive that makes you want to see and know everything about the world around you. You are fascinated by a variety of cultures and love the experience of being somewhere totally new. The worst thing anyone could do to you is allow you to be bored and to put you in any one place for too long." All those things that no one else has ever understood about me. So many people responded to this with, "Oh yeah, I like to travel." No. This is not that. This is more than that. This is something I HAVE to do with my life, this is what makes my life whole. This man spoke to my heart, to the very core of my being. It wasn't about 'what I want to be when I grow up' - it was what challenges me, what makes me love, what makes me happy, what I find interesting - all that stuff thats more than a job. That stuff that everyone else feels about their job but have never understood about what I want from my job. And 23 other people sat around me nodding, feeling the same way that I did.
That was the moment I knew I'd made one of the best decisions in my life.
And yes, during all of that I planned almost my entire wedding. Six weeks from getting engaged I have a date, place, photographer, DJ, and invitations. And I've been working about 50 hours a week. I'm feeling pretty badass these days.
And, I'm also leaving for San Francisco again on Sunday, for two weeks. I get to be home for one week, and then they ship me off again for two more. I'm invincible. Please check back in two weeks for the inevitable collapse.
This week has been ridiculously exhausting. For starters the 3 hour time difference is just bizarre - when I wake up its already 9am on the East Coast. By the time I get home from dinner after work, its nearly midnight there! Communicating with The Fiancee has not been easy. The nature of my work here is extremely exhausting, and the days are long. I have no down time to unload all that work stress before I am talking to Dave at night and I can't say I've been very pleasant to him. It doesn't help that the only thing I have to look forward to after I get off the phone with him is a few hours of studying for my classes that start next week. He's been extremely patient and supportive with me and there's no possible way I could cope with everything here without him. Good thing I'm making him promise to do that crap for forever. And don't think I'm not still wedding planning across time zones - I totally am.
I finally finally finally downloaded all the pictures from my camera. Sheesh! Took me long enough! But the point is I have some great pictures to finally share with you. Like this picture of the pretty new bracelet that Dave bought me to celebrate our 8 years together. I've been trying to describe this bracelet to people but it usually just comes out something like "A silver criss-crossy intertwined...thing. It's cool! I promise!"
I also went back and added pictures of the kitties to this blog entry about cat-sitting. They're cute, go check them out!
In other news, two weeks ago one of my best friends from high school got married. It was a gorgeous day with perfect weather, and possibly the best cake I've ever had in my entire life.
Me: "Thats the most perfect wedding dress ever." In refence to a link she sent me.
Her: "You can buy it! Elliot on Scrubs bought a wedding dress, and she wasn't even dating anyone!"
Me: "But Elliot is crazy. And also a fictional character."
Her: "Details!"
She makes a point. Which is why I can't share the link with you - what if I do buy it?
I can't believe I haven't blogged since Geeky's wedding. I think I was very tired, from a very long weekend. Don't get me wrong; it was a blast, and I had a fantastic time but damn! Weddings are a lot of work, and require a lot of energy and I suppose I had some amount of "wedding hangover" and just spent a week trying to sit on my ass as much as possible.
As nervous as I was about my toast, it went better than I could have expected and I'm very glad I did it. And this makes two wedding toasts that I've done in which I've made the bride cry. Thats right, some of you may be surprised to hear Geeky has tear ducts - but she does and even if Mr. Geeky didn't make her shed a single tear, I did. I got high-fives from the other bridesmaid's husband because he has know Geeky for years and never ever seen her cry and didn't think it was possible. You may be wondering what my first toast was that I got tears from the bride for - that would be when I was best man for my ex-boyfriend. I'll just let you digest that and we'll discuss some other time. In the meantime - evidence Geeky cried, I don't care what she tells me it was, she cried dammit!
P.S. If any of you want to see my pictures from the wedding just leave me a comment or send me an email and I'll make sure its okay with Geeky to share them with you.
