Wedding & Honeymoon photos

Well I finally got all of our wedding and honeymoon pictures online for anyone who would like to see ... I can warn you that they are probably pretty boring ... but who knows ... it could be boredom that you are looking for ... :)


Our wedding and honeymoon photos


So now that all the events are over ... and July 4th has come and gone I need to come up with a new background for the design ... any ideas??


PS - don't say you weren't forewared on the boredom factor ... :)

Work before Wedding

Today is my last day at work before the wedding ... Kris and Chevy are getting on a plane tonight and will be here in the morning ... I can't fucking wait to see her ... it has been since March of 2001 since we last saw each other ... this might actually be the longest we have gone without seeing each other since we were 14 years old ... it is going to be great ... and tomorrow afternoon Heather will be getting on a plane to be here tomorrow night ...


the time is finally here ...


up until a few minutes ago none of this seemed real ... until Kris called and said she was packing cause they were going to the airport at 9 tonight ... then it hit me ... this is my wedding ... I haven't been working on all these projects for someone elses wedding ... crazy man ...


all the family stuff I am just letting go of ... there is nothing I can do and I can't spend my time worrying about other people ... they can worry about themselves ... what is done is done ...


I still have a ton of stuff to do but I will have a couple of days at home to work on stuff while Kris, Chevy and Heather are out sightseeing ... I am sure I will get everything done in time ...


Yesterday I went and had my eyebrows waxed and shaped for the first time in my life ... I felt so decadent and guilty ... like I really didn't need to be doing something so extravagant ... but I did have a gift certificate for it [obviously Kris was trying to tell me something] and they did come out quite nice ... but I don't think it is something I could actually spend money on on a regular basis ... just not my style ... and since no one has noticed I am thinking it wasn't too necessary ...


My dad is just getting over being really sick and it sounds like my mom might be getting it now ... that won't be good ... weather.com also is predicting rain for the whole weekend ... again, not good ... they are having a party the night before and planned on using their deck ... so just to be on the safe side I am stopping at CostCo today on my way home and buying a tent they could set up ... just in case ... neither need to know about it and if we use it great ... and if not CostCo will always take it back ... I would prefer that to happen but we will see ... at least the wedding and reception are inside the same location so once people get there they won't have to worry about going out in the rain ... schwoooooo ...


damn man in a few short days I am going to be a Mrs. ... who would have thought???

new site design

Well a new site design constitutes actually writing something in my blog [the design is mirrored after all of the party favors I've made for the wedding] ... 2 weeks from today I'll be getting married ... I can't believe it ... at one point I never thought this time would come ... now to say I am two weeks away gets me nervous and excited ... excited to marry David ... nervous I won't finish all my projects in time ...


so any of you without a calendar ... two weeks from today is July 4th ... our countries independence day ... and Davids un-independence day ... :) ... as we celebrate our country becoming free David will say "I do" meaning no more freedom for him ... I kid of course ... we are really just doing it so he can get on my medical insurance ... :)


I am quite a do-it-yourself-er ... so I have made a million things for this wedding ... sure when it is all over I am going to have so much time for so many things ... but at the same time I think I will miss all the projects ...


things I made for the wedding:

CDs [we actually had a guy rip them and print right on the cd ... came out great]

CD covers

personalized matches [bought box matches and put my own stickers on them]

our invitation

program [still working on these]

little packets of sparklers

newsletter for out of town guests

bags for the guests hotel rooms

party bags for the wedding guests

silver tins for personalized M&Ms

stars covered in glitter for the escort cards

escort cards


all sorts of stuff ... even the list is starting to bore me ... hahahaaa ... every time I finished one project I would find another one to start on ...


my father has so kindly offered to help me today ... so for fathers day we are taking all the items that go in all the guest bags over to my parents house ... and we are going to fill the bags and tie the ribbon ... and I can leave them all over there ... which means we might actually be able to clean our house soon ... it has been a disaster for the last couple of months ... with all the wedding crap all over the place and all the blinds David needs to install for jobs ... it is a wonder we can even walk room to room ...


we aren't having a really big wedding ... but the people that are coming I have known for years and years so that will make it so special ... friends of our family that I have known since I was 4 years old are actually making the trip from California ... it will be their first time in Washington DC ... it is so exciting people can do that ... and with it being a smaller affair I will be able to spend time with everyone here ...


shit ya know I can't remember if I had written about this but on May 19th my brother and his wife had a baby girl ... she is just the cutest thing around and every time I leave the house I want to buy something for her ... I might be going a bit crazy on the baby clothes thing but buying for girls is so great ... her name is Eliana [el E ana] and everyone calls her Ellie ... she is still keeping them awake all the time ... and you can tell they are very tired ... but goodness she is cute ... I can't wait till she is old enough to babysit and David and I get to spend an evening with her ...


David is very much on the baby train that is for sure ... he is ready, willing, and able ... although we won't have a honeymoon baby I think we are going to try very soon ... I mean shit he will be 40 next year and I will be 35 ... although most would guess we are in our late 20s which is nice ... but biology knows better ... it is fun seeing the stunned look on peoples faces when I tell them I am not 25 or better yet when David has to show his license to prove he isn't 27 ... which he had to do last weekend with my brother's in-laws ... they just couldn't believe it ... :)


well I am going to try and get better at writing again ... I know I have said that a million times but since the wedding stuff is winding down I might be able to ... besides I have a week between the wedding and our honeymoon ... we are taking a cruise out of Baltimore [woohoo no flying] ... going to a couple of stops in Florida and the Bahamas ... we haven't been on a vacation in 3 years ... it is going to be so nice to get away from everything and spend some fun time with each other ... I can hardly wait :)

working on our invitations

The entire weekend has been spent working on our invitations ... I cut several hundred pieces of paper ... I punched 4 tiny holes in each of those 100's of pieces ... cut lengths of ribbon ... printed 100's of pieces of paper and got so frustrated with one print job that David is ready to smash our printer like in Office Space ... even though there were so many other things I needed to work on this weekend I feel a huge sense of accomplishment ... really got a lot done ... but at the same time it makes me curse the woman who we bought the supplies from because we were supposed to get this stuff before Thanksgiving and I didn't get it till something like January 7th ... I had 10 days off during the holidays ... I would have gotten into the groove of working on stuff and probably gotten them all finished ... instead I must now go to sleep since I have work tomorrow ...


oh I forgot everyone who was asked to pick a song for our CD party favor picked their song ... so we also figured out the order for the songs and got that put together ... woohoo ...


ok now it is bed time for sure ...

David's tux

Today we bought David's tux ... we went to Men's Warehouse and I started tearing up when he was all decked out ... I've never seen him in a tux before and he looked so handsome ... it just made everything seem more real and even more exciting ... he got a beautiful tux with black suspenders, black vest and a long tie ... I'm just getting so excited I can hardly stand it ...

Bridezilla

Funny I should get a Bridezilla comment ... I have come to a conclusion ... when you are planning a wedding people are assholes ... now not everyone ... but many are and they force perfectly nice and kind women to become beasts ...


I actually interviewed a photographer that told me under no circumstances would she take a photo of each table ... this is my only required photo of the whole day ... to ensure that everyone that is attending the wedding gets in a picture ... and she said no ... I was flabbergasted ... it is my wedding and I am paying for her services and she can say the one photo I want she won't take ... so I sounded like Bridezilla whenever I spoke to a photographer ...


I also paid someone to do part of our invitations ... David and I have chosen to make our own ... but to save us a bit of time I hired someone to print part of it and drill holes and cut a section ... it was supposed to take 7 days and I ordered it on November 1, 2003 ... it finally arrived to me on December 30, 2003 ... WAY more than 7 days ... and it was TERRIBLE ... oh my god the holes were punched at different heights and different widths from the edges of the paper and from each other ... there was no way the 4 holes could have been more different from each other when they should have been exactly the same as each other ... and nothing was printed centered ... the tops and left side had way more "white space" than the right and bottom ... it forced me to become bridezilla waiting 2 months for something that was supposed to take 7 days and then to have it look so horrible ... I made her purchase more of the items for me and we will now do all the printing, drilling and cutting ourselves ...


I've also learned if you call to get a quote for something it is one price ... if you later call to get that same quote for a wedding it is 3 times the price ... what the fuck is up with that ... how right does that seem ...


so they make women become crazy while planning ... and each thing builds up a bit more and a bit more ... it is no wonder someone freaks out because the pink is the wrong shade ... they held it together while people did crappy work and overcharged them and didn't follow through and missed appointments ... now the pink is a bitch ... hahahahaaaaaa


I told myself I wouldn't turn this into a bridal blog ... but there is nothing else really interesting going on in my life ... although I have lost 11 pounds in the last 9 days so something must be going well with my diet ...


so if anyone feels like seeing all my dorky wedding stuff that I have been doing then check out: my wedding stuff ... we are making anything we can ... favors ... invitations ... I am doing all my own flowers ... stickers ... all sorts of shit ... so I would say if you are really bored it is a good place to check out ... hahahhaaaaaaaa

6 months

Six months from right now David and I will be saying "I Do" ... and will become husband and wife ... it is so exciting I can hardly stand it ... there is still so much to do in the next 6 months but I do look forward to every moment of it ... :)

marry me

tonight I asked David to marry me


:) and he said yes