We were traveling last weekend, had a lovely time at D's brother's wedding.  It was an excellent weekend, and gave me the chance to actually *talk to* some of his family and family-friends who I'd met last year but hadn't managed to truly focus on.  Got to see my sweetie in a kilt, which was delightful, but primarily because of the general duded-up ( Read more... )

It was our first-year anniversary on Monday.  We had a fantastic weekend, but it wasn't highly romantical.  Still delightful - we took the Duck Tour of Boston, and learned quite a bit about Paul Revere, and a slight amount about what a silly idea it is to storm Iwo Jima under heavy fire, in an amphibious vehicle whose top speed is 10 mph.  Also saw ( Read more... )

It's 6 months since the wedding - I should take my wedding dress to the cleaner's. Unless maybe I shouldn't bother ( Read more... )

Sorry to all my friends - this is basically just information about the wedding that I was posting on a couple of bride-chat boards, and I wanted to cross-post it here since those aren't internally searchable, and if there's some chicago-area bride-to-be who really wants to know more about outdoor weddings held for cheap in a forest preserve, I'd ( Read more... )

The wedding was a smashing success!  Dirk and I are now very married, and very very happy, and rather tired.  We're headed off to vacation, basically as soon as I get packed this afternoon.

I would post photos, but I haven't uploaded any yet, but I'm trying to get Dirk to post a couple.  Of course friends and family took tons, and as they turn up, I ( Read more... )

The first of the relatives arrive today, and I'm officially not at work till after we get back from the honeymoon.  We're *almost* ready enough that I'm not panicking, but there are of course parts of my mind that are convinced it'll never work... "it" being the food, the transportation, the music, the somthingorother.  I'm worried about the ( Read more... )

As someone who rarely attempts to buy large quantities of beer, I'm finding the choice of wedding-beverage rather confusing.  I was thinking I'd just get a keg of beer and a keg of cider ( Read more... )

We've been having a great time this week - lots of crafts and paint and eating food and spending money.  Saturday was a drive around town to go to a few restaurants and figure out who we'll be ordering party-pans from for the picnic; also bought large quantities of wine.  Throwing parties is fun ( Read more... )

It's so good to be back at home, and have Dirk back from his traveling ( Read more... )

What's up with dinnerware??

This is, of course, wedding-inspired angst, with pictures,

We thought we'd chosen our official dinnerware for the registry - fine-looking sort of asian-style stoneware, two-tone, black on the back and crackle-glaze light-blue on the front.   $50-70 (depending on when you got it) for 4 settings of plateplatebowlmug.  Dirk' ( Read more... )