I've never been to as many weddings in a year as this year: two of Jon's relatives got engaged and this will be the year that half of the hens got married (including moi of course). They are all very different weddings: this past weekend was the Long Island Sikh wedding of an only child whose father made and filtered her dating profile for her ( ( Read more... )

( The perfect morning and getting dressed is half the fun )

( Yaay Victoria's Secret coupons, boo to vanity sizing )

Poll

The first are places that the bride and groom have/will visit together.

There was the exact wrong weather for snowmaking, even if I'd been feeling perfect, so we punted our original idea for skiing this weekend. With nothing else planning, I suggested we check out the reform synagogue that Jon's ex and son attend. I really liked it, alas. ( nobody was skyclad )

The nice thing about having 3 nights in a row of parties is that I took out my makeup case on Thursday and didn't put it back again until Sunday. I even shhhhh wore the same dress twice. Economies of scale! woohoo! ( I took a level in eye shadow )

I'm out of the loop as to what's on Broadway: what's the point when it's all celebrity revivals and Foo: The Musical? Except I'm very glad that iAE told me about Alan Cummings' "one man" version of Macbeth: if someone as incisive as she is willing to drive to NYC for a day trip to see the show, I could scare up the $$$. ( Read more... )

I've been telling my mother that I've gotten everything I wanted from the process of getting married, except the legal status.

Venue: I was eleven kinds of scowly but visited the Yale Club to keep the peace with my mother. I was even more grouchy after seeing the large event spaces on the higher floors, but then they took me to the library (and ( Read more... )

I've decided to look at Friday night pronoically: I'd been wondering if I did the right thing not inviting so-and-so to my engagement party, even though 8 years ago, she would've been one of my bridesmaids. I'm not wondering any more. My handsome fiance came home, took care of me, and we went to bed ( Read more... )

Originally written 5/23/13I'm interrupting the Venetian stories to complain about HOW HARD it is to find housewares. Spoiler alert: Jon and I went registry shopping on Sunday, which was a truly irritating experience overall. Particularly annoying is that we went to Bloomingdale's and couldn't find any sheets that had patterns. I like sheets that ( Read more... )