So, this Piers Morgan guy has a new show, and last week he interviewed a lot of famous people. His first famous guest was Oprah, whom I like. It was an interesting interview, the snippets that I saw, but apparently the excerpt that's really gotten a lot of attention was the segment regarding her thoughts on marriage. 

Oprah struck me as ( Read more... )

It's amazing the amount of bridal spam I've received after having gone to that one bridal show many months back. I don't get related e-mail from wedding vendors every day, but certainly several times a week. Obviously I needed to give the bridal show folks an e-mail address for registration purposes, and it would certainly make sense for these ( Read more... )

Last week, we took advantage of being in the Lehigh Valley to attempt to find an edible strawberry wedding cake. This is more difficult than it sounds. I've called on or talked to several bakeries who looked askance at she who would desire a strawberry wedding cake; they'd never heard of such a thing. (My parents apparently went through the same ( Read more... )

Guess the wedding is definitely on at this point. :-)


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This afternoon we met with Fr. Carley for the second and last time regarding our marriage preparation duties. There was a form he needed to fill out - our names and addresses, parents' names, whether we'd been baptized, understood the commitment we're about to make, etc. - but all it all it was fairly innocuous. We were able to give him copies of ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe that our Engaged Encounter weekend was only last weekend; between subbing for four of the last five days this past week and getting a second fitting of my gown on the day I wasn't subbing, it feels like last weekend was a lot longer ago. (the first blog entry about last weekend)

For the most part, the talks that were given ( Read more... )

We've already ordered our wedding invitations - they're safely tucked away in a corner until it's time to address and mail them - but we had quite a time figuring out the best way to phrase "Hey! Come on down to our hootenanny and watch us get hitched!" without resorting to some version of "Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Solomon wish to happily announce that ( Read more... )

I had a doozy of a bad dream about our wedding last night: 

• We went to pick up my gown, and when I was about to walk in, there was a woman in her wedding gown and getting photographed. I thought she had brought someone along to take pictures when I realized she had gotten married at that location. (I also remember that hers was a Jewish wedding ( Read more... )

This weekend Ed and I went to the Catholic Engaged Encounter weekend in Salt Lake City. Although my parish priest had recommended that we go because he himself does not run any Pre-Cana workshops for engaged couples, he did note that the weekend had both good and bad qualities. It was a good weekend for younger or more inexperienced couples who ( Read more... )

A segment of my inner dork is really interested in history. (You can't be an English major and have academic concentrations in American literature and British literature without being interested in history, especially since so much of the literature has historically been a response to the events at the time.) I used to subscribe to a couple of ( Read more... )