Me: *dancing in my chair at the dinner table and singing* I’m going wedding dress shopping, I’m going wedding dress shopping!
IP: I can’t believe you’re excited about dropping $500 on a dress.
Me: *still dancing* Honey, I’m not excited about dropping $500 on a dress. I’m excited about dropping $1,000* on a dress.
IP: Oh. Okay then.
When [...]
This long weekend has been relaxing and beautiful, just what I needed before I tackle two back-to-back work projects. There’s one down, though, and it was supposed to be the most stressful (knock on wood): we survived it just fine. During the entire project, I would look at the snooty academics I’m forced [...]
On Tuesday afternoon, after a long few days at work (yep, few—I had to work on Sunday), I gave my mom a call shortly before IP was due to come home. We started talking about various things, but hit upon their trip to visit me and go gown shopping. “I hope the ticket [...]
I had what I think qualifies as my first wedding dream last night. Funny, eh? I’ve been working on planning the wedding for a little over two months now and it’s taken this long to finally have a wedding-related dream. Even funnier is that the dream’s setting was not the wedding, but our “rehearsal” dinner [...]
The most difficult question I’ve been pondering when it comes to wedding planning is this: the music.
I’m the kind of person who doesn’t get up and dance at weddings. I prefer the conversation at the table. As a bride-to-be, I worry that I’ll chafe under the constant attention during the reception, and that I might [...]
The changing parameters of the three work projects I’m currently on are getting to be very frustrating. Not so much that I’ll take it home with me, but what really nettles me is that my title is still lowly and insignificant. Everyone thinks I’m a goddamn secretary. Eighty percent of my contacts can’t bother to [...]
IP and I have secured a venue and date for our wedding next year. Before August 2009 is over, my new initials will be one letter away from the translation of a “dirty” word that rhymed with my nickname in Mexico. Let’s just put it this way: the rhyme placed my purity and [...]
I’m back from Michigan, having seen the wedding venue options for the grand matrimonial event for WordNerd and IP! I’d say you’re cordially invited, Internets, but our budget’s already a bit stretched. Perhaps I can pipe you in via video teleconference?
Kidding aside, the visit was fruitful in that a) we’re on the verge of deciding [...]
I am in Michigan for wedding venue selection. Today was full of site visits that are kind of blurring in my head. What stands out? The numbers. Good lord, the numbers. Why do we have to spend so much to feed 75 people?
The day was bearable thanks to great input from my mom and sister [...]
Guest list issues have not spiraled out of control yet — yet being the key word here. My mother has begun to press, even after receiving a repeated “no” from me, for one of my parents’ friends who they never see anymore.
This friend of my parents’ was never a particular favorite of mine. [...]
