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one month
I can't believe that one month ago today I was getting ready to marry T.J. It feels like time has absolutely flown by. For me this month has been a whirlwind of wedding presents, thank you notes, lots of Netflix, and settling in to our home and a new routine. For T.J. it's been a month of o…
a package deal
After heading back to the hotel following the rehearsal dinner, there was still another sweet spot in the night, a sister sleepover. My sister is forever my best friend so there was never any question that she would be my maid of honor. Who else, but the person who has been by my side since she e…
the dress rehearsal
For most of our engagement and the week leading up to the wedding I honestly wasn't nervous about the wedding, about saying "yes I do!" to T.J. in front of our family and friends. Mostly the nerves came from the fact that we were hosting a big shindig for 200 people and I'd been d…
Dragging out the celebration.
So basically my mom is definitely doing a better job recapping and documenting the wedding. If you're sick of my slow pace, feel free to pop over to see what the fabulous Mother of the Bride has to say. She's already posted about the rehearsal dinner and I'm still back in October mailin…
you're invited!
One of the most fun parts of planning our wedding was designing all the things. I didn't start out planning to design our own invitations and all the subsequent pieces. But when I reached out to a couple stationery designers and received astronomical quotes for the type of custom work I wanted,…
a weekend in Seattle
In between wedding posts I still want to record the day to day stuff we are up to as well. Last week T.J. started a month long rotation of overnight shifts at a different hospital in Seattle. He occasionally has these away rotations and while it means I have to spend some weeks alone in our house i…