July 29th, 2006

Turning a Prophet

This week my Aunt Tere (Maria Teresa Gaston) has provided a “daily reflection” on the readings for Creighton University’s ministry website. She used receiving our wedding invitation as an example of a “prophetic call” from someone who is familiar to her.

If you’d like to read what she’s written you can do so right here.

She’s provided a quite eloquent (and quite flattering) description of the way we have chosen to enter into marriage and what that says about us.

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April 5th, 2006

I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

I just noticed that today is 4-5-6. What a cool date. Possibly even cooler than “5-5-5”…. It seems like only yesterday I was pointing out the coolness of that date, but it was almost a year ago!

Where does the time go? It’s April of 2006. And what does that mean? Six months ’til the wedding.

We’ve been overwhelmed with positive responses to the Save the Date calendars (and the photos of us forcing our friends and family to help us letterpress them). I’d like to take this time to say thanks, everyone, for your kind words. Hopefully we can come up with something just as good for the actual invitations.

Some other recent wedding developments that we’re very excited about:

1. We’ve decided to have our reception at the Parish Hall at St. Michael’s. We realize this will eliminate the age-old tradition of getting totally lost while trying to figure out where the post-wedding festivities are being held. We’re hoping you’ll forgive us for that.

2. The dinner at the reception will be a “Pig-Pickin’” with (non-North Carolinians, you may not understand this, but I cannot stress the importance of this next word enough) EASTERN-style NC barbecue…. None of that western slop…. Also, there will be chicken, hushpuppies, tea, something for the vegetarians, and all the other required stuff. There’s even talk of banana pudding.

3. Mum (Steph’s) is on the hunt for fabric for the wedding dress, which she will be making, and therefore will be amazing.

4. At some point during the reception, you will be entertained by the dancin’, singin’, and fiddlin’ of old-time string band ShaeLaurel (who have to be there anyway, because they’re family).

5. Some very talented people (friends Matt, Andrea, and Jerry from here in Raleigh and Witchger cousins Felipe, Martin, and Luke) have graciously signed on to provide music during the ceremony.

Six months to go and we’re starting to get this thing planned!

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October 13th, 2005

The Wedding is the Hardest Part

Tomorrow is Steph and I’s negative-one-year anniversary. Exactly one year from tomorrow we’ll be getting married. (Exactly one year from today the stress will have me huddled in the fetal position in a corner somewhere, I’m guessing.)

Many, many, many people have pointed out to us that this is still a ways off. But we’re confident that the big day will be here before you know it, and that, even though we had all this time to do it, we still won’t have anything planned. (We’re procrastinators.)

Friends and family, you’ll soon be able to count down, day-by-day, ’til our wedding arrives, slowly letting the excitement build ’til you can hardly stand it anymore and you have to sit down on your kitchen floor and breathe into a paper bag. This is because we’ve just finished letterpressing a one-year-long save-the-date calendar! (Good idea, right?) Also, it’s magnetic, so you can slap it on your fridge. We’re sending these out very soon, just as soon as we finish trimming, perforating, collating, and stapling all 300 tiny calendars. (Seemed like a good idea, right?)

Also we now have a wedsite up at weddingbs.com. (Yes, the domain name is intentional. Yes, we’re aware of how it sounds. And, yes, we like it.) I’ve seen sites for other weddings and I think they’re a great idea. Ours is kind of low on actual content right now, but I think, as the big day draws near and there is actual information pertaining to our wedding, it will be a valuable resource.

I hope all of this is raising just the right level of enthusiasm for our wedding. I don’t want anyone to get tired of the event before it even happened or to think we’ve become wedding-obsessed lunatics. We’re only going all out with the stationery because I think of everything in terms of an art project. The actual wedding is not going to be expensive or over-blown…at least I’m pretty sure it won’t…ok, it definitely won’t be expensive, anyway.

I can guarantee you that much.

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