Hi friends. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve updated this blog. I think to say we’ve been busy would be an understatement, but that’s no excuse for not keeping all five of you in the loop on what we’ve been up to. I promise to do better. After the wedding. :-)
Since we last saw our fearless readers, Mike and I have been on frequent treks across the eastern seaboard. In August, we went to the wedding of Mike’s stepsister, Jamie to her awesome now-husband, JP. Fortunately, this wedding was accessible by car, so the only hyperventilating was when Mike drove faster than 68mph. Yeah, I’m that passenger. The wedding was lovely — fantastic DJ, they served dessert as an appetizer (um, why isn’t this more common?), and we got to spend some time with Mike’s brothers which is always an adventure.
After that wedding, we had a few weekends off. We filled that time with shopping (golf for Mike), wedding planning (some more golf for Mike), going to Six Flags (and some golf for Mike) and just general downtime (Mike hit golfballs into a blanket in our second bedroom). I spent an awful lot of time fretting — we had expected to have about 120 people for our wedding and at one point thought we might be more than 40 people over that number (and it’s a small venue) so I was running around trying to coordinate possible tent renting, table and chair provisionings, etc while Mike watched my hair fall out. Fortunately, enough people were scared off by the thought of Mike’s “bring the melons” dance (video to come post-wedding) that I think we’ll be ok.
Over Labor Day weekend, we headed to DC for my wedding shower and “bachelorette” party. Guess what Mike did? If you guessed golf, you’ve clearly been reading the blog. Perhaps you should find something better to do.
My aunts threw me a fantastic shower in College Park. We had yummy food (stuffed shrimp!), good conversation and thoroughly embarrassing gifts. I’m still not over receiving lingerie from my mother — that one might take awhile. The next day, the girls took me out on a boat ride around DC for my bachelorette. Since I’m not a big drinker, we figured this would be a great alternative to the usual drunken scavenger hunt that people have for their bachelorette. We had a beautiful day, saw all the monuments, and I missed DC that much more because of how great everything was.
The next weekend (last weekend) we headed down to Ocean City for our last weekend of wedding planning. We went to the site and worked up a few surprises for our guests there. We went to Candy Kitchen where we bought 36lbs of candy for our favors. We met with the florist, picked out table linens, met with the DJ, worked on lighting, and generally finished up a whole load of work. It was a very satisfying weekend for me (oh, and Mike golfed — in the rain — at 6am). My dad also had his annual crab feast, which involved eating crabs, wearing crab hats, and talking about crabs. It was lovely.
So, now we’re in the 2 week stretch before the wedding. There’s lots to do, not a lot of time, and we’re both swamped at work. Still, I couldn’t be happier. I’m incredibly excited, I can’t wait to see all of our family and friends, and we’re JAZZED about 2 whole weeks in Hawaii afterwards.
I’m going to try to post again before the wedding and add some pics from the last few weeks — I left my camera in Ocean City and my dad’s mailing it up. I’m super bummed I didn’t have it last night, as a tornado touched down in our neighborhood, making it look like a scene from “Apocalypse Now”. Below is a picture our downstairs neighbor posted of the backyard for our brownstone. There were a bunch of cars crushed on our street and the steeple from the church up the road fell off and crushed a car. Yikes.
The backyard for our brownstone, post-BKTORNADO.
So, check back here soon. If you have any last-minute wedding advice, bring it. Or, if you have extra Xanax, I’d like that too. :-)