The Beer
While I am dispositionally non-confrontational, I am also something of a natural critic/analyst, finding myself compelled to comment on the positives and negatives of different things.* Unfortunately,...
View ArticleThe Beer: Results
The results are in for our preference poll; it's been up for over 36 hours now, so I figure that's enough time to get a sample of something, at least.The votes:Sam Adams Summer Ale - 7Kronenbourg 1664...
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Invitation development and wording
Just a couple more images:A simple way to get some colorful artwork onto a card: grid filled in with different mixed colors of acrylic paint (mer mag)"Los Angeles" invitation suite by KenzieKate (via...
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More hanging decorations
I'm trying to clean up my draft posts and saved links as I work on fleshing out my wedding project plan spreadsheet (it's a bit intense). I have quite a list of other things I want to post about, like...
View ArticleAn excellent reaction to the invitation
Subject: Just thought I'd mentionthat I like your invitations so much, with the double happiness symbol tied to the front, that I'm trying my hardest not to disturb the original design. This means,...
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A few paper goods projects
From Maia, I learned about this concept of a "wedding tree."Basically it's a poster with an image of a tree on it that you set up at the reception with an ink pad, a test notepad of paper, and perhaps...
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Ceremony ideas linkfest
One of my wedding tasks this weekend is to finally fill out the questionnaire for our officiant to be able to start putting together the first draft for our ceremony. I've gone through the archives on...
View ArticleThe Music: Closing the Book
We're reaching the point in the process where the wedding stuff starts to overwhelm real life, unfortunately, which is either exhilarating (we're getting closer to the day!) or frustrating (not another...
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Photobooth info & chalkboards
Amy has come to my rescue and will be taking over the whole photobooth project, hurrah! It's going to be placed in a corner of the middle terrace outside, where people will see it pretty easily,...
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Attendants' accessories
Dan's in the middle of trying to find a tie that he and I both like. I tried to talk him into a gold tie made out of matching gold fabric that I'm using as the waist ties on my dress, but he wasn't...
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Decision-making
I've been keeping track of the various wedding/marriage related books I've read in the right sidebar, but I wanted to recommend a not specifically related to weddings book that I think would be helpful...
View ArticleModern marriage culture in China
This NY Times article "For Many Chinese Men, No Deed Means No Dates" was published a few weeks ago and I found it to be a pretty interesting read.Han Han, one of China’s most widely read bloggers,...
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Cake vs. Pie: a hyperbolic approach
Link sent by my friend Maggie, in support of our wedding pie:I love cake. Cake is wonderful. But it is too easy to get caught up in the idea of cake. When you compare the data, it is clear that pie is...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 9 Days Out
Today was the first day that any weather forecasting sites had a forecast for our wedding day. I figured it would be a fun exercise to track the forecast day-by-day, half to see how much it changes,...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 8 Days Out
I'm going to put the forecasts going forward in a table, so we can track the fluctuations of the various forecasters. (For now, we're still flying solo with weather.com.) As could have been expected,...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 7 Days Out
So last night I had a dream that I was checking weather.com and the forecast had increased to a 90% chance of rain. Needless to say, somnolent Dan was pissed off.Anyway, we're in something of a holding...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 6 Days Out
W-Day is fast approaching--we're now 6 days out. First off, weather.com:Date of ForecastHighLowChance of RainWind SpeedDescription9-Jun79630%7 mph"Abundant sunshine."10-Jun836630%6 mph"Scattered...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 5 Days Out
We see some significant improvement in the forecast here at 5 days out: temperature dropped a tad, chance of rain dropped a bit. Weather.com has become frighteningly optimistic:Date of...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 4 Days Out
The forecast did quite a bit of fluctuating today. When I first checked, it said 86 degrees as the high, which constituted a pretty significant change. I view that as going from "Pleasant, if a little...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 3 Days Out
We're now firmly ensconced in the mid-80s as the Weather.com forecast temperature ticks up a couple in today's forecast. Just about everything else remains stable.Date of ForecastHighLowChance of...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 2 Days Out
Weather.com's map shows rain all over the Eastern half of the US, but New Jersey is safe and secure. We are clearly God's chosen state.Otherwise, forecast remains pretty stable.Date of...
View ArticleWeather Forecast: 1 Day Out
So this is the last of these posts, and the end of my foray into meteorology. Weather.com's forecast really was pretty stable after the tease of June 9. It looks like we'll get a pretty standard early...
View ArticleI am now no longer planning a wedding.
DONE and DONE.It went by so quickly.There were so many people there.So many things went so well and so many people really stepped up to help such that overall, really, I didn't have to stress or worry...
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Apparently, yes!
Today's XKCD comic:alt text: "I'm as surprised as you!"Also, I went to the Yay New York party last night by myself, and even got interviewed for a documentary being made about the event, which was a...
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Merging finances
When Dan and I moved in together, we decided on a system where we would have one joint account which we each contributed the same amount to every month, even though we don't have the same salaries, out...
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