What’s the best part about having a pastry chef for a sister? Fresh wedding cake for our one-year anniversary! Jill decided to completely spoil us by recreating our exact wedding cake, purple funfetti and all, for our first anniversary. (For those keeping track, it’s actually a little bit past one year by now since we were married in May, but we had to schedule it for a time when we were both around to meet up of course). It was a nice treat to actually sit together and eat our wedding cake, since the piece that Matt fed me that night was such a blur that I really don’t remember if it even tasted good… though I’m sure it did. Thanks Jill!
“Make No Small Plans” is a quote by American architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham. It is sometimes written as “make no little plans” but I’ve seen it both ways, with the full quote as “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” Either way, the words were attributed to Burnham following his death, so there is no actual proof that they were ever even uttered by him anyways. Regardless, I remember reading them around the time we were wedding planning and thought they were pretty fitting for us and the life we are planning.
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June 13th, 2010
I come from a long line of savers… …recyclers, reutilizationists, hoarders. Whatever you want to call it. These days it’s called “going green” or something, but long before that was in, my grandmother and my mother both had and have been known to cut up and reuse old wrapping paper, even it’s the size of a playing card. Or wipe off aluminum foil pieces and refold them for later use. Or save old scraps of wallpaper for us to wrap our textbooks in for elementary school.
So it should come as no surprise that I did this, but I couldn’t help it. I finally got around to cleaning out the 100+ wedding cards we received from our family and friends last month. And so I reread them all, since the first time doing so was a speedy blur, and then I reluctantly threw all this BEAUTIFUL paper into the recycling bin. I just have no room to keep hanging onto stuff like this iin this small apartment of ours.
But seriously, have you guys seen greeting cards these days??? They are nice enough to frame. Of course I love nice paper, so I’m biased, but still!!! So anyways all these cards–they sat in the recycling bin and I went about cleaning up the apartment.
And then.. I pulled them allllll back out and spent about an hour cutting them up into these PRETTY pieces and shapes and now look at all this cute new stationery I have!!!
I probably don’t have to buy any cards for the rest of the year, just going to paste some of these scraps together and write my own, new messages on my one-of-a-kind cards. If you know me well enough, you just may receive one sometime soon!
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woweeeee we did it! We’re hitched! HOORAY. It’s been a wild past two weeks, but we’re officially a Mr. and Mrs… I will say it’s really strange yet fun to add the words husband and wife to your vocabulary. Thank you to every one of our family and friends! Here are a few official yet unofficial pics from the day…. May 22 at the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD.
Waiting to start the ceremony, we found this awesome smiley-man prop in the library/waiting area room of the museum. Props are awesome, as my friend Erin always says. Although we both really were that happy.
Cheesin’ for a moment! Inside the reception room (polaroid escort cards on the wall behind us…)
And so then we spent a wonderful two weeks in Gay Pareeeeeeeeeee! (At this point, you may have noticed, our blog was hijacked guest-written by the one and only JJ at savethetacos.org) We hope you enjoyed the brief injection of humor and politics and all things Sister Act, aka things people actually like to read about, as we will now attempt to return to regularly scheduled programming. ANYWAYS… here we are having a picnic on the Pont des Arts.
And obv. the Eiffel Tower too, what trip to Paris would be complete without it?
We both had our respective Bachelor/Bachelorette parties this weekend, his in Deep Creek, MD and mine in lovely downtown Annapolis, pictured. Good times were had by all, evidenced by the amount of napping we did on the couch yesterday. The guys spent Saturday going skeet shooting, and whatever else — I’m sure I’m not allowed to know about, much less write about on the blog. Meanwhile, the ladies had a windy kayaking adventure, followed by dinner, drinks, and dancing.
Well, March is ending and the lion weather is a-coming in. Forecasts for the next few days are sunny and 80s and finally Snowpocalypse is but a distant memory… It also means that our wedding is just 7 weeks away! So, I thought that we would give our readers a little preview today… and yes, we are tying the knot just slightly north of the District in our fair city of Baltimore, also known as Charm City, B’more, Bodymore, The City of Firsts, Ravenstown (ugh), and featuring mottoes such as “The Greatest City in America,” “Get in on It,” and “The City That Reads.” What could be more perfect! Anyways, Matt and I and our families have been busy getting all the details in order, including some decorations involving Polaroid photos like the one above.
1. Get your pumpkin photo entries in for THE Contest before Saturday morning! We already have several entries vying for the coveted t-shirt prize, so give it your best design.
2. Our engagement photos are now online at Ella Foto . Really happy with the way they turned out. Thanks, Erin!
Busy weekend! On Friday evening we went to Jazz in the Garden at the National Gallery sculpture garden. I rode my bike down there to meet Matt after he got off work, and it’s a good thing we got there early because the spots on the grass filled up super fast. That place gets packed! From our blanket on the north side of the garden, it was impossible to see the band and sometimes harder to hear the music… I guess it was more about being outside on a nice, Friday evening than anything else!
On Saturday morning we went on a quick run from my parents house in HoCo; it’s really weird now to trace my old running path from high school, especially when so much has changed there. It was followed with a delicious brunch/lunch, before we headed off to Baltimore for Mark and Abby’s wedding! A picture of the lovely cake, just for Jill.
And a view of beautiful B-more from where we stayed. Natty-Boh man is wayyy in the background.
Yesterday we drove back home, and despite the intense heat decided to bike our way down to the Corcoran to see the William Eggleston exhibit called Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008 . It was a pretty interesting and eclectic set of color prints from throughout his career, many of them just mundane detail shots of life in Memphis and the south in the past 50-some years.
Sitting outside on the steps afterwards, Matt ponders the meaning of life. Or, what’s for dinner tonight?
And a beautiful wedding weekend it was! Congratulations to the happy couple (who are now in Maui!) Thank you for letting us be a part of your wedding. Can’t wait to see pictures of the honeymoon
