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Multi-Tasking: Planning for Two…
…sisters, that is! (Forewarning: this post is pic heavy.) Sweetie Scone’s family goes on a canoe trip just about every July in the Ozarks, and in 2010 we were able to head east to join in on the fun....
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Beer with a View
After spending our flight back to SFO making pro and con lists for each venue and talking about the possibility of going with the first caterer we met with, we had some decisions… Our reception would...
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Catering: Oh How We Thought You Were Easy…
Let’s talk a bit about catering… We were ecstatic that we had found a caterer the first time out. My FMIL and FFIL had recently attended a wedding that they had catered, and they had rave reviews for...
View ArticleBack It Up…
After rambling about some details and random thoughts, I realized I haven’t talked about why we decided to plan a pseudo-destination wedding in Kansas City. (I say pseudo because the term destination...
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Click Snap Cheese
You have been warned: this is a pic-heavy post… Pretty pictures…we want ‘em. We also want a photographer who will be OK with non-pro paparazzi (i.e., my family and various other wedding guests) and who...
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The Domesticated-versary
Just over a year ago the State of California processed our domestic partnership paperwork and officially made us “domesticated in the eyes of the state.” Would you like to see what it looks like?...
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Pocket Full of Posies
Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies… Image via Out.com Oops, wrong Rosie…here we go: Image via Cottage d’Orr / Photo by Natural Approach Photography That’s better. But really, I LOVE flowers;...
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The Flower Mistress
Initially we seriously considered doing the flowers ourselves. My cousin and her mother were florists in another life (my auntie did my parents’ flowers for their wedding). I am also pretty handy with...
View ArticleEh, What’s Up DOC?
Anyone else miss Saturday morning cartoons? Video via YouTube I love planning and organizing events, but I am usually at my best behind the scenes. When I have to be in the scene, I may or may not have...
View ArticleThe First Trifecta: Work, School, and Love
When we started dating I was working full time, I had just signed up for a few brush-up classes prior to applying for MBA programs, and I was studying for the GMAT. It was a fun time, let me tell you....
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The Best Laid Plans…
After the engagement was “official” and we had moved into a bigger place and life had started to settle in a bit more, we decided to “think” about getting a dog. Sweetie Scone and I both missed having...
View ArticleShocker
Just going to break a few things down. Here we are, a West Coast same-sex couple getting hitched in the Midwest. We were a bit worried about how people would react to our relationship and the concept...
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Missing
Since the beginning of the new year, I have been reflecting back on 2011 and it has made me start to think about the people that will be missing at our wedding. This might be a bit heavy, but...
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Top Chef…
With the first caterer out of the picture, we went back to the drawing board and located three caterers that were highly recommended and seemed to have food styles in line with ours. On a quick trip to...
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And Our Caterer Is…
By the time we got home from our third and final planning trip, we had decided that if the official quotes were vastly different then we would go with the least expensive, and if the costs came in...
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STD Inspiration
We have been talking about our July 2012 wedding for, oh, about 21 months now, and somehow our parents still wanted to confirm the date we are getting hitched. So we figured we might should send out...
View ArticleI’ll Have My Cake and Eat It Too!
We were in a bit of a travel haze when we walked into the house of baker number one, Margie. Apologies because I didn’t bring my camera…so let me paint a picture. The door opened and the house smelled...
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Ice Cream and Cakey Cake
OK, well maybe just the cakey cake part. There are so many beautiful cakes available now! We aren’t constrained by limitations of the imagination. When I was growing up, oh how I thought this was...
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Picking Dates Is Never Easy…
When we first were unengaged we had all the time in the world (cue maniacal laughter). We knew once we had moved into the officially engaged stage (pre-reqs and rings checked off) that people would...
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A Square
“Circle-square,” she says…Sweetie Scone is pretty opinionated about the shape of the cake. It needs to be a square-circle-square, kind of like these guys: Image via The Knot / Photo by Carrie Patterson...
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