Happy Halloween! My husband and I had fun dressing up like a bride and groom for a Halloween party last night. With my veil and his bowtie, we joked that perhaps we had more bride/groom accessories than we did when we got married a few weeks ago!
Archive for October, 2009
Boo!
Posted in Ann Arbor, Holiday on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Poem “Voyage Dream” published in Expatlit.com
Posted in In the News, Personalized Poems & Writing, tagged carmela, creaive writing, ex pat, expat, expatlit.com, family history, family memoir, Italian, italian emmigration, italian-americans, literary, literary magazine, melabee m miller, melabee miller, poem, writing on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My poem “Voyage Dream” (page 10) was recently published in the online literary magazine ExPatLit.Com. I am particularly happy to have placed a poem here since it is a literary magazine after my own heart – a collection of pieces by or about expats. While I no longer live abroad, sometimes I still feel “abroad” [...]
Sign In Book
Posted in Sign In Book, tagged bride, wedding, Sign In Book, travel journal, travel book, handmade book, hand bound book, kristin crane, etsy, place cards, travel, map, New York, union square on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a writer, the sign-in book was an important part of our wedding planning. Happily, I am still quite in love with our sign-in book. It was made to order by Kristin Crane, an artist on Etsy. She even blogged about it!
In the beginning, we looked closely at books in the wedding section of stores and, [...]
Bridesmaid Presents
Posted in Gifts, tagged bride, gift, Maid of Honor, bridesmaid presents, New Jersey, green wedding, green theme, presents, weddingb, wonderful women, new york city, nyc, nyc wedding, nj weddnig, nyc gifts on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love New York City and so I love the Fishs Eddy designs with the skyline: 212 New York Skyline.
Since we were getting married close to New York City (I know, I know, New Jersey isn’t New York. It’s close, though. Maybe it is another borough?), I decided to buy the Wonderful Women a present [...]
Wedding hairpiece
Posted in Makeup, Style, tagged bride, hair piece, hair vine, live love bead, Swarovski, Swarovski crystal, Tony Richards, tony richards photography, wedding, wedding hair, wedding style on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I was thinking about how to do my hair for the wedding, I fell in love with a Swarovski crystal hair vine that I saw in a bridal magazine. A hair vine is a swiggly piece for your hair that can be wrapped around your head with bobby pins. The crystal part of it [...]
Dinner in a Meat Market? Yes!
Posted in Ann Arbor, Cooking, tagged Ann Arbor, cannolis, cook, Cooking, eating, epicurious, farmer's market, feast, food, host, kerrytown, polenta, pork, pumpkin, recipe, sparrow meat market on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sparrow Meat Market in Kerrytown (Ann Arbor) hosts a semi-secret monthly feast. They take over the supermarket and Sweetwaters Café area with long tables covered in white tablecloths. They serve multi-course meals and guests share their BYOB wine with each other. The entire complex is closed except to those who made a phone reservation and [...]
Personalized Wedding Poem: For and From My Dad
Posted in Personalized Poems & Writing, tagged bride, father daughter reading, father of the bride, personalized wedding poem, poem, wedding, wedding poem, wedding reading on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My dad asked me to write a Personalized Wedding Poem and he read it as a toast at our wedding.
At first, I had no idea how to proceed. How could I write a poem for my own wedding to be read by someone else? I was baffled.
After he filled out the Questionnaire (which I created [...]
Locks of Love Hair Donation
Posted in Style, tagged aveda, aveda institute, hair donation, haircut, locks of love on October 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I think the most shocking thing about donating your hair is seeing it on a table. That is, separate from your head.
Today I donated 14 inches of hair to Locks of Love. It describes itself as a “public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age [...]
Groomsmen Presents
Posted in Gifts, tagged cds, diy gift, groompower, groomsmen present, mixed tape, thank you present on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It can be difficult to come up with a personal gift to share with the groomsmen as a “thank you” for participating in the wedding.
My groom made a personalized CD for each of the groomsmen (think ‘80s mixed tape but more technologically advanced.) Not only did he choose music appropriate to each groomsmen, but he [...]
Our Own Personalized Wedding Poem
Posted in Personalized Poems & Writing, tagged ceremony readings, Chloe Miller, chloe yelena miller, love poem, personalized wedding poems, shasta grant huntington, wedding poem, wedding poetry, wedding readings on October 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As you might have guessed, I wrote our own personalized wedding poem. I showed it to my groom before the wedding and we integrated it into the readings during the ceremony. The Wonderful Woman Shasta Grant Huntington did a beautiful job reading it.
Mapping Love
All of my poems are secret love poems to you,
the one I [...]
