The Big Day is here! I can hardly believe it.
Was I able to sleep after all? Mostly…
I am meeting the Wonderful Women at my parents’ house at 6:30 am (the only downside to an afternoon wedding) to start hair and makeup with the stylist. Then… onto the venue.
You know, more or less, what happens next.
How [...]
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Countdown: I do
Posted in Countdown on October 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Countdown: (1) Rehearsal & Gender Separation
Posted in Countdown on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today feels like the first day of the wedding. I will be meeting my Chief Wonderful Woman with the Mother of the Bride for pedicures and manicures after a very New Jersey lunch of thin crust pizza at my favorite restaurant. Meanwhile, my fiancé and the Gentlemen of the Wedding are having haircuts and shaves.
The [...]
Countdown: (2) Last Preparations
Posted in Countdown, tagged bride, chocolate favors, wedding on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two more days. It is hard to begin these last few blogs with anything less than surprise about how quickly time is moving!
Today is the last day of preparations (we hope!) We are going to drop everything off the venue for the set-up, including table markers, chocolate favors, etc. Last night we took a final [...]
Countdown: (4) Family History: Ideas for Collecting & Assembling @ UM
Posted in Ann Arbor, Countdown, Personalized Poems & Writing, tagged connecting the dots, conte, family history, Family History: Ideas for Collecting and Assembling, hr department, italian emmigration, italian-americans, italy, melabee m miller, melabee miller, narrative poetry, narrative writing, oral history, poetry, rec & ed, university of michigan, work/life resource center on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While there are only four days left before the wedding (and we fly to New Jersey tomorrow), I’m taking a break from all-things-wedding to present “Family History: Ideas for Collecting & Assembling” at the University of Michigan’s Work/Life Resource Center’s 4th annual event on work/life issues. The title of this year’s conference is Connecting the [...]
Countdown: (5) The Italian Tribune and Wedding Announcements
Posted in Countdown, Newspaper Announcements, tagged italian newspaper, italian tribune, italian wedding, italian-american, Michigan, New Jersey, Newspaper Announcements, Wedding announcements on October 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had no idea that you have to pay for wedding announcements in most newspapers. (Don’t look for our announcement in the Star-Ledger or NJ county papers.)
I guess it makes it sense: the announcement isn’t necessarily news and it is more like an advertisement.
That said, I really wanted to announce the wedding in New Jersey’s [...]
Countdown: (6) Cake and a well-balanced life
Posted in Ann Arbor, Countdown, Wedding Cake, tagged Ann Arbor, cake, meri lou murray recreation center, pre wedding diet, theresa ramirez, washtenaw county gym, Wedding Cake, wedding diet on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My fiancé and I were surprised yesterday by a cake celebrating our upcoming marriage at a potluck dinner for his program. Theresa Ramirez, a pastry chef whose wedding cakes you might remember reading about here, made this beautiful and delicious cake. Thank you so much, Theresa!
Even though I’m on the inevitable pre-wedding diet that I tried [...]
Countdown: (7) Rochester Writers’ Conference
Posted in Ann Arbor, Countdown, Personalized Poems & Writing, tagged chloe yelena miller, make money with your writing, pim, rochester writers conference, thinking outside the box on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am presenting at the Rochester Writer’s Conference.
Brainstorming, Work, and Creativity: Thinking Outside of the Box
Right brained or left, it doesn’t matter – being creative is essential in the current economy. Access your inner poet and your muse with poet and entrepreneur, Chloe Miller, who will lead a discussion of how to connect [...]
Countdown: (8) So close!
Posted in Ann Arbor, Countdown, tagged countdown to the wedding, rochester writers conference, wedding countdown, wedding planning on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If I were an auctioneer, I could quickly list everything we’ve been working on: seatingweddingrogramceremonyreadingsmenussongchoicestablesignsohmy!
Lots of little details, but it does feel as though it is all coming together. At this point, we are mostly tweaking and finalizing everything. That said, we do have to finish the tweaking and finalizing.
I’ve had a chance to relax [...]
Countdown: (9) Love Story
Posted in Countdown, relationships, tagged fiance, love story, marriage, online dating, wedding on October 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I liked Hans so much after our first date that I was sure he’d never want to see me again.
We met at Union Square, under the statue of Washington. Well, officially we “met” online. We emailed back and forth and never even spoke on the phone. Hans, who was at Princeton at the time, suggested [...]
Countdown: (10) Why get married?
Posted in Countdown, Traditions, relationships, tagged bride, Groom, marriage, marry, Neark, New Jersey, new jersey wedding, NJ, Paramount theater, sewing blog, the lovely nest on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot about why we are getting married. I do not doubt my desire to be with my fiancé for the rest of our lives or our love for each other. I know that I want to marry him. I know that he wants to marry me.
But why, exactly? What is propelling [...]
