I'm a married spud, I'm a married spud...

Well, I'm back ya'll.  They really aren't kidding about the last couple months of wedding planning being a blur!  I can't believe I haven't posted since June - sorry for the extended absence, but it's hard work, this whole getting married thing!  Since my last post, I've had two bridal showers, my bachelorette party, gotten married, and moved halfway across the country!  What a whirlwind...

Looking back, I still can't believe what a beautiful day it was.  The weather was an unprecedented 72 degrees, our closest friends and family were all there with us, and B and I finally got to celebrate the sacrament we'd been waiting six and half years for.  I really am the luckiest girl in the whole world.

Tonight my wonderful husband is taking me out to dinner for my 25th birthday, and then we are meeting up with some friends for SANGRIA (yummm)!  We're still waiting on our professional photos, so I can't start official recaps yet, but I'll leave you with just a little teaser of friend/facebook photos and a couple previews our photographer sent us to whet your appetite:

Photo by wedding guest SD

Photo by wedding guest CJ

Photo by wedding guest DP

Image by Inspired Photography - Copyright Released

Image by Inspired Photography - Copyright Released

Photo by Bridesmaid MD

Image by Siouxland Photobooth

Checklists...

Holy crap.  Our wedding is in 101 days.  Double digits are IMMINENT!  It's go-time, people.

Luckily, with this most recent trip to Ann Arbor, we've been accomplishing projects like crazy.  Apart from post-wedding logistics we've been taking care of, including a successful job interview yesterday and going apartment hunting today, we've also been tackling the wedding checklist.

Last night we booked a suite for our wedding night:

Marriott Hotels

I Love My Fiance So Much That...

...I missed the Royal Wedding.  Truth.  In fact, I still haven't seen it!

You see, on Thursday, while the rest of the world had their eyes glued to the television, speculating about dress designers, tiaras, bouquet flowers, and all the rest, I was making the 13-hour trek to Michigan.  I arrived exhausted, with just enough energy left to enjoy a beer with B before crashing into bed.  The next morning, a few hours into Royal Wedding-palooza, I was ironing a set of black robes with the most ridiculous sleeves I've ever seen.

Yes, Friday was B's graduation day.  He is now, officially, a Master of Music, and I'm so incredibly proud of him!  He's worked so hard these past two years, and it's wonderful to see his labors paying off.  I will be spending the next week with him in Ann Arbor, giving us time to look for a place to live next year, and giving me the chance to interview for jobs.  There's a lot riding on these next few days, so we have to make them count!

And although Friday was a whirlwind of pomp and circumstance (ha!), and this weekend held plenty of to-do lists, you can bet that tomorrow morning while B is singing for a funeral I will be planted in front of the tv watching the six hours of Royal Wedding coverage I forced him to DVR.  Come hell or high water, I'm watching that wedding!  No spoilers, please!

Did you know...

...that you can access glyphs on your Mac without the use of Adobe Illustrator?  I didn't until last night!  I was just playing around with wording and fonts for our invites in Text Edit, when I stumbled across a function I'd never tried before!  (There may also be a way to do this on a PC, I'm just not aware of one).

So here's how it works:  Open up Text Edit and enter some text.  If you have a font on your computer that you know has glyphs included, use it.  For my example, I'm using Corsiva Hebrew.

Adventures In Solitude

Or "Ode to the Long-Distance Couple"
 

Sudlow Jewelry via Wedzu

 
Honesty time:  I'm sick of this whole long-distance thing.  Like...pulling my hair out sick of it.

What's the cool jams?

Who wants a humpday treat?

So...B and I have a problem: we can't for the life of us agree on music for the reception.

It's not so much that we have different tastes in music, just that I tend to be more tolerant of mainstream tunes than he is.  I can jam out to pretty much anything I can sing to, while his standards are a wee bit higher.  I guess that's what comes with the territory of being a friggin Master of Music and all...psh.  Anyway, the music conversation usually goes something like this:

But we both hate Katy Perry!  Let's just put all of her songs on the "Do Not Play" list and be done with it!
I know...but some of her songs are fun to dance to, and I'm sure a lot of our guests like her music.  Don't we kind of need to think about their music tastes and not just ours?
But she can't sing and her music is terrible!

At which point I ask whether hearing "California Gurls" at our wedding reception would really be the end of the world and he gives me a pointed look.

Serendipity

Whenever I'm at Barnes and Noble I take a few minutes to leaf through their selection of wedding magazines.  I rarely let myself buy one, since I have stacks and stacks of them at home, but I just love the feel of the glossy pages and can't help but savor the gorgeous photographs of the featured fairytale weddings.  Tonight, on such an occasion, I stumbled across a beautiful spread in Real Weddings, an Australian magazine I'd never seen before.

My mouth fell open as I saw my vision for our wedding actualized and in print in front of me.  It was like a dream sequence.  For the longest time I've been trying to explain to friends and family that I want to incorporate a vintage, musical theme into our decor and invitations, but whenever I described it to people it ended up sounding kitschy and juvenile.  This magazine spread, however, was anything but: