Showing posts with label The Wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Wedding. Show all posts

1.19.2009

How Do You Measure A Year?

in daylights,
in sunsets,
in midnights,
in cups of coffee,
in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife

in five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
how do you measure a year in a life?



I love that song.

And I love my husband. Which I publicly declared one year ago today.






















Happy Anniversary Babe! Here's to many more to come....



10.27.2008

Yet Another Wedding Post

We FINALLY got our wedding album, and it was so, SO worth the wait. Here are some of my favorites:


























Also, I knit a sock.


Hopefully it's mate is coming soon.

3.14.2008

To Vegas, With LOVE

I am plugging away on Cobblestone, despite the fact that my inner cast-oner is screaming at me to start something new. My goal is to have this bad boy finished by next weekend when we are in Cambria, so Matt can wear it at least once before the 10,000 degree summer hits.

And I'm going to say it again: I LOVE Jo Sharp Silky Tweed. LOVE IT. Going to buy more for the Central Park Hoodie ASAP.


[snapped before I headed home from work last night, got a tiny bit done before going to bed]

We're flying out to Vegas this weekend (oh, I am already dreading Monday - I'm getting too old for weekends like this!), so hopefully I can get in some good progress in the airport/on the plane. Yes I know it's only a 50 minute flight from here, but I get so damn nervous about flying I will be stitching non-stop to keep me occupied and not thinking about how the plane could crash into a mountain or something like that. /drama.

All sarcasam aside, I am SUPER excitied because Matt got me the most AWESOME birthday gift this year! Two tickets to see:



For those of you who don't know me in real life, I LOVE, LOVE (no pun intended! Ha!), LOVE the Beatles. There are photos of them all over my office. "In My Life" was my father-daughter dance. I wanted to marry George Harrison when I was little and I cried when he passed in 2001.

Oh yes, I can't wait. Makes me sort of ok with braving the not-so-FRIENDLY skies.




One more wedding photo:


YAY! We're OFFICIALLY Mr. & Mrs. C!


3.10.2008

Wedding Paparazzi

If you are looking for straight knitting content or the thought of weddings makes you want to puke, you may want to skip this post.

I was going to talk about what a fantastic day Sunday was: 73 degrees, lemon-mint vodka coolers on the patio, seared steak and onions with goat cheese pasta for dinner. But I have no photos and I hate posting things like that what with no photos. Alas that is my own fault, because I thought about it like 10 times but I was way too content with my vodka drink and Cobblestone sleeve to move.

I was also going to talk about how I finished the Drops Cardigan, but then I had to rip the entire collar out because my increases looked like crap. Stay tuned for that.

So I am going to talk about the wedding once again. And not just the wedding, but the many, MANY photos we have.


Matt could kill me because I like to look through the 1000+ photos we just got from our photographer every night. It's like reliving all the best parts of the day without having to remember the evil moments like staying up till 2am putting together seating cards or completely breaking down because I couldn't find a tube of lipstick I had just bought.

Anyhow, I am very happy with them. I can't share them in full because we don't own the originals yet, but the above is a good sneak peak. However, I do have a couple to show: I talked a lot about my flowers, which was my favorite part of the wedding. A friend of ours who is relatively new to the business did them, and they were FABULOUS:




Almost makes me forget about breaking down and crying over the guestlist at work! ;)

2.13.2008

Of Honeymoons and Vests

The best part of the wedding was the honeymoon [well not really, but DAMN it was nice to have a week off with no cell phones or computers, and lots of wine and beach].



The new hubby and I headed down to Coronado on a little "pre-honeymoon" right after the wedding. [Our big trip is next January, when we go to Italy and Greece, but that is for another post].



We stayed at the Loews Hotel, which I can't recommend strongly enough, and generally did a whole lot of nothing except eating, drinking, and lounging (which included a bottle of wine and YUMMY food on a Wednesday at 2pm for no good reason, other than just because we COULD)



Most of our planned activities, like whale watching and the Cays Gondola ride, got rained out, but it didn't really matter to us.



I knit like a maniac during this trip, which was nice because I hadn't been able to knit a stitch in a couple weeks. I pretty much knocked the entire Back-to-School vest on that patio.


Day 1


and when I got home, I had this:


Day 10 - Click for larger


No blocking yet, but overall I am pretty happy with it. I love the shaping at the bust, it's perfect for my body type ["busty"]. I used Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Maple Leaf, 4 skeins, and size 7 needles. Raveled here.

2.05.2008

2.5.2008

Gawd, where has the time gone?

First and foremost, a very heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone for sending the good vibes our way through this entire process. From our engagement, to my mushy-sappy posts, to talk about flowers and cake. I really do appriciate it. And I apologize that I never responded to any of your comments (looking at you, Eca!) - I plead wedding-induced amnesia!!

I want to do a nice post about the entire day, but I am still sorting through mounds of photos and it just seems a bit too overwhelming right now. I will get to it soon - I promise :)

So Happy!

It's been quite a crash landing back into reality, after having like 16 days off in a row and you know, experiencing one of the biggest days of my life. I have been knitting like CRAZY. In the days leading up the wedding I tried, I really did, but my fingers just wouldn't budge. But the minute we hit the road for the honeymoon, I was off and running. I've almost finished two sweaters in 3 weeks (nevermind that one is knit on size 10s). Matt is finally getting a handknit sweater too, but more about that later on.

I leave you with one gem from the wedding: My new brother-in-law's speech. Between him and my sister, I laughed so hard my ribs hurt. The best part is if you fast forward it to about 1:50 left, and listen for "Everything Matt's done....."

1.25.2008

Introducing Mrs. C







The entire day was absolutly amazing and I couldn't be happier. Back soon with a proper write up. I'm still mentally on my honeymoon.

1.17.2008

I'm Getting Married

The festivities have begun. I had my first venture into spray tanning, my best friend is on her way here from Michigan as we speak (type), and tonight I'll be walking down the aisle of the church with a bouquet of ribbons.

I can't believe it's here. I am definitely feeling the nerves - Lets DO THIS already!!

Last post as a single woman. Oh my!

1.09.2008

Bliss

I'm sitting here with my dog on my feet (yes you read that right, ON my feet), my cat in my lap, my knitting, chardonnay, and no thoughts of the wedding. Well, enough thoughts to have just written that. But not wedding stress. This is a nice change.

10 days.





11.27.2007

Ever Wonder How We Met?

Deals: tell me a story

MC: once upon a time, in a land not so far away lived a boy

MC: one day that boy went to a friends birthday party, all around the boy were women, some single and some taken

MC: one particular women caught the boy's eye. the women wasn't fond of the boy at first, she thought he was trying to hit on one of the women who was taken

Deals: i like this story!

MC: as the night went on and the conversation deepened it turns out the women and the boy had met before but didn't realize it

MC: the party continued and the boy and the women talked all through the night, they parted ways with a strange suspicion they'd see each other again

MC: a week later one of the women from the party, the most crazy women of all, had a gathering. She invited the boy and many of the same women along with a lot of other people. the boy was very happy to see the women who caught his eye and even offered her a ticket to sit by him at the baseball gaem

MC: thankfully the women said yes, the boy ran off to go get the tickets and met the women at the game. Unfortunately he got there a few minutes too late to see her nearly fall down the stairs, however he did hear the story and how she didn't spill a drop of her beer.

MC: if that wasn't a sign that these two were meant to be together what was?

Deals: fate I tell you

MC: a few days pass and the women is out with some of the boy's friends, they comment on how the boy needs a good women. the women, a bit indignantly says "he's cute" and light bulbs popped up over all the friends heads

MC: later that night, at an enchanted placed called "the elbow room" the boy and the women reunited. The women, tired of waiting for the boy to make a move, challenged the boy to a drinking contest.

MC: foolish as it might have sounded, it worked. From that point on the two were inseperable

MC: they went out on the town and had a blast, met each others familieis and fit right in, met their freinds and fit right in

MC: the signs were on the wall

MC: a few months passed, about 11 actually, and the boy realized it was time to make sure this women was his forever and ever

MC: he went and bought a beautiful ring and took the girl, almost against her will, to the house they had bought

MC: he waited for the time to be right, only to have her move away before he could drop to one knee.

MC: he kept waiting for another moment but it never came, so he created it.

MC: down on one knee, a big smile on his face and ring in hand he summoned the women

MC: she came around the corneer and almost fell over. The shock, and hopefully joy, were enough to make her tremble. tears ran from both their eyes

MC: many months have passed, some fights have been had, but the couple is now mere weeks from getting married.

MC: the boy knows in his heart, mind, and soul that this is the best thing that has ever hapened to him

MC: hopefully the women feels the same

Deals: I LOVE YOU

11.18.2007

Starstruck



Robin Williams came to my bachelorette party in San Francisco this weekend. Freaking AWESOME.