Welcome to Our Wedding Website!

Travis and I are so excited about our impending wedding and marriage.

I set up this website / blog so that our guests will be able to keep apace of everything that's going on.   We're not sending out any paper invitations; all of our communication with our guests will be via email and this website.  I also established it so guests and others can learn more about the green lifestyle, something I aspire to, but am still far from achieving.

We plan for our wedding to be wholly unconventional.  It's really just a picnic at which we just happen to be getting married.  I want it to be like an Edwardian May Day celebration, with guests picnicking on blankets spread in the grass, children blowing bubbles, and everyone flying kites and playing croquet.  I recently asked a dandelion (that is I made a wish while blowing off the seeds) if it was going to rain on my wedding and it said no.  So get ready for a wonderful day, this Earth Day.

P.S. I do have rainy day plans just in case the dandelion lied.

Robin's Dress

Gorgeous!

(Robin is my cousin and a guest at the wedding.)

Look at my mom's dress!

It's perfect!

Travis Finally Proposed

If you've read the story of our engagement, you know it was awkward, silly, and haphazard, like us.  Ever since that day when we just finally decided to get married, I've been kind of bummed that I didn't get a formal proposal, and I've been bugging Travis about it ever since.

So on February 11, because it was the Saturday before Valentine's Day, Travis somehow worked up the courage and asked me again to marry him.

We went to the picnic ground where in April we will have our  ceremony.  Under heavy, grey skies we ate burritos and chocolates and listened to the playlist for the wedding on portable speakers.  As the sun went down, we walked to a little bench on a hill.  And this is what he said:

After our first date, I didn't think I would be writing a proposal to you.

I am lucky to have you in my life.  I love your tenderness and kindness.  I feel empty when I go out without you.

I would love to grow old with you, and just being with you makes me feel lucky.  Waking up next to you in the morning feels great.

I feel that our love is a great partnership and we are wonderful friends.

I am grateful that I will be able to call you my wife and that you will call me your husband.

I am nervous about our future, but I know as long as you are by my side everything will be OK and that is why I am asking for your hand in marriage.

Since I already have an engagement ring, Travis gave me beautiful peony earrings.  We even put them in a clam shell box for him to open on bended knee.

He said I gave him butterflies in his stomach, just like I had in our first months together.

I'm so lucky.

Easy Ways to Conserve

A Thousand Cranes

Thanks to the help of friends and family, we finally have our thousand cranes.

Though I'm not superstitious, these cranes are said to bring us happiness, health, and longevity.  Folding them certainly taught me patience, especially with my husband-to-be who had a rough time of learning how to make them.  And I felt very special having my friends around me as we made these cranes together over burritos and wine.  

 

These cranes will be splashed throughout the ceremony: hanging from our altar, on display in jars at the dining tables, maybe even decorating our cupcakes.  They're all made from recycled newspapers and pages from old books.

Thanks to everyone who helped.