Becoming the crane wife.

Welcome to my new blog at cranewife.org.  I finally bought a new domain last week and I’m excited to finally have it at a launched and bloggable state.  I also made this wordpress theme by myself so that’s pretty cool.  Turns out I’ve missed fiddling with code like html and css a lot.  And I’ve added rudimentary php understanding to my knowledge which is kind of swell.

So I figure I should update this before I get too distracted by my indiebride forums.  Anyway, my mom and I had been fighting earlier this week about the wedding.  Basically, she was upset that it was so soon and she feels like she isn’t getting to do all of the fun planning stuff.  I realized that I hadn’t actually be excluding her from planning like she thinks but actually just not doing too much planning… so the last couple of days we’ve had chats and trips to the store to get some wedding stuff taken care of.  Yesterday we thumbed through the Real Simple Weddings magazine… the only wedding magazine I purchased, btw, so that I could show her some of the things I had thought about and she could get some ideas of what I was picturing in the wedding.  Well, every chapter there are 12 or 15 pictures from an actual wedding that happened that uses some of the design elements the Real Simple people are talking about.  She enjoyed looking at those, and I liked combing through them again and we also came up with a great idea because of them.

Essentially, we both feel like we’re skipping something integral by not really feeding people at the wedding.  That’s all you need to know at the start of this story.  Anyway, so we were perusing through the magazine and came across a picture of a bunch of little folded brown bags which had little menu’s taped on them and were all set up for people to take at a picnic lunch that this couple did.  Mom was talking about how cute it was that they did that and i mentioned that it woudl be really cheap to do sandwiches for everyone and then people could eat if they wanted to and it wouldn’t be so big of a deal.  So we talked about how that would be a good idea and eventually decided that we should do pitas since those are the best vegetarian sandwiches stuffed with mediterranean goods.  The official sandwich menu is hummus/tomato/sprout pitas and falafel/yogurt sauce/lettuce pitas.  And then I want to do a grilled eggplant salad I found a recipe for and some saffron rice.  I’m really excited about this though because I was really regretting not having dinner at the wedding but we can’t really seat everyone so this way people can eat if they want to and not eat if they don’t want to and we don’t have to all do it at once.  Plus.  Falafel.  Oh em gosh.  Yum.  It’s also neat cos Kyle and my first non-date where we realized we probably both wanted to date each other was at the Jerusalem Cafe and we had most of the things we’ll be serving on a sampler platter there.  And some hookah.  There will probably not be hookah at the wedding though, despite how happy that would make people.

Today we went shopping for things we need for the wedding.  We got champagne flutes for the toasts.  They’re being engraved as we speak.  One will say “Jess/& Kyle/August 30, 2008” and one will say “Kyle/& Jess/August 30, 2008.”  That way whoevers name is on top can claim the glass throughout the toasts.  While I think it’s silly to spend that kind of money on what is essentially a cup, I agree that it will be nice to have a momento from our wedding… and we can always toss back a bottle of champagne in those glasses when we celebrate anniversaries for years to come.

We also bought our shoes for the wedding.  Mine are strappy sandals cos I decided that my patent eggplant peep-toe pumps cut my feet up too bad and hers are nice wedges that are actually peep-toe and patent but black.  They should look good with her dress and keep her from needing to hem it too drastically.  We bought  bubbles, and bubbles, and bubbles.  Mostly we got these clear wand bubbles with a “love knot” on top that we’ll use to tie blue ribbon on them…  And then we got some heart-shaped bubbles cos they were on sale and I kind of like to break things up.  We also got bells because I like ringing when the couple comes out of the church and we got these streamer poppers that I really like because they make an awesome photo of the bride and groom and they look cool and require no clean up.  So we have 14.  One for each member of the bridal party plus ushers plus two other people.  Yay.  I am so excited about them.  Also, unlike the photo I linked to, ours do not actually leave the package from which they are released so they have very little litter potential. And ours are all silver, not multi-color, which is also cool. Shiny equals awesome.

I also got Martha Stewart pom-poms because I fell in love with the ones I saw at OffbeatBride and I wanted to sort of decorate the reception site without too much trouble.  So the ballroom will now feature fourteen yellow, blue, and blue-ish green orbs.  I am so excited.

I think that’s basically all of the wedding updates I have.  Not that the updates are few, cos they are many.  I also officially feel like perhaps my mom and I are done fighting about the wedding because we mostly just chat excitedely about it.  Basically 70 days to go!  I can’t wait.  And I can’t wait to start doing everything with Kyle and getting ready for it.  He’s been in Vegas all week judging high school debate nationals and I get to pick him up tomorrow for us to spend some time together so I’m excited as ever about getting to see him.  Fantasticness.

This has been a very excited entry, lol.  I would also like to soon blog about my summer reading.  I’ve been doing well and I just finished Straight Up and Dirty by Stephanie Klein, so I’d like to reflect upon that just a smidge but that won’t happen as I’m supposed to be at work now and that’s not going to well because there isn’t a lot to do and I am unmotivated.

• Category: Journal
• Tag: Engagement, Family