US meets UK

shhh…Mr.D is upstairs sleeping…he doesn’t know I’m on the internet! tee hee hee.

My cousin Megan entered a contest, she’s entry number one (Megan and Chad) please go vote for her!

She left out my favorite part of her engagement story though.  She thought she’d be getting a puppy for her birthday and after Chad proposed she said “so wait…what about the puppy?”.  :)

Thanks guys!

Why you say? Because we’re waiting on more pro pics, I just started a new job and I’m adjusting to to not blogging about the gazillionth DIY project I planned for our wedding.  While wedding planning I kept thinking ” I can’t wait till I can blog about real life!”, but the reality is that for 12 crazy topsy turny, country moving months…that was my real life.  So I think at the moment I’m simply adjusting to my real life.  My new real life that is.  The kind that involves an amazing husband (yaaay), meineke attempting to rip us off (more on that later) and…wait for it…our honeymoon!

We leave in a few hours (okay…7ish) and we’re super excited.  Okay…I’m exctied and Nick is asleep.  He’s excited in his sleep, I can just tell these things.  It’s forecasted to rain the entire time, but if that happens we’ll make the best of it. We always do.

Till then..I’ll leave you with this photo from Evan Bishop. I think it pays homage to the thrill I experienced during the ceremony. Not to mention how happy I am to spend an uninterrupted week with this man…yippeee!

See you soon my lovely blog friends!

So…I know. I said I was back…and then I was gone again.  The truth is, while you’re waiting for your pro pics it’s hard to feel like you have anything to say! I just started a new job, and I’ve got to admit I’ve lost some serious blog time. Miss Cowboy Boot’s recent post about Mr.CB’s ring reminded me that I needed to fill you all in on Mr.D’s ring saga. yes. saga.

So here is a tip: purchase your wedding bands in advance.  That means ALL of them. We kept holding off on Mr.D’s wedding band in the hopes I’d be hired with a paycheck in hand to purchase his ring.  I really just did not want to put the charge on my credit card, but in holding off the window of time was getting smaller and smaller.

I tweeted to see if anyone had any advice on where to buy Mr.D’s ring since he was only searching for a simple white gold, 4mm band. Mrs.Tiramisu recommended I check out IWeddingband.com which oddly enough has very similar font to Weddingbee! It was a sign!

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Mr.D was skeptical, but I swore that it was fine. MRS.TIRAMISU SAID IT WAS and clearly he needed to trust my (now real life) internet friend. The ring sizes made a difference in price, and since I couldn’t remember if he was a 7 or an 8, and he couldn’t remember if he was an 8 or a 9 we assumed he was an 8. Another tip, write the ring size down. Then, because we’re cheap and we’re both pretty much unemployed and the price break happened right at 7.75 and 8… do you see where this is going? So we ordered the 7.75, it quickly arrived and we quickly realized that it was way too small.

That’s what we get for trying to cut corners. So we returned it and ordered the 8.  Timeline update? We’re less than 2.5 weeks away from the wedding. The size 8 ring arrives and oh gosh wouldn’t you know it? Too small. We’re at less than two weeks away from the wedding. So Mr.D and I scurry over to the mall, to pretend we’re interested in purchasing a wedding band for him because we’re too embarrassed to tell a sales person we just need his finger measured. HIS FINGER IS A 9. No wonder that 7.75 didn’t fit.

So I head off to a job interview (for my shiny new job) and Mr.D says he’ll send it off with rush delivery (because they warn you that exchanges can take while) and I rest easy on the Metro knowing all is hopefully well. Because now we’re really close to the wedding, less than a full week before the wedding and I am losing it. I get back to find out that Mr.D did not send it off with rush delivery, because the last one came pretty quickly and he’s sure “everything will be fine”.  He said for the cost of the rush shipping he could get a wedding ring stand in at Target. sigh.

We sent the ring off on a Thursday. Monday, no ring, Tuesday, no ring, Wednesday, no ring, Thursday OMIGOSH COULD IT REALLY BE?!?! A ring that fits.  I can only assume that iweddingband.com took pity on us due to a combination of desperation in my voice and the wedding date (that Friday) that we engraved on the ring. Their customer service was some of the best I’ve ever experienced and Mr.D loves his new ring.  And I love iweddingband.com for sending us the (THIRD) ring so quickly and saving us a huge fight about the virtues of express shipping.

Unfortunately, this also means that “Mr.D was right” and he’s not letting me live it down

Did you experience any “life saving” vendors in your planning experience? And please tell me you didn’t wait till the month of to order your rings.

Well sorta… I’m (obviously – it’s been less than a week!) waiting on our pro pics to begin my recaps but I just wanted to buzz by and say hi.  And that our wedding was awesome.

It really was. In lieu of providing you with recaps I’ll start by providing you with several posts I started and stopped writing in the weeks right before the wedding.  For you immigration gals, I’ll be detailing our experience in applying for the AOS (Adjustment of Status) so we can actually, you know, stay together once we’re married.

Special thanks to all my Bee friends who came (and those who shot these photos) for partying and making me laugh.  Not to mention noticing and complimenting all the things that brides really focus on, like lavender bags.  “Normal” guests don’t focus on those types of things you know.

Thanks again for everything hive, I can’t wait to share more posts with you!