Moving on...

So the wedding is over and so is the honeymoon...:(

B and I will be posting wedding photos, honeymoon pics and continuing the blog over on the website of www.myfirstnameandhisfirstname.com This is not the site but if you substitute "myfirstname" with my actual first name and the same with his, you will get the site. It probably won't be updated for a week or two.

Also, there will be a page for you to upload your photos from the wedding. I am dying to see everyone's pictures so you can either upload them yourselves or send them to me.

More things...

Pineapples do not grow on trees. I thought they did.

Things I have learned so far on my honeymoon

1. San Francisco is very very very hilly. You might even say semi-mountainous.
2. Flight to Hawaii is 5-6 hours not 2-3 hours.
3. Time difference between Hawaii and Boston is 5 hours, not 8.
4. There are mosquitos in Hawaii and they do bite.
5. I do not like repelling.

Married

And it is done. And I couldn't be happier. The weather cleared just in time and I really believe that someone(s) from above was looking out for us. I don't normally dance and I danced up a storm. B and I were really glad with how it turned out and was what we feel was a great party.

Thanks to everyone who came, was thinking of us on that day or was there in spirit.

Also note to others - if you hand a card to a bride who has finally started drinking and didn't eat much, SIGN YOUR NAME because she won't remember who gave it to her.

Update on the Saturday

forecast: 100% good times!

Rain rain go away

Or stay, I don't care. While there currently is a 70% chance of rain for Saturday right now and I just bought a new umbrella to use and I am excited. It has polka dots on it.

cough, cough

Everyone in my office is sick and my throat is achy. I really need a good night's sleep to stave off any cold. Seriously.

I am packed and just need to finish this report at work. Then I am good to go.

Confessed...

Since the BC game was at night, B and I were able to go to confession and wipe the slate clean. Though I would like to go on record as saying we both got the same penance and I had more prayers to say when I was 8. I think they were happy to young adults were going to confession and didn't want to scare us away.

If we went with the original date...

...we would be married by now.

However, we would be drenched. According to B's mom it is pouring in Brooklyn. Also, weather.com is now saying sun for November 15. So we will see.

We have the infamous Notre Dame game tonight and all day we have been crossing things off the list. Everyone has been assigned a table and we are almost done with the placecards. I had a minor snafu but it is all minor and completely fixable. Tomorrow hopefully programs will be printed and folded and the dress arrives home.

I have yet to have a real breakdown but it may be coming. Or not.

We head to NYC late Wednesday night. Monday and Tuesday will be busy with actual work since we won't be back in the office until December 1.

10 day forecase

November 8: showers
November 15: showers

Single digit days to wedding: Yay!
Going home tomorrow: YAY!

Still in London...

While I wish I could have stayed up last night, I did get a very exciting text about 4:00 am my time.

In my absence, B has been a wedding task warrior. And I have done very little. It is amazing that it is 10 days away and tomorrow will show up in the 10 day forecast on weather.com. Weather.com is still predicting rain for November 8. However the 12 and 13 are rain as well. Maybe I should buy a pair of Wellies while I am here - just in case. I have always wanted a pair.

We still have not decided on a gospel reading.

Travel...

So not only am I in Europe a week before my wedding but I will be in Cincinnati the week after my honeymoon. Crazy.

Gospel?

Seriously we cannot decide on the Gospel reading and spent yet another night discussing it. We both finally picked one we liked but disagree with the other's choice. We have to do the programs so we need this decided in a week or so.

Also, I have to find a Catholic Church in London so I can go to confession. It seems like the right thing to do and I am surprised it hasn't dawned on me before now. (Actually it never dawned on me, BM Kim brought it up.)

I hope the Farmer's Almanac is correct!

from www.farmersalmanac.com

November 2008
1st-3rd Stormy, with snow over northern regions, and squally rains for the Mid-Atlantic States. Not a great day for the runners competing in the ING Marathon in New York!
4th-7th Cold and dry.
8th-11th Wet weather, then fair and cold. [ORIGINAL WEDDING DATE=WET WEATHER]
12th-15th Fair skies. [YAY!!!!!! I WILL TAKE FAIR SKIES TO WET WEATHER]
16th-19th Some snow for Mid-Atlantic States, then fair and cold. Stormy for Pennsylvania, New York up to Maine.
20th-23rd Wet for New England, then fair. Rain Mid-Atlantic States, followed by clearing.
24th-27th Fair and cold for Thanksgiving.
28th-30th Storm out of the Southwest dumps rain, sleet and wet snow from Virginia, Maryland northward.

We pray to the Lord...

Lord hear our prayer.

We also searched high and low for the prayer of the faithful readings but couldn't find any ones that were not cheesy. So I decided to hijack my friend Teresa's prayers (I read them at her wedding so it is okay. Because it is almost like I wrote them). We are just changing names (while I wouldn't mind praying for her Grandma who is no longer with us, I got peeps of my own to pray for) and we have one prayer that is dependent upon the outcome of November 4 (I will be in London that day which I think will be very interesting. And yes my absentee ballot has been sent in a VERY official envelope. I am not kidding about the envelope. I half expected confetti to pop out.).

It has been a very religous few days in our apartment.

Readings picked!

For those who want to know what will be read at the wedding see below. If you want to be surprised then don't look.

We were actually very picky about the readings and even as of right now don't have the gospel chosen.

The first reading will be Jeremiah 31: 31-34 and read by my niece Katie. The second reading will be Colossians 3:12-17 read by his niece Meghan.

I am starting to get stressed because I feel like I need to have things figured out by the time I leave for London. But between you and me, I am so excited to go to London and be a tourist by myself. And also not deal with wedding stuff. It is my last hurrah as a single lady.

And nothing makes a wedding seem real like paying all the vendors...

Kind of busy...

So I have realized my posts are becoming fewer and further between but things are just getting a bit hectic between the wedding, work and life in general.

So things are getting done and I leave for England on October 30.

Oh and I swear a guy that works in the building next to mine was on "Whose Wedding is it Anyway?" And I think I was staring and made him feel uncomfortable.

One month

It is one month away today. It is crazy how the time has been flying and that our wedding seemed like it was light years away. And now, it is one month away.

I think this weekend will be heavy with wedding tasks and a little BC football mixed in.

Work has been so crazy that I have to postpone my second dress fitting.

Leaving on a jet plane...

Just sent my travel information to the corporate travel agent. Looks like I am going to London and will be back one week before the wedding.

I don't know if this is a good or bad thing.

Forty percent...

With one week to go before the RSVP cut off and we are missing responses from 40% of invited guests. While some people have sent us part of the RSVP via email, we don't have cards in hand.

And since I am at work today I totally forgot that the mail won't come. Checking for RSVPs is pretty much my only motivation to go home. Well that and my DVRed tv shows. I love the DVR.