frustrated [rant]

I'm bored and frustrated with looking for a "real job" and therefor avoiding the internet and blitz cleaning our apartment some more. Also practicing viola again without having to worry about a "viola hickey" AKA practice mark, or having short stubby fingernails in photographs again! Oh, and skiing too; I plan to do a lot of that over the next few days. Thank goodness for Loveland.

When I've recovered from my internet aversion, I'll post more wedding recaps. In the mean time, I leave you with a photo of Ronya, the beloved daughter of our good friends, Miri and Dan. They were taken while I was getting my hair done. Miri (Dan had to work) dropped a VERY fussy Ronya in my lap, where she instantly calmed down, while she went to set up the video camera to record the ceremony for us. [We were afraid we would be too adrenaline high to be present and want to be able to go back and re-listen what Rabbi Marc said. In retrospect, I wish more that we'd been able to video tape the bideken! Oh well.]

do-do-do… puttin’ on the dress

I did my own makeup, wearing just my underwear in the bathroom, so there won't be any of those photos here to share with the interwebs.

The photos of Andrea/my mom zipping up my dress are funny. I'd asked my mom to zip me up, but while I was standing there and holding up my dress Andrea swooped in and did it for me. Whoops! So there are two sets of photos of zipping up my dress!

Remember all those password protected posts about my dress? (The password is DRESS, if you want it). I think that my dress is perfectly twirly! It was perfect.

I really look forward to wearing my dress again in March to Andrea's wedding in the Berkshires. Don't worry, I'm not tacky, I'm going to have it dyed Williamsburg blue. Only the dress and strap will take the dye, the exposed tulle and inner-lining are polyester and won't take silk dye. It will be my formal dress for anything I can get away with wearing it for! Ben's got a suit and a tux and now we can go to the Nobel award banquet or an inaugural ball, or something!

Up next: going to meet Ben

personal portraits - the dude

While I was getting prettied-up, Ben had some portraits taken (and some with his family too). I think he's the most handsome man ever, but then again I'm the one that married him!

I'm not sure why all of his photos were posted in sepia tones, but he does look good in black & white! Thanks, Kokoro Photography ladies!

Getting my hair did

Rachel, from ZING, did my hair. She was great. My hair stayed put all day, and she was very calm and quiet while doing my hair. I don't remember her once asking me to do anything other than look up/down/to the side. Plus, my head didn't ache at the end of the day like it did after my trial!





There were a LOT of bobbie pins in my hair, but look at that shiny pile of curls!



At that point, I had to get up and stretch. I think this was also when Miri came in and dropped off her baby for me to snuggle.



And the crowning touch, my tiara!

Also, did you notice a difference in photo quality there? The first photo is with my old point-and-shoot and the later ones were with the new camera we received as a wedding present. Andrea used both to take some photos of me getting ready and of the bedekin/ketubah as well.

While Rachel was fussing with my hair, Amanda, from Kokoro Photography, took photos of many of my accessories and details. Her mom and partner, Debi, took lots of photos of Ben (I'll post those tomorrow).

I know that my mom thinks that these photos of what I wore are excessive, but I appreciate them! I spend all that time and effort gathering them, it's nice to have that documented. Plus, now you all can see them! Would anyone like to borrow the veil, tiara, shoes (size 6.5), or earrings? I suppose I could just pass on those accessories, and they can make their way through the world. Especially the veil, when can I ever wear that again?! I suppose it'll just stick around as a future dress-up item if no one else wants it.

I'm sure I'll find other reasons to wear the earrings and shoes again, the brooch is my great-great grandmother's (or her sister's) and is in my mother's keeping, the pearl bracelet is from my grandma via my uncle Richard. Everything else is new.

happy veterans day!

Thanks to all the vets in my life: my grandpa (who passed away in 2009), and Ben's grandpa (who was at the wedding. Thank you for defending freedom for us. What you did, and what your compatriots and current counterparts are doing is so very important to keeping America and other places around the world safe.

hair, hair, long, beautiful hair

Sunday morning..... After fielding the phone call about where to have the ceremony, it wasn't too bad. Andrea and I got up, ate roomservice breakfast, picked things up from my parents' hotel room, and started getting my hair done. It was amazing how everyone came together to help me prep for my big day. I hope Ben felt as much love and support as I did!

Mrs. Jones and WAJR came by to visit help by darning my sweater, Andrea and Becca were my personal helpers, and Miri let me snuggle her baby to keep us both calm while she went to set up the video camera.

Plus, all the people we hired were awesome too, when I was running behind no one made me stress over it, they just wanted me to know and then helped me get ready a bit faster. I never felt rushed, a bit behind, but not rushed. I suppose you could call me a zen bride, it's not like anything could have happened without me!

Things that  helped me feel pretty all day (as opposed to people):

goings on a month after the wedding

My mom had a business trip to Phoenix and gave herself a 4 day stop-over here in Boulder. We looked at LOTS of furniture, and even bought some! We are now the proud owners of a hutch, with a cupboard on the bottom, an open shelf, and a glass doored cabinet on top. I'd take a picture, but our apartment is slightly more wreck-y looking than usual (though a lot cleaner --thanks mom!) because there is a dumpster-recovered bookshelf (which the hutch is replacing) and a night stand (to replace mine, from Target) in them middle of the room!

The hutch and night stand are both from a local used furniture, consignment, and overstock store. Both pieces are used. The hutch is teak from the early 1970s and the night stand is oak from the late 1940s (it matches some other pieces we already have). It's nice to retire our shabby, graduate student chic dumpster finds.

We also received both of our wine shipments from our honeymoon, and acquired new racks to store/display them on. We now own over 24 bottles of wine! Come join us for dinner, you bring the curry or Italian (two of our favorite cuisines) and we'll bring out the rieslings, pino gris, rosé, and even the appropriate aperitif!