One week, two weddings

Exactly one week after our wedding my little cousin also got married! So instead of immediately going on our honeymoon Puppy and I stayed in Dallas for her wedding. Here Puppy and I are at the church. Can you tell how tired I am in this photo? I don’t think I had slept more than three hours per night in the week between our wedding and hers. And I’d stayed up super late the two nights preceding her wedding to help her with the flowers and other such things. Note that my hair is up, contacts are in and his tie is on.

Here we are at the end of the reception. Hair down, glasses on and tie off. 🙂

Oh, did I mention that Pickles did the bouquets for both my wedding and my cousin’s wedding? Puppy helped him out with the flowers for my cousin’s wedding. Who knew Pickles had such a green thumb?

I married my Puppy!

Puppy and I got married!

Our 57-guest June wedding was perfect, fantastic and wonderful. 🙂 The wedding party, pictured above, was all family so everything felt very comfortable and loving from start to finish. Very Aho! And although it was difficult to trim the invitations to about a third of the original guest list, it was worth it because a) that’s what we could afford and b) it ended up being the perfect number. It wasn’t so large it became impersonal, not so small that it wasn’t fun and the perfect size for our venue.

Quote necklace from “Love you Forever” by Robert Munsch

Other than taking a bit longer than expected for hair and makeup (we had extra time in the schedule in case this happened) everything went perfectly. My makeup even stayed on all night even though Mom and I started crying almost immediately after getting our makeup done when I gave her a mother-of-the-bride present. It’s a quote from “Love you Forever” by Robert Munsch, which she used to read to my brothers and me when we were younger.

Then I continued the crying when Puppy and I had our first look before the wedding. I just saw him standing there looking all handsome and when he turned around and smiled at me I got overwhelmed. He’s such a good Puppy and I got to marry him!

And I continued tearing up at the altar and a little bit at the reception when the maids of honor and the best man gave their speeches. I seriously did not expect to turn into a water fountain but that’s what happened. Puppy thought it was cute and apparently I made other people tear up as well, notably my cousin who was getting married the next week. Puppy’s family and friends couldn’t remember her name and referred to her as the bridesmaid who cried during the entire ceremony. (She’s the one on the far left in the top photo)

We had fun with the music too:

• Grand entrance: Let the good Times Roll by Ray Charles
• First Dance: All I Want Is You by Barry Louis Polisar
• Cake Cutting: Count on Me by Bruno Mars
• Last Dance: Island in the Sun by Weezer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The whole day was just one big happy and I was so excited that I could hardly sleep the night before, woke up at about 5 a.m. the morning after and still didn’t feel tired. But since Puppy was still asleep and my Clif Bar wrapper was bothering him, I waited a little bit and then went down the hall and woke up my mother and grandmother to hang out until Puppy was ready for breakfast.

Sorry if this post got a little long. I tried to reign myself in… but wedding! And I wanted to post more photos but my laptop has decided that discs are yummy and must be eaten and Puppy’s computer doesn’t have an optical disc drive… so we’ve got some things to figure out.

P.S. All these awesome wedding photos were taken by this guy.

Subconscious wedding fever

Now that Puppy’s back from his summer internship and we’ve gotten back on schedule, we’re diving back into wedding planning.

It’s so much fun to think about and plan the day we’re going to marry each other. It just gives me warm fuzzies and brings a smile to my face to think about living our lives together. And apparently it’s affected me more than I thought because I can’t seem to stop doodling wedding dresses at work!

H-kids wedding summer extravaganza!

My brother and his fiancée just set their wedding date – in July 2014.

That makes four weddings in the family set for next summer. Puppy and I kick-off the nuptuals in early June, followed by Anda the next week, Roman Candle the week after and now Duder in July! I know the first three will be held in Dallas, or around Dallas. I wonder where Duder will have his. I’m hoping he’ll continue the trend and have it in Dallas. It’ll be like when we were kids again – an “H-Kids” reunion – all family hanging out all the time. (Junebug, Duder, Anda and I were nicknamed the “H-Kids” when we were little because we were always together and our last names all start with an ‘H.’ We even had H-Kid jackets.)

While we’re talking about weddings, Anda officially asked me to be her bridesmaid a few weeks ago in the sweetest way! She presented a box with my initial on it, and when I opened it, it was filled with photos of us from childhood to adulthood and a sweet note asking me to be her bridesmaid “to help make a new memory.”

Now we’re going to be in each other’s weddings… a week apart. I’d always thought she’d be my maid of honor but couldn’t ask her to take on such a big role with her wedding a week after mine. Also, I’ve gotten very close to my other cousins in the past few years and the proximity of our weddings let me ask another cousin without feeling like I was leaving her out.

I asked her to be one of my bridesmaids in December, when everyone was in town, along with three other cousins, with hand made custom bridesmaid paper dolls, which I’ve decided to sell on Etsy.

Seattle: Little brother proposes

My little brother got engaged; Puppy and I flew in to Seattle to be a part of the surprise proposal! It all happened last night, her birthday, at F.X. McRory’s. They look so happy!

DOMA is dead

This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the Defense of Marriage Act, same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional.

As a gay rights supporter, I’m elated! Go SCOTUS!

Nerdy wedding guests, part Two

Puppy wore a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, and a bow tie! Bonus points for matching it the belt of my dress.

The wedding was a blast. Of course the bride looked beautiful, and happy. I’d never met her husband, but if she picked him, he had to be great.

I think Puppy and I were definitely at the nerd table. It consisted of us, a recent grad from his Ph.D program, two math professors and their spouses, who I think also have doctorates. It was a fantastic experience to see all of them dancing to songs like Thrift Shop by Macklemore!

Nerdy wedding guests

Puppy came home to Dallas for the weekend! We drove to Houston last night for a wedding. (The photo above is the view from our hotel room.)

We only know the bride and the nerdier side of the guests – she and Puppy went to the same Ph.D program. She graduated in May. He graduates next May, just in time for our June wedding. 😀

Now off to see the new Superman movie.