Thank You for Being a Friend, Part 2: The Wedding

Yesterday, I shared with you all the story of the chaos that our family experienced mere days before Heidi and I were to be married.  I had started to think all sorts of self-pitying thoughts:  why me?  Why now? What if we have to cancel our wedding?  I realize these are not, in the universal scheme of things, terrible problems.  Many people have it much, much worse than we did.

But in my little world, at the time, things felt like they were falling apart.  We didn't want to cancel the ceremony because we wouldn't be able to afford to arrange it all again. We had rented tables, chairs, fancy port-a-potties with sinks, all sorts of things we needed to make this farm wedding perfect.  More importantly to me, some of my closest friends were coming from hundreds of miles away. They would have to cancel their travel plans at the last minute. Or maybe they would get here only to learn of the cancellation. 

Photo by Kaitlin Jarry Photography

Thank You for Being a Friend, Part 1: The Hospital

Thank you for being a friend

Traveled down the road and back again

Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant

--Andrew Gold, "Thank You for Being a Friend" 

Well, I can certainly say the past few months have brought with them their share of challenges - but also much joy.  I meant to write this sooner while events were fresher in my mind....but given that I was recovering from surgery and still shrugging off the haze of anesthesia and pain medication, I can't really say they were all that fresh anyway!

I wanted to share this with you, though, because what I went through around the time of my surgery really drove home for me how blessed we are to have such amazing friends in our lives.  People who, when it comes down to it, are more like family than friends.

Friday Fun in Photos

Happy Friday!  Today I want to share some photos I've come across recently in the hopes that they'll make you smile too. :)

First of all:

Bliss.

Our family has been through a lot lately with my health and wedding preparations - and for awhile, we didn't even know if the wedding would happen as planned because I had emergency surgery.  We'll talk about this in a future post, but for now I wanted to thank all of you for hanging in there with me and I also wanted to share a photo from our wedding day - a photo I had started to doubt would be possible just 48 hours before.

Here's to love and perseverance!

Photo by Mini-Me Photography

Hating Jane Eyre

So it turns out that choosing readings for your wedding can be difficult.  Especially when you are two busy lawyers raising a preschooler and therefore lacking the copious hours apparently necessary to find that “perfect” thing.  You want the right level of sentiment, but not too much.  It needs to be touching, but not cheesy; relevant but not cliché. 

Where does one venture to find something like that?

If only it were that simple... (image from wantist.com)

The Most Important Purchase of My Life.

We all have our own favorite things to buy.  Heidi is a shoe lover.  I love buying jeans.  Uncle Keith loves anything made by Apple.  For some of us, it’s gadgets.  For others, (with bank accounts WAY larger than mine!) it’s cars.  But recently, on the Macy’s website, I just may have made the most important purchase of my life.   

What’s that, you may be wondering?

Bath towels.

The Outsiders

"As around the sun the earth knows she's revolving

And the rose buds know to bloom in early May

Just as hate knows love's the cure

You can rest your mind assure

That I'll be loving you always."

--- "As,"  Stevie Wonder

It happened again this weekend.

I went to a wedding with Heidi. It was a beautiful wedding, and we enjoyed having the time together with other couples to just relax and hang out at the reception.