A number of people at the wedding asked to see the vows we wrote…(of course we wrote them! We’re writers!) We humbly oblige. Shannon says to Mark: I love you. I love how you listen to me, even when I have no words. ESPECIALLY when I have no words. I love how you give me […]

Wedding: achieved! Pictures later (and all over Facebook now, if you know me there)–I’ll make a real writeup here soon, but it is late and we’ve traveled many miles since Saturday…Mark has come down with a terrible awful no good very bad cold, and we are resting up at his mother’s house in the Land

2 deaths-in-the-family of wedding party members. 1 well-deserved and long-overdue tantrum by groom.* 2 collapsings-into-tears by bride.* 9 unanswered phone calls and emails to rental agency about tablecloths. 1 colossal and inexplicable communication snafu re wedding site. 180 programs printed, folded, hole-punched. 180 programs ready to be ribbon-tied. Uncounted many hundreds of extra dollars spent

We drove all day yesterday (with a car full of wine glasses) (and so many other things), and are now on the scene of the wedding, working through the rest of the preparations. Mark is even now constructing tall banners to decorate the barn; I spent most of the day running errands up and down

Okay, too busy to blog. I knew it. 🙂 Probably it will be thus until the show, been working on building handmade guitars from scratch. If this is new ground for you, you’ll find that there’s just nothing quite like building your first guitar from scratch. You’re in for a real adventure! Some prefer to

Been kinda busy around here. Update coming soon! All is well. And crazy. And well. But crazy. Wedding two weeks from today!

So then there came another whirl of social delights. On Friday I spent most of the day with Miss H., my good friend and (not incidentally) one of my attendants. We worked on clothing stuff and hair and even makeup (!) for the Coming Nuptial Events, and I think we’re pretty close to getting that

Oh my goodness what a pile of days it’s been. This is the point in wedding-planning where all the things we thought were settled become unsettled; and everything* we hadn’t even thought of becomes apparent and needs to be dealt with at once; and people make casual suggestions that unravel the best-laid plans; and every

Yes I haven’t posted in days and I’m not really posting now except here’s this. We’re back from our wedding planning trip, which took longer than expected and involved more complications than expected, and I will tell you all about that tomorrow. I hope. Don’t worry, it’s all fine, except chaotic, and we’re HOME, yay!

Well! It’s been a day of much busy and many things to report. First of all! My ARC has arrived, of Our Lady of the Islands, and lo, it is gorgeous! I mean just look at it! It’s a real book! Hefty, too. Somehow, this makes it all seem just that much more real. And