Our honeymoon was amazing. A week of nothing to do, no wedding errands to run, no work to do. Pure relaxation. I’m going to blog about each day separately and recap all the stuff we managed to cram into five days. Today, I’m going to share some information about our Outer Banks house rental. Why…
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How Facebook helped plan our wedding, Part I
Mac and I discussed the need* for a wedding coordinator after we booked the Botanical Garden. We were mainly looking for a non-family member or guest to work with our vendors to set up and oversee the set-up, reception, and clean-up. Sharon, the CFBG event coordinator, gave us a stack of vendor information after our…
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RIng ching ching
Ahh, sorority songs. Maybe I should’ve picked a better title for Mac’s wedding ring search. Being the delightfully ambiguous and indecisive man I love, Mac had no real requirements of his wedding ring. He preferred something on the less expensive side and a material that could endure his days of field training. I had done…
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The house that built me
So this week I’m blogging while watching Sister Wives. I really have an obsession for TLC’s reality programming. On the teaser preview for next week, the teenage Brown kids road trip back to Utah and visit the large home in which they were raised. They wander through the house, and the clips show some of…
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Wedding vendor creeping
Back in March, the Cape Fear Botanical Garden hosted a bridal show. Seeing as how Mac and I already booked the Botanical Garden, you might wonder why we chose to attend. Especially considering how badly they misspelled both of our names on the postcard invite. Really, y’all? Neither of our names are that hard to…
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A non-budget budget
When Mac and I started seriously talking about wedding planning, a main concern was cost. Weddings cost money, and they don’t come cheap these days. In Fayetteville, a wedding will set you back around upwards of $27,000 (I picked the typical cost option for 100-149 guests). Thanks to Mac’s deployment, the United States Army picked…