Posts about our wedding
Well this should be short! No long hair, no make-up, and no dresses! After the Wedding Run, I got to go back to the cabin at Winterchill Farm, touch up my hair haha and wash up. Then I headed to downtown Port Townsend to meet my dad, brothers and nephews. …
With hair and makeup done, the next part of our wedding day was getting dressed. My mom and I left the salon where I had gotten my hair and makeup done and drove out to Winterchill Farm, where Chris and I were staying, munching on peanut butter and jam sandwiches, …
A little after 9:30 am after our awesome Wedding Run, I was happily chatting with friends while munching on a few pastries, when my friend Kate looked at me and said, “Hey, I thought you said you had your hair appointment at 10:30…shouldn’t you be leaving soon?” A quick glance …
About a year ago, Chris and I traveled to Port Townsend for our engagement photo session with our amazing photographer Jen Lee Light. A bunch of the photos on our website are from that day, but we never shared them in one place. Fort Worden in early fall provided a …
When we arrived at Fort Flagler on Friday afternoon, our first order of business was the ceremony rehearsal. We had talked through the ceremony many times with Pastor Coe, our officiant (and the current pastor of the church I grew up in) during our pre-wedding counseling sessions, and we even …
We really were surprised by the turnout, thought it was great and we really appreciate it! We use running as our choice of calorie burning to eat junk, I mean our choice of activities haha! Really though, we weren’t sure how this was going to turn out, and it was …
As Chris wrote, the final days leading up to the wedding were a blur of final preparations, but we managed to squeeze in a few fun activities and spend some time with family in between all the chores. We arrived in Port Townsend late on July 3rd, so we were …
Cake tasting is probably one of the most enjoyable parts of wedding planning for most people, and ours was that, plus something more than just fun and delicious. Our cake tasting last weekend felt like a very early stage of the wedding itself, in a way. It gave Chris and …
Chris and I started talking about marriage and looking at engagement rings pretty early in our relationship (2 months in!). We started with a few of the large chain jewelry stores in Las Vegas, but soon realized that most of the options available were not what we wanted. The halo …
I knew Chris was going to propose, but I had no idea when or how, and when it finally happened, it was a complete, wonderful surprise. Chris had the ring for a couple months before we got engaged, and we’d been talking about marriage for months. I tried to guess when …
