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Our Wedding Registry, By the Numbers
Roo and I definitely put some thought into our wedding registry. After deciding on a strategy for registering for gifts, we took the scanners out for a test drive. Since I always like to compare how I’m doing with this … Continue reading
The Co-Habitating Couple’s Guide to Registering for Wedding Gifts
It’s tough to choose a gift for the couple that has everything—and even harder when that couple is you. As a girl that’s been co-habitating with her future husband for more than four years, we didn’t take the registry decision … Continue reading
A Proposal Trinket for Our Tree
I know I’ve mentioned before that I love to play with tradition. So instead of celebrating the holidays by the glow of a real green tree, Rooster and I have a black one. A black Christmas tree that I dress up with … Continue reading
This is the First Dance, But it Won’t Be the Last
My courtship with Mr. Rooster was nontraditional, to say the least (read up on our bonerversary if you need to catch up). There was never a “first date,” nor can I remember the first song we danced to together. The … Continue reading
How I Decided to Take My Husband’s Name, Kinda
If you looked at my freshman algebra notebook, you might think my decision to take my fiance’s name after we marry was an easy choice. Somewhere between the thoughtless doodles and actual math work are dozens of scribbles of my … Continue reading