Rollin' on the River of Love: Favorite Photos

Rollin' on the River of Love: Thank you

We were engaged for 10 months. Sometimes I thought that the wedding would never get here. Planning a diy wedding is certainly a journey. There were so many people that poured their hearts, money, love, blood, sweat, and tears into making our day perfect. Y'all, I really can't put into words just how wonderful and overwhelming our wedding weekend was. 

Looking back on September 17-18, the word that stands out the most in my mind is JOY. Before I can share any more about the wedding, I have to say a big thank you to everyone who made it so joyful for me and Michael. 

To our parents, family, and friends: thank you for your planning, organizing, setting up, errand running, cooking, baking, food preparing, boat driving, flower arranging, decorating, and awesome wedding making. Thank you for your hugs, smiles, and laughter. Thank you for being with us. We love you, and our day was everything we ever dreamed!

NaNoWriMo

I love typing and writing that crazy word. NaNoWriMo. What is it? It's National Novel Writing Month where you attempt to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. I've signed up the past two years, but I've never actually started writing the novel. School, work, and life always got in the way. I'm contemplating trying again come November.

Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? Have you done it in the past? I'd love to hear about your experiences.

Notebooks that Work (For now at least!)

A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about simplifying my pen rotation. I am truly happy with all of the pens I listed. Notebooks are a different story. Does the perfect notebook exist? I don't think it does. My big requests are that a notebook should have paper that is fountain pen friendly and fun to write on. There are so many other factors - material, cover, binding, paper style, etc. - that are also very important. Simply put, the notebook must fulfill whatever purpose I have assigned to it. Yeah, I'm picky and weird. I rarely fill all the pages in a notebook before moving on to the Next Big Thing. However, there are some notebooks that I'm really liking right now.

1. Rhodia no. 16.
    I have two of these that I am currently using. One is kept on my desk at work for notes and lists. It's also handy to carry to meetings. The other one is my "church notebook" (I'll explain about those in another post). This is a flip-top notepad with a spiral binding. I prefer the scored rhodia covers, but the spiral just works better and looks neater for work. I'm satisfied with it for now. The paper is the usual Rhodia paper that ROCKS for fountain pens.

2. M By Staples Gold Series Writing Pad
    I carried one of these everywhere I went the last month before the wedding. The paper is nice. It's not as smooth as Rhodia or Clairefontaine, but I like it anyway. I've had no problems with any inks or pens I have tried on it. I will probably keep on buying these

When I started writing this post, I thought there would be a much longer list. I'm actually kinda sad that I don't have more notebooks to praise right now. I do have a Rhodia webbie on the way that I'm excited to try and review. I guess the search for notebook bliss is still on!

What are your favorite notebooks? Is there such thing as a perfect notebook?

back!

The wedding was ah-mazing, but married life is turning out to be even better. Thanks everyone for all the congratulations and well wishes. Love y'all :)

My aunt took this picture. There were so many talented people taking shots throughout the day. I can't wait to get the pro pics back, but I am loving seeing everyone else's photos.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow, I will meet M at the altar, take his hand, and promise him forever. Tomorrow, we will start a new life. Tomorrow, we will be surrounded by people who love us. Tomorrow is the day we have been looking forward to for years!

I will be back after the honeymoon with recaps and stories. Thanks for reading.

Love,

Beth

Wedding Freakouts

Welcome to my crazy, stressed, and overwhelmed bridal brain. I have these moments. Usually they happen when I'm sitting at work, minding my own business. I can be working hard and not thinking about the wedding at one moment, and the next I get some random thought that throws me into full panic mode.

Some of my more common Random Wedding Freakouts:

1. How in the world am I going to modestly put on my dress in front of my bridesmaids? How am I going to go to the bathroom? Why haven't I thought of this before? (We'll cross that bridge when we get there).

2. What if a wedding guest falls in the river? (They won't.)

3. I want to leave in my dress, but how will we get M's tux back to the rental place? (Dear Beth, this is nothing to panic over.)

4. I just know I'm going to forget to pack for the honeymoon. (Um, really. How does someone even forget something like that.)

5. What if people hate me because there aren't enough chairs by the water for everyone to sit during the ceremony? (Hopefully, they won't hate you.)

Thankfully, I have wonderful bridesmaids who I know will help me keep my sanity. How did you get past your wedding worries?