HeatherRice

10th March 2012

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Michael and I are canceling the wedding, and eloping!

Planning a wedding is like eating pancakes. Initially you’re super stoked—it’s gonna be so great, I love pancakes! There’ll be all these adornments—pecans and bananas and syrup and butter. Glorious! But a few pancakes in you’re sick and f’ing tired of pancakes… but you’ve already committed. So you feel like you have to finish the pancakes you’ve already started, and if you do, by the end you’re like EFF—I never liked pancakes in the first place! I’m never eating pancakes again! I don’t want to see another pancake recipe as long as I live. I might vomit.
Before I knew it, we were knee deep in pancake batter and felt like there was no eating our way out. The whole idea of a wedding is the unity of two people and their love for one another but it was starting to feel like we were putting on a production rather than a wedding. Since the day we got engaged, it’s been non stop family drama and headaches- This person will be offended if you don’t invite them, even though you haven’t spoken in 2 years; this person can’t sit near this person; this one wont go if this person goes; etc. On top of all that we debated hors d’oeuvres, researched flowers- (which are hundreds of dollars, for stupid flowers!!), types of paper and invitations (embossed or just plain print? Will we be judged for cutting that God-Forsaken corner?), and all sorts of other sh*t that neither of us had ever cared about before. We were swept away in a monsoon of half-a*sed concessions and sacrifices we swore we’d never make.
So 9 months of headaches and stress later, Michael and I realized that we’re egg people all along, and this big traditional wedding really isn’t our thing after all.
So…. Screw it. We have cancelled our reservation at Hartman’s Herb Farm, cancelled the DJ, along with everything else. Instead, Michael and I, and 8 of our closest friends are going to have a small private ceremony in Boston Common this summer. Since we already booked a hall for our shower on July 28th, we are going to keep that, but instead of a shower, it will just be a big celebration for friends and family-“Come celebrate us getting married!”
At the end of the day, all we really want is to be married, and spend the rest of our lives together, and that’s all that really matters.
So that’s that.

13th May 2011

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I’m getting married!

So every one keeps asking how Michael popped the question. Tuesday we spontaneously decided (or so I thought, but he had planned this for weeks) to hike Mount Wachusett. We packed a lunch, and my gram watched Jordan. It was the perfect day for a but kicking hike. We get to the top and it is the most gorgeous site I have ever seen. I ran over to a bench built from an old tree to better look at the view. On my left was Mount Mananock in Nh and my right I could see Boston. Michael started saying how much he loves me, but he usually does that on a daily basis so I didn’t think anything of it. I looked back at the view and turned to him and he was getting on one knee with a white box opened with the most perfect ring inside. He said “I love you, will you marry me?” I couldn’t even respond right away, I cried and shook my head. After hugging and kissing a few min we look back at the view and there was a huge rainbow from Boston to Nh! (that part is so damn cute I was I was making it up, but it’s 100% truth)

And there it is. We are thinking fall 2012. More details to follow.