My mom came home a few days before Passover. She used a bunch of sick leave to have a whole week state-side, every day she had a doctor’s appointment (dentist, eye doc, etc.) she was able to use a sick day. Anyway, my dad has a friend who works in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s PR department and he was able to sneak us in on a tour of the new/temporary orchid exhibit with a bunch of local garden club members!
The exhibit closed recently, but here are a few of my photos that actually came out. I was trying to catch how glittery and lush the orchids looked, but I only had my tiny point-and-shoot with me. Oh well.
white orchids with magenta splotches, my favorite!
Why not?! Boulder is where we live and a beautiful and amazing place.
Originally, we’d planned on marrying in DC or Northern Virginia, near where I grew up and my immediate family all live. Then things got complicated. My grandfather passed away last spring (April 2009), and we realized that having him there was what had been tying us to DC and without that we could be married anywhere!
There are two main reasons we chose Boulder, 1) it’s where we live and can easily plan things in a hands-on way without having to pay for any travel expenses beyond a tank of gas and 2) the cost of hosting the wedding here will be significantly less per person than in DC or northern VA, so we’re able to invite more people. The downfall of getting married out here is that it is virtually a destination wedding, even though we live here, we’re asking the vast majority of our guests to travel here to celebrate with us.
Does the blog-o-sphere have any input on destination weddings? Is it somehow weird or rude to ask people to travel to you, rather than going to where most of them are? I figure that it’s our wedding, and that everyone can plan their own wedding as they wish.
The Ben is going away for just over a week. I’ve never been home by myself before since we moved into our own apartment together. It’ll be weird.
I think I’m going to be spending a LOT of time on the phone with my dad, my grandmother and my aunt talking about wedding crap. I live in Boulder, CO and we’re getting married in the DC area, where I grew up. Plus, my mom travels for 10 months of the year for work and we haven’t really been especially close since I moved out 10 years ago. So yeah, lots of phone time, internet time and hopefully gym time.
Has anyone ever gone contra dancing? The Ben’s little sister is really into and I’d like to go, but he’s such a dance-phobe! Would contra/line dancing a “My Big Fat Jewish Wedding” be -too- weird? I’m afraid that might be the only way I can get the dude to do a first dance with me…. or maybe any dance. He won’t even hug-and-waddle like a middle schooler, just skulk around and avoid dancing.