Electrolicious

Me and the wedding dress
Originally uploaded by .Ariel.
Today The Seattle Times features a series about weddings, and including an article about wedding dresses, profiling three different styles — including my electro forest fairy outfit from 2004. There’s an accompanying article about wedding costs, where I offer all my tips on […]

The Lush Table, originally uploaded by Will Merydith.

Last night I went to my first Catholic wedding! For a while I thought it was my first church wedding — but then I remembered that I went to my high school boyfriend’s mom’s wedding in 1994, and that was at a Lutheran Church. Um, I think […]

Strangely, I’ve never put together a complete wedding photoset on Flickr. I first started using Flickr summer of 2004 as an experiment for our wedding pictures, and for a while there Flickr needed to play catch-up to be fully useful. I remember wanting to do things back in 2004 with my wedding pictures … and […]

The B&B where Andreas and I got married has received a cease and desist to stop hosting weddings.

When I first starting thinking about book ideas, many of the revolved around my stories. I’m a writer: of course I want to tell MY STORIES. But as part of And The Bride Wore A Hoop, I’m getting to hear about some of the most amazing wedding stories. The pair who married underwater. The couple […]

Andreas and I are now the traditional folks in the family. You see, his little sister eloped last week with a guy she met a couple months ago. Her parents (Dre’s father and stepmother) are remarkably unfazed. After all, they said, we’ve got five weddings and an elopement between the two of us, so who […]

Andreas gave me a ride to work this morning. He was at a stop sign, trying to turn left onto 12th Avenue — a Capitol Hill neighborhood arterial — and he was having bad luck. Cars just kept coming and coming, and just when there was a break in traffic coming south, a stream of […]

Now that Andreas and I are spouses, I’m finding that there are a few common assumptions people make about married couples. Are we that weird that we don’t fit this mold? I didn’t really think so, but perhaps my mind is changing…
1. Do not assume that I’m the one to ask about having a baby.
I […]

Well, semi-final. Whatever. I took too many pictures. Who can keep track? It’ll probably change.
You can view it as a photoset or as a slideshow.

Another Flickr honeymoon slideshow: Pictures of Us.