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James and Alana’s Wedding!!! A Tale Told in Selfies

May 6th, 2015 by pladd

Last weekend I officiated a wedding!!! That is a for real thing I can do.

Behold

It was a long weekend involving flying to Austin, epic laser tag, and not sleeping very much. I decided to capture the progression in selfie form:

On the first plane, at 6am!!!

You can tell that we are both excited, though a little sleepy.

Waiting for my brother to eat lunch with us

At this point I had already been awake for upwards of seven hours without eating anything besides plane pretzels. I nearly took a nap on the sidewalk and told Steven to go on without me.

Waiting to go to the rehearsal dinner

At this point I had eaten lunch and had a one hour nap. READY TO GO AGAIN!

At laser tag, after laser tag

This laser tag place was the most hardcore one I’ve ever seen with three stories of structures to climb and hide behind. Steven would go on to complain for the rest of the weekend about how badly his knees hurt from dramatically throwing himself to the ground to avoid being shot by a ten-year-old. Still, it’s not a bachelor party unless you come out of it sore, right?

OH MY GOD I AM ABOUT TO MARRY SOME PEOPLE

Aw yeah, just married some people.

THE POWER IS VESTED IN ME!

It was awesome!

But Steven actually managed to take some pictures of things besides my giant splotchy face, so:

This is at the rehearsal

Did I mention there was a flower dog?

Steven loved taking pictures of the flower dog

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Tagged: James Fox, wedding

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The Best Cider Ever

October 30th, 2012 by pladd

Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary! I prepared a delicious feast of warm things, because it was really cold and raining outside.

Anyway, one of the recipes I found was a four hour slow cooker apple cider recipe! If you have a slow cooker, there’s no reason not to try this. If you don’t have one, how do you eat on weekdays? You could probably also make it in a pot on the stove.

First you take about 8 cups of cider from the store and put it in your slow cooker with six sticks of cinnamon:

I may have pretended they were olympic divers as I threw them in

Then you take an orange, poke holes in it with a toothpick, and fill those holes with cloves!

The weirdness of how it looked and felt was only eclipsed by its weirdness after cooking

Then cook on low for four hours, until it smells delicious and you’re super cold!

Steven had his with rum and a cinnamon stick, but I went for plain.

But there was nothing plain about it! Delicious and spicy and warming from the inside out! This is a recipe I will definitely be making again. Like maybe everyday this winter? We’ll see.

Also, since it was our anniversary, we finally lit this cool Halloween candle we got as a present! The spooky skeleton bride and groom seem perfect, but the best part is the red insides that drip down gradually like blood!

So romantic!!! And gross

Way more exciting than eating freezer burned cake!

Tagged: anniversary, cocktails, halloween, recipes, Steven, wedding

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Some wedding dresses that confuse me

August 20th, 2012 by pladd

Sorry I’ve been absent for the past week–I’ve been having some trouble with the wireless on my laptop. However, I’m expecting an EXCITING ADVENTURE tomorrow, complete with photographic proof, so stay tuned!!!

To tide you over, here are some pictures of wedding dresses that confuse me. I ripped them out of Brides magazine. Before you get kind of weirded out that someone who’s been married for 10 months is buying Brides magazine, I should explain that the person who lived in this apartment before me apparently forgot to change the address on their subscription. I can’t decide if I will be pleased or sad when they realize their error.

This dress may actually be normal, but I can’t tell because the model has buried her face in plants.

Maybe it’s for really shy brides. Or maybe she’s way hungry.

NINJA BRIDE!

This is not a veil, lady, it’s a blindfold. And if you feel like you need one to get through “your big special day” you might be marrying the wrong person.

Okay, but how are you going to walk?

Really, even if you do not having a Wedding Tank or Wedding Swings like an awesome person, you are still planning something that requires movement besides standing perfectly still, right? I guess there are lots of brides way more coordinated than me, but this seems to be just asking for a hilarious face-plant. But then you’d probably become briefly youtube-famous, so worth it?

What the F is on your head?

No, seriously, WHAT is on your head?

Because I think it’s still alive. But wishes you would put it out of its misery.

I guess I’m not really in the target demographic for this magazine, even when I was planning a wedding.

Tagged: dress, wedding

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How to Have the Best Wedding Ever!

November 11th, 2011 by pladd

I got married!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the secret to having the best wedding ever (since I am clears an expert now): Don’t even bother being confined by a wedding checklist developed by an industry designed to trick you into needlessly parting with your money! You should really just think about what you want, what you would want if you had never had the traditional wedding crammed down your throat since you were six, and then just do whatever that is! I’m not against spending money, just against spending it on things you don’t care about. Like anything that isn’t cupcakes. Here are some examples:

The Ceremony
Ceremonies are boring, so my first idea was not having one at all! Skip straight to the party!! That idea made my mom sad, though, and Steven also wanted at least a little ceremony, so we decided to plan the most low key, fun, personal one possible. And we decided to only invite our immediate families, because they’re the ones that care the most anyway, right? Plus, having such a small, small ceremony gave us a lot more freedom when deciding location, timing, and even how the ceremony would go.

The next most important decision was who should marry us? Of course the answer is Rachel Kinney!!!!!!

Exhibit A: Rachel Kinney

She did such a great job! She’s in divinity school right now, so it was not that weird of a request, plus she was the one who set us up on our first date so it was pretty much perfect! We talked about how it should go beforehand; I think my exact instructions to her were “You say something, and then I’ll say something, and then Steven will say something, rings, MARRIED!” And that’s pretty much how it went. It was so awesome to have such a personalized ceremony, which basically just meant telling funny stories about each other! Instead of the usual “lawfully wedded wife” business, we got “Do you Steven take Patricia as your wife, best friend, and perpetual partner in crime?”

Spoiler Alert: he said yes

As you can see, the park we had it at was really pretty (and renting the nearby shelter was only $25 for the day, proving that venue costs don’t have to totally suck), and since the ceremony–even with giving every single person present a chance to say something–was mega short, there was lots of time to play on the equipment!!

Rachel is a spider monkey!!!

Wheeeeee!!!!! Who cares if my dress gets dirty? It was $60!!!

Also, the park has a tank.

A wedding tank

The Dress

As a bride, I know I am supposed to be absolutely obsessed with my clothes/hair/shoes/whatever. But the only thing I am really all about are the shoes:

Because, come on, I basically win at life

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Tagged: costumes, cupcakes, dancing, married, rachel, Roque, Steven, wedding

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Wedding Planning: I Don’t Know Why It Gets a Bad Rap

February 11th, 2011 by pladd

Okay, I do. I can see how it would be way stressful if you were planning something big and fancy with lots of important details and things you can’t control like the weather. But if it rains on my wedding, the ten of us at the ceremony will just stand under umbrellas. Since I was planning on wearing flip-flops anyway I don’t envision myself freaking out.

The most trying decision I will probably have to make is what costume to wear to the amazing Halloween party we are having in celebration at my house afterwards. For guests, costumes are optional (but awesome!) but Steven and I of course will take any excuse to dress up and we’re thinking of matching somehow. Here are some ideas I’ve already had:

1. Pirates
Dressing as pirates would have some precedent, since it was “how we met” (here is why that has to be in quotes), and is always fun. Plus, Steven suggested we could up the ante by dressing as STEAMPUNK pirates, which would be even more exciting.

I am a fan of tradition. Especially pirate tradition.

2. Princess Bride
My favorite costumes are literary characters being, you know, a librarian. Plus, Steven seems really into wearing one of those puffy shirts.

Of course, if I could get a ridic crown it would be my top choice

However, I’m not sure I am as into any of Buttercup’s dresses. Or just the idea of wearing a big fancy dress in general. How am I supposed to hop around playing Rock Band in that? Yeah, Rock Band requires hopping. You haven’t seen how great I am at it.

3. Paper Bag Princess
This is something I thought of recently, based one of my favorite books ever, The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch.

I don't know why feminism is not all over this book

Basically, Elizabeth’s beautiful clothes and jewels and castle are all burned down by a dragon, who prince-naps Prince Ronald, who she’s going to marry. So she puts on the only thing she can find, a paper bag, and goes off to save him. She outwits the dragon with her cleverness, but then decides, when her prince is like “ELIZABETH, WHAT are you WEARING?” that he is a jerk and she doesn’t need him anyway. Now that I think about it, Elizabeth the Paper Bag Princess has maybe been my secret role model all my life. Anyway, I could TOTALLY make an awesome dress out of paper bags. A bunch of people have done it out of newspaper and paper bags are more durable! Steven could be the dragon! I outwit him all the time, and we all know Steven is all about dragons! It would be perfect. This is maybe my favorite choice so far.

My mom told me that when she told a few people about my wedding plans they said, “You must be so disappointed!” I think she responded, as I would have, “How could I be disappointed with SHEER AWESOME?” Those people are just being Prince Ronald and are no fun. I’m going to steal some paper bags from the grocery store next week and practice!

Tagged: costumes, lists, wedding

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