Blog Master G

Jen and I aren’t the only ones facing the reality of wedding debt. SFGate via NY Times: “The survey, from the Conde Nast Bridal Infobank, a research service for Conde Nast-owned wedding magazines, also found that the average wedding now costs $22,000, representing more than five months’ worth of wages for a middle-income family, according […]

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Gabe and Jen show off newly-acquired New York state marriage license outside the Kinderhook Town Hall on Thursday, July 3, 2003:

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Four weeks ago today Jen and I took our first group dance lesson at the Pick School of Ballroom Dance. We signed up for the beginners’ package: Four group lessons (waltz and rumba) and three private lessons. Tonight is the final group lesson; we’re skipping it because we’re just too run down and stressed out […]

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This is it. The beginning of my final week at work before flying to New York to become a married man. It’s a trip. The wedding has been this destination on the horizon for so long — more than a year — that it seems unreal that’s it’s only 11 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, […]

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I thought I didn’t have this picture since it never showed up among the digital shots or 35mm film we posted following our Italy trip last year. Yet lo and behold, about a month ago I realized there were still a number of photos on my 35mm camera that I had never developed. So I […]

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Today is Day 1 of 9 days off work! Woohoo! My company is closed for a mandatory vacation all next week. So Monday and Tuesday I’ll be chillin’ around home — working on Larry’s Web site, taking my car to get an alignment, picking up new glasses, playing with the new camcorder when it arrives […]

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Tomorrow 12 of us are heading to Sin City for a weekend of insanity and fun. It’s the combined bachelor/bachelorette party for me and Jen. It’s gonna be good. I’ll have lots of pictures, I’m sure, to post here when we return. And tonight we got our tickets all squared away for what’s bound to […]

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The RSVPs for the wedding continue to roll in. In today’s mailbox there were 9 RSVPs, which bring the current total attendance (yes replies) to 70. Add Jen and me into the equation, and we’re currently looking at 72 individuals attending the wedding. Woohoo! (Our projected number is 150 guests.) Of 160 mailed-out invitations (based […]

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Jen and I have known for quite some time that the Vassar Chapel was going to be under construction on our Big Day — though we were led to believe that the construction would be over by this coming summer. We found out well after we had booked the Chapel and begun other planning (it […]

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I went to Macy’s at lunchtime today to look for new shoes for the wedding. I decided on some slick Bostonian shoes — the Akron model with Classic First/Flex design. They’re really comfortable, too, and I’m sure will go well with my tux. I pick them up tomorrow.

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