Blogging from the Big Apple!

After an extended break from wedding planning...I'm back! And all moved into my new New York City apartment!

Well, my Queens apartment. It still counts, right?

The place is a bit of a sty right now, so no nice pictures of how we're settling in yet. Instead, have a couple of shots from move in day:


The view from the kitchen


Just inside our living space


Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! Everything's in the apartment!!! Oh, crap, now we have to unpack it all!

A week and a couple of days later and I'd say 90% of our stuff is unpacked. We're still living out of suitcases, but that's because Billy refuses to hang up any of his clothes. Apparently he needs a dresser to survive (he used that argument on me in our last apartment so we ended up with two dressers...and yet, his clothes only ended up IN the dresser when I did his laundry!). So we're trying to figure out how to work that.

We're also waiting on a book shelf to unpack our DVDs and books. I'm hoping that one bookshelf will be enough to hold it all!

So far I think we're adjusting well to New York. There's a bit of a learning curve, but we're managing.

And now that we're (mostly) settled in, I have two tasks: 1) FIND A JOB (I've been applying like crazy for anything and everything I can find. I'm desperate) 2) Get back into wedding planning! Yesterday I spoke with my future sister-in-law Carling and my Ypsi-based usher (and unexpected bachelorette party organizer!) Marisa so they can coordinate working on my bridal shower (Carling and my future mother-in-law are doing most of the planning, with MOH Brittany helping out in some way, but Marisa, being the one actually based in Ypsilanti right now, is going to help figure out logistics like WHERE to have the bridal shower). The night before that I chatted with Brittany via AIM and she let me ramble aimlessly while I figured out what my next wedding planning steps were.

1) Figure out whether I should make my own pocketfolds for the invitations or buy them
2) Start figuring out what the invitations should say
3) Make Billy figure out what he and the groomsmen are wearing

I've also spent most of today finalizing the wedding registry so it will be all ready to be viewed by the bridal shower crowd!

More posts soon!

I'm back!

Sorry for disappearing there for a little while. Billy and I had a very important trip to attend to...

New York City!

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In less than 20 days, Billy and I will be moving out of Michigan and into a brand new, teeny tiny studio apartment in Queens. Seriously, the size of this apartment is a little ridiculous...but as we told ourselves, it's only for a year. We can handle it for a year.

So while it's definitely exciting to finally have our place in our dream city, I'm excited for the new avenue of wedding planning it opens up for me: registering!

I started my registry on Wishpot a few weeks ago, because I was insanely bored. However, I put a limit on myself for what I could register for, because at that time we weren't sure if we were going to be getting a studio or a one bedroom apartment, and the sort of furniture/linens/etc that we would need would depend on how much room we have.

So as soon as Billy is up and going for the day, we're going to browse around various home-furnishing websites and figure out what sort of colors we should decorate with. It's exciting, but also a little overwhelming. We can only put so many colors in our apartment without overwhelming it...but I like so many colors (that won't necessarily look good together), that I hardly know where to start!

Any suggestions for small-apartment living?

Fantasy Registry

Some people have fantasy sports teams...I have a fantasy registry.

Billy and I are at an awkward time in our lives, when it comes to an accumulation of "stuff." We moved in together two years ago, and have acquired plenty of necessities. We have a bunch of towels, we have basic (if second hand) cookware, and my mom went kind of crazy buying me dishes. I've lost count of how many sets of Corelle Classic Cafe Black dishes I have.

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She bought my first set when we moved in together, and then someone at the Corelle outlet told her they had discontinued the pattern, so she went on a binge on eBay and Amazon.Com and bought me, like, three more sets. Plus a couple of sets of additional plates and bowls. So dishware is one thing we DEFINITELY don't need to register for.

So I've been contemplating what I would register for if I could register for anything in the whole wide world. And while I know there are plenty of non-traditional registries out there (for example, the honeymoon registry which we're most likely doing), most of the things I want are just a little too ridiculous to actually expect someone to buy for us.

So, here are a few items off of my fantasy registry:

I didn't save where I got this from...if you know, I'll correct it!
Billy and I are both huge nerds, and proud of it. And "Crafty" is a pun on my last name.


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By virtue of being huge nerds, Billy and I are huge fans of Battlestar Galactica. We're also both a little political, often with very different viewpoints on some issues (there were some very fierce debates in our apartment over Clinton vs Obama). While both of these shirts would be outdated by the time we got married, they'd sure be fun to wear on election day!

And a fantasy registry item that has made it on to the real registry...

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Yep, I'm one of those brides who's hoping to work on her wedding body via video games. Unfortunately, this darn thing is still impossible to find. Maybe some generous wedding guest will have more patience (and luck!) than Billy and I have.

If you could register for anything, what would it be? Is anything on your registry going to raise eyebrows among some of your guests?