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Welcome to our blog!

 Danny and I decided to keep a blog about what we are doing in our lives back when we were planning our wedding.  So many of our friends and family live in other cities, states, countries, (continents!) that we wanted a way to share our lives, wedding planning, and adventures with them.  Now that the wedding is over (it was amazing!) we decided to keep the blog going.  Please make sure to come visit our website often, and make sure to leave lots of comments!

 

About Us

Danny

Danny grew up in Danville, CA.  He played volleyball throughout high school, and at the University of Oregon where he attended college.  He graduated in 2008 with a BA in History and a minor in Business.  He now lives in Pleasanton, CA with his beautiful wife and two crazy kitties.  He is currently enrolled in a teaching credential program, and will be teaching High School History next year. 

 

He is currently trying to keep the new grass in the backyard alive, learning to BBQ, and starting to play the guitar again.

 

 Stephanie

Stephanie grew up in El Granada, CA (near Half Moon Bay).  In 2007 she graduated from Lewis and Clark College, in Portland Oregon, with a BA in Chemistry.  In 2008 earned her MS in Chemistry from the University of Oregon. From October 2008 - April 2009 she attended The Professional Culinary Institute in Campbell, California.  She is currently enrolled in a teaching credential program, and will be teaching two periods of High School Chemistry as an Intern Teacher this year. She now lives in Pleasanton, CA with her amazing husband and her two silly cats.

 

She is currently trying to keep her garden alive, teaching herself to quilt, and enjoying moving into her brand new classroom.

 

Harley and Zoe

Harley and Zoe are the two crazy kitties.  Harley is 3 years old, and Zoe is 2 years old. 

 

Harley enjoys eating massive amounts of grass, sleeping, bothering her sister, putting her toys in strange places, and sitting on her daddy's shoulders.

 

Zoe enjoys talking incessantly, running as fast as she can through the house, climbing the window/sliding door screens, and banging her head into things.

 

Us

We met in September 2007.  Stephanie was starting her Masters Program at the University of Oregon and Danny was starting his senior year there.  Stephanie took some summer courses with one of Danny's friends, who promptly adopted her into their group.  Unbeknownst to both Danny and Stephanie, their mutual friend was plotting to set them up before they even met!  They started dating soon after they met, and have been so happy ever since.

 

In October 2008, Danny and Stephanie went to Europe together for two weeks.  They went to Amsterdam, Vienna, and Prague.  It was truely amazing.  After two weeks, Stephanie had to go back to the USA to start culinary school.  Danny stayed for two extra weeks in Italy to visit some family friends.  While he was in Italy he realized that he was seeing all sorts of amazing sites, and visiting all sorts of beautiful places...but he wished he could have been sharing the experiences with Stephanie.  It was then that he decided that he never wanted to visit a new place without Stephanie there to share it with.  So he decided to ask her to marry him when he got back!

 

October 23, 2008 was the 1 year, 1 month, and 1 day anniversary of Danny and Stephanie starting to date.  Danny took Stephanie up to Coit Tower in San Fransisco for the sunset, got down on one knee and proposed.  She said yes!  If you want to read more about it click HERE

Danny and Stephanie got married on June 06, 2009 in Warrenton, Oregon in a small brick chuch, and had an amazing outdoor reception at her parents' house. 

 

They are now enjoying fixing up their townhouse and looking forward to whatever big adventure happens to be next.

Candles

Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 1:40pm Posted in Wedding Related

by Stephanie
Our wedding reception is going to be outside. Which means that Danny and I both thought that having supre fancy table decorations would seem out of place. We both wanted a more “country” feel to the reception.

I started looking around for table decorations and I came across people using tea lights, or votive candles in mason jars. They would put some sand or some beads in the bottom of the jar and then rest the candle on top of the sand.

I liked the idea but it just wasn’t quite right. Not to mention, I didn’t want to have to either buy sand for the jars, or haul it back from the beach! But I loved the mason jar idea. I kept looking around online to see if there was something similar to this idea…
And then I found this picture:

Instead of using sand and tea lights, they just poured the melted wax into the jar itself and made their own candles! I love how it makes the whole jar glow.
So I went to the craft store and bought one mason jar, some wax made for putting into glass containers, and some premade and weighted wicks. I haven’t had a chance to make one yet, but I am really hoping it turns out to be pretty easy. I also love this idea because the flame will be a little protected from any wind which is nice too.
What do you think?
And they lived happily ever after…

by Stephanie

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February 15, 2009 - 1:13 am dana - OMG, those are so cute. I'm totally down with doing that with you.

February 15, 2009 - 3:13 am dana - If nothing else, I could see using that to line the porch at my wedding site. I don't see it fitting in with my vision of the centerpieces, but that doesn't mean we can't find a way to use them in our wedding.

Our vision for the tables is this: http://www.weddingbee.com/2007/07/24/diy-details-centerpieces/ - I think I will continue purchasing the cheapy candles and rent some glass for the centerpieces, and possibly use the mason jars outside. Yep.

However, I did find a site where we can get paper lanterns for mega cheap, cheaper even than the rental site I'm thinking of using. The place where I think we could purchase the lanterns is lunabazaar.com - Martha Stewart Magazines recommends this site. However, rather than purchasing their really expensive string lights, I think I'm going to go to infusecreativity.com and rent their LED battery packs, because then the lanterns can be randomly scattered and can be placed wherever is convenient / aesthetically pleasing. I think I'm also going to get mirror tiles from this site, since I can rent them and then send them back after the wedding. I am also going to rent a table-top easel from here for displaying the menu on the buffet table and stuff.

Are you planning on having any flowers on your table? I still can't decide. I might get freeze-dried rose petals and scatter them amongst the candles.

I hope that all made sense. I'm way super tired, lol, but I was too excited about sharing wedding ideas. So I had to do it tonight. =P

There's more... but... I need sleep soon. I'll probably reply to you on Facebook too before I head to bed, LOL.

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