Activity for Holly

I’ve been super busy since the wedding and move to California, since I got hired as an elementary school teacher two days before school started! I am working 10-11 hours a week and coming home totally exhausted, and don’t even get a chance to do...

FH came home from work today carrying a skinny, tall wrapped gift. He had lunch with his friend, who decided to give us our wedding gift now. He said we could open it early-- it was a ukulele! We were cracking up. I don't even think he plays?! Never...

I had my first wedding dream that wasn't a nightmare! I kind of got there late and was like ahh I don't have time to put on makeup or do my hair, but then I was like whatever, I'm fabulous as is, so I just put on my dress and went. Then, I realized...

FH and I are moving to the bay area this summer. His parents live there and have a “cottage” (a studio bath guesthouse) in the backyard. We’re planning to live in the cottage initially while saving and eventually looking for a house to buy. In lieu...

For those of you with long or hyphenated last names, how big of a pain is it? I'm thinking about changing my name to a hyphenated one when I get married, which would be 6 7 letters long. Will that cause trouble when filling out forms etc.? Any other...

If you have ever made an account at the Knot, it has probably scoured the web to look for your registries even if you never connected them to the Knot. I know there was a post about this recently but I found out how to disable it: See if yours are...

How did you do it? I'm looking at the WW tool, where it's just a bunch of pages of names of songs and ain't nobody got time for that. My parents are in an Irish band and have played for tons of weddings. It's not my favorite kind of music (too...

I got emails from both WW and the Knot today with coupon codes for free tickets. FH will be out of town so I figured why not, since it's free! Anyone else going? Impromptu WW social before or after???

My sister is my MOH/only BM. She is excited to do this. On WW, everyone says her only responsibility is to show up dressed, but that's the hard part! She's very particular about her clothing. She does wear skirts sometimes, but isn't very girly. She...

I was looking for a new book to read and stumbled upon "Father of the Bride" by Edward Streeter, which is what the movies were based on. I remember thinking the movie was funny in elementary school when it came out, but now that I'm planning a...

I'm at my grandparents' house for the holiday, and my grandma hands me a letter in the newspaper about how to have a wedding without going into debt and says "I'm sure you're doing things reasonably, but it says some people spend THOUSANDS of dollars...

There is free shipping tonight until midnight PST with code "HOORAY." Also for anyone who misses that but plans to buy something soon, I got a free shipping coupon with my dress, but don't think I'll be using it before it expires 11/30. If you're...

An issue of Real Simple Magazine came today and I guess it's the wedding issue. Don't know for sure because FH is hogging it! But he read out a study about $ spent on e-ring and how it correlates to % divorce. How much (ballpark, maybe not...