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Our Seattle Wedding Planning Blog...

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  • Sadly...

    and with heavy hearts.

    Due to the sudden passing of my precious “little” brother Joey, Ben and I have decided to indefinitely postpone the wedding until myself and my family have time to recover and heal from the loss. Joey was the youngest of the five kids and was 18 years old. He was a happy, healthy, hilarious and amazing person. He passed in his sleep of unknown causes on August 2nd. I am broken hearted that he is gone. I am going to miss his hugs and his laugh. Please keep us all in your prayers.

    Jaimie

    Added by Jaimie on Tue, Aug 4th 2009

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  • "Reasons you should be RSVP'ing":

    Sorry about the lapse in updates!


    My intent was to get the move from Colorado to Washington handled and then update with all our plans. That was before the following incidents:

    -Realizing the 17 foot moving truck we reserved was not quite enough for all of my worldly crap and having to upgrade to a 26 footer.

    -Taking my dear sweet time unpacking. If I told you it took me two months to do so you would probably think less of me wouldn’t you? What if I said three? Okay, just checking.

    -Ben getting ready to be promoted. (I am ridiculously proud of him) <3

    -Flying out to perform in California.

    -Beginning my wedding company again and booking 20ish weddings for OTHER people before ours.

    I would like to point out something peculiar. Call it a social experiment. When I sent out our “save-the-date”’s I was so excited. One by one I started getting responses.

    From anyone of the male persuasion: “I got your invitation.”

    From anyone of the female persuasion: “Oh my God that save-the-date was amazing!... I am so excited!...”

    In case you didn’t catch the miniscule inflections there allow me to spell it out for you.

    Guys:
    1) Didn’t know it wasn’t an invitation
    2) Weren’t bothered by the fact that there was absolutely no information about the upcoming even besides our names and the date.
    3) Couldn’t be considered “unexcited” about the idea of a wedding, but were definitely not on the female peak of elation about it.

    Girls:
    1) Knew it was a save-the-date
    2) commented on how long it took to manufacture each one
    3) Shrieked with happiness at the thought of a wedding.
    4) Then preceded to go on for a few hours with me about what the invitations were going to look like.
    5) Asked when they could expect said invitation as well as discussing what color they should wear to the nuptials

    Moving on...

    Ben and I have talked and we have both mutually agreed that this wedding is less about us (we promise there will be no two hour long ceremony where we stare into each others eyes and use words like “soul mate” ad nauseum) and more a celebration of how much we adore the families and friends that saw us through all the rough spots.

    So here is a quick run down of a few interesting things regarding the wedding
    (a.k.a. "reasons you should be RSVP'ing"):

    Venuewww.sbmansion.com

    We�are so excited�to have our wedding here. Complete with a speak-easy AND amazing owners (who have been so helpful). If you plan on attending the wedding and want a beautiful place to rest your head the mansion has rooms available. They are offering�very good prices and you will be in a gorgeous area where you can do plenty of shopping and site seeing.

    Dress:www.kellyflynn.com

    Kelly is a well known Seattle designer that has taken on the task of creating my wedding dress. I am beyond pleased with how “Jaimie” the dress is turning out. In case you are wondering, that means thousands of Swarovski Crystals. Also, shoes = ruby slippers. Need I say more? Probably, but we both have better things to be doing J

    Catering:

    My close friend Chef Samuel Fuentes is flying in from Spain with his wife Leonor (who is a bridesmaid) and son Sammy (our ring bearer) to cater the wedding. Sam and Leo are like family and Ben and I are honored to have Sam’s culinary skills creating the dinner you will all be enjoying. Sam has a degree in Culinary Arts and has been doing high end event catering for a long time now. Pretty much anything Sam has ever made tastes like heaven.

    Photography:www.adcoelum.com

    Danette is the first and only person on record to have gotten more than one photograph of Benjamin where he wasn’t swatting away the camera. You can see her BEAUTIFUL work in our engagement photos. Taking this into consideration, and not wanting to leave the fate of our wedding photos to Ben’s camera-shy-psychosis with alternative photographers, Danette has kindly agreed to travel to the wedding. She will be flying in from Denver, Colorado and will be with us the entire wedding weekend.

    Cake:

    It’s a surprise, but I assure you if you miss it you will hate yourself. You’ve been warned.

    Music:

    Because we have a music theme, expect to hear lots of it. There is a speak easy in the lower levels of the mansion and we are setting it up with a live band that myself and many of my musician friends will be performing at. Ben and I have our hearts in music in totally different ways, but it has always been how we identify our lives.

    Okay I think that is plenty for an update right now. If you aren’t asleep just yet, feel free to watch the video that Ms. Danette Marie Ward put together of our engagement photos. It's really good. Promise.

    Added by Jaimie on Thu, Jul 23rd 2009

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  • Engagement Photos and Slide Show

    myspace.com/jaimieswriting

    Until I get this site updated (which won't be till after we get settled in Seattle) you can see all of the engagement photos and the slideshow (a gift from our photographer) on my personal myspace:

    CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS

    CLICK HERE TO SEE SLIDE SHOW

    I want to say a special Thank You to Danette Ward of Ad Coelum Photo for doing such an amazing job. She didn't have to put together the slide show, but she spent a lot of time on it and it came out beautifully. Thank you Danette!

    Added by Jaimie on Thu, Feb 26th 2009

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  • Engagement Photos!

    Yes, we finally got Ben to agree to photos! Whoo hoo!


    This is the first one we have thus far. We wanted to share it with you because Danette did an amazing job. The rest of the photos will be up in a week or so.

    Love you all!
    Jaimie

    Added by Jaimie on Fri, Feb 20th 2009

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  • The Wedding Blog

    The first entry of many.

        We created this site for everyone to update themselves on what is going on with our wedding. Most of you are not in our immediate vicinity and we don't want you to feel left out. All the information you need will be posted here from dress code, food selections, RSVP area, wedding venue location, ect. We will also be posting our engagement photos, dress shopping, and other fun things here for you to see.

        Also:

    Let us have a moment of honesty... We can say "we" all we want in an effort to give the vibe that Ben and I are BOTH going to be writing/updating this blog... Yeah right. I am sure from time to time, when he has an opportunity away from military goings on, he will post something, but the majority will be from yours truly.

    There are a few reasons for this.

    I am the one with more time out of the two of us. Benjamin's Air Force obligations require that he be paying a little more attention to his new job, which does not include random blogging about picking monogrammed, chocolate, wedding favors and dress fittings.

    I love to write. Albeit most of my writing has a bent of sarcasm and random humor (consider yourself warned) and will come across less like a blushing bride.

    I talk WAY more then Benjamin. So it stands to reason I would post blogs here more than him.

    I am going to cut this initial post short because there is not much information to relay at the moment. This is just a friendly introduction to what will being going on in this area.


    Yay for wedding planning!

    Jaimie

    Added by Jaimie on Mon, Feb 2nd 2009

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