A tiny number of invitations went out in the mail Monday. By tiny, I mean, fewer than 20. Given that this is a destination wedding and that we already had a (still fairly small) wedding and reception, we didn't want to overdo it. This is because of budget. And because we're too busy to plan anything larger. And because we're not trying to upstage our previous wedding.
Now I wait for RSVPs to both the ceremony in Palm Desert and the family gathering in Lansing. I'm not sure what to expect out of these RSVPs, given that this is not a typical wedding situation and given that my family is not super supportive of me being a lesbian. I hope that they'll surprise me, though.
Curious about the invitation? We went with a kraft paper card accented with an aqua hand-dyed lace doily, and purple calligraphy text in a purple envelope with aqua accents. Very different from our hand-painted amate art on the last set, but lovely nonetheless.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Committing in CA
We're going to California this New Year's to get a marriage license.
I had hoped it wouldn't come to this. I had hoped that there would be some reasonable sign that Michigan would have marriage equality. There's a glimmer coming, in February, but nobody really knows what to expect.
And we're adults now. We're thinking about buying houses and having children and making more than the poverty lines. We need our affairs to be in order. We can't wait indefinitely, and we shouldn't have to.
So we're having a tiny ceremony in Palm Desert in January. It's not going to be a copy of the one we had before. That one counted before God and the people who support us. This one is mostly for legal purposes, although we will have photos taken and will have a very small gathering once we get back to Michigan.
I had hoped it wouldn't come to this. I had hoped that there would be some reasonable sign that Michigan would have marriage equality. There's a glimmer coming, in February, but nobody really knows what to expect.
And we're adults now. We're thinking about buying houses and having children and making more than the poverty lines. We need our affairs to be in order. We can't wait indefinitely, and we shouldn't have to.
So we're having a tiny ceremony in Palm Desert in January. It's not going to be a copy of the one we had before. That one counted before God and the people who support us. This one is mostly for legal purposes, although we will have photos taken and will have a very small gathering once we get back to Michigan.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Anniversary
Okay, so it is not really my anniversary. In fact, my anniversary was almost a month ago. I haven't updated this blog in more than a year. Here's what's happened in the meantime:
Rebecca and I moved to Wyandotte, Michigan. If you've never heard of this place, the best way to describe it's location is for me to tell you that you could get in a boat on the river in downtown Detroit and float down the river to downtown Wyandotte.
Rebecca started her third year of medical school at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital.
I worked as a teaching assistant in a summer enrichment program in southwest Detroit. I also got certified as a GRE instructor for the Princeton Review and became an aunt.
I applied for and interviewed for numerous jobs for the fall. Eventually, the only full-time one that materialized worked out to be at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. This is a 75 minute or more drive from Wyandotte.
The job at OU ended up being less than ideal and I had a health crisis, so I left. A job actually using my MA TESOL opened up in Madison Heights and Oak Park. These are cities in southern Oakland County that are about a 45 minute drive from Wyandotte. While these jobs were less than ideal, they were an improvement in every way over the job at OU, so I tried to be grateful.
In the meantime, I got certified as an ACT instructor for the Princeton Review.
The ESL school year ends this week and I'll be trying to make a living teaching test prep for the Princeton Review.
In January, I was accepted to do a Ph.D. in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University. In August, we'll be moving back to East Lansing.
Rebecca and I moved to Wyandotte, Michigan. If you've never heard of this place, the best way to describe it's location is for me to tell you that you could get in a boat on the river in downtown Detroit and float down the river to downtown Wyandotte.
Rebecca started her third year of medical school at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital.
I worked as a teaching assistant in a summer enrichment program in southwest Detroit. I also got certified as a GRE instructor for the Princeton Review and became an aunt.
I applied for and interviewed for numerous jobs for the fall. Eventually, the only full-time one that materialized worked out to be at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. This is a 75 minute or more drive from Wyandotte.
The job at OU ended up being less than ideal and I had a health crisis, so I left. A job actually using my MA TESOL opened up in Madison Heights and Oak Park. These are cities in southern Oakland County that are about a 45 minute drive from Wyandotte. While these jobs were less than ideal, they were an improvement in every way over the job at OU, so I tried to be grateful.
In the meantime, I got certified as an ACT instructor for the Princeton Review.
The ESL school year ends this week and I'll be trying to make a living teaching test prep for the Princeton Review.
In January, I was accepted to do a Ph.D. in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University. In August, we'll be moving back to East Lansing.
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