So, eventhough we don't have a real closing date, we are wishing and hoping and praying to close on our house this monday or tuesday and subsequently move in and begin making our house our home. Below are pictures of the packing process, mostly at the end. I've included a before of our room for some perspective....I cannot wait to move, paint, fix the floors and begin to decorate and unpack all our fun wedding presents.
Thanks to all our friends and family who have offered and provided their love and support throughout this horrible process. NEVER BUY A SHORT SALE!!! EVER! :)
When I first moved in...clean, neat and clutter free...when I had time to be a housewife.
Post wedding/honeymoon chaos when we just gave up.
Our bedroom then....
Our bedroom after, with our bed disassembled and a place for me to wait while they set a date. All of our possessions...there is more hiding around the corner too...
Doesn't this look like so so much fun to move??!!??
We are impatiently waiting to hear whether we have a mortgage commitment so we can close on the house we have been waiting for for about 6 months. I'm tired of this. The end.
So now that we have been married for a whole 26 days, everyone asks what married life is like.
My answer is typical..."Its pretty good."
What can you say to people?
Its nice to not be "living in sin" anymore.
Its weird that my name is forever changed to Mrs. Mora Pluchino and yet I forget 1/5 times.
It sucks to get to be a princess for 12 days and then have to go back to the real world of working.
Its quite endearing to wake up every morning and know the person who grumbles at me (for clumsily stumbling over him in the early morning light) is my husband forever.
Its not much different since we lived together before.
But anyway, what I've been enjoying about married life is the kinship people seem to feel towards you and your relationship when you tie the knot. Its like a secret clan of people. Your relationship is automatically authentic if your significant other is now your husband. How strange to be taken seriously.
I also just enjoy my husband and being able to call him that. I enjoy the continued team work on things like buying our house, eventhough he has been the project's president while I've been more like the coffee girl/ treasurer ;-) I enjoy our mutual enjoyment of reliving our wedding via media and finding ways to pass this along to our family and friends (although I may be a bit more excited than someone else I know). I enjoy the ability to do nothing together and still be together. I like the planning forward to when we FINALLY move into our house. And I love looking forward to watching our marriage grow from this 26 day old thing into something 60 years old, wrinkly and a little saggy ;-)
On May 16th, the weather was still perfect. We woke up, packed up the horrible mess in our room and moved out to have breakfast with the Pluchinos. We then stopped by the Jimenez house to say some goodbyes and drop off paperwork for our marriage license!
We then drove 2 hours to our apartment where we changed, relaxed for a few minutes and then grabbed our honeymoon luggage. Shiv dropped us off at the Airport. Spirit Airlines is one of the most relaxed airlines I have flown with, and after 15 minutes of consciousness on the plane, I fell into a deep sleep and woke up when we were landing in Orlando.
After getting off the plane, we put on out wedding ears and began the honeymoon. 45 minutes later we were checking in at our hotel, only to find they gave us a room with two double beds for our honeymoon. We had to spend the night in that room as no others were available, but the next day they moved us and we got a BIG BED (which I still hogged)!!!
We began our Disney travels with Magic Kingdom. It was hot and sweaty, but other than that we had such a fun time. We went to every park at least once, visiting most twice. We avoided Blizzard beach because I was afraid of the big ski slope ride and needed sleep.
Some pictures to follow when they are working...but I was very sad to come back to the real world.
Our wedding day was more perfect than I could have imagined. I expected things to go wrong. I expected it to be imperfect and I was ok with that. But the set up process went very smoothly. The rehearsal was yummy and fun. And Saturday, May15th, 2010, North Jersey woke to a gently windy, 70 degree, sunny day.
I woke up at 5 am, unable to contain my excitement anymore, and attempted to do my own contacts. This was soon followed by being held down and yelled at by Ellie and Marisa until I finally was able to get them in. The hair and makeup went quickly and smoothly, and even though we were behind on our wedding timeline, we still ended up with plenty of time waiting prior to our ceremony. Brian and I saw each other before the ceremony and did some bride and groom photos, which was nice to have some 1:1 time to get my excitement out.
I like to think it started at 1:15 as planned (but the video time stamp says 1:19.) The lake was stunning, my husband was so sweet, and of course I cried a few tears of happiness. We then proceeded to knock the rest of the photos out, and then were able to have fun and spend time with our family and friends. Our reception went from 1:45pm to about 9:30pm, so by the end, everyone had their share of booze, dancing, and food. We then went back to the hotel to hot tub, relax, and change my name on Facebook. At about 12 am we were finally able to return to our hotel room for some much awaited sleep prior to our honeymoon....
Post wedding/honeymoon chaos when we just gave up.
