News does not stay secret for long in this new media world. Not, I suppose that we were really planning to keep it a secret. Peter and I are getting married. At some point. The date to be determined by the vicissitudes of the wedding-industrial complex. Right now we have a ring, a fond hope not to spend the price of a luxury car on a six hour party, and a sort of dazed and happy look.
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Congratulations!
Megan,
You upcoming wedding suggests a troubling trend:
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=126954597393&h=AkBFh&u=AN89L&ref=nf
(reminds me of tracking global warming since the end of the Little Ice Age)
a fond hope not to spend the price of a luxury car on a six hour party
Fly Southwest to Vegas, hit the Elvis Drive-Thru Chapel, fly home.
Agree wholeheartedly! My brother did that, except they went to Key West...
Congrats!
Congratulations and happy 4th of July to all.
Best wishes to you both as you begin your new life together. May life bring you great happiness.
Congrats! Now how long until you move to the 'burbs and buy the SUV?
Wonderful! I've been expecting this, but I thought it too rude to ask about it.
Congrats. Have the wedding you want, and enjoy it. But mercy! Signing for an account and logging in was a bit arduous!
Congratulations to both of you. Lovely news.
Congratulations! Though I've never met either of you and I live on the opposite coast, I still feel like I know both of you as I've read you both for a couple of years now. Both of you are amongst my favorite reads every day. I'm really happy for you. Health, wealth, love, patience, and joy. And if children are in your future, may you learn as much from them as they will from you.
Congratulations to you Megan, and to Peter as well.
Congradulations and best wishes for a long and happy life together!
The world's most eligible female econoblogger no longer.
Felicitations!
Wishing you joy.
Now where do I send the gift, once I've finished making it? I've been planning it for weeks in anticipation of such an announcement.
Congratulations and best wishes! A toast to a happy household.
Great news! Congratulations and happiness to both of you!
Felicitations to you and congratulations to your fellow.
Wow! Congratulations. You're one of my favorite bloggers.
Congratulations! That's fantastic!
Best wishes.
Derek
Congratulations! I recommend spending the price of a 1973 VW Beetle on a destination wedding. More specifically, I recommend Jamaica. My wife and I carried out our nuptials there and it was fantastic.
Were the fireworks you shot in honor of the engagement compliant with D.C. codes?
Congratulations. Peter is a lucky guy.
Congrats!
'Grats.
Congratulations, Megan and Peter!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to both of you.
May GUM be able to register your porcelain.
we can only hope your children have Peter's looks and....um....Uncle Milty's brains?
Are the Koch foundation paying for the wedding? Might as well, since they own your husband.
Congratulations and best wishes to you both.
Warmest Congratulations!
Many congratulations!
You can have a fantastic wedding for the price of a used Japanese compact (we did). Especially if you find a venue where you don't have to pay a bartender...
Congratulations! And good luck. My one advice for weddings - if you have a big group photo, make sure the photographer is up high looking down on the people, not the other way around.
Congratulations! Always communicate, always forgive.
(Darn, one less single woman on the planet for me).
Congratulations on the terrific news.
My wife and I got married 3 years ago and got a terrific deal by getting married in Las Vegas (it is not as cheesy as it sounds).
The ceremony was with 120 people and held at the Bellagio (total cost for rental, wedding DVD, officiant, etc, $5,000). We had dinner for 120 people at Lawry's for $10,000 (included use of stereo, microphone, Prime Rib dinner, appetizer, desert, and wine/cocktails, instead of a DJ we had everyone bring their iPODS and made a long mix). I also signed up for the Lawry's frequent diner program for $50. They give you 10% of your cost in gift certificates, so I got $1,000 in gift certificates for $50. Not a bad deal.
There were some other marginal costs (wedding license, airfare to/from Vegas, room rental, car rental, etc..) that added an extra $2,500. My wife was clerking for an appellate judge at the time, and we flew him and his wife in to do the ceremony, that added an extra $700. But all in we spent less than $20,000 for a wedding that was a lot of fun, that everyone enjoyed and had 120 guests.
I highly recommend this route. It was also very easy to do the planning, as they have an onsite wedding planner to help you out included. Otherwise, planning a real wedding will take approximately 1 gajillion hours.
Like Rob Lyman, I had a hunch a wedding was in the works, what with the mention of house hunting and all. So now that Howley and Wilkinson, McArdle and Suderman have lined up to join hands in state sanctioned matrimony, which Libertarian couple can we speculate about next?
Oh and congratulations!
My congratulations* to the fortunate groom, and my best wishes to both of you!
*(yes, I'd congratulate the bride as well if it weren't for the admittedly silly convention that the groom couldn't POSSIBLY be worthy of such a celestial being)
Congratulations Megan :)
Congrats!!!
I hadn't planned on wedding advice, but I was married in a former interrogation room in the LA county office building (painted cinder block with two-way mirror; trellis which cheap plastic flowers) by a judge (The bail bondsman had told us he didn't know how to do it, despite being a notary). He actually gave a rather nice speech about marriage, sort of the civil equivalent of that honorable-estate stuff at the end of the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice. I still have the fleece jacket I was wearing.
Our marriage has not been without its ups and downs, but 9 years, 3 houses, 3 cars, and 2 kids later, here we are.
I really enjoy fancy weddings a lot, but it pays to put thought into your marriage and let the wedding kind of take care of itself, rather than the other way around.
I'm obviously late to this party, but I think I'm the first to say, "Mazel tov!"
For a venue, pick the most sentimental place you can possibly thank of that you don't get to visit often. This should be the brides call. The groom will just be happy that you are happy.
Congrats
Mazel tov!
And may your first child be a masculine child...
Congrats!
Just remember, the wedding is a kind of performance... something WILL go wrong but, like in any performance, the audience won't care about the little things. Just focus on the big picture (you are getting married!) and enjoy yourself.
Mazel Tov to you both. Wonderful news...