This box:
With the help of everybody in attendance at the wedding, our wonderful friends featured in this picture put together a box that we nailed shut during the wedding reception not to be touched until our first anniversary. Which was three days ago! And since everybody and their mother (okay, maybe just my mother, several times...) has asked about the box I thought I would share its contents with the world. Read: the 2.7 of you actually reading this since post-wedding wedding blogs are boring.
Without further ado, the box contains:
- 1 expertly dried rose (this is exciting - I tried to dry my bouquet and it half rotted so it smells disgusting and I sealed it in a bag. This is perhaps something I'd advise future brides to read about BEFORE the event)
- 1 dried boutonniere (I have to google how to spell that word every damn time)
- 1 thankfully-not-sweaty $2 bill. You can imagine where that came from.
- 1 delicious, though now empty, bottle of champagne
- 2 blue champagne flutes
- the frameless contents of the stuff on each table (menu, thank you message, table number, etc.)
- 1 program
- 1 tissue paper flower ball
- 1 pilfered table runner
- 1 origami flower
- 1 original copy of our best man's toast
- 3 pilfered picture frames
- 1 card proving that his Holiness Fletcher actually was licensed to marry us
- 1 bag of gross empty candy wrappers (I'm not sure if this was to remember the candy bar without melting ruining the box, or that somebody got confused on what the purpose of the box was...)
- many, many heartfelt notes from our friends and family giving us advice for our marriage, wishing us luck, expressing their enjoyment of the wedding, and sending us their love. These were a joy to read on our anniversary.
- 1 note asking for more water. Again, with the confusion. Perhaps also drunkenness?
- 1 note with a dragon sticker on it. They came prepared!
- 1 note requesting that if we split up within the year that we send their gift back
- 3 notes with original art: two by children, and one detailed diagram of...communal enjoyment of beverages in the rear
- 1 note detailing a charmed moment from the bachelor party with a...lady entertainer
- 1 original anniversary poem
- 1 note revealing an old family secret I don't remember involving the identity of Santa Claus
- 2 notes expressing sadness over the loss of the blog (ha! Little did you know...)
and...
- 7 notes asking about babies.
The short version of how married life is different than engaged life: sooo many people start asking about your sex life.
You'll get the long version of married vs. unmarried life soon!
