The final full week before the wedding comenses! T-minus 10 days and counting! We're pretty excited, but also feeling rather drained, it has been an exhausting and a bit stressful last couple of weeks, but, the good news is:
- the wedding cakes are being made by a good friend
- another good friend is organizing the potluck
- the flowers will come from our local community garden and are doing wonderfully!
- the rentals have all been taken care of
- muck's wedding attire arrived on time several months ago
- after much ado, kelsea has found a suitable backup wedding dress to replace the one that never arrived by mail, and chances are, won't.... it will still be beautiful though!
- another good friend will be taking the pics!
- the wine has all been purchased from Trader Joe's after a rather adventurous trip to Santa Fe, where a tire exploded on the mini van we were riding in... (good friend chad actually found the spare and the jack, muck contacted the parents and figured out how to get the lug nut wrench to work (jumping on it) and then kelsea actually changed the tire).
- the wedding license has been obtained
- the ceremony details finalized (sort of)
- and tomorrow the first of the guests arrive!
That means that tomorrow afternoon we are pretty much done with work until after the wedding!! Yeah! Muck will be heading out with his brother and best friend to the wilds of Colorado for a three day camping/backpacking trip while Kelsea and Muck's sister Becky will be back in Alamosa tying up loose ends and chillin', maybe hiking, maybe painting, who knows?! The possibilities are endless.
We hope you all are doing well, and appreciate the gifts that we have received so far, both material and emotional, and supportive. The sense of community with the people we have come to know here has been amazing these last few weeks and we really don't know where we would be without them. It feels like a whole new family that we are a part of, and we cherish it so much.
peace & love,
muck & kelsea
ps- sorry about the lack of pictures, kelsea's computer went down and so we haven't uploaded any pics to someone else's computer yet.... it will happen.... someday.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Sunday, July 09, 2006
CSA
As the wedding approaches, (T minus 24 days and counting) we find ourselves preparing the ceremony, trying to figure out how many people are actually coming to the reception and waiting very patiently (and anxiously) for kelsea's wedding attire... not that we procrastinated or anything.
As the planning has moved through its various stages we have been in constant discussion about what and how to share ourselves and our relationship with our friends and family. Through those discussions we've discovered that what we want to share most, besides our love for each other, is our commitment to four main values we share: the importance of community, voluntary simple living, social and environmental justice and our spiritual walks.
Because of those 4 things we have decided to do things a little bit differently than normal. For instance, our announcements, wedding and reception invitations have all been printed on handmade recycled paper (some of it made by us from the trash bins in the office at la puente). Our wedding clothes are made from 100% organic, pesticide free hemp (which is easier on the soil and needs less water than cotton, and is NOT smokeable despite popular opinion), and the clothing is reusable. We both will probably be caught wearing our wedding clothes again simply because they're so nice, why wouldn't we want to?! The food will be potluck on borrowed dishes, our friends are providing the music, photos, guest-signing thing, and we've decided to craft our own ceremony, presided over by our good friend Margy and Kelsea's uncle. All in all we hope to share with everyone what is important to us and focus on what really matters in this whole affair: relationship.
Although, some friends had a very good suggestion that everytime before we sit down to plan we down a beer in order to mellow out... it works.
In other news, we've gone and done something terribly couple-ish. We joined a CSA together. What's that? you might ask. Well, says Kelsea, we'll tell you.
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. A woman Kelsea met through community choir and her husband run an organic farm just south of Alamosa. But because they are small farmers it is hard to survive and compete with the large agribusiness farms without going into major debt. So, before the farming season even begins, local community members can buy shares of the farm thus giving the farmer enough money to make it through the season. In return, the shareholders receive weekly deliveries of food from the farm depending on how much they paid.
Now, you ask, how on earth do you two afford this? I thought you were poor volunteers?
Yes, yes, it is true, we reply. We trade services. Every Thursday one of us meets Karen at the distribution point and helps the shareholders pick up their food and make a couple home deliveries. That way, we help out the farmers and we get tons of fresh, organic produce and a dozen organic, free range eggs a week! We think we are getting the better end of the deal, but Karen begs to differ.
That's all for now, there will be pictures and a brief synopsis of our recent backpacking adventure to the mountains up soon! In the meantime, we hope you all are well!
love,
muck & kelsea
As the planning has moved through its various stages we have been in constant discussion about what and how to share ourselves and our relationship with our friends and family. Through those discussions we've discovered that what we want to share most, besides our love for each other, is our commitment to four main values we share: the importance of community, voluntary simple living, social and environmental justice and our spiritual walks.
Because of those 4 things we have decided to do things a little bit differently than normal. For instance, our announcements, wedding and reception invitations have all been printed on handmade recycled paper (some of it made by us from the trash bins in the office at la puente). Our wedding clothes are made from 100% organic, pesticide free hemp (which is easier on the soil and needs less water than cotton, and is NOT smokeable despite popular opinion), and the clothing is reusable. We both will probably be caught wearing our wedding clothes again simply because they're so nice, why wouldn't we want to?! The food will be potluck on borrowed dishes, our friends are providing the music, photos, guest-signing thing, and we've decided to craft our own ceremony, presided over by our good friend Margy and Kelsea's uncle. All in all we hope to share with everyone what is important to us and focus on what really matters in this whole affair: relationship.
Although, some friends had a very good suggestion that everytime before we sit down to plan we down a beer in order to mellow out... it works.
In other news, we've gone and done something terribly couple-ish. We joined a CSA together. What's that? you might ask. Well, says Kelsea, we'll tell you.
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. A woman Kelsea met through community choir and her husband run an organic farm just south of Alamosa. But because they are small farmers it is hard to survive and compete with the large agribusiness farms without going into major debt. So, before the farming season even begins, local community members can buy shares of the farm thus giving the farmer enough money to make it through the season. In return, the shareholders receive weekly deliveries of food from the farm depending on how much they paid.
Now, you ask, how on earth do you two afford this? I thought you were poor volunteers?
Yes, yes, it is true, we reply. We trade services. Every Thursday one of us meets Karen at the distribution point and helps the shareholders pick up their food and make a couple home deliveries. That way, we help out the farmers and we get tons of fresh, organic produce and a dozen organic, free range eggs a week! We think we are getting the better end of the deal, but Karen begs to differ.
That's all for now, there will be pictures and a brief synopsis of our recent backpacking adventure to the mountains up soon! In the meantime, we hope you all are well!
love,
muck & kelsea
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