Got our pictures May 13, 2008
We got the rest of our pictures last week. Tons of them. So when I got the chance, I had a bunch of them printed from the DVD our friend sent, and started assembling the predesigned wedding scrapbook a friend had given us a few months before the wedding.
I know nothing about scrapbooking and actually have little interest in it. But I did pick up some wedding-themed scrapbook stickers.
I also don’t like defacing pictures by cutting them, so in a few places, I cheated in placing the photos. I didn’t cut them to fit in their cute little frames. I couldn’t bear to.
I also haven’t glued the pictures down, which I suppose I should do.
Really, putting the scrapbook together right away was a cheap excuse to be able to show up at our minister’s bookstore and ask for some advice. She did ask to see the pictures.
We’ll do that tomorrow. Jade is taking another big plunge; she was accepted to the law school of her choice and now we have to figure out what to do. We were going to ask our minister what the right choice was, but I think we’ve already made it by asking the advice of anybody who would listen.
Jade will go to the nicer law school, three hours away from our condo, and quit her job here. And find a job up there. And find a place up there. In about two months.
Our heads are just spinning. Just after they’d stopped spinning from wedding planning.
We don’t know what we’re going to do about me. I don’t want to stay in my job here. I don’t want to be apart from Jade. But we’re a little wary of trying to rent out our place, and I also don’t want to be running away from a good-paying job just because I don’t like it.
So I don’t know what we’re going to do.
Look at some more pictures, I suppose, and remember how happy we were, and still are. Show the pictures to the minister anyway and see if she thinks we made the right decision, or if she thinks I should try really hard to get a job in two months too.
Jade, being jaded, doesn’t think the minister really wants to hear it. But she’s a friendly breath of light in the room. Always happy, smiling, hugging. And I’m NOT a huggy person, but I don’t mind a hug from the minister. Even being an atheist, as I am.
Meanwhile, I’d like to do something with the photos. Maybe post some more up here when I feel like it. Maybe set up an online album through Flickr or something, but not linked to my main Flickr account so that the people I don’t want to know that we got married just won’t know.
Jade and I also took a multimedia class this semester, and learned how to assemble a slideshow in the process of making a professional-looking DVD.
I also have plans to have a couple of coffee-table books made of our wedding pictures through blurb.com.
I love photography, you see, and someday, I’d like to get a vanity book of my own photos made. But I think getting a book made of our wedding would be pretty cool, even if we’d be the only people to ever look at it.
Yes, I did the scrapbook, but it only hold so many pictures. And I want to have something truly special and different.
Plus, it just sounded cool to try. Along with making our own DVD. (Relax, we will never inflict the DVD or wedding book on people unless they really want to look.)
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