The Final Countdown…

What? it’s officially TWO WEEKS out from our wedding?! What kind of crazy time machine did we get ourselves stuck in?!

Needless to say, we’ve been VERY busy these past few weeks pulling together the last-minute details. For example, we got our MARRIAGE LICENSE,

I purchased my last wedding magazine (big deal in Jordan World),

our apartment has turned into some sort of cat-inhabited box fort,

we commissioned some exquisite wedding artwork from the famous flower girl/artist known as Lily Kate,

oh, and we got some sweeeeeeeet tattoos (sorry Elaine).

So… yeah. It seems like we’re ready. Right?

He had me at “Sesame Street”

Today is a big day. Why? Because the wedding website that Matt has been slaving over, our HAND DRAWN wedding website, is now officially live (!!). Shameless plug: check it out!

The following story is also included on our wedding site, but I felt it was also a good one to share here. So, here it goes:

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Matt and I had a bit of an unconventional start. Had we not had mutual friends, I’m not sure our relationship would have ever moved past introductions, but I suppose I was always banking on this idea that friends don’t let friends date creeps. Or serial killers. Or guys that insist they can see your apartment from their backyard (did I mention that Matt and I were neighbors?).

Now, I’m not saying that Matt wasn’t a nice guy. But he’s the type that comes on a little, er, strong. Sometimes even bro-like. And I didn’t date bros.

But what I soon realized was that Matt was not a bro at all. He was kind, he at least pretended to be a good listener, and he apparently was an animator or something. I still wasn’t sure I wanted to be involved with this guy, but I hadn’t yet written him off.

In November of 2009, Matt asked me to come to his apartment for the first time, claiming he wanted to “show me something.” I ran through a (short) list in my head of things that he might want to “show” me, before texting him back to ask what exactly I was getting myself into. His response was something about Sesame Street.

When I arrived at Matt’s apartment, he had an episode of Sesame Street queued up on his obnoxiously large projection screen TV. “I knew you were into puppets, so I thought you might want to watch this with me. An animation that I worked on debuted on Sesame Street today!”

At that moment, the world around me melted away, and all I could focus on was this (suddenly very handsome) guy who just told me that he CREATED something for SESAME STREET and knew I would like watching that as KIND OF A FIRST DATE because I liked PUPPETS.

This is and always has been exactly what I love about Matt the most—he just “gets” me. When Matt and I got engaged, my mom told me she always knew he was the one for me, because we shared the same spirit. And I couldn’t agree with her more. He had me at “Sesame Street,” and has kept me ever since.