{"id":37,"date":"2009-09-02T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-09-02T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:09:00","slug":"this-thing-feels-real-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"This Thing Feels Real Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our impending marriage feels really real now. It wasn\u2019t the reservation with SLVW. Or the confirmation email stating our wedding date. Or the flowers and Etsy stash stockpiled in the family room. Or even all the design work I\u2019ve been playing with for invitations. Nope, not even having the wedding dress in my closet, or attending Kim and Matt\u2019s wedding this weekend. What made it really real and gave me head to toe goose bumps was when my mother-in-law told the waitress at lunch on Sunday, \u201c<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">This is my son and future daughter-in-law.<\/span>\u201d I can\u2019t even write that without tearing up.<\/p>\n<p>What made it real for you?<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs154.snc1\/5734_10100212913202051_2031866_60353899_5286613_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 298px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs154.snc1\/5734_10100212913202051_2031866_60353899_5286613_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Also, this picture will adorn our wedding announcements. One day. Are those sent out after the wedding or before? Since we\u2019re going to Vegas with about a dozen people and having the reception after the fact, can I include these with the reception invitations? Or send announcements and invitations later? We honestly haven\u2019t got a clue when the reception will be so I don\u2019t want to delay announcing things. Whatcha think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our impending marriage feels really real now. It wasn\u2019t the reservation with SLVW. Or the confirmation email stating our wedding date. Or the flowers and Etsy stash stockpiled in the family room. Or even all the design work I\u2019ve been playing with for invitations. Nope, not even having the wedding dress in my closet, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,56,130,135,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-miami","category-reception","category-vegas-vows","category-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}