LIFE
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What I Read in September 2023
Hi, friends! I have no idea where September went because now it’s the first weekend of October?! Better late than never per typical Ju fashion, here are four books I read last month: FOUR AUNTIES AND A WEDDING by Jesse Q. Sutanto – 3.5 stars I listened to this on audio while I was doing last minute things the few days. leading up to my wedding, which definitely added to my experience (is this why people ask for seasonal book recommendations?!). Four Aunties and a Wedding is a sequel to Dial A for Aunties and follows the same set of characters, Meddy and her mom and aunties–this time for Meddy’s…
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Our Very Durham Wedding!
Hi, friends! I’m writing this blog post on our one-month wedding anniversary (four Sundays later) which feels very fitting. My hope is to capture everything about the wedding in this post. After the welcome party and rehearsal dinner the day before, we were fully expecting to sleep in a little bit but we woke up earlier than we meant to, which gave us plenty of time to walk over to our favorite coffee shop EverLou and get caffeinated for the big day ahead! Rex left for his friend’s room mid-morning since I was getting ready with friends in our suite at The Durham Hotel. My mom and my sisters came…
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The Day Before!
Hi, friends! It’s almost been a month since our wedding weekend, and I’m finally getting around to writing this blog post. I thought it would be appropriate to start with the day before (because chronological makes sense, right?). Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend was hectic! I was manically crossing off some things off my to-do list last minute (i.e. wrapping used books I was gifting to my friends) and everything started to feel really real because we were loading the car to leave the house for the weekend. We made it to downtown Durham right around noon for a quick rehearsal at Motorco, our wedding venue (more on that…
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Our Honeymoon in Maine
We got married a week ago on Labor Day Sunday and just returned from our honeymoon in Maine. I definitely want to share more about the wedding in the coming weeks. In the meantime, here’s how our honeymoon went! After going back and forth between choosing a place we were familiar with (Charleston) or someplace completely new to both of us, we decided on Portland, Maine. We actually planned to go back in 2020 following our Portland, Oregon trip in 2019 but that never happened for obvious reasons so it felt fitting. Many people do Boston-Portland-Bar Harbor route for their Maine trip but since our trip was Tuesday-Saturday and we…
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What I Read in August 2023
Hi, friends! It’s September 2nd, which means it’s the day before my wedding(!!!!) day. I seriously underestimated how occupied my brain and time would be the last few weeks leading up to the wedding. My intention was to publish this blog way earlier but clearly that never happened… So this monthly roundup will be a little bit more abbreviated than usual. I still wanted to get it up because I’ve been keeping up with these monthly book posts for almost four years (since January 2020) and I didn’t want to break the streak haha. I also had a pretty solid reading month in a while too! THE WOMEN by Kristin…
