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Whitney and Aaron planned their wedding all the way from California, I admire people who choose to plan from a distance - it's a much harder task! They chose me to entrust with capturing their day, and I was glad to get to be a part of it. There's something really neat about a destination wedding, it sort of coalesces from all corners and then just "is" and then is gone again. Their day included a short and simple sunset ceremony, followed by a free-flowing reception with people spilling out all doors of the estate into a gorgeous Fall night with a big moon hanging in the sky.
At the end of August, I had the great honor of being flown out to Oregon for Becky & Jayden's wedding bash. With poker themed tables, mustache favors, plenty of locally brewed beer aflowin', and a rad DJ - they had a great night. But it all started with a ceremony that was both sweet and silly. The couple encouraged the bridal party to walk down the aisle however they wanted to (you'll spot a tango and the wheelbarrow), a friend wrote a poem for them, and they wrote their own vows that made themselves and each other cry.
Sarah & Kaitlin were married on a bright summer day on the Harvard Footbridge over the Charles River. I love the symbolism of bridges - joining together, crossing over, meeting in the middle. It really adds a special layer to the ceremony. They and their families adjourned for a sweaty night of dancing, GREAT food, and sweet toasts to Upstairs on the Square - one of my favorite wedding/restaurant venues in Boston. Gotta love the zebra print carpet!
Sam & Shou Ping had a pretty unconventional wedding ceremony at the Hyatt Regency downtown - for two lifetime performers and accomplished musicians, it fit right in with them, however. It featured performances all night long by friends, students, mentors, and colleagues as well as speeches and toasts. They blended both Chinese and Jewish traditions with their own personal ideas on what a wedding should be, and they called it Life Sonata #1.
If you use a rotary cutter then you know that they work best with a cutting mat. Those mats are outrageously expensive, especially if you need the larger size! Hubby would've cheerfully purchased one for me, but I just couldn't part with that kind of money, at least, not without trying a few alternatives. This is where inside knowledge of your local hardware/home improvement store pays off--he found this stuff: It comes in a 4 foot wide by 8 foot long sheet, cost less than 20 dollars, and works like a charm!!! Requires less pressure on the cutter, doesn't retain the cut marks, and best of all, there's more than enough left to use on the cutting table he will be making me ~_^
So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.
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