Our Wedding Pt. I
Diogo and I got engaged pretty recently (refer to a few posts ago) and went back and forth on whether to have a big blowout wedding or something smaller and more chill. After a couple of pros and cons lists over dinner, we decided that while a bigger wedding celebration could still be in the cards in the future, we wanted to be married (and I needed health insurance!). We decided that since our closest family members would be in town to celebrate Thanksgiving, we might as well add a courthouse wedding.
The festivities started on Thanksgiving Day. Mondana had been staying with us for a couple of weeks already and we’d landed on a theme of French Alt-Thanksgiving. We (aka mostly Mon) cooked Chicken with Mustard and Butternut Squash Crumble from My Paris Kitchen by David Lebovitz as well as some traditional favorites like sourdough stuffing. Diogo’s mom, Maria, probably gets the award for having most understood the assignment—she is responsible for the baked brie in the photographs. We spent the day and evening laughing, eating, watching the World Cup, and planning excitedly for the following day…
Maria’s baked brie—tasted better than it looks if you can even imagine
The lunch spread
Gannon and Mon (and Gisele’s Hank-protection gate)
My mother-in-law (ah!), Maria
Aunt Beck!
The chicken 😈
Maria, Jorge, Gannon (and Hank), Diogo, Me, Rebecca and Mondana