The Wedding

I believe most people who are on this blog already know us and already know our wedding plans, but I'll outline them here for anyone who might not know.

Jason and I have both been unemployed for quite some time. I lost my job in September 2008 and Jason lost his in October 2008. So, needless to say, things are tight. We're both looking for work and we've been able to keep our house and the majority of our lifestyle is unchanged. Thank goodness for unemployment benefits! While we've been out of work for some time and we feel like our lives are, in a sense, 'on hold,' we decided to move forward in our own way and get married.

So, we wanted a wedding, but an affordable one. After much thought and consideration, we decided to have our wedding at the Washington County Courthouse with immediate family only. While it's important to us to have a small, low-key ceremony, we still want to celebrate with our friends and family, hence the potluck barbeque we are having the day after the wedding.

More details and an invitation to the potluck are to come. We are also sending announcements after the wedding to all, including those who could not attend, complete with photos. So keep your eyes on those mailboxes!

So, where did you meet him?

Now that we're engaged, people are asking us how we met. Well, here's the story:

Match.com

We'd both been on the site for several months and just hadn't met the 'right one.' Well, I saw Jason and thought he was interesting. For those of you who don't know how Match.com works, if you see someone you like but you don't want to write them a long message, you can 'wink' at someone. Lame, I know. So, I winked at Jason. The next day I had a message in my inbox from him. It was a very polite message, the gist of which was 'You seem really nice but I met someone I kind of like.' etc, etc. Oh well, back to the drawing board. This kind of stuff happens a lot on the website and I didn't think much of it.

A couple weeks later, I received another email from him saying 'Hey, well, things didn't really work out, want to hang out sometime?' So, several hysterical emails and a few phone conversations later, we went out. We went to Esparza's and didn't run out of things to talk about. The best part comes now: We were walking around the corner and ran into Cousins Brian and Margaret! They had spent the whole day planting trees up at their property in Washington State and were going to grab a much-deserved cocktail. We stopped and chatted, and I introduced Jason as 'My friend John.' After a moment I realized my mistake and looked at Jason. He was doing all he could to hold in his laughter. When we left the cousins I apologized profusely but Jason just laughed. I knew I liked someone who had a sense of humor about something like that.

And that's that.

For those of you who don't know what we look like, here's a photo.

Welcome!

For those of you who don't already know, Sheila Vineyard & Jason Clough are getting married Friday, 9/18 at the Washington County Courthouse.

There will be a big celebratory potluck picnic Saturday, 9/19, at Pier Park in North Portland.

More details to come.