ReadyMade: Instructions for everyday life

This past weekend my wife and I rolled out to our old Bay Area stomping grounds to attend the wedding of two good friends. We stayed at the Hotel Majestic which is where we stayed on our wedding night almost four years ago.

My wife and I were fairly crafty when we got hitched, spending weeks trolling flea markets all over the Bay Area, scavenging for funky old San Francisco post cards that we then tweaked with a Print Gocco for our save-the-dates.

I also wanted to cook pasta for the rather large wedding reception but perhaps knowing my culinary skills, all involved soon quashed that idea. The Bay Area always reminds me of nuptials for obvious reasons but one not so obvious reason is that I vividly remember reading about ReadyMade’s founder, Shoshana Berger’s wedding in the New York Times the year after my wife and I tied the knot.

With all this wedding activity swirling around it seemed perfectly natural to find an email that weekend from my good friend Emily Anderson telling me about a ceremony she had just attended in St. Paul that had her buzzing. She gave me the rundown and sent some snaps. I was impressed with all their ideas so did a little digging myself and Emily helped me convince the gracious newlyweds, Lynn Sabin and Scott Lunny, to share a bit of their story here as well as their photos taken by the talented Erin Smith:

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