Heather and Gary got married on a day that should have been uncharacteristically warm for winter, but was instead blustery and frigid. But Heather stuck with it in her awesome bright pink dress and we shuffled off to the National Gallery of Art for portraits after their ceremony at the DC War Memorial. These two are so sweet to each other – it was really cool to document their wedding.
Truth is, I won this mani/pedi set at a wedding show that I really had no business being at. And it’s awesome to win things, regardless of what they are. But the other truth is that I won’t even do a mani/pedi for free – it’s so not my thing. But I realize that almost everyone else is really jazzed about this kind of thing and want pretty toenails and all that girly stuff that I somehow never learned how to do. Thus, a giveaway!
There is a distinct nostalgia among those who spend any significant period of time in New Orleans. And though for some of us, those years were college years and therefore imbued with all the nostalgia of any college experience, we know that it is a very special place. And now, living in buttoned-up Washington, we find ourselves frequently wishing for those carefree years of public binge drinking, potholes the size of refrigerators, astoundingly ineffective local government and the ever-looming threat of “the big one.” I jest! New Orleans will always be, in some strange way, home. Thus, my friends and I found ourselves trying to bring the “real” Mardi Gras spirit to Clarendon’s family-friendly “parade” last month.