{"id":2142,"date":"2010-09-23T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2010-09-23T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:49:07","slug":"looking-for-a-few-good-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/looking-for-a-few-good-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For a Few Good Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are officially 359 days away from our wedding. Not that I&#8217;m keeping track or anything. Seriously, I&#8217;m not keeping track. I had to use a calculator to figure this one out, because I&#8217;m apparently very bad at math. Also, Kristian and I totally missed our pre-anniversary, because I&#8217;m terrible at remembering dates that aren&#8217;t in my google calendar. I had no idea that we&#8217;d even missed our &#8220;anniversary&#8221; until his sister said something to him. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a trend that will continue well into the future.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is my convoluted way of saying that our wedding is in a little less than a year! Which seems like tons of time, until you remember that I&#8217;m kindof insane about things like this and will probably be making most of the decorations myself. I&#8217;d probably make all of the food and drinks myself if I didn&#8217;t know that Kristian might take that opportunity to have me committed. In order to protect myself from my own mental illness, I&#8217;ve decided to start working on the crafty details now. I should probably work on things like booking the rentals now as well. I&#8217;ve heard a pesky rumor that guests don&#8217;t care so much about your lovingly crafted centerpieces if they don&#8217;t have any chairs to sit on.<\/p>\n<p>Because I am an over-sharer (see: blog, all entries of), and because I happened to have a suitable photo, I figured I&#8217;d show you all some of the bottles that I&#8217;ve collected (so far!) for our centerpieces. The plan is to use 2-3 bottles a table and let the bottles themselves be part of the decorations. That way, we won&#8217;t need so many flowers. Besides, these things are damn cool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Example Bottles by hopers, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/5017363657\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4152\/5017363657_2a1b6f5090.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" alt=\"Example Bottles\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m collecting old apothecary and liquor bottles. I&#8217;ve been looking for bottles with cool writing on them and I&#8217;m trying to limit the bottles to that cool old blue\/green color. They&#8217;ve been a lot easier to find than I originally thought. If I don&#8217;t find enough, I might buy some new ones in bulk. And then etch them myself. Because I&#8217;m crazy like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are officially 359 days away from our wedding. Not that I&#8217;m keeping track or anything. Seriously, I&#8217;m not keeping track. I had to use a calculator to figure this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-random","category-wedding"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-yy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}