About Kat & Justin
About the Couple
Kat & Justin live in a cute four-plex in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, WA. They share their home with a co-dependent cat named Rupert and a truckload of houseplants. Justin and Kat met when she moved to Seattle from Michigan in 1998. They started dating two years later in the summer before Kat’s Freshman year in college.
At the time, Justin was completing his undergraduate at Seattle University and Kat was beginning hers at the University of Oregon. Despite the 5 hour distance, they decided to keep seeing each other on the weekends. Their long weeks apart and lazy weekends together established a sense of patience and personal independence. This trust has kept them together for over eight years – three years at different universities, one separated by the Pacific Ocean, and four living together with the daily grind. Their wedding took place on September 6, 2008 in Polebridge, Montana, just outside Glacier National Park.
About Justin
Justin is 28 and enrolled in Seattle University’s APNI program to become a family-care nurse practitioner. He has a bachelor’s in humanities and chemistry, and most of a master’s in Polymer Chemistry. Justin loves cooking, World of Warcraft, man-fashion, and rock climbing. He is a huge nerd and Kat thinks that’s great.
About Kat
Kat is 25 and works in marketing at a company that makes software for electronic library collections. Kat studied magazine journalism and Japanese language at the University of Oregon, both of which she has absolutely no use for in daily life. Kat is an internet addict probably spends 16 hours a day on the computer, mostly reading blogs and blogging, but sometimes actually doing work. Kat is an avid hiker, traveler, and photographer. She also loves her kitty cat a lot.
About Making Babies
We know you’re going to ask… Yes, we plan on having kids someday. We might start trying next summer.
[...] But what you may not know is how we got to this point. There’s a little background on the about page, but I thought it would be best to share the story of our engagement, originally posted on my [...]
Hello Kat,
My friend and I found your blog a week or so ago and are not addicted to the weddingbee.com blog you write for. We’re both living in Whitefish and planning weddings of our own (she’s getting married outside of Bigfork in May and I’m getting married in Central Oregon in September, the weekend after you). Having been to Polebridge several times, I think you are right on track with your “rustic elegance” theme and your inspiration board. I know that you don’t mean elegant in a black-tie affair sort of way, and I think your theme will work perfectly for a fall wedding near GNP.
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog and have been inspired by much of it, thank you. Your color scheme is particularly inspiring to me, as I’ve always wanted to incorporate the colors of fire into my wedding: red, orange & yellow. I’ve given that much more thought, and thanks to you, have toned down the colors a bit to a softer red & golden yellow, as the more I thought about it, the more I realized a bright red in a fall wedding may just be too harsh. I hope that’s cool with you (that I’m basically “stealing” your color palette), but my guess is that’s one reason you’re posting it, to share ideas with others.
Good luck with the planning!
~~Monica
PS – I thought I’d post in reference to your latest weddingbee.com entry here, as I’m not sure just anyone can post there. I hope this gets to you.
[...] But what you may not know is how we got to this point. There’s a little background on the about page, but I thought it would be best to share the story of our engagement, originally posted on my [...]
are you guys throwing around any names for potential babies? check out babynamewizard.com, it is addicting and sociologically relevant. it’s fun for wordsmiths, not only parents-to-be.
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