Married life at: www.foreverdejong.blogspot.com

The chronicles of the De Jong family (including the birth of our son) is being recorded at http://www.foreverdejong.blogspot.com.

This blog will remain available, but all new postings will be at our family blog.

Thx. Niels, Jen, DJ and Bailey

Our Ceremony

More wedding photos are now available. These are from our official photographer. There are several groupings. The first batch is our ceremony.

For Sale

Now that Niels and I are happily married, Wedding Central is being decentralized.

We have a few items for sale for future brides and grooms.

Click here for photos, descriptions and prices.

American Mom's pictures are in

The pictures are coming in! Here's a link to Mom's pictures.

Dutch Dad's Pictures

Click here for pictures from Niels' dad.

If you were a guest, please send yours as well...don't hold out on us!

First batch of pictures on-line

I just put a first batch of pictures on-line. Not color-corrected or anything, just to give you a first impression of the last two weeks !!

The picture here is us at the ceremony-site with our Goddaughter Hannah, who was adopted from China and currently lives in China with her parents and were so grateful they could come to our wedding!

Link to more pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nodejong/TheWeddingPeriodJuly24Aug7

Love,
J&N

The Dutchies are Coming!

Niels and I have been working like crazy to get the house ready to accomodate the influx of Dutchies arriving TOMORROW from The Netherlands. We have prepared Bailey for the fact that for the next two weeks, our house will be a little bit of Holland in Canton--complete with freaky deaky Dutch-speaking, as Jared would say.

A good number of Niels' family is arriving to start the wedding festivities. We look forward to putting them to work so we can finalize our wedding details. Nothing like a deadline! :-)

We can't wait to see so many of our loved ones at our open house one week from today!!!!

Bad Whirlpool Customer Service

Check out a very unsatisfactory experience with Whirlpool Customer Support...

Link to the story

For those who are driving...

With gas prices on the rise around the world and having people coming from around the world, we thought it was a nice idea to give everybody a bit of a perspective on current gasp(p)rices from the home-towns of some of our guests.

Akron/Canton, OH - $2.89

Cleveland, OH - $2.89

Toronto: $.99 CAD/L = $3.61 USD

Grand Rapids, MI - $3.19 USD

Oshkosh, WI - $3.29 USD

Minneapolis, MN- $3.04 USD

Stamford, CT - $3.08

Helmond, The Netherlands - 1.39 Euros/Liter = $7.23/gallon

As you can see, even the highest US gas prices aren't even half of what they pay in the Netherlands. With roughly the same pay and house-prices that are double to triple what they are in the US it gives us something to think about the next time we're complaining about high prices here in the US.

Note that pretty much all major gas-companies offer an EXCELLENT money-back program now. It's called: stocks...

Cheers!

Two weeks to go...

We're getting close. It's only two weeks until we get married and only 1 week until the 1st (and biggest) Dutch contingent will arive. All of the important wedding stuff is done. We're just prettying things up for the program, the music listing and printing and selecting photos for use on (and after) July 29.

The house is getting closer and closer to be able to host (for Thu / Fri) 11 people. We're getting more and more projects done, but plenty of work remains to be done. Hey, that's what the 'Daddy Do' list is for. Sorry Dad, but it is growing a bit...

We are looking forward to the time after the wedding when we'll again have some time to just 'hang' and do some sightseeing in- and around NE Ohio (e.g. Amish country just south of us).

We're praying for sanity in these last two weeks and for all who read this: please pray for 75/80F weather (with a slight breeze) instead of the currently forecasted sunny, hot and humid 93F.

Hope to see you all soon!!