You’ve reached the blog for Kori and Eileen’s engagement, elopement, and reception. We put this blog together to share our romantic elopement adventure with our family and friends. We posted updates and later added pictures to document our experience. Hope you check out our posts from the trip, as well as our gallery of photos from the big day.
Please see the sitemap below to find what you’re looking for or to view all of our posts from our elopement trip to Brownwood.
We discussed the idea with each other on the way here: we’ll save the various wine bottles we collected on our elopement trip and open them on different anniversaries.
We briefly discussed with the staff at the Pillar Bluff Vineyard how different wines age. Based on her recommendation of which of their wines age better and a little internet research, we determined which wines would be best for which anniversaries. Hopefully we’re doing this right, and they don’t turn to vinegar before we open them.
We’ve labeled and photographed the bottles to keep track of when we plan to consume them:
It’s been a long caffeine-fueled trip home, but we made it!
It’s actually not that far from Austin to Houston. It’s about 3 hours plus stops, in a perfect world at least. We stopped at a gas station to get coffee as we were leaving Austin… Then we stopped again at a Kroger to get gas and switch drivers… Then again at Buc-ee’s in Giddings to get more coffee … Then again at a Starbuck’s in Brenham to get coffee and switch again.
The worst part was that once we got into Houston, we found out that both Beltway 8 East and I-610 East were closed!!!! After a very long detour through the city and a failed bathroom break, which added an extra 35 minutes to our trip, we finally got home just past midnight.
It’s nice to be home, to be married, and to sleep in our bed again. And after our long day, we are definitely ready for bed. Good night!
-Kori & Eileen
We headed back into downtown Austin, hoping to visit some Austin landmarks and popular tourist spots, as well as drive around and look for more street art and murals after seeing a few last night. There are tons more murals all over Austin that we missed or didn’t know about, so we’ll definitely have to make a trip back and see the rest.
One in particular we wanted to see was the cheesy but iconic ‘i love you so much’ painted on the side of Jo’s Coffee on South Congress by the girlfriend of the owner. It has since become a popular spot for couples to take photos in front of. Since we just got married, we figured what better time to go there and take our own picture!
We continued driving through town, taking pictures of the sights as we went until we got to the Baylor Street Art Wall (aka the HOPE Outdoor Gallery), an abandoned development with huge concrete walls that provide an endless canvas for graffiti and street artists. Since the space is open and available to anyone, the artwork is constantly changing, so we didn’t know what we would see today. This can make it a bit of a hit-or-miss, but we did manage to find a few cool pieces this time.
Next, being in Austin, we of course had to see the Texas State Capitol building. We drove back in that direction, this time in a bit of a rush since it was getting closer to sunset. We parked on the street and walked around the grounds and looking at the statues and monuments. We got a lot of pictures in before our meter ran out just as it started to drizzle outside.
As we were heading out of the city, we made one last stop for a photo op in front of the ‘You’re My Butter Half’ mural at the United Way building on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Then we made our way down the street to have dinner at the Austin Daily Press, a sandwich shop that had some really original flavor combinations. I got The Edward, a torta with edamame fritters, avocado, and ginger peanut sauce. It’s really good and tastes like an Asian stir-fry in a sandwich. Kori got the Pineapple Express, a torta filled with chicken, ham, and pineapple ginger chutney. We also got an order of jalapeño hush puppies to split between us. Once we finish up, we’ll be getting on the road and heading back home.
-Eileen
