About
This is a blog about the real finer things in life: eating, drinking, and love. It’s about seeking out and celebrating these simple pleasures every day.
Melia and Darren will be your hosts. They met briefly in the spring of 2005 through Gillian, who happens to be Melia’s sister and Darren’s friend from college. It wasn’t until February of 2008 that the pair really hit it off, while enjoying a dignified cultural event in New Orleans:
Though Darren was a Mississippi boy and Melia was a California girl, they simply couldn’t stay away from each other. The cost of their monthly cross-country trips may just have saved Southwest Airlines from bankruptcy. In order to save their own bank accounts and sanity, they decided that Melia would move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Jackson, Mississippi (where there are more bugs but fewer neuroses). They got engaged on their second anniversary, February 3, 2010.
Darren designs things. Melia writes about them. Their favorite pastimes are savoring pure food, watching good quality media, and making each other laugh. They get up to all kinds of mischief together and decided to start a small agency, Creative Distillery, so they could get paid to do fun projects like this:
Darren and Melia are planning a wedding for February 26, 2011, in Jackson. They know that they are not the only ones in the world to ever get married and do not plan to act as if they are. They do hope to share some cool stuff, like how to keep the wedding planning process personalized, low-stress, and within a reasonable budget. And, because marriage is less an event than a lifelong journey, they’ll let you in on any pro tips they learn along the way.
Pro Tip #1: The key to happiness is a tiny dog named Mr. Prancywaggles*, either imaginary or real. Must wear fun outfit.
*Note: Not actually Darren and Melia’s dog. Yet.