Greetings from Marital Euphoria
Casa McLavalos Presents: The Wedding
Today is my one-month anniversary and wow, a lot has happened in the world since then. As tumultuous as the last week has been, it has been reassuring to navigate it all with my husband by my side.
October 12, 2024 was the single greatest day of my life and I’m so thankful for everyone that was a part of it. Even now, a month later, I’m still floating on a cloud of euphoria.
October Book Reviews
I read many books in October but I didn’t finish a single one. The book I read the most of was The Bee Sting. I will finish eventually, but I will hang onto the paperback copy I have of it forever. It smells like the sunscreen I wore during our minimoon in Tucson.
My Favorite People’s favorite things.
I love the Celebrity Shopping lists on The Strategist and the “10 Essentials” videos on GQ’s YouTube channel. I think you can learn a lot about people based off of their favorite things. This recurring segment highlights some of My Favorite People’s favorite things.
This section of the newsletter has become my favorite part of writing every edition. I get to show off the incredible people in my life and write public declarations of love about them.
To write these declarations requires the Favorite Person to agree to share their list of favorite things, but I’m going rogue this time. My Favorite Person this month has not shared her favorite things with me and she probably never will.
My Favorite Person of this month is my sister Alex and I chose her because it’s important to me that you all know how much I love her.
The wedding of our dreams would never have been possible without Alex. She found the wedding venue for us when the initial one we booked would not be able to achieve the vibe we were hoping to cultivate. She booked us a tour and spoke with the coordinators to make sure it would fit our disco vision. She made the planning process so much easier to manage and regularly checked in with us to make sure we were on the right path.
This was not unexpected, though. Alex has always been a guiding light in my life. She was the one who showed me how big the world could be. Growing up, we didn’t travel very much, but every few years we would go to Disneyland or visit our mom’s family in Guadalajara and that was about it.
Alex wanted more and I got to experience the world through her. She moved across the country when I was in 8th grade to do an internship and she later transferred to a university in San Diego when I was in high school.
Helping her move into her dorm in San Diego was an eye-opening experience for me. This was the first time I saw what dorm life could be like. I fell in love with San Diego and I realized there was a whole world of possibility out there for me.
It was hard to have one of my best friends across the state during my tough high school years but I’m so glad she carved her own path because it showed me that I could eventually carve my own.
