Gifts
Your presence celebrating with us is the single best gift we could hope for.
Seriously! We are grownups with a well-equipped house and a very full kitchen. By holding our wedding on the East Coast, we know that many of you are making BIG trips to come see us. Travel expenses, child care, time away from home and work—showing up is an enormous gift and we can’t thank you enough for choosing to fit this weekend into your life. Thank you for all it takes to come gather together to bear witness and celebrate!
If, even after all that, you feel that gift-giving is your love language (or you’re not able to join us and prefer to send something to us), we’d love gifts in the following form:
Records - bringing music into our home that makes us think of you
Supporting a cause we care about
Photos - sharing your photos of us together and from the wedding
A copy of your favorite recipe (by email to lizimjones@gmail.com).
Photos
While of course we will have a photographer at our wedding, we’d love to have the photos you take in one place. We welcome you to add to our shared folder!
Records:
As we merge households, we’ve decided to begin a record collection. Help us build one from scratch by gifting us a record you love, or think we would love. The number one most important part - if you decide to send a record to us, please let us know who it’s from and why you picked it! :)
Below are some prompts. If you’d prefer to work from a list, please click through the yellow button.
Some ideas for an album you don’t see on the list:
Your favorite album
The album with “Your Song” - the one that makes you think of your own wedding
The first album you ever bought!
The album guaranteed to get you on the dancefloor
IMPORTANT DETAILS!
This is a chance for us to learn something about you AND support local businesses. We kindly request that albums be purchased from independent record shops - yours or ours! Here are some options.
NY:
Darkside Records (Poughkeepsie NY)
Rough Trade (NYC)
Oakland:
Open Mind Music - (415) 920-9400
Stranded Records (locations in NY and Oakland/SF)
Alaska:
Downtown Disc (Juneau)
Supporting a cause
If records aren’t your thing, we invite you to donate to a cause we believe in:
Lizi: A reproductive justice organization at the national level or—even better!—in your own community (e.g. Center for Reproductive Rights; Guttmacher Institute; Planned Parenthood Action Fund)
Jonathan: Partners in Health