Quick Weekend Update

Quick recap, yesterday was spent with the cutest baby ever....

Today I am going to my baby's wedding (my DG baby that is)

Anchors aweigh!

Happy Birthday Preacher Woman

One of the most special moments of the hubs and my life and looks who's there to join in it....that's right our very close friend, in fact our only mutual friend that we both had before we started dating. We fought over who side she should stand up on and we agreed she should be in the middle. And she agreed. It was perfect. Today she celebrates her Birthday and even though we're miles away...we are thinking of her. Happy Birthday to our very special preacher woman.

Weekend Festivites

Whole busy but fun weekend ahead!

 Landon's HS friend, wife and Baby L will get in at 3pm on Thursday. They are thinking deep dish pizza for dinner. Genius, I mean we do live in Chicago :)


Friday will be spent in Chicago, sight seeing items like the bean in Millennium Park, Navy Pier and maybe the Hancock Center. In the evening we're going to check out the Yankees vs White Sox game as our friends are huge Yankees fans. Apparently our friend picking criteria is at an all time low, I mean the Yankees...come On - totally kidding but I am a Cubs fan and the hubs is a Phillie's fans so at least they aren't Mets fans :)
Post game, we'll pick up one of my college girl friend.

Saturday all of us will have breakfast. The HS friends will leave and we have 2 more of my sorority sister's joining us for a wedding of another DG sister, one of them you may already know.  We'll partake in a beautiful wedding ceremony and then dance the night away.
Sunday, breakfast with friends staying with us plus my girl friend who moved to North Carolina and her boyfriend.

This may be the best weekend of the summer. Finally, friend time :)

Best part? I get to drive everyone around in my new car.

She's Getting Married

This little bride is getting married today.

How cute is she? Yup, they call her princess.

Best part about her wedding? Her colors are green & pink. How can a girl go wrong?

Finalizing The Bridal Party

Photo Found Here

It seems as though I have left some very important mini attendees out of my bridal party entry. As soon as we picked an outdoor venue and everything was falling into place we knew we wanted to include our Boston Terrier, Minne. We're a young couple that doesn't have kids but we have been touched by the most awesome lovable creature who loves us no matter what and we couldn't imagine not having her part of our big day. The venue was great and said that as long as we didn't allow her inside and picked up after her, she was more than welcome for the fun. Since the reception was in a tent that was considered "inside" Minni could partake in photos and the ceremony.

Photo Found Here

As it turned out, we got married on one of the hottest days of 2009 and poor Minne was hot. We have some good photos of her. However, most of them she looks hot, really really hot. But there are some good photos with and we will always remember her being by our side on our big day.

I know you're asking yourself...But how did Minne walk down the aisle? That part was simple. We knew there were 2 very special people that we hadn't included yet in our wedding, our flower girl and ring bearer. We asked them to be in our wedding in those roles with the addition of walking Minne

Photo by Katherine Salvatori

We hadn't really thought through how that would work, it just sounded like a good idea and the kids loved it (both being animal lovers and all). We made a visit with each kid separately leading up to the wedding and the thing we kept hearing was "I can't wait to walk Minne all by myself."

Ut oh...how could both of them walk down 1 dog? Solution - 2 pink and green leashes from Old Navy latched to one harness, as seen below:

I love the way the hubs is calling Minne down the aisle

When you asked either child what their role was in the wedding, they say dog walker. Completely precious right?

Adorable huh?

We probabaly didn't need "dog walkers" but it was nice to know that if something scared Minne or if she saw a rabbit or a chipmunk, both kids were there leash in hand to take control. If one let go, there was still the other. They felt important, we felt important and it was one less thing for us to worry about on our wedding day.

Photo by katherine Salvatori

Side Note: If you chose to have your little one in the wedding it helps to assign one person to be in charge of them - to clean up poop, give them water, ect. If you have a wedding cordinator remember they have other responsibilties and the watching of the pup should not be on their list. We had a family neighbor at the wedding who we asked to bring Minne home after the ceremony and join as back at the reception. It ended up being a huge sigh of relief.

Post Venue Picking

After we picked the venue we really didn’t do too much for awhile. We figured we had plenty of time so the hubs kept busy doing his day to day and me the same, with the exception that I started to get blog crazy. This is when I learned about Google Reader which led me to subscribe to everything, seriously everything. Some of my favorite wedding blogs that I still follow today (despite being married for almost a year) include:

Snippet & Ink
Classic Bride
Something Old Something New
An East Coast Wedding
An Army Wife’s Alaskan Adventures
And my close friend Tying the Knot, and her second blog Penned and Pretty

This got the mind thinking. I couldn't stop myself. In the morning I wanted to read wedding blogs and int he evening too. I would spend all day (in between doing work of course) looking for a wedding that looked like it defined us. I never really found it but I did come close. I suppose, that's what makes weddings so special these days, people aren't afraid to break away from the cookie cutter wedding and make the wedding as unique as the couple is. We came up with a lot of inspiration which is what helped us, or at least me, make some of the next decisions.

Getting Close to Our 1 Year Anniversary!

Photo Featured on The Wedding Chicks

This weekend puts the hub and I at our 1 year anniversary from our wedding, it also puts us at our 5 year of dating. It's crazy how quickly time goes by. I have spent a lot of time lately on the Blackhawks and work related items but I think it's time to shift gears and perhaps do some recaps of our wedding. It is a busy wedding month between friends and family plus our anniversary is approaching so I am extremely in the mood to talk everything wedding for the next week.

To get you started here's a quick pink and green wedding inspiration board I put together as a quick recap from our wedding.

Photos by Katherine Salvatori

P.S. Do you love the shoes?

Weekend Festivites

Wow this weekend is going to be a doozy!

• Tonight we'll be going back to look at a house we liked with our pseudo inspector, grandpa.
• Tomorrow morning we have the race for the animals - a 5k for the sis and I and the 10K for the hubs.
• Tomorrow night a Bachlorette party with friends I haven't seen in awhile.
• Sunday a bridal shower for one of my DG babies and close friends
• Sunday night working the Blackhawks vs Flyers at the United Center

Can you say insane? At least it won't take me very long to do my hair, infact it used to take me 45 minutes to blow dry my hair, I'm now down to 15 minutes! Yay hair cut.

Aunt L - wedding recap

This weekend we celebrated my Aunt L in a wonderful way! It was a family wedding that included family from close and far away and only the closest of friends. It was perfect!
The lovely bride and groom! All photography taken by Uncle S

Here's a photo of the siblings! Do you know which one belongs to me? Hint: my dad is the only man in this photo:


Here's a glimspe of all the family on my dad's side. My hubs is the one with his eyes shut.


Of course there had to be a photo of my aunt L with all her nieces and nephews. We are a really fun group, can you tell?


Congrats again to this wonderful couple! Be on the look out for many wedding recaps as this wedding started our wedding season!

XOXO

Marrital Bliss!

Tonight I will be joining with family and friends to celebrate my Aunt L's wedding to my new Uncle D. I talked a bit about her and her shower here.

They are a fun couple who are always up for a good time. My new Uncle D loves the camera but in my lifetime I have maybe seen 5 photos of my Aunt L. The two actually tied the knot about a week ago but are celebrating their love and marriage tonight. Here's some photos snagged post ceremony.


Fun right?


Congrats Aunt L, tonight you'll be the one wearing white.


XOXO