Food and Fun

Well, folks it looks like we'll be finishing up the last of the photos.... and then we'll go thru all the details again when I get the pictures back from Adrienne Gunde Photography.


All the pictures I've been showing you were taken on my camera. You know, because I brought my camera to my own wedding. Doesn't every bride?



Here we are enjoying our first dance. Well, I'm enjoying it anyway. B was super cute doing this. He is not a dancer. When we first got engaged we couldn't even sway together to the music.



Then we went to a couple dance classes and spent the day practicing on the beach and got real comfortable. Real comfortable until you have 180 people watching you.

You can't tell in this picture but he is sweating buckets! Poor man.


Now, lets talk food! During the cocktail hour in the lounge area we had a cheese display. I didn't even see it because we were takin family pictures. I'm not sure if my bridesmaids did either because I called them over for pictures and then didn't use them. Sorry Tina and Chrissy!




We also had the following passed appetizers:

~Bacon wrapped Scallop (this was the only thing I got- I had 1 scallop and it was delicious)

~Lump Crab Cake with a Plum Sauc

~Brie Canape topped with Sliced Pear

~Beef Carpaccio with Stone Ground Mustard on Baguette



We did listen to all of you and sat down to eat our dinner.


This was the Spoon Leaf Spinach Salad with feta, bacon and madarin oranges, topped with the most fantastic Honey Mustard Dressing ever! It was prettier when it was served.



Our table was amazing. I still can't believe it. And you know what the best part was? Whereever we looked people were smiling.


They were eating and drinking and talking and laughing! When I envisioned our wedding I wanted classy, elegant, classic, different and fun all at the same time. I wanted a formal and whymsical look with a comfortable feel. I wasn't sure I could have all these things and pull it off. How could I have classic and new at the same time? How could I have icy wintery elaborte arrangements and a fun photo booth in the same space?

Oh but it all came together and I couldn't be happier!

Have you ever seen such gorgeous orchids?! We had pretty printed menus at each place setting.



Flat bread with a sun-dried tomato spread. I want more.



I ate this entire plate and some of B's. I was so hungry and it was soo good!


Petit Filet Mignon topped with a Gorgonzola Compound Butter in a Pinot Noir Sauce and Shrimp Scampi in a Lemon Butter Sauce with Au Gratin Potatoes and vegetables. Yum.



These crystals were dripping down above our heads. Heaven, I tell you.



And behind us were these lovely birch branches. I want these in my house. I want a back drop of birch trees. Wouldn't this be awesome against a blank wall in my house. Perhaps at one end of the library. You know, the house in my dreams.



How cute is this card?! I have a collection of notes and drawings from this sweetheart.



You didn't think you would be the only one to notice that big stuffed tiger, did you?



My mom had the good sense to move it away from the table before someone took it down.



Here are the ringbearers. B's nephew Alex on the left and my nephew Josh on the right. They totally loved each other!



Kate and my youngest niece Cassidy. Both of those dresses were made by my sister-in-law's mom. She is so talented!



This is my sister-in-law Noreen. She is such an incredible mom.



Dancing with my dad. The song was The Way You Look Tonight by Rod Stewart



Here B is dancing with my sister. This makes me laugh because B really doesn't like to dance.



Here I am dancing with my brother Mike. I know, the family resemblance is striking!



The reception was just absolutely amazing. The wedding was so totally fantastic. My friends and family as loving as ever. I am now part of an amazing family. And I'm a wife. Can you believe that?! I am a wife. I am B's wife. ~giggle~

We are nearing the end of the wedding saga. I have a few more things to cover, like the photobooth, the rehearsal dinner and the brunch. It was a weekend of the most amazing memories. An entire weekend and I'm still reeling from it.