My aunts on my moms side hosted a beautiful shower. It was so amazing to be surrounded by close friends and family.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Wedding shower!
We were back in Detroit last weekend for my wedding shower and finalizing some wedding details. It is the last time we are going home before the wedding so we were extremely busy!!
My aunts on my moms side hosted a beautiful shower. It was so amazing to be surrounded by close friends and family.
My aunts on my moms side hosted a beautiful shower. It was so amazing to be surrounded by close friends and family.
Friday, April 12, 2013
April Wedding Update #1
The month of April is insane! We're so busy with travel and wedding planning. We were in Charlotte last weekend for our friends wedding and this weekend we will be in Denver... we're so excited to spend a weekend home!
I fly out to Portland next Tuesday to attend a business conference for the week. Unfortunately they gave us 6 weeks notice and we already had Friday as a vacation day and meetings with vendors lined up in Detroit. I also have my shower on Saturday. Then I fly back to Denver for 12 hours and go to Memphis for the week to attend a conference. Quite the month!
We are hoping to knock out a lot of items on the checklist while we are in Detroit next weekend, but there have been a few developments. Most importantly, my dress came in!! We're going to a family friend who does alterations out of her house. It sounds like I will go next week to do the initial fitting and I can go again when we get in town the week before the wedding. So excited!
Since we made our own save the dates, we decided we could tackle the task of making our own invites. It seems a bit frightening to design, print and assemble 100 invitations, but I can't find any invitations that I 'love' and this will be almost half the price. Not bad!
We have ideas of what we're going to do but below is a rough example of an invitation I found as inspiration. We're moving in June, around the time we should be making these invites, so it could be interesting....
I fly out to Portland next Tuesday to attend a business conference for the week. Unfortunately they gave us 6 weeks notice and we already had Friday as a vacation day and meetings with vendors lined up in Detroit. I also have my shower on Saturday. Then I fly back to Denver for 12 hours and go to Memphis for the week to attend a conference. Quite the month!
We are hoping to knock out a lot of items on the checklist while we are in Detroit next weekend, but there have been a few developments. Most importantly, my dress came in!! We're going to a family friend who does alterations out of her house. It sounds like I will go next week to do the initial fitting and I can go again when we get in town the week before the wedding. So excited!
Since we made our own save the dates, we decided we could tackle the task of making our own invites. It seems a bit frightening to design, print and assemble 100 invitations, but I can't find any invitations that I 'love' and this will be almost half the price. Not bad!
We have ideas of what we're going to do but below is a rough example of an invitation I found as inspiration. We're moving in June, around the time we should be making these invites, so it could be interesting....
We decided on flowers! We're going to see some of the arrangements in person next week when we're in Detroit, I'm pretty excited about that.
While coming up with flowers for the wedding, we started throwing in green accents and realized we just made a green and navy themed wedding! I think they are two classic looks and it goes with the water theme of the venue.
That's it for now. This weekend includes Matt watching the masters and I'm going to do some shopping :) Hopefully we don't get more snow next week like the forecast says - I'm over it!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Charlotte Wedding Weekend
Last weekend we went to Charlotte for our friends wedding. Matt was a groomsmen in the wedding. We have known Sara and John as long as we have been dating. Matt and I met in January 2007 and Sara and John met while studying abroad at Miami's campus in Luxembourg in fall 2007.
One of my favorite memories with them was Valentines Day 2009. The theta chi guys that lived in Morning Wood (each house had a name in college that everybody referred to it as) decided to cook dinner for all their girlfriends. I think there were 4 couples and the guys made bruschetta, pasta carbonara and had 14 bottles of wine. Yes, 14 bottles of wine for 8 people. This was college. John, Sara, Matt and I ended up staying up very late consuming all of the wine once the rest of the couples left.
Anyway, we flew to Charlotte on a 6am flight through O'hare. Matt had the rehearsal shortly after we landed so I hung out at the hotel and took my time getting ready for the rehearsal dinner. We met the whole group at the Carolina Ale House for drinks beforehand. Dinner was at Bentleys on 27 which was on the 27th floor of one of the skyscrapers downtown. It was so nice that everything was within a few blocks of the hotel. It was a beautiful view of the city!
The next day Matt had some groomsmen events so I met up with my uncle who lives in Charlotte. We got a late lunch and then I headed back to the hotel to get ready for the wedding. Matt had to be there before the guests so I met his friends in the hotel bar and had a quick whiskey shot (can you tell it was the first college wedding of our group of friends...) and took a cab to the venue. The ceremony was outside at the venue and was done by Sara's little brother. He recently got ordained and he did an amazing job! Best ceremony ever! It was so sweet to have a family member be part of it.
Dinner was delicious! Can't turn down some fillet! The rest of the night was full of dancing and followed by a Irish bar and late night pita pit.
It was such a fun wedding!! But I need to remember I'm not in college anymore... Three days later I'm still feeling tired and a bit hungover. Is that possible?!
Next months wedding is my brother in NYC!
One of my favorite memories with them was Valentines Day 2009. The theta chi guys that lived in Morning Wood (each house had a name in college that everybody referred to it as) decided to cook dinner for all their girlfriends. I think there were 4 couples and the guys made bruschetta, pasta carbonara and had 14 bottles of wine. Yes, 14 bottles of wine for 8 people. This was college. John, Sara, Matt and I ended up staying up very late consuming all of the wine once the rest of the couples left.
Anyway, we flew to Charlotte on a 6am flight through O'hare. Matt had the rehearsal shortly after we landed so I hung out at the hotel and took my time getting ready for the rehearsal dinner. We met the whole group at the Carolina Ale House for drinks beforehand. Dinner was at Bentleys on 27 which was on the 27th floor of one of the skyscrapers downtown. It was so nice that everything was within a few blocks of the hotel. It was a beautiful view of the city!
The next day Matt had some groomsmen events so I met up with my uncle who lives in Charlotte. We got a late lunch and then I headed back to the hotel to get ready for the wedding. Matt had to be there before the guests so I met his friends in the hotel bar and had a quick whiskey shot (can you tell it was the first college wedding of our group of friends...) and took a cab to the venue. The ceremony was outside at the venue and was done by Sara's little brother. He recently got ordained and he did an amazing job! Best ceremony ever! It was so sweet to have a family member be part of it.
Dinner was delicious! Can't turn down some fillet! The rest of the night was full of dancing and followed by a Irish bar and late night pita pit.
It was such a fun wedding!! But I need to remember I'm not in college anymore... Three days later I'm still feeling tired and a bit hungover. Is that possible?!
Next months wedding is my brother in NYC!
Alicia, Sara and me - the 3 theta chi weddings this year