We're Married!!!!!

Rob and I are officially married!
We could not have asked for a better day. Friday night me, my mom, my nieces, Kat, Courtney and Michelle stayed over at the Holiday Inn in Rockland. We hung out and ate dinner at the hotel and just relaxed before all the craziness of Saturday!
I barely slept Friday night and started the day bright and early on Saturday with hair and make-up.
I have to say I stayed pretty calm all day. Rob and I saw eachother before the ceremony and did all our pics before the wedding.
I only have 1 pro pic but here are some other pictures that people took at the wedding!

Everything was perfect and we had the best day!
We leave Friday for our amazing honeymoon.. so I will have plenty to share when we get back!

As The Wedding Approaches

Well with only 18 days left until the wedding I have a couple of things to blog about!

A few weeks ago we did a "Pre-Wedding" Photoshoot with our awesome photographer John LoConte.
I put most of these pics on facebook but decided to share a few on the blog as well. We met John on a Wednesday evening up at Lynch Park in Beverly, MA. It was definitely a warm summer day but the location was beautiful with a gorgeous rose garden for a back drop or the nice beach to take some pics on.
John has been so great to work with. Obviously Rob and I were nervous and had no idea what we were doing but John was great about giving us direction and taking some great pics! Below are a few of my faves from the day...







Next thing is obviously some wedding projects I am working on. I can't believe how quickly time is flying and I still have a few DIY projects to get done.
Today I worked on some signs we need.
The sign on the far left of the photo is for our Wedding Tree... Just asked guests to leave a fingerprint and sign their name. I think the sign came out cute.
The middle one is for the bathroom basket... it has a really cute poem on it that reads...

So happy you're here sharing our special day
but just in case something should go astray:Please help yourself to the contents within
Mouthwash, hand lotion or ibuprofen
Use what you need, and just leave the rest
For it may be useful to some other guest
Repair the damage that may have been done
Then quick! Hurry back and join in the fun!

(I found the poem by googling)

Finally the sign on the right is for our Photo Booth... To remind guests to use it and take lots of pictures. I plan on putting the photo booth signs at the bar and in the restrooms.
I used a few of our "pre-wedding" pics on this sign and made a little photostrip at the top of the sign. I think it came out really good and it was a fun way to incorporate the photos.


So with that project done I only have a few more things to do!
As I get the projects done I will be sure to share them with you all!

Bachelorette Party of the Year!

This past weekend was my Bachelorette Party!
The festivities took place in Provincetown and everything was very well planned and executed by my awesome Bridal Party!

The day started at 7am on Saturday morning with a nice drive to P-town. Once we arrived we spent the morning on the Beach relaxing and soaking up some rays.
We later enjoyed lunch at the hotel and some adult beverages to kick things off right!

The night could not have been more perfect! Two of my fav things are Gay Men and Drag Queens.... and P-town has more then there Fair share of both!

We started out at the boatslip on Commercial street mingling with all the boys and drinking the most delicious cocktails ever! We then had a yummy dinner which lead to some impromptu Karaoke and then a Drag Show! (So much fun!)

We ended the night dancing our butts off at the Crown & Anchor until last call and then headed back to the hotel for some snacks and sleep!

The night could not have been more fun! I had such a blast!

Sunday morning... Me and a few of the girls went out for breakfast and shopping and then headed home.

Here are a few pics from the weekend (these are the G rated ones! LOL)


Thank you to Becky, Michelle, Courtney & Niki for organizing things and making it all happen
and Kelly, Angie and Allison for joining in and celebrating with us! Love you Girls!!!!!!

Marriage License... Check!

Rob and I went to apply for our marriage license tonight. In Dedham you have to make an appointment and apparently they are pretty strict about that since it is the first thing the woman asked.
So our appointment was at 6pm... we got there a little early and went inside to get the ball rolling. The whole process is totally easy. 3 forms, show ID, raise your right hand and swear that you told the truth and TA-DA you are done!

I get to go pick up the license on Monday.. that is if I survive my Bachelorette party this weekend! ;)

Below is a pic of Rob at the town clerk office after we finished all our forms! YAY!

doesn't he look so happy to be marrying me? lol

In other quick news and updates... Got my new phone today! The Droid X... I think I'm in love with it. I also have another dress fitting on Monday and I am bringing Ma Dukes so she can tell me how everything looks and we are officially going to be married in less then a month!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow how times flies! TTFN!

Sweet Treats

Saturday, Rob and I attended a BBQ at Sara & Greg's apartment. I wanted to make a sweet little treat to bring along and found this Scrumptious recipe in a cookbook we received at our shower (Thanks Liz!).

I am calling them S'more pops. I forget the actual name in the cookbook but anyways...
These are the ingredients you need.

Popsicle Sticks or Kabob Skewers cut in half
1 Bag of Jet-Puffed Marshmallows
1 Container of Betty Crocker Rich and Creamy Milk Chocolate Frosting
Mini Morsel Chocolate Chips (about 1 cup)
Graham cracker crumbs (about 1 cup)

So you put a skewer or stick through each Marshmallow as you see below...


Next I set up a plate with the Graham Cracker crumbs and the mini morsels. I also heated up the frosting for about 30 seconds so it was super soft and easy to dip in. It was my own like assembly line!

So you dip each marshmallow into the frosting, let the excess drip off. Then you cover the bottom and one side of the marshmallow in the Graham crack crumbs and the other side in the mini morsels and Wah-la!

You can eat them immediately or refrigerate them. If you are not going to eat immediately do not leave out at room temp because you need the frosting to firm up or it will all run off the marshmallow.

These were a huge hit and I can't wait to make them for the next BBQ or Party we are invited to!

New Wedding Items!

Yup, so I have been neglecting my blog since last week! However, it was a very busy weekend!

Saturday Rob and I picked up our wedding bands. (YAY!) We purchased the rings at DeScenza in Hingham, MA. It is the same Jeweler that made my Engagement ring.
Rob picked out a very slick looking Tungsten band and I had a custom made band to match my Engagement ring. I have to say they did a fabulous job and I love our rings! Here are a couple of pictures I took!

After we picked up our rings we got ready and headed down the the comcast center for the Zac Brown Band concert with a Bunch of friends! It was a great Saturday! and thanks to the tax free holiday... we didn't have to pay sales tax on those wedding bands!

All right.. onto more wedding stuff! I have been looking for the perfect card box for our reception and finally found it today. On a shopping outing with Ma dukes we hit up Michaels in Natick and I found this dark brown wicker basket which matches out decor and color schemes perfectly! I bought some Fuchsia ribbon and printed out the "card" sign and put it all together! I think it came out great! I am gonna buy some fake hot pink flowers and put them where the ribbon spool is placed in these picturees to keep the lid slightly propped open.

So in addition to these items, I picked up my awesome hot pink pumps which I blogged about last week, ordered my veil and some other cute wedding items. I can't believe it is only 40 days away! SO EXCITED!

Hopefully I will have a lot of other wedding and life stuff to share later this week! Until then..... CIAO!

S'mores... YUM!

Today was National S'mores day! I know I know.. You have never heard of it before... but I mean seriously who doesn't love S'mores?? so of course they should have their own day!
Personally I love anything involving Marshmallow and then combine Marshmallow and Chocolate and it can't get any better!

There is this awesome Company called Sweet Lydia's. They are a Local MA company and I had the pleasure of meeting the owner at The Beantown Bride Event last month!


Her treats are absoloutely decadent and DELISH!
Her incredible Marshmallow treats aren't limited to S'mores... my personal favorite was the Pretzel sticks wrapped with homemade Marshmallow and dipped in chocolate. The perfect Combo of sweet and salty!
If you have a need to send a gift to someone I definitely reccommend checking out Sweet Lydia's Gift Baskets, and if you are looking for favors for a shower or wedding she makes the most adorable and scrumptious favors!

If my little write up didn't make you drool... these pics should!

http://www.sweetlydias.com/

For the love of SHOES!

Saturday me and 3 of my bridesmaids headed up to Bella Danvers to pick up their bridemaid dresses. First of all.. I am so in love with their dresses! They are so cute and I can't wait to see them all dolled up in them! YAY!

Ok moving on.... haha... After picking up the dresses we grabbed a quick lunch and then we were off to shoe shop!

I don't really care what shoes any of my bridesmaids wear, I just ask that they be dyed Fucshia to match a part of their dresses, so we headed to Shoes To Dye For in natick. The dyable shoe capital of Massachusetts :)

The girls picked up a bunch of different styles they liked and began trying on the shoes. I was just hanging around with no intentions of buying shoes.

Niki was the first to discover her shoes... they are by the brand PINK and are so adorable! She fell in love immediately! They other girls liked the shoes that Niki had so they decided to try them on too and also fell in love! Now all 3 girls picked the same shoe. They were telling me how comfy they were and the definitely looked cute so I decided to try a pair on.

Now it was my turn to fall in love! They WERE comfortable! so needless to say I also purchased a pair!

Here is the now infamous shoe....

Well now that I have bought 3 pairs of shoes for this wedding... I think I am done with shoe shopping!

Wedding Wednesday!

Hello Hello!

Happy Wedding Wednesday!

Alright so today I went for my 2nd dress fitting. I am so in love with my dress! My seamtress is doing a phenomenal job.
When I picked up my dress it was 2 sizes too big and litterally fell to the floor when I put it on. As much as I love the bridal salon that I bought my dress at... they wanted to charge me an astrinomical price for alterations so the hunt was on for a more affordable seamstress!

I got a recommendation from the girls on The Knot to use Chris O'Hare. Chris is a woman who does dress alterations out of her house in Quincy. The girls on The Knot truely sing her praises and now I know why! So if anyone out there is looking for someone to alter their wedding dress or any other formal dress for that matter please feel free to contact me and I will pass along Chris's number.

On another note.... One of my Beantown Bride articles is "live" today so def check it out....
http://beantownbride.com/2010/08/thursday-0805.html

Well... I think that is it for now! I am off to have dinner with Rob and then maybe heading out for some Karaoke tonight!

Busy little wedding bees

Yes that is right! More wedding projects done!

Last night Rob and I took on the task of making our rehearsal dinner invitations. I saw this invitation at the paper source and loved it.... however I did not want to pay $2.25 per invitation. So for $1.75 we bought a piece of the blank stationary and scanned it into our computer. Rob took over with his amazing photoshop skills once again and made the invitation to my specifications! (Our total cost ended up being under $20.00!)

I loved the actual invitation so much we decided to continue on with enclosure cards. We made matching enclosures with directions and transportation information.
Today I addressed the envelopes using the computer and our awesome Epson Inkjet printer and TA-DA! They are complete!

These went into the mailbox at about 8pm this evening and are on their way to the recipients!
Don't they look awesome?!?!

Ok now on to my next project.....
I wanted to create reserved signs for our immediate family members for the ceremony. I tried to think of an cute easy way to do this, and I must say I even impressed myself with these ones!

I made a template in Adobe Illustrator and printed one for each person on this pink paper I got at the paper source. I then cut brown ribbon and threaded it through some holes I punched.
The genius part is next... instead of tying them on the top I attached Velcro so the signs can easy be put on the chairs and removed! It works out brilliantly!

The final touch were some nice pink crystals to add a little flair! I absolutely love these signs!


This is how the sign will hang on the chairs at the venue.
2 projects down and a hundred million more to go! HAHAHA just kidding! Sort of....

Hope you enjoyed seeing this stuff!

Weekend Update

Well it is now Monday evening, another weekend come and gone.
As usual the weekend flew by but it was one of the first weekends in a while we didn't have
a major commitment or an event to attend.

Saturday Rob was participating in an all day pub crawl in Allston/Brighton so I decided to spend some quality time with my Brother. I was supposed to help him move but thanks to his poor planning he couldn't get a Uhaul to rent lol so we did fun stuff instead!
He took me mini golfing (one of my fav things to do) and then we hit a bucket of balls on the driving range. Note to self: You are bad at real golf, Tiger Woods golf on Wii has lead you a-stray LOL Regardless of my non existant golf skills we had a good time. My brother treated me to a slush and then we went out seperate ways!
I decided to meet up with Rob on his crawl... it was nice to get out for a bit but I am glad I did not participate in the all day version.

Sunday was exciting because we had our first dance lesson. It was awkward and fun all at the same time. Rob now thinks he is Fred Astaire and his dance skills rival those on So You Think You Can Dance but in reality we just did ok! 4 more lessons to become Pros!
After dancing we had lunch with Robs parents... then ran errands for the rest of the day!

The weekend ended pretty perfectly.... I baked some cupcakes and took them over to Danny and Jill's house (Rob's cousins) and we watched TrueBlood, Hung and Entourage!
Yummy food, Great company and good TV. It doesn't get much better!

Well I hope you all have a great week and I hope I think of more exciting things to blog about! LOL :)

Tonight's Baking Adventure!

Tonight while Rob was out at the Gym I got bored. First I did some stuff on the computer for our wedding and then I decided to bust out the Pizzelle Press we got for our shower!
Now, I've never ever made Pizzelles before but they are my favorite cookie so I thought I would give it a shot.

I found a recipe online and this is it

Ingredients
3 eggs
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder

Directions
1.In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar until thick. Stir in the melted butter and vanilla. Sift together the flour and baking powder, and blend into the batter until smooth.
2.Heat the pizzelle iron, and brush with oil. Drop about one tablespoon of batter onto each circle on the iron. You may need to experiment with the amount of batter and baking time depending on the iron. Bake for 20 to 45 seconds, or until steam is no longer coming out of the iron. Carefully remove cookies from the iron. Cool completely before storing in an airtight container.
3.For chocolate pizzelles, add 1/4 cup cocoa sifted together with flour and baking powder, 1/4 cup more sugar and 1/4 teaspoon more baking powder. I find that for the chocolate mixture, the iron must be well oiled to start and then brush on more as needed.


So I mixed my Batter

This is the press we have. It goes over your stove burner and you put the batter on it (about 1tbsp) and then let one side cook for about 8 seconds and then turn it and cook the other side for about 8 seconds
The one on the left was one of the first few... it really didn't start out well. The house was full of smoke and the smoke alarm was going crazy lol but I'm glad I persevered because they started to look like the one on the right!

These are the final product. Like I said I haven't the slightest idea on how to make Pizzelles but I noticed as they cooled they got crispier like the ones you get at the store or bakery so they are hanging out on the cooling rack. I tried a couple of course and they are yummy!

Hopefully next time the entire batch comes out not burnt and tasty instead of only half like this time!

Bon Appetit!

My Unparalleled Photography Skills! LOL JK

So I am not a photographer by any means... but I do love photography!
I was lucky enough that my mom and Rob bought me a nice DSLR Camera for my Birthday last year and I love to play around with it.

I was going through my Iphoto and decided to share a few of my fav pics I have taken in the last year.
I love each of these pics for different reasons. Some for the raw emotion they show, some for their quirkiness and some just because I love the people in them.

Enjoy!