Weddings Galore

Seems our lives are surounded by happy couples and wedding talk these days. Between my sisters recent marraige, our own wedding plans and now my youngest sisters. Thats right folks my sister Kelly has now decided to jump in the fold as she has recently become engaged. Congratulations Kelly and Alex! I look forward to being a part of your special day.

 

Family Dinner Weekend

As I have mentioned before my oldest sister Kara and Andy her long time boyfriend were recently married in a small ceremony in Chapel Hill, NC. Well last weekend the whole LaFleur-Willard clan got together to celebrate these two wonderful people and their marraige. We had a great time staying in Chapel Hill at the Rigmor House playing kickball, horseshoes, singing around the bonfire and eating!  Check out   http://andykara.smugmug.com/ for all the photos.

Toasting the happy couple

The sisters

 

Save the Date

We have finally sent all the save the dates out. It is a big relief to have those in the mail. We had an appointment at the post office for 8am Saturday to get our passports so we made it our goal to place the save the dates in the mail then. On top of getting our Save the Dates in the mail we also got our passports ordered. Which we will definetly need for our honeymoon to Greece! This will be Anthonys first trip outside the U.S. and we are very VERY excited about it! We have our hotel booked but we still have to work out the flights and other details. No matter what it’s sure to be an awesome trip.

 It was a very early and productive Saturday morning for us and to reward ourselves we got coffee and bagel sandwiches from Market Street Bagels! They are, in my opinion at least, the BEST bagels in town. All made fresh and they have tons of different flavors. I had the jalopeno chedder bagel, spicy and very yummy! 

A special Thank you to Anthony’s Mom and cousin Jeanette – We couldn’t have gotten the Save-the-Dates all done in time if it wasn’t for your help,  Thank You – Thank You!!

 

Yum Yum

We had our menu tasting last weekend at Duffy’s for the reception. Everything was beautifully presented and very delicious! I can’t wait for everyone to try all the yummy food and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did.

We have made a lot of progress with planning in the past few weeks. We now have photography and dj, I am very relieved to have those taken care of. Anthony and I did a ton of research to find the perfect photographer and dj for our wedding. Below are the links to their websites, we went with Knights of the Turntable for the dj and Rachel Naft at RMN Photography for the photographer.  We are confident that they will help make our wedding a memorable day for everyone.

http://www.rmnphotography.com/

http://www.knightsoftheturntable.com/

 

Flora and Fauna

Don’t worry no wild animals (including Sydney) will be present at the wedding. Though I still think it would be cool to have Sydney(our bearded dragon) be the cake topper. Haha.

This weekend we met with the florist Ginger, who happens to be a friend of my Mothers. She was great and took all of my crazy ideas and turned them into some that will be beautiful and unique. I am very excited to see how it all turns out. We decided to go with not just one color for the flowers but 3. Green, Purple and White, though they will all for the most part be used separately since I like monochromatic arrangements. Below is a few of the arrangements that inspired me during my floral search.

 

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All Dressed in White

My dress has arrived!!! I will obviously not be sharing photos of this but I am very excited that my dress has arrived safe and sound. I am doubly excited that I will only need minor alterations mainly in the length -there’s a shocker! Þ

Now that my dress is taken care of all I need to do is find a veil, bridesmaid dresses, and tuxes. yikes!

 

Married!

My sister Kara and her boyfriend Andy were married on Friday! I am so excited and happy for them! Andy has long been considered part of the family but it’s still nice that it’s official. They had a small civil ceremony with only 4 attendants. It was a major surprise to both familys that they had secretly wed on Friday morning. Check out her blog for all the details -> Kara & Andy Got Married

Kara and Andy on the steps of the old courthouse

 

Busy Bee.

Wow, a lot has been going on over the last few months. First off I ordered my dress! yay! My Mom and 2 of my sisters, Kelly and Laura,  went with me to try on dresses a few months back. I think they had a good time playing dress up with me. I finally made my decision and ordered my dress about 3 weeks ago, now its just a waiting game to see when it arrives.

Anthony and I also took a vacation to Orlando, Florida earlier this month with his family. We had a great time and yes we went to Disney! We also went to a winery, hung out by the pool, and a water park(by far the best part). It was very nice to get away from the office and just relax and have fun for a week. The beautiful weather was definitely a bonus, sunny in the mid-80s the whole week!

Anthony, Jessica and his family

Last week I got together with Jessica and Liz, two of my brides maids to shop for their dresses. We had way too much fun, I think I enjoyed shopping for their dresses more than my own! Afterwards we all went to dinner. It was nice to just hang out with the girls. Ashley living in Louisiana unfortunatly couldn’t come with us, but loved our choices and quickly went to try them on at her local bridal store. Now all we have to do is make the final choice and order. Though we might go back one more time just to make sure. We will see…

 

Feeding the Soul

Thank you to everyone who voted in our Menu Poll. The votes have been tallied and the menu is now set. We met with Eric from Duffy’s last week and have come up with a great menu for the reception. I am particularly excited about the appetizers! We will finalize the menu and have our tasting in January, we are both looking forward to that!  

We have also had our first meeting with Father Collin, who will be marrying us. It went really well and we now have the church reserved for September 12, 2009.