Shower of Love

Our shower was terrific. It was our first group event that celebrated our plans to wed, so it was a big deal. We both had butterflies in our stomaches as we drove across the Brooklyn Bridge to the restaurant. But those butterflies quickly flew out the window as we entered a room filled with so many people we loved--and with vows they'd written for us! One of the vows that pleased Jonathan was that Amanda would promise never to force him to eat his vegetables. There were vows that gave Amanda a laugh: Jonathan promised to obey Amanda (interesting word to use and hey, if someone's got to do it). The above picture is of Amanda keeping her promise to Jonathan to NEVER STOP DANCING!

BIG THANKS to the Ladies of Sanity and Laughter for creating such a loving event for us.

Thank you too, to all our shower guests for helping us create a fabulous beginning to our new lives together. Whether you were there for ten minutes or you were there for all four hours, your presence, your loving words, the pictures you shared and for many of you the gift of wine--a symbol (and yes drinkable) of joy and to live life to the fullest, were and are so appreciated. We love you all dearly.

Lots to celebrate

Today is the bridal/groomal shower! And the weather is helping out with the whole shower idea--it's pouring! YAY!
The dress fits and Amanda feels great in it!
We did a walk through Bubby's with our florist, Fonda from Zuzu's Petals, and the flowers are going to be lush and fabulous!
Next week is our tasting! Yum!
And we finally got to sleep in this morning after a very hectic work/wedding planning week. Sleep is an amazing thing.
WOOHOO!

Toronto

That's where Amanda's dress is. Toronto. So no fitting. Not even an apology from the boutique who called the day of the fitting to ask if we could reschedule. So instead a lovely dinner was had by Amanda (two drinks total), our Moms (one drink collectively) and Aunt Judie (one drink). (Really delicious food at the Essex Restaurant!) Hopefully the dress will be ready by next week or one or all of us may explode. Yay.

Fittings

Jonathan's suit hangs in the closest.
Amanda will have her first fitting this Tuesday. (hoping she still likes how she looks in the dress)
Lady of Laughter has been fitted and looks gorgeous.
Lady of Sanity will be fitted this Thursday.
Flowergirls' dresses have been ordered!
Parents of the Bride are working on their fittings as well.
Wedding bands are in our possession.

And more importantly vows have been formulating in our brains.

It's all coming together and yet stress looms on Plaza Street East. We are so pleased that we heard from several of you saying how much you like our invitations and 12 of you have sent back a reply of "YES WE'RE COMING!" And yet, we're exhausted and little things just keep popping up to make us feel a bit wonky. We laugh and tell each other it's all going to be okay. And usually we believe it.

We are once again excited by this whole wedding thang

We love our wedding officiant, Kevin Bartlett. In the midst of checking off all our lists and chaos of finalizing details, Kevin helped us to remember why we're doing all this: us. We are uniting together because we cannot, do not, want to imagine our lives without each other. We talked with Kevin about the ceremony but also about what we expect of our marriage--there's so much more than deciding the perfect wedding colors and who djs the wedding. There's just us and our lives becoming one. We felt rejuvenated after speaking with him and gleeful about celebrating our new life together. We hope you too can join us in our merriment.

Look for your invitation very soon--they're just about ready!

How are those wedding plans going...

Lots of things we're working on and nOtHiNg is definite yet.

Invitations: almost there...kinda.
Florist: three possibilities. may want to create a "wishes for the couple" centerpiece. (more about that at another time).
DJ: working on getting references and demo cds.
Ties for the groomsmen, but oddly enough not for the groom: done
There's more too that hasn't even made the "we're working on it" list.

AND, we're both nursing a cold. Yay.

But it is the Lady of Laughter's birthday so Happy B-Day Ms. Snyder!

Appropriate Ending to the Summer

On Sunday we spent the morning in line for tickets and then spent the evening at Shakespeare in the Park - A Midsummer Night's Dream (an interesting choice for the end of the summer). A very nice performance, in spite of the slightly awkward chronology of title and season. But what Brooklyn summer would be complete without a trip to Coney Island? Not ours, surely. So this Labor Day weekend, along with our friend Joanna, we headed to the amusement park. We ate at Nathan's, walked the boardwalk, played lots of skee-ball and rode the rides. And while we didn't make it to the Freakshow, we managed to have a great time anyway. The Log Flume was very refreshing on the warm summer day, and it was Amanda's first-ever ride on the world-famous Cyclone (possibly the best wooden roller coaster in existence.)