Get Me to the Church On Time

With a wedding party of 18+ people, transporting them all around could get out of hand. How many limos would it take to transport them!?! How many can we afford!?! What's the answer to our plight? Lucky for us we didn't have took to hard. Black Swan Antique Limo Service in Bethlehem, CT had our answer.

Party Limo!

The 22 person party bus will hold the whole wedding party. We went to visit the place and it was spotless, the limos were ridiculously clean and the people really nice. We also were excited to learn that the party bus runs on BioDiesel, which goes along with our green/minimalist wedding plans.

The party bus will pick the groomsmen and myself up at the Heritage and bring us the church. Then it'll zip on over to Rachel's where the the beautiful Bride and Bridesmaids will be waiting.

We really like that everyone will be together on the way to the Heritage after the ceremony. Its going to be a fun ride!!

Manzanita Trees (Part One)

Yes... there is more than one part for this one and yes, this post is about trees. My parents could stop scratching their heads and actually see what we have been talking about for 14+ months. They thought I was insane for buying tree branches from Nettleton Hollow when we essentially we live in a forest! Chris and I worked on our manzanita trees last weekend. We will show you the final product in a future post when we get the hanging votives on them.


*DISCLAIMER: Please excuse the mess of the garage. I am in the process of packing and hording furniture. My parents have been without a garage for a VERY long time and it is all my fault.

This is a gratuitous picture of Chris and a bit of the tree. He's so dreamy!

First, my mom painted "R" and "C" on the black pots that we got from Jamali Gardens. We got square Styrofoam from Jo-Ann Fabrics and a little tub of joint compound from Home Depot. Chris drilled a hole in the styrofoam so the tree would fit and then put the compound in the hole.

Here is the tree stuck into the compound. To make sure that the tree would stay in place while the compound was drying, we hot glued the edges where the tree met the styrofoam.


Then we took little round rocks that we got from IKEA and hot glued them to the styrofoam.

Then we filled (hot glued) in all the cracks between the rocks with reindeer moss that we got from Jo-Ann Fabrics. We made sure we hot glued extra moss at the base of the tree to cover the compound. Essentially, all of the styrofoam is covered. (Better pictures will follow!)

So, the whole thought is that we will string our placecards between the two trees in the cocktail hour room. We are really happy with how they came out!

Mini Aussie Pups

Baby Darcy is here!!!  The pups were born last night. 

We are going to get one of the red ones. 

Since they were born early we'll be able to get her right after our honeymoon. 

They look like fetuses.

Oh Give Me A Home...

It's official. We are moving to Hamden, CT. We just chose our apartment and put through our deposit and applications. The apartment will be open June 13th, so we will be moving things in and getting settled bit by bit before the wedding.

The apartment is in a large complex called Town Walk at Hamden Hills. (See the pictures below!) Our apartment's entrance is on the first floor; however, it is situated on a hill so we have balcony porch off our bedroom. It has a nice view of the woods. It will be just like home! It also is on the end of the building so our bedroom has an extra window. Natural light galore! The apartments butt up against the canal trail. Chris will be able to hop on his bike and have a very safe ride to work every morning.

We are excited to be coming home to such a great place! (And of course, eachother!)

We were Movie Stars.

There are pictures that we like more than others... but here they are in all of their glory. Can you spot the "zombie couple" picture??