Thursday, October 22, 2009

Reception Review!

The reception was awesome!!! We had such a fun time having wonderful food, dancing and hanging out with our friends and family!

We walked in, and immediately did our first dance.

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Then we had a yummy dinner from Salem Kitchen. While we ate, our photographers were busy taking shots of all the little details!

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Once dinner was over, we made our way around our two crazy long tables to see all our guests. We even took some pictures with some people, like my aunt Esther and cousin Kristin. My aunt wore my dress when she got married too!!

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One of my favorite parts of the night was doing the "Grand March" with my dad. It was our special father/daughter dance that everyone got to participate in it.

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Us ladies (minus Sabrina :-( ) did some karaoke

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We cut our cake

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Our best man and matron of honor gave toasts :-)

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and we danced the night away with our wonderful friends and family!

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I'll be posting more about all the details soon!!!

:-)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I Was Blogged :-)

A lovely knottie has started a wedding blog and she put me on there for having worn my mom's dress! Check her out HERE!!!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Thank You Cards!

I absolutely despise that I haven't written a single thank-you note yet. Buuuuuuuuttttt.... I have good reason :-)

I was waiting for our pro pics to be blogged so that I could make postcards using one of our pro pics!!! Well, they were blogged on Friday, and I ordered the cards today! They should arrive next week.

So don't go judging me yet, because you haven't received your note yet.... it's coming, I promise!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Wedding Day Review!

Here we go..... are you ready? I am!

So Saturday morning I woke up around 7-7:30AM.... I laid in bed and kept waiting for 8AM, when I could call the rental company and let them know about the 45 chairs they shorted me, and how they were going to be delivering them pronto.

8AM- I called rental co. I was nice. No need to be snippy, after all, I already got snippy on their emergency line- and lets face it- snippy can get you nowhere fast sometimes.

8:15AM- back to bed.

9 AM- BM Karen comes in with a wedding gift :-) She thought we'd be up (Me, BM Nicole and BM Liz shared a room). She was all giddy and happy with her coffee and gift. She ploped down on our bed, and gave it to me. I open up the most perfectly personalized cookbook ever! She'd collected lots of pictures of Jeremy and I through the years with our family and friends and put them along with our favorite family recipes! It's awesome, and now sits proudly on a shelf in our kitchen!

10 AM- Elizabeth arrives to do hair and makeup.... gah, we love her! :-)
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12:30 PM- Our Lunch arrives at our hotel room :-)
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2:30 PM- We headed off to Sertoma- and of course I needed gas!
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3-3:45 PM- Was, well, a bit insane. Because of the chair issue I wanted to run make sure everything was alright with that, and I wanted to move some lamps at the last moment. I needed to help Jennifer get the desserts and flowers from the cooler and then get ribbon tied around all the bouquets. We all teamed up together to get the ribbon on the flowers, got dressed and off we went to take pictures!
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3:45-4:30 PM- Because my sister's car had been broken into at the hotel the night before, they had managed to borrow a friends minivan, which worked out perfect to haul us all down to the horse barn to take pictures!
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meanwhile- the boys were taking pictures too :-)
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Then.... it was time!

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We're married!

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......... Next up, the reception!!! :-)

Friday, October 16, 2009

Changing My Name

Today I am making the trip to the Cabarrus County courthouse to retrieve my marriage certificate so that I can change my name! I will officially be a Horton by the end of the day! :-)

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

New Blog!!!

I've grown to really love documenting my life for people to read. I've decided to continue on HERE. Please hop over and follow :-)

Don't worry, I'll continue to review the wedding weekend here! :-)

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Review: Friday

OK, here we go... I've finally somewhat gotten caught up on work, so here it goes....

Let me start by saying, Thursday before the wedding was busy busy busy. I got up early and drove the doggies up to Conover for boarding. Then ran a few last errands on my way home. I spent the rest of the day organizing, packing the suburban, and putting bouquets together. Then that evening when Jeremy came home from work, we finished packing the truck..... and car. Yes, we had to drive separate to our own wedding weekend... we simply had too much stuff!

So anyway- Friday, right, Friday, we were talking about Friday......

We got up early, showered and packed those last few items. We took off in two different directions. I was headed to Greensboro to pick up the cakes and cupcakes. We ordered them from Maxie B's, the bakery I worked at for 2.5 years while in college at UNCG. I arrived there shortly after 10AM, and had a nice visit with the ladies, picked up our goodies and off I went.

I made my next stop at Salem Kitchen, our catering company, to drop off our final payment. My last stop was Jersey Mikes, Jeremy requested I pick it up for lunch.

Finally..... I was on my way to Sertoma.

I had *planned* to spend 12-4 cleaning and decorating the chapel, hotel and rec hall. With the help of bridesmaid, Melanie and DOC, Jennifer, we unloaded the truck and car, and began working!

Jeremy's parents arrived, and his mom was really sick :-( So she steered clear of all of us! Meanwhile, him and his dad started hanging the white bed sheets around the porch.

I kept wondering where the rentals were (tables, chairs, plates, glasses.... all the jazz I rented for the reception) I had scheduled them for delivery between 1-2 PM..... it was past 2 at this point. I call them, "Oh well, we weren't told you needed them at a certain time, just that you needed them today, they just packed the truck and will be pulling out shortly"

fast forward 2 more hours.... still no rentals..... I call again. "They just left with the truck"

5:30 PM the rentals show up.... LATE.... but thank God.

We start the rehearsal late (the preacher was late, so it all worked out anyway).
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We eat dinner and distribute gifts.
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We then had everyone pitch in and help us set up the reception.... which should have been done that afternoon.... but with no tables, you can't really do much!

Melanie- filling the photo screen with pictures of our parents weddings.
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taking a break from decorating for a photo!
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We get the tables up, and the chairs up..... and that's when I look around and realize we don't have enough chairs!!!! I ordered 115.... they only delivered 70!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At that point I swipe someones cell phone to leave the bitchy-ist voice mail ever on the rental companies "emergency voice mail" (of which I NEVER got a return call). I knew they opened at 8 the next day, so I made a mental note to call them again in the morning.

We proceeded to dress the tables and continue decorating. We finished about 9:15 that night.... I thought it was much much later.... but realized it wasn't too late when I got in the car to drive to our hotel.

Once we arrived at the hotel, I checked in, and went up to our room with my two roommates, Liz and Nicole. They'd given me a king room- not a king suite. So back to the front desk we went, and they fixed it (later I found out that Jeremy was also only given a regular King room and didn't know it was wrong)

Then the bridesmaids (minus my sister) made a trip to walmart, and harris teeter for supplies and champagne!

We spent the evening eating cheese puffs, trail mix and drinking champagne.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

We're Married!!!


We're married!!! :-)

I'll be slowly reviewing the weekend, but for now, there's lots of work to catch up on, and a very messy house to be cleaned!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Our flowers arrived!!!!!

Just before 9AM our flowers arrived!!!

They are beautiful!!!! however, I wish the people at fifty flowers had told me that the white tulips I was ordering were going to be itty bitty..... not the size of "normal" tulips.... so they look a bit dinky compared to the orange ones..... oh well!


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