3 on the 3rd

Hello Everyone! I know I most definitely have some 'splainin' to do and I'll get to that later this week. I've missed you all terribly and I'm glad to finally be back.

With that said, today is a day to celebrate because it's my 3rd Wedding Anniversary! I think this one is extra special because it's 3 years on the 3rd. Would you like to know how we celebrated? With McDonald's for dinner. That's just how we roll sometimes and I'm sure we'll make up for it by doing something fun over the weekend.



Time really flies and it's crazy that on this night 3 years ago, we were saying our "I do's", dancing our first dance, cutting the cake and spending an incredible evening with all of our family and friends.

Geof really is as good as they come and I'm blessed to have him by my side. He's my rock and my best friend. He picks me up everytime I'm down and I honestly believe that we can get through anything as long as we have each other. This past year has really proven that. I love him with all my heart and that will never change. Love you babe!

My Wedding, M-Z

Thank you so much for your sweet comments on my last wedding post and here I am wrapping it up! I have to say, it’s been fun taking a walk down memory lane considering that we’re going on 3 years as husband and wife.

Music

The music at our ceremony was traditional and nothing out of the ordinary.

Our wedding party was introduced to Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake and we walked in to Crazy in Love by Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Our first dance was to the song Stolen by Dashboard Confessional.

The DJ company we hired was so good and kept everyone dancing all night long.


First dance

Newlyweds

You bet!



Old, New, Borrowed, Blue

I wasn’t crazy about this tradition, but went along with it anyway.


I did love my monogrammed garter!

Photography

Hiring Cindy Guessford was the best decision we made throughout the whole process. She was incredible to work with and I’m so impressed with what a great job she did shooting our wedding.


I love this picture of our engagement pictures. We used this as our guestbook.

Question Popping

Geof proposed to me at Longwood Gardens two days before Christmas. It was a magical night. The whole proposal story is here.


Fountains at Longwood

Reception

Our reception was held at Drexelbrook. It was a beautiful venue and I loved the ballroom our reception was in. They treated us like royalty



Shoes

I went with an ivory d’orsay pumps from Liz Rene.



Trash The Dress

I was all about doing this and kind of lost interest. I guess I could still do it if I wanted to. I had a whole plan to go to the beach and get in the ocean with my dress.

Unique

Details were very important to me. For favors, we had candy apples to fit in with the whole fall theme from our favorite place, Linvilla Orchards. We also had a candy buffet, which everyone raved about.





Vows

We went with the traditional vows. We both would have been too nervous to recite our own.



Wedding Woes

The Pastor admonishing our photographer in front of everyone was pretty bad, but now we all laugh about it. Full story here.

X-Rated

Eww!

Young Kids

We only had a flower girl (my little cousin). She was the cutest!



Zzzz

Our wedding and reception were on a Friday night and it was more of a party atmosphere in my opinion. Saturday was spent relaxing with our family and then Sunday we left for our honeymoon!



Thank you so much for reading!

My Wedding, A-L

The fabulous Meghan of My Perfect Compilation Tape (don’t you just love that name?) had this on her blog and I couldn’t help but play along.

For those that don’t know, Geof and I met in April of 2005 through online dating. I had a good run of losers in my life and was ready for a good guy. I honestly feel blessed and so lucky to have a wonderful man like him in my life. I know that’s an incredibly cliché thing to say, but it really is the truth.

We were engaged in December of 2006, bought our house in April of 2007 and were married in October of 2008. Our wedding day was absolutely beautiful and something I’m so proud of. Everything came together exactly as I wanted it to and I married the love of my life!

Attending:

118

Bridesmaids:

I had four bridesmaids, one of which was my cousin and the other 3 are friends.



Cake:

I got carried away with this! We had two cakes. One regular cake and one baby cake that was a replica of the larger cake to display on the sweetheart table. I was so impressed with how this turned out and the cake was delicious.


Big Cake


Baby Cake

Dress:

My dress was an ivory, strapless, A-line dress from Ella Rosa. I loved it and had tried on so many that I never thought I’d find the one. I loved my train and how it bustled. The dress shop I purchased it from could not have been better from the service to the price.



Engagement:

I did a post on my engagement story here. It was seriously like a fairy tale and that day stacks right up there with my wedding day. Seriously. We were engaged for a year and half. It gave me plenty of time to plan.


The night we got engaged right before he popped the question!

Flowers:

My bouquet was pretty traditional and consisted of lots of roses and some stephanotis. I also had some pretty crystals in my bouquet to really make it pop. The bridesmaids had colorful fall bouquets and I love how they turned out.





Groomsmen:

Geof had 4 of his buddies in the weeding party. The pic I’ve posted only has 3. There’s a story behind that here and it's a funny one.



Honeymoon:

We had a pretty traditional Honeymoon and stayed at The Royal in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. We relaxed a ton by the swim-up bar and met some other great couples that were honeymooners too. The highlight of our trip was going to Xcaret for the day. We went snorkeling, then swam with the dolphins and caught the Mayan show that evening.


The view from our balcony. We even had a Hammock out there. I remember reading a little bit of Twilight out there everyday.



Invitations:

I loved everything about our invites. They were custom designed by Allison Barnhill. She created a pretty fall motif and carried it through all of our wedding related paper goods.


Our invitations!


This was at the top of our invites on the inside


Pretty paper goods for the reception

Justice of the Peace:

We were married by Pastor Richard at Saint Matthew.



Keepsakes:

I kept a ton all of the important stuff and sold the rest on The Knot. The Trash to Treasure board is amazing for that!

Ladies Night:

My bachelorette weekend will go down as one of the best times ever! My bridesmaids planned a weekend away in Atlantic City. The main party night consisted of a great dinner with the boys at The Continental, after which we went our separate ways to really get the festivities started. The girls took me to a fun show at Showboat and then we went to Mixx at The Borgata to end the night.


So much fun!

I’ll be doing M-Z soon, so stay tuned for that!

Weekend recap

Friday, I worked late and was finally able to break away for a quick trip to Target and dinner with my mom and Geof at Pinnochio’s. It was crowded with high school students after the football games. We couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

Saturday, we went to Deidre & Jason’s wedding in the city. The church was so pretty and the bride looked stunning. Deidre honestly looked like a little princess right out of a fairytale. After the ceremony, we headed to a bar in the city called Misconduct. It had a Nautical theme and they had a great selection of different beer on tap. We had a nice time and it was a fun way to get us in the party mood before cocktail hour. We went straight to the reception from the bar. The venue was gorgeous and overall it was a beautiful night.


Pretty church


Geof and Nick (and photobomber)


Colleen, me and Krystie


Coll, me and Deidre

Sunday, Geof and I went up to Horsham. There was a makeup palette from Urban Decay that has been impossible to find and Ulta was holding the last one for me. I have to give Geof credit for this. He was in Boston all week for work and tracked down one for me, but it was too far from his hotel. The nice lady in Boston found the one in our area and had them hold it for us. I love Geof, as not many men would be calling around to different beauty stores trying to find makeup. The colors are beautiful and this is so worth it. It is 12 full size shadows, a double ended 24/7 eyeliner and mini primer potion.


Urban Decay Naked Palette

After Ulta, we went to lunch at 99 and then to Regal to catch a horror double feature. We never get any trick-or-treaters, so we figured why not? We saw Paranormal Activity 2 and Saw 3D. I was on scare overload and can say that it was not easy to fall asleep last night. Both were good and Saw was the first movie I’ve seen in 3D (since the 80’s). It was pretty cool.


Scary movies on Halloween...perfect!

Tagged!

I was tagged by Meghan at The Perfect Compilation Tape. I discovered her blog in the summer and she is super sweet. She lives in Chicago with her husband and it’s so fun reading about all of her adventures in life and as a teacher.

1. What kind of hair (color/cut) have you always wanted but never had the nerve to do it? For cut, I have always wanted to try something really different like a graduated bob. I would never have the guts to do it. As far as color, I always wanted to try red. This I did for a short time. It looked good for about 3 days and then faded fast since I’m a blondie.

2. If you haven't been/or could do it over, where would/did you go on your honeymoon? We went to Playa del Carmen, Mexico for our honeymoon and it was pure relaxation. I wouldn’t change a thing about it. We also got to go to Hawaii for our 1st Anniversary and that was the trip of a lifetime. I really want to go back there someday.


Us in Playa del Carmen, Mexico


Hawaii last September

3. What is your dream car? I’m not into fancy cars. As long as it’s dependable and good on gas, that’s fine with me. I’d be happy with a Honda CR-V or Nissan Murano for my next vehicle.

4. If you would move anywhere in the world where would you go? I would either move to the South or live on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

5. What famous lady would you love to be or be bff with? I would go with either Kourtney or Khloe Kardashian. They seem fun, real and I know that we would have a blast.

6. What colors did you do or do you want to do for your wedding? My colors were wine and champagne. We did a fall theme and the colors blended in nicely with everything. I honestly thought the ladies looked so pretty in their bridesmaid dresses.



7. What trashy reality show are you embarrassingly addicted to? I watch a lot of bad reality shows. The one I’m most embarrassed to admit that I watch, but will is the Bad Girls Club. Pure trash!

8. Do you remember your first kiss? How old were you and how awkward was it? Ew and yes. I think I was about 13 and it was not a good kiss.

9. What is your guilty pleasure? A lazy Sunday, curled up on the couch with movies and a blanket.

10. What is your favorite chick flick? There are so many that I don’t think I can pick just one. In no particular order: Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Grease, How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, The Wedding Planner, Legally Blonde…there are a lot.

11. What is your favorite beverage? Diet Pepsi/Coke

12. What is your theme song? So Small by Carrie Underwood. I love this line “While you sit around thinking about what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things time's flying by moving so fast you better make it count 'cause you can't get it back”

13. Who is your style icon? From the past I would say Audrey Hepburn. Now I would say Reese Witherspoon.

14. When was the last time you cried and why? Tuesday. It has been a rough week.

15. What playlist/cd is on your CD player/iPod right now? I’ll go with what’s in my car. The past few days I’ve been listening to the Purple Rain soundtrack. I love Prince!



16. What is your favorite dessert? Cupcakes!



If you made it all the way through this, congrats! You probably know more about me than you needed to.

I tag anyone that wants to play along. Please let me know if you do so that I can come and read your Q&A.

I wish everyone a lovely weekend!

Weekend recap

Friday, we went out for a quick bite to eat with my mom. We came home after that and I started working and continued to do so until about 1AM. Not fun. In between some reports running, I managed to do my nails. That’s about as exciting as it gets.


OPI Catch Me In Your Net (cute mini bottle part of a set thanks to Gwen)

Saturday was spent relaxing at home and doing some cleaning. The work week was incredibly long and I needed to lay low.

Sunday was our 2nd Anniversary and I ended up working a full work day and then some (at home). It’s not pleasant when work has to take priority over your personal life. Unfortunately it’s what has to be done sometimes. Geof was very understanding and it worked out for him because he was able to watch uninterrupted football. Neither of us were in the mood for cooking, so we got Pizza Hut for dinner. Later in the night we watched Dexter and Desperate Housewives.

Geof got me the sweetest card for our anniversary and wrote some things that meant more to me than anything. He also got me a Pandora bracelet with a cupcake charm. It might sound silly, but whenever we travel somewhere, I’m always trying to hunt down a cute cupcake shop, so this was perfect for our anniversary. I can’t wait to add more and fill it up with meaningful things.



I’m lucky and blessed to have found a wonderful man like him. We both said that we couldn’t believe how fast the past 2 years has gone by. We’ve shared some wonderful times and made some great memories. I can’t wait to make many more!

Weekend recap

Friday, Geof and I went to Kristen and Sean’s wedding. These are two very dear friends to us and it meant the world to be there and share their special day. The ceremony was outdoors and they were married as the sun was setting. They’re photos are going to be so beautiful and Kris looked absolutely gorgeous. The reception was lovely and the food fantastic. I loved our table, simply because I knew everyone we were sitting with and there was zero awkwardness.


Us at the wedding


The new Mr. & Mrs.


Ladies

Saturday, Geof and I ran some errands and briefly stopped off at a craft fair. I wasn’t really impressed with anything so we headed off to the Greek Festival. Neither of us had ever been to a festival like this and after going, we would definitely do it again. It was at a Greek Orthodox Church and they had a carnival, shopping and lots of Greek food. We had a nice time and the weather was perfect. We got home early in the evening and spent the night relaxing and catching up on the DVR.


Greek Loukamades


Us at the festival

Sunday was filled with lots and lots of football. Geof and I made a deal. I don’t know if you or any of your men watch a show called The League, but we have an agreement that Saturdays are my day and we’re calling it “Fantastic Lady Day” (like they do on The League) Sundays are for Geof. The past 2 weeks this has worked out well. I can see us bending the rules every now and then, but for now it’s fun!