Wedding Photos: Part Drei

So here is the third installment of photos from our wedding day! Some of you wondered why it took us soooooo long to get from the ceremony to the reception, well your answer is in the second part of this slideshow! We hope you enjoy this much smaller sampling of photos than the previous two wedding blog posts, but you know what that means??? Yup, you guessed it, part four is HUGE!!!!!

Wedding Photos: Part Deux

For those of you who have been waiting with baited breath, here is part two of our wedding photos! Enjoy, and please leave your comments!!!! Check back as there will be a Part Drei! And maybe a Part Quatro! Good sequels never end!

Wedding Photos: Part 1

Here we go! We finally got our wedding photos uploaded so that we could easily share some of them with all of our friends (actually the delay was all my fault). We are not going to force feed all 1425 wedding photos on our viewers, but at the same time, we are wanting to show you a lot! Since we are only about a third of the way through selecting some of our favorites and have almost 150 selected, we thought it might be best to split the photos up over a couple of posts. So without further adieu, here is part one, enjoy!

Changes to our blog

You may notice a slight change to our blog design, and main photo on it. We hope you like the new look, and we are in the process of selecting some of our favorite wedding photos to upload to our blog. Its a daunting project though, as we received over 1400 images from our excellent photographers! Many thanks to Jen Badalamenti and Jen Grant for all your hard work during our special day!

Here's one of the coolest photos we have found so far!

1200 visitors to our blog....

And only 14 comments?! Come on people! Comment! We appreciate you read the posts, we really do, but we would love to read your comments about them! :)

We have photos!!!!!!

We have received an online link to our professional wedding photos! YAY!!!! We will be writing a new blog entry soon with some of the photos in a slideshow (there are over 1400 photos!). Also look for a blog post about the honeymoon and a slideshow for that as well!

Wedding photo slide show

Below is a slide show of photos we have received so far! But we need more, please send yours! If you want a bigger view, you can click on the slide show pictures and be taken right to the Picasa Web album and view a full screen slide show (just click the "full screen" button in the upper left corner of the page, and then mouse over the photo and click the play button at the bottom if it doesn't automatically play). Enjoy!!!!

Wedding Photo Request

We would love to have copies of any photos that were taken at our wedding ceremony and reception! Being that we were the two stars of the show, we didn't feel it was appropriate for us to be snapping photos during the events! :) So that's where all of you come in!

Simply send an email message to kbaker180.wedding@picasaweb.com and in the subject line enter "Wedding". You can then attach up to 20MB of photos (JPG, GIF or PNG) per email and they will get dropped into a special album we have set up. Please send your photos in the original size, not a reduced size. We hope everyone will send the photos you took so that everyone will be able to share in the memories when we post a blog entry with a slideshow of all the photos!!

Thank you to everyone that came to our wedding and we hope you all had a great time, we sure did!

Love,

Erin and Kirby

Find something important in your life and DONATE

Erin & I chose to make a donation to each of these organizations listed below in lieu of spending money on a wedding favor. We hope that everyone found this to be a good "favor" and we invite everyone to make a donation to their chairty of choice.

Wedding Hotel Information

Hello everyone! We wanted to provide anyone that needs a hotel room for our wedding with an easy way to access the reservation website, as the website address is not very user friendly. We have reserved a block of rooms for Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th of June at the Hampton Inn of Sturgis. The custom website to access the hotel with reduced room rates is located right here.

If you prefer other lodging besides the Hampton Inn - Sturgis, there is also a Holiday Inn Express and a Best Western located in the same general area as the Hampton Inn. All three hotels are located within 0.5 miles of the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/90, exit 121).

On the right side of our blog you will find links to some of our favorite websites, including our Knot Wedding Website with all the information you could ever want to know about our wedding! Please take a look at it, and sign the guestbook too!!!

US Open/New York City

This blog posting has been a long time coming but finally we have a few moments to work on it. Back in September over Labor Day weekend Kirby and I made our annual trip (second annual) to New York City to take in the US Open Tennis Tournament and enjoy New York City. We sightsee during the day and take in tennis at night. This year our sightseeing included the top of the Empire State Building at night, the USS Intrepid, Ground Zero and Serendipity 3 for some good ice cream. Besides all the sightseeing we did and the GREAT tennis we took in we went to a Cubs vs. Mets game one day. The game was a ton of fun and it was great to see the Cubs play some where other then the Great Wrigley Field!! We met a lovely couple from Brooklyn who shared with us all sorts of great places to go to eat and places to see. What was really handy is once the baseball game was over we just walked across the street to the tennis center to take in some tennis for the night.

We only had one small issue and that was when we came back to our hotel one night at 2:30 am the hotel was on FIRE, yes I said on FIRE. But it was all under control, there had been a small fire in the parking lot next door to the hotel which caused the hotel to fill up with smoke, no major issues it just made for a long night. All and all it was a great trip!!! We are hoping to be able to go back again this year however we will have to see with the wedding, honeymoon and all that is on the schedule for this summer.

Below is a slideshow of many of our NYC 2009 photos. You wont see any pictures of the WORLD FAMOUS lines at Empire State Building as we spent the extra money for Fast Passes! Definitely do it, you literally walk by thousands of people and right to the elevators, no waiting. We sort of feel bad for all those people that watched us walk by, hmmm, no not really!



And here is a slideshow of photos from our trip to see the U.S.S. Intrepid and a few shots from Ground Zero and of Ellis Island:

Engagement Photo Session

Kirby and I had the honor of doing our engagement photo session in November before the weather turned cold. Our wedding photographer Jen Badalementi - JK Photography was willing to come to Chicago to do our photo session outside in Lincoln Park. We had a great time!! We love our photos and love what Jen did. Here is a small sampling of the images from our session.

Jack Robert Rozema

On September 28, 2009 the Melchi family had a new member added to their family. My sister Erika had a son Jack Robert Rozema. Robert is a family name on both sides: my grandfather's name was Robert, my brother-in-law's name is Robert and my brother-in-law's father's name is Robert. That is a whole lot of Roberts. As you know if you ever look at this blog I already have a niece name Sydney now I have a nephew. All went well with Jack's arrival into the world and we are loving having him in our family.

Sydney (my niece and Jack's big sister, Jack, Auntie E, and Erika (my sister and mother of Jack & Sydney)

Kirby and I checking out Jack

Kirby (Uncle K) holding Jack

Monkeys and Baseball

Back when the weather was warmer and there was no snow on the ground, Kirby and I took his nephew Andrew and my niece Sydney to a White Caps Baseball game in Grand Rapids. It was a sunny, warm July day..oh to have those days back. We had a great day and can't wait to do it again hopefully this summer and maybe we can take them to a Cubs game this year.

Sydney, Kirby and Andrew waiting for the game to start.

Sydney and Andrew having a good time at the game (maybe because we bought them junk food).

The Monkeys doing the YMCA

Sydney and Andrew were able to run the bases after the game. Here they are waiting in line for their turn.

Visiting Hogwarts

When I heard that the Harry Potter's Exhibit was coming to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago I knew Kirby and I would want to go see it. I also thought it would be fun to take Kirby's nephew Andrew and my niece Sydney. So we headed out on a fun filled day to explore the Museum of Science and Industry!!!

When we first entered the exhibit, we were greeted by the Hogwarts Sorting Hat. A select few volunteers from the crowd were chosen to wear the Sorting Hat, and both Sydney and Andrew were chosen. Sydney went first and was placed into the House of Hufflepuff. Andrew was next up and the Sorting Hat decided he was best suited for the House of Ravenclaw! Unfortunately as Kirby found out, photos were not allowed in the exhibit, so no pictures of the kids being sorted.

Andrew & Sydney with their magic wands in front of the Magic Flying Car from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Sydney & Andrew performing a little magic of their own

While we were at the Harry Potter Exhibit we also explored the rest of the Museum. Here Sydney and Andrew are pretending they are a Fireman and an Engineer from 1893.

Andrew & Sydney riding on an old style train, don't they look like they are having fun?!