Chicago-Wedding and Peter Pan

As many of you know Chicago holds a place in my heart. It is where I called home for 12 years and the city that turned me from a small town girl into a big city girl. Kirby and I try to get back there at least once a month so I can get my city fix and so I don't get to grumpy with not having a million different places to choose from to eat, shop, visit, etc. :) I truly love the sounds of the city :)

This past weekend we went into the city for several reason but the main one was for the wedding of Julie Barger and Alex Mazzanti on Friday afternoon. We had a great time and made some new friends along the way.

On Saturday we went to some of my favorite places, had a lovely dinner out and then we went to see Peter Pan 360. If you have not heard about this you should check it out. It is the play Peter Pan but instead of it being in a normal theatre it is in a BIG tent with the stage in the middle and seating all around. The performance was great and the special effects were even better. This was a great event!!! I would highly recommend it, it was great for kids of all ages "Never Grow Up"!!

Then on Sunday on our way back to Michigan we visited one of our favorite wineries, The Round Barn in Union Pier to stock up on some wine. All in all it was a great weekend filled with all sorts of fun stuff!! Plus a bonus for Kirby is I have gotten my city fix for a little bit so I'm not so grumpy about missing the city. But it will only be a few weeks and I will have to go back again other wise this city girl will get grumpy again.

Life

We know that we have been very bad at doing blog posts since we got married and I have to say there really is not a very good reason for it. Other then LIFE happens! We have been busy spending time with friends, family and most importantly each other. So we will try to be better about posting more often than we have been. In the meantime, here are a few random photos from the past few months to give you a glimpse what we have been up to!

Hawaiian Honeymoon!!!

Yes we know this post has been along time coming. Who knows where the last ten months have gone other than by fast. For our lovely honeymoon we went to Hawaii as neither of us had been there and thought we would support the great USA. We had a great time and would recommend if you have not been there to put it on your "Bucket List". Sit back and relax, its long!

Wedding Photos: Part Cuatro

Its been a long time coming, and we are very sorry that we have been so delinquent in our duty of sharing more wedding photos with you all! Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and we were just having way too much fun living it! But on the eve of the Blizzard of 2011, we figured tonight is the night!!!!

A very special thanks goes out to Jen Badalamenti and Jen Grant for capturing all of the special moments from our wonderful day! Without the two of you, none of these blog posts would be possible, and the memory of the day would not have been so wonderfully. We can't thank the two of you enough!

Another very special thanks goes out to Ann Benjamin. You made our day absolutely perfect with all your work on the flowers and decorations! We loved everything you did for us. It all turned out spectacular! There were a few moments when we might have been second guessing the "no tent" decision, but it all worked out and the day was beautiful! Again, thank you so much Ann!!!!

A friendly warning to those of you that want to view all the photos in this post, we have included all the photos from the Reception. There was just no way we could pick and choose which photos to share, and because so many of you are in the photos, we wanted to share them all. That being said, prepare yourself for 341 photos! Enjoy!

p.s. Check back soon for some honeymoon photos in another blog post!

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!