happy march!

Hello friends - can you believe a whole month has passed without an update? I can! One of our New Year's resolutions was to be less busy...and that hasn't really worked out for us yet! However, I was inspired to start (or finish) blogging again after going to a workshop by Elizabeth Schneider. She keeps up a blog called Wine for Normal People.

So although I won't be blogging about the wedding tonight...I will be giving you a quick update! Ryan & I welcomed an addition to our family this past weekend. No, I wasn't pregnant. We adopted a cat! We really wanted a dog, but decided it wasn't fair to have one in an apartment, esp when we both work 9+ hour days. Plus, we LOVE cats that are like dogs :) The kind that like to snuggle, play, listen to you, etc. Ryan made an instant connection with our cat and it was a done deal. Also, he's leash trained!!! How many cats do you know that are like that?

Anyway, here's his profile on Petfinder.

I really wanted to name him Kumquat since he's a cute little orange tabby. Ryan started calling him Champ. So we decided to call him Champion Kumquat! And here are some pictures of him:

8/29/09 - back to the marriott

So after we finished getting our hair done at the salon, we headed back to the Marriott to get dressed. My wonderful sister-family/hostesses - Raegan, Michelle, and Tashi - brought mini bottles of champagne with cute straws! It was a great time to just chill and relax before heading over to the church!






Dress packed up & heading out the door!

8/29/09

Happy 2010!

Now let's finish blogging about our wedding day :) Slowly but surely!

After the rehearsal dinner, we went out with our wedding party to one of our favorite places, the Bee's Knees. I took it easy because of the flu, and we girls headed back for a little slumber party fun at the Marriott. I'm not sure what the boys did, but I think they probably had a lot of fun at their golf cottage.

Then the morning of our BIG DAY arrived! I was up early with Holly and went back to my parents' house to put finishing touches on stuff.




Then we headed to Halo to get our hair & make-up done/bridesmaid luncheon. I have some funny pictures of my bridesmaids that I'm sure they do not want published to the world :) But I have a picture of me getting airbrushed and pictures of family & friends who came out to hang out with us.

sorry!

Man, we are really horrible at blogging. Thankfully we'll both have the week of Christmas off, so maybe we can catch up on some stuff then! It's certainly been an exciting end to 2009.

We are sending out Christmas cards with a few of our favorite pictures from the wedding, so be on the lookout! The cards also have our new address - we moved OTP on December 1st, a big step after living ITP for so long! (for you non-ATL-ers: OTP = outside the perimeter of 285, ITP = inside the perimeter). It's been an adjustment, but it's fun having "our" place now.

So, we hope you enjoy the cards, have a safe & wonderful holiday season, and we will make it our New Years resolution to finish blogging about the wedding and keeping the blog updated on our adventures as newlyweds!

Love!

Ryan & Corrie

My side of things

Long time no post for me. We've had a fun, and busy, first few months. We're moving soon, which is really exciting, and I'm sure there will be a post on that one day.

None the less, its time for me to blog about my side of things. I left the Atlanta area for Augusta a day or two after Corrie, after picking my brother up from the airport. We traveled out to North Augusta, SC, which is where our golf cottage (cabin, lodge, house...anything more manly than cottage) was, and waited there for a bunch of the other guys. It was a good time, we had 4 BR, 4 Ba house with full kitchen and living room and stuff. We also had (best thing) free access to the driving range. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures right now, as I didn't have a camera. We'll see what I can dig up.

On rehearsal dinner day, in the morning, I learned that Corrie had the flu (maybe swine) and was really...shocked. She never gets sick, so it was crazy to think that of all times, now she was. I spent the day running errands and helping her in any way that I could. We opened a few gifts, and did the rehearsal and dinner, it ended up being pretty good!

After the dinner, we all (girls and guys) went and hung out in/around downtown Augusta. It was a really good time, and was great to cut any nervousness. The guys went back to the cabin and hung out for the rest of the night, and I got some sleep.

We woke early-ish the next morning to go set up tables and chairs at our reception area, and then all had breakfast at a Waffle House in North Augusta. Then we went back to the cabin and chilled out until it was time to get ready.


Aaaaaaaaand that's all I'm going to leave everyone with for now. I'm sure we'll have a wedding post up soon with pictures, and then the honeymoon too! Thanks for reading, leave some comments!!

rehearsal dinner

Not sure if anyone is even reading any more, hehe. Since we are so slow in updating! I've tried convincing Ryan to blog about some of his events and his side of things, but haven't been too successful yet, hehe. I'll try to wrap up at least my side of things soon.

After rehearsal, we had dinner at Julian Smith BBQ pit. Ryan's parents rented out the building, and Ryan's dad cooked bbq for everyone. The sides were provided by Roux's catering, and my sister did the grooms cake. Everything was delicious!






The amazing cake! Holly should really open her own bakery. It was four layers of different flavor cake, pound cake, chocolate cake, mmmm. She did a fondant icing in the shape of GT's Bobby Dodd stadium, decorated in Tech colors and everything! Sooooo delicious!

rehearsal

I stole these from Lauren, one of my bridesmaids. I thought everything went pretty well, we had a tired ringbearer though so it took a lot of time to work with him. Note for anyone putting kids in your wedding, they may reeeeally hate rehearsal and you may spend a lot of time trying to convince them to walk down the aisle that night, and they may not do it or cry a lot...you get the picture. But don't worry! Because the day of, the kids will really surprise you and do a perfect job! Now I wish we hadn't fussed so much on rehearsal night, because our ringbearer was really perfect the next day.

pow wow with Raegan, our good friend & wedding planner


getting set up...my minnie bride hat from Lauren on!


with the maid of honor & our officiant Dr. Jon snuck his way into the background


check out my AWESOME bandaid from my shots earlier that morning


practicing the unity candle sans flame