Hello all!! Finally, an update after a week of just insane craziness!!!
Last Friday were our wedding picture retakes, taken by one of my best friends (and ex-Kohl's coworker) Sasha. She had volunteered even before we got our photos from our original photographer back, as she knew how upset we were. We had to re-rent hubs's tux, which was really no big deal, as he had gotten it for free for the actual wedding due to the amount of groomsmen tuxes bought. I got my hair and makeup done by the same friends who did it on the actual day, and neither charged me or allowed me to even think about paying them (which really drives me crazy because they didn't HAVE to do that...but they would then say that we SHOULDN'T have had to redo our pictures...). We then went back to the Yorktowne and were greeted by who is honestly the BEST wedding coordinator I could've ever dreamed of having!! She let us go back up to the roof to take pics, and gave us the entire run of the hotel. Also, I had offhandedly mentioned something about how I had never gotten chocolate covered strawberries the day of the wedding (mainly because I was all over the place and forgot)...15 minutes later, Super Wedding Coordinator comes back with a plate of them, no charge! Seriously, everything we went through on Friday more than made up for the horror of our original photographer. We spent FIVE hours taking pictures with her...thankfully the rain held out...it threatened all day, but nothing! Super amazingly awesome experience!
Afterward, we picked up Sasha's husband and went to the new Buffalo Wild Wings the next town over, where we met some of their friends. It was such a great end to a great night!
Saturday, we joined my parents, hubs's parents, and a bunch of their friends and went on a murder mystery cruise that went around the Baltimore Inner Harbor. It was a lot of fun, the food was AMAZING (filet and crab cakes!), and while I did not guess the correct killer (it always ends up being the most obvious one...I guess I watch too many eps of Law and Order: SVU and am always looking for NOT the obvious one! lol), one of my parents' friends did and ended up winning two free tickets to come back!
Sunday was hubs's grandparents' 60th anniversary party. =) After that, we went to Sasha's, and we picked up our pictures! We have 467 of the most BEAUTIFUL pictures EVER. I seriously wish we could've had her as our photographer on the day of...I can't even imagine how great she could've taken our wedding party and family pictures if she did this well with just us! I will post some here if you'd like!
The rest of the week, I think I kinda mentioned in and around comments. We lost power Monday, cleaned up Tuesday, and I've been trying to work on thank you cards and cleaning the rest of the week. I am looking forward to the weekend...spending time with friends and celebrating my friend Lindsey's birthday Saturday, then one of my bridesmaids Amber is having her first baby shower Sunday. While I might not want children of my own, I certainly do love celebrating other people's babies! More nieces and nephews for hubs and I! =)
Gotta ask this here before I go...is anyone else having trouble with MMC radio skipping? I tried listening earlier and after about 2 minutes, it started skipping excessively and I had to keep refreshing the page. I thought maybe it was something with my computer, but now I am listening to a Christmas station on Pandora and it is just fine. Is it just me or is anyone else having this problem? =(
Have a good Friday, everyone!!
