It’s Getting Close!

29 07 2010

So the both of us have been out of touch for the better part of the past 8 months. It’s been a combination of Caroline not knowing what to update the site with, Caroline being busy with work, me being busy with work…and then no work (but the World Cup)…and now work again, and then, well, laziness set in.

Don’t fret…we are back. We have updates. Well, I decided to update the site, so I have updates. The invitations went out about 5 days ago and we are both super excited…the wedding is just  a bit more than 2 months away (seventy three days to be exact)! We absolutely cannot wait to spend the time with our family and friends this October down in  North Carolina!

It’s getting close and lodging should be secured. If you are coming, there are a few different options. You can rent a house for the week (or part of the week), get a hotel room, or, well, pitch a tent on the beach and hope that no one asks you to leave with said tent. Assuming that the first two options are the preferred lodging options…Twiddy is the place to go for a house rental…Google (or Priceline or Hotwire or something along those lines) is the way to go if you need to find a hotel. You’re on your own if you want to pitch a tent – 0 help from us…

From what we hear if you’d like to rent a home for a partial week, give Twiddy a call and let them know. They will more than likely tell you to call back within 6 weeks of the wedding…somewhere around the end of August…and if they have an open home (which they probably will) they will call the owner to see if they’d be open to a half week rental. If you are looking to get a house for the week…because YOU ALL are invited to spend as much of the week in NC with us as you possibly can…and don’t have enough of a crew to fill a whole house, let us know and we will try to put you in touch with a bigger group (and we may know of a couple spare rooms here and there).

If you have any questions at all, please call or email…Caroline (617.792.4730). My phone number, being that I’ve been reading Dan Brown lately (hands up for Robert Langdon), is hidden within the post. Look for it, there are 8 pieces to a phone number hidden within this post (area code is 518…not part of the puzzle).

Keep your eyes peeled and check back often…we are hopefully going to reveal some exciting news soon. After 9 months in the City, Caroline is hoping to be out soon. Fingers crossed for the both of us. We promise to do our best to keep y’all up to date and answer any questions that may arise.

Get excited…we are!!!

-r-


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Categories : North Carolina, updates, wedding

Happy Holidays!

1 12 2009

Holiday season has officially started now. This is the only part of winter that I actually like. I love the decorations, the holiday food, getting together with family and friends, having everything lit up with Christmas lights, holiday movies on TV, everything.

We went to Cleveland to see my family for Thanksgiving. Ryan and my dad started Thanksgiving day by doing a 5 mile turkey trot in downtown Cleveland. They started and ended in front of Browns stadium and the weather was just about perfect for it. It wasn’t too cold and it was nice and sunny out. They both did great and finished with solid times. We went back to my Grandmother’s and had a huge Thanksgiving meal, complete with two large turkeys.

We spent the rest of the trip hanging out around my Grandmother’s, watching some football, took a trip out to my uncle’s in Chagrin Falls, and played some board games. We played Scrabble, Apples to Apples, Imaginiff and Partini. The last two were played with most of my family and we had a great time. Ryan even won at Imaginiff, which means he’s gotten to know my family pretty well.

Now we’re back in the city, Ryan’s back to work and I’m back to looking for work. Tonight we’re heading to a screening of Up in the Air. This weekend we’re going to try to make it up to Saratoga for a night, next weekend is my birthday weekend, then the week after we’re going to The Big Apple Circus. Then comes Christmas and trips to see both families. Looking forward to all of that.

For wedding related news we’ve now booked our caterer too. After talking with many different vendors in the area and going over menu options we choose Carolina Catering Company. I’ve talked several times with Bo Perkins, the owner and chef who is great and has come up with some great ideas for us. We really wanted a relaxed, fun wedding and he’s helping by setting up different food stations. It’s a little more relaxed than a traditional buffet, allows people to be up and moving around more and gives everyone more options for food. We’re going to be doing a tasting when we go down there, hopefully this winter or spring, to finalize everything, but so far I’m really happy with everything.

Another big thing I got accomplished was I got my wedding dress! I got it from Wedding Atelier, who I loved. I went to a couple different places to look at dresses, but wasn’t finding anything I loved. I have time to look still, so I wasn’t worried about it. Jennifer from Wedding Atelier was great and I ended up finding a dress I loved.

Most of the major things have been completed now for the wedding, and we still have 10 months to go. So far my goal of having this be fun and not stressful is working out!


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Categories : adventures, caterer, family

Progress

12 11 2009

A couple more things have been completed. We sent out the Save the Dates, so those should be arriving in everyone’s mailboxes soon. We wanted to get them out early to give everyone time to make plans to join us next year if they can. With our friends and family spread out across the country unfortunately there really was no central location. So we decided to choose a spot that we loved, that wasn’t to far away, was affordable and could also be turned into a week-long vacation. We understand not everyone will be able to make it there, but for those that can we will definitely try and make it a good time.

Also, I booked the photographer yesterday, which I’m excited about. I wanted to have amazing photos to be able to look at and remember the special day with. We booked Michelle Haber Photography. She was picked as “The Knot Best of Weddings” for 2008 and 2009 and I love the work that I’ve seen of hers. I’ve talked to her husband Doug several times and he’s been great.

So that’s another couple things checked off the list of stuff to do. Not having a job has been driving me crazy, I’m definitely over hanging out at home everyday and with the weather getting colder my outings with the puppies are getting shorter. I try to stay productive every day though, and this has meant a lot of the planning for the wedding has been completed. Looks like by the time I do get back to work most of the big stuff will have been completed, which is great!


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A little change in plans

11 11 2009

So after putting some more thought into it and what will work best with the number of people we are inviting and the set up for the caterer we have changed the house where we will be having the wedding. We will now be having it at Rendezvous. It has the outdoor space for the reception as well as some more inside space and a better set up in case we have to have everything inside because of weather (fingers crossed we won’t have to though!) It also has an extra bedroom, which will make coordinating the accommodations for the wedding party a little easier. We’re happy with the choice, so far things seem to be going pretty smoothly.


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Lots of changes…

30 10 2009

My first time getting on here and writing something after Ryan was so nice to put this together. Life has been more than a little crazy recently, finally got the Saratoga house rented, we got a new, bigger apartment in the city and I left my job to come down here. So between packing up the house, deciding what to bring, what to put in storage and what to throw out, getting everything from the house moved down, cleaning the new apartment so it was ready to be moved into, packing and moving Ryan’s apartment and unpacking it’s been a little busy. Add to that me looking for a job and being sick, I haven’t had a whole lot of free time on my hands.

I have started the planning process though, and we’ve started to book a couple things. Most important, we reserved the house where we will be having the reception, the ceremony will be on the beach in front of the house. This is also where we’ll be staying for the week along with the wedding party. The house is Sea Esta, it’s in Corolla in the Whalehead neighborhood. It had just about everything we were looking for, enough bedrooms, a big open space upstairs, right on the beach, and it’s around a bunch of other houses that are available for rent so hopefully everyone will be able to be close-by for the week!

We also booked our officiant, Jay Bowman, really really like him and am excited about that too! Plus, he looks a little like Brett Favre so I think that won Ryan over.

Plus, we ordered our Save the Dates and those should be going out soon. We ordered them from Bobbie, Darren’s mom, and she did great helping us find just what we wanted even though we went in there with really no idea of what we were looking for. If you are ever in need of invitations or any other stationary, we would highly recommend that you contact her.

Hopefully people check back here often, we’ll try to keep it updated with what’s going on. And I really hope that everyone can join us next October on the beach!


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We are Digital!

9 09 2009

In between meetings, conversations, reports, lunch, train rides, and answering emails I somehow managed to get the two of us up and running online! Within hours of the question “You can build us a website…right?” I am proud to say that we are up and running…with a grand total of three domain names nonetheless!

I am very excited to share this event with all of our friends and family and I am very excited to share it with everyone else that manages to find their way here.


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It’s Official…

30 08 2009

…we are getting married! As of Sunday morning, August 30th, 2009 Ryan and Caroline are engaged to be married. Follow us here at www.ryanandcaroline.net as we get ready for the big day.


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