A Brief Glimpse - Clothes

I made my dress and Eric's vest. I also wore a pair of hand-knit socks (made a couple years ago) and ended up *not* using the cowl/veil I knit over the summer.

A Brief Glimpse - the Food

Everything was self-made except the fruit salad (which was from Mother's Market, and all organic) and the nut clusters (from Fresh&Easy); and everything except the obvious meat (tri tip and pork) was vegetarian!

 Appetizers: Salsa-cream cheese pinwheels, caprese on sticks, nut cluster things (not pictured: olive-pesto puffs)

The main meal: fruit salad, pasta salad, sundried tomato sausage (not pictured: Jen's green bean potato salad)

Slicing up the tri tip (strangely, no pictures of the pork)

The Cake! Baked and decorated by Mom, designed and taste-tested by EJ. He made the cake stand, too.

A Brief Glimpse - Crafts

Some (professional!) shots of the wedding-day crafts taken by Mod Photography (who I ::cannot:: say enough good things about...will get their own post later!)

 My bouquet

Centerpiece

 Centerpiece

 Favors masquerading as logs

 Favors masquerading as CD's

 Guest Book

 Wedding pennants

 Wedding quilt!

 Felt decorations

Brief Update

We are still enjoying our last two days of honeymoon-ing in San Francisco, but ModPhoto has updated their blog with some pictures from our wedding!

Eric and Vanessa's Viking Wedding

On the First Day of Married Life...

I woke up. Then I packed up an immense amount of "stuff" from the wedding ceremony, helped pack three cars, and drove back down the mountain with my Husband.

Yesterday was a beautiful, hectic, suprising day that I shared with people that I love and respect. It could not have been better.

Updates and pictures when we return from our honeymoon in San Francisco.

Crunch Time

It feels like there is a LOT left to do, and only 3 days to do it in. Well,  2 days, if you discount driving time.

In reality, there is a very limited number of projects left to complete, and most of those are in the final stages. Thanks to all the hands we have had helping out for the past couple of weeks.

Next post will either be via BlackBerry, a quick "OMG!" update; or after the Big Day. Wedded bliss, here we come!

Showerlette Review

The showerlette (part shower, part bachelorette) on Saturday was great. Very low-key and laid back, which is pretty much what I was hoping for.

Jen made some fantastic food (fresh gaspacho, a simple salad with vinagrette, 2 kinds of stuffed mushrooms) as well as a cheese + cracker plate and dips with dippers; and mimosas (aaand, pretty much whatever I wanted to drink).

She also decorated (she made the door deco in my last post), and Karen went all-out (as expected/suspected) and had simple framed photos of EJ + myself throughout the house.
We played a few games (the word search became amazingly competitive!) And spent a lot of time socializing.

fMIL made a gorgeously simple cake (carrot cake, one of my faves); Karen + Jen put together a great "well wishes" type of book from all the attendees; and later on Sam and Wolfe spent some time with us before they all left.

At the end (we were all kinda tired), the 3 of us womenfolk watched "Never Been Kissed" (Jen hadn't seen it, and its one of a very short list of romantic comedies I enjoy).

Like I said, very laid back and relaxing sort of day. Just what I wanted!