Flashback Friday (#1)

Now that everything has pretty much settled around the homefront (although, we did welcome a new cousin this morning - happy birth day, Elwood!), how about an overview of our honeymoon? I'm going to stretch this over a few Fridays, which will give me time to figure out which of the 800 photos we took to post...!

We honeymooned in San Francisco. After cleaning up from Wedding Weekend, we left from LA Union Station on Monday morning. Almost missed our train, but quick feet (and stress-induced hero-like strength!) got us on board just in time.


our tired feets


leaving Los Angeles

We took the Amtrak Starlight, which runs up the west coast from LA to the tippy-top of Washington state. The train is double-decker, and some of the cars' top levels are "viewing cars", with clear walls and roofs for some great viewing.


the viewing car

We had a packed cooler for the ride up; 12 hours of travel (straight through to Oakland, then a bus across the bay to San Francisco) and we didn't want to waste our food monies on train food.


snacks





 
some of the sights

It was rainy a bit in the morning; we saw a lot of farmland, then the coast (up around Santa Barbara), then more farmland and what I call "middle America nothingness". It was beautiful, and by the time it got dark there wasn't much to see anyway.

We transferred from the train to a big bus that dropped us off in the center of San Francisco (landmark for me to remember our bus stop: the GAP store), where we sprung for a taxi to get to our hotel, since we had no idea where we were headed. Our taxi driver was the first to wish us a happy honeymoon!

Next installment: the hotel and local neighborhood.

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!