Rehearsal Dinner

My new in-laws threw an amazing rehearsal dinner for Justin and I the day before our wedding, and we had a blast.  We know that traditionally people invite all out of town guests to their rehearsal dinner, but we decided to go a different route since pretty much all of our guests are out of towners.  If we were to do the traditionally rehearsal dinner we would basically be having two wedding receptions.  So, we decided to go with a more intimate dinner including our immediate family and our wedding party.  I am so glad we made this decision, because it gave me a chance to have an awesome dinner with the most important attendants at our wedding!

Sandy chose the Halifax Plantation for the venue.

Here are the invitations…

I’m pretty obsessed with them. Oh and check out the back…

A little V+J action going on.

We had this beautiful little room all to ourselves.

The decorations were a little sneak peak to the wedding decor…

We hung out, had some drinks and ate some finger foods while we waited for everyone to arrive.

Love this photo of our moms!

Had to get a photo of the shiny head club.

The dinner was delicious and Sandy even made these cute menus with our options for the night.

She also made favors for everyone…

They are personalized candy bars…

I love the back!

Such a wonderful night with our families and friends!

 

 

The Ghost of Christmas Past

Remember that thing called Christmas, that thing that happened 3 months ago?  Yup, I’m horrible and I never shared the great things I received that have now been living in my home for 3 whole months.  So, let’s pretend we are back at this day…

When I posed with a boat load of gifts.  Please don’t mind my awesome outfit and hair, this is what I look like when I am pumped to start Christmas day.

Anyway, I got some great stuff from our amazing families and I wanted to share some of those things with you.

First up…

See that awe-mazing bison art on the wall?  Ya, that’s from my parents and I am in LOVE with it.  Lately, I have been pretty into bison, I don’t know what it is, I am just digging them.  I actually picked this guy out and hinted(pretty clearly) to my mom that I would love to hang it in my house.  If you’re wondering, it was created by an artist named Dolan Geiman, whom I found on etsy.  His work is A++ in my book, seriously check out this dog art <– click it! Or this guitar art? I am pretty much drooling over it.  I got the 16×20 print from his shop and think it is working well in our little kitchen nook.  While you have been gazing at that beautiful bison, you may have let your eyes wonder and notice that I also got a new table runner.  This however was something I picked up while looking for christmas gifts(I’m horrible, I know).  I got it for only $4 though at Target on clearance! Woot Woot!

I like to think that the runner and the bison have become good friends and I sure hope so, because they look great together.

Justin’s parents got me this antique rocking chair…

Do you love it?  Me too!  They also got me a great throw that lives with the rocking chair…

You may have noticed a copper boiling bin peaking into my last post in this picture…

If you didn’t notice, here it is up close and personal…

I have had my eye on one of these bad boys for a while.  I actually called Justin and asked him if I should buy one while out antiquing the week before Christmas.  Thankfully he said no, maybe he knew all along, hmmmm.  Good thing he didn’t let me get it because it was a gift from Sandy and Kent.  Let’s take another look at my mantel complete with new antiques…

Next up, I got this…

I could not be more in love with this print.  My mom got it from a gallery in Colorado.  Does it remind you of someone?

Like my Zack?

I had it mated and frame and now it is on the wall above our couches…

And since were on the dog topic…

This little bugger is a door stop from my parents.

My sister got me some great stuff too, but my favorite is this…

A sister Alex and Ani bracelet, she has one too.  If you haven’t heard of these yet, check em out.

I got some other great stuff as well that will surely come up in future posts.  Merry Christmas everyone!  Three months late #$!?

Hanging with the parents

Family gathering please! When my parents come to town we like to get together with Justin’s parents because turns out they all like each other!  Woo Hoo!  So once my parents had arrived at our house…

Yup, got a picture of them actually arriving.  We did a tour of our home(they loved it) then headed out again to see Kent and Sandy.

Kent and Sandy are truly the best hosts, they give us a good place to sleep and feed us delicious food.  What else can you ask for?

Of course we had some amazing food prepared on the big green eggs.  Seemed to be the area the guys liked to congregate.

What kind of luck do Justin and I have that our families get along great?

So nice to just hang out and relax with our family.   Justin even let my mom take a picture of him and I.

So there you have it, hope you guys enjoy your parents as much as we do.  Also Thanks Sandy and Kent for housing my family for a couple days!