I heart carly's photog!!!!

As if carly's wedding wasn't great enough, her photographer posted a few sneak preview pics on her blog...and THEY....ARE....AWESOME! Dustin and I hope ours turn out this good after all our hunting cause this is the exact style we love! I guess my beauty captivated the photog cause I even made it into a picture!

This first one of carly I just LOVE....I'm usually not a fan of this antique-type look, but it works so well with this picture that I am just obsessed over how great this looks!

Remember the cute cake toppers I had posted, well look at these great shots she got with their rings incorporated in...genius!And then here is my reaction when I discovered Clarence the cat cake topper was covered in icing and someone had knocked him over and messed up the cake! I'm curious who this cake bandit was, but I'm guessing some crazy kid.All photos are courtesy of Theresa Scarbrough....obviously awesome photog in chicago area if you need one!

I can post pics again!

Ok, well our AT&T internet appears to be working! So I can finally add some pictures to my posts now! I put up some pics from Carly's wedding in my previous post and here are just a few of our engagement pics too!

These first pics were taken around Washington Ave and in the alley behind our building:

Here were a few pics we took at City Garden which is a new park that opened up out front of work.

Carly got hitched!

We just made it back in town from Chicago and Carly's wedding! It was super nice and a great time....so we just hope ours turns out as well now! I think I gained 7lbs cause the food was so great-- passed apps of huge bbq meatballs, sausage stuffed mushrooms, some spinach thing, and quiche. Then we had dinner which was salad, sorbet, filet and chicken, twice-baked potato, green beans, and dinner roll. Then we had carrot cake with ice cream. Then, because that really wasn't enough food, they put out this sweets bar that had cheesecake, chocolate covered strawberries, mini pies, you name it! She really lucked out in my opinion with the weather-- it was overcast, so should have been great for her pictures and it was super cool for August...although it was so chilly I had goosebumps like crazy all during the ceremony and luckily had grabbed a 3/4 sleeve dress to wear at the last minute! Well, she did a great job with all the details and pulling it all together! Woo-hoo-- I finally got some pics uploaded!

Cute Cake topper of them!

Me, Missy, Carly, Katherine, and Lisa (all friends from college)

Engagement Photos...or not

I did want to do a blog update tonight with our ENGAGMENT PICS! But our internet connection is too slow and after 20 minutes I'm now giving up. Tomorrow AT&T comes to hopefully hook up some faster service....so maybe tomorrow I can get the pics up :( On a good note, invites went in the mail today (except a handful)! Woo-hoo!

Shower time!

One of the reasons I started this blog was to capture the whole wedding planning process and so I'd have something to look back at....but I've been too busy to even update this!!! I'm gonna have to post like 2x/day now to get caught up! Well the best thing that we've done lately is I had my shower last Sunday. It turned out awesome-- It was at Villa Marie Winery and of course we had one of the hottest days of the year, so it was too hot to sit outside. So the inside wasn't at scenic, but it worked. I got a lot of cool things that I'm excited to try out and start using now! I had been to a shower a few weeks ago that was mexican themed and they had these cute hand-painted margarita glasses for everyone....so I stole that idea and thought we could have hand-painted wine glasses for everyone! So crystal and I spent many hours the days before the wedding making all these glasses....and now I realize we never took any pictures of our hard work! Grrrrrrr! Here's a few pics though from the shower....wish I could rewind and do that all again instead of spending this Sunday trying to finish up the invitations!

Me, Missy (MOH & Sister), and Mom

Cute decorated wine bottles:

Me and BMs: