And the wedding blog draws to a close

Now that the year of wedding craziness is over (was it really a full year? Whoa.) I think it is time to retire the wedding blog and return to our regularly scheduled programming at my old blog, dillard57.blogspot.com. Maintaining two separate blogs would be kinda confusing, and hey, not everyone wants to read all my various wedding obsessions.

Married life is good. So far, all is well in Braintree. We have lots of fun plans and I imagine we will have lots of fun adventures, which I can chronicle over at dillard57.

So I will leave you with a photo from Tina's wedding, a very fun day, 3 months after our wedding in June.

Thanks for coming along with us on our wedding ride!

And the summer draws to a close

Aren't hydrangeas just so Cape Cod-dy? These were growing near a lovely wedding we went to near Chatham, MA. And the name cards from our table -- the whole changing your name bit probably deserves its own post, but let's just mention that it is complicated. I'm officially Amy Cooper-Ayles, but you know, it's kinda fun to see it switched around sometimes. Mrs. Ayles indeed.

Amazingly, our wedding wasn't the only thing that happened this summer and bit by bit, the days grow shorter and the crickets get louder and now it's Labor Day Weekend. I'm blearily typing into the old blog while at the same time playing around with this newfangled facebook thing (it's all cf's doing), and going over the wedding photos yet again to decide what goes in the album, etc. etc.

So, nothing new. It's amazing how I'm still putting away all the deitrus that accumulates over a year of planning for a big event. There are still scraps of ribbons, scrawls of notes about potential sites, a dress to dry clean. I will post more pictures of something soon, type about something more interesting soon.

The biggest projects right now at the Cooper-Ayles household (in case you are interested)

1. this money thing. Hard! How to combine? I am trying out mint.com
2. so, a compost bin. Where can I find one? Where do I put it?
3. selling this house. Oy.

Ok, must drag self to bed. Happy Labor Day!

Photos Galore

(Edited: I have fixed the broken link!) Now I can finally say I may have enough wedding photos to play with. These few here were taken by my very talented sister, Sue.

I'm going to assume it's not nearly as exciting for you as it is for me to do so, but if you'd like to see a few more (as in about 450 more), here are two places to go:

There are the professional photos done by our very nice photographer, Simi Rabinowitz. You will need to register (just your email address and a password) but if you have any problems, let me know. It should let you in. Once you are in, instead of paging through, well, all 450, you can just click on "Amy's Favorites" or if you are pressed for time, "Top 20."

And here is a little page I threw together that tells the story of the day composed of photos that people have so kindly shared with me.

Hope you enjoy. I have been. I love seeing them. There are lots of little details I had forgotten about, and moments we never saw because we were elsewhere. I am very content when I think about what a lovely day it was -- you all made it wonderful. It really was a dream come true.


This last photo makes me laugh because I am making an embarassed face at being caught without my shoes on.

More musings soon!

And the wedding photo onslaught commences!

Here's some shots, more or less in order. The crowd, waiting for things to begin. My little flower girl and my maid of honor, coming down the hill. And the third one is me, trying really hard to not completely bawl in front of the crowd and only party succeeding. Followed by my dad and Rob shaking hands. Then us, happy and married and dancing! More photos soon, I promise.

We are married!

And back from a wonderful honeymoon -- more on that later!

Thought you might enjoy a few photos from week of and the day of. Angela Sarno was a champ getting photos that day so I'd have some idea what happened since we don't get our prof pictures back for a few weeks. I owe her and Tina big. If you have any photos to share, please send them my way!

It was wonderful to see everyone. We were just so happy to be with you all. And we couldn't have ordered up a nicer day.

First, here are a few shots from my family's descent upon the North End in Boston -- there is nothing quite like traveling in a pack of 14 people, trying to wade through enormous crowds celebrating the championship of the Boston Celtics. We just wanted some pizza so we trudged on toward our goal. We ate at Pizzeria Regina, especially for my mom.




Then on Friday, Lia, Angela and Bess treated me to a spa visit -- and they joined me! It was really fun to hang out with them as we got our nails done and drank champagne and tried not to completely take over the salon. What a fun and relaxing afternoon -- what great friends!

Okay, I got all distracted from the wedding pictures. I'll start them in the next post.

Two more Oleanna shots from Tina

Jesse and Karen display their fabulous newly arrived at the table Baked Alaska, and the shot below is our whole crew at the restaurant. This was a great dinner and a great diversion from obsessive wedding planning. Yay for out of town friends!

Tina visits 5 days before the wedding

Here we are 5 days before the big day at Oleanna in Cambridge. This photo was taken by my dear pal Tina T. I haven't quite figured out how to post photos from her online photo album but here's a start. We had a great time visiting with her and Jesse and Karen. I look amazingly relaxed considering the stressball I pretty much was for the whole month. Maybe it was the incredible baked alaska dessert we had.