BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER CARLY: OUR ENGAGEMENT ANNIVERSARY!A lot can happen in a year.Posted by Carly Day on 5/17/2013 at 3:15PM | No Comments
 Sean and Carly on their engagement day. A year and five days ago, Sean asked me a question that changed my life: “Will you marry me?” And while there are some obvious changes that will come along with the wedding (new marital status, new last name, new ring!) there have been a lot of unexpected things that have happened since last May 12th. I guess what I’m trying to say is: a lot can happen in a year! |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER KRISTY: THE HUNT FOR THE RIGHT WEDDING-DRESS UNDERGARMENTSPosted by Kristy Schultz on 5/17/2013 at 12:42PM | No Comments
 Stockbyte And it’s finally starting to take shape! Nope, not my booty—even after completing squats galore for the past few months (I’m destined to never have one, thanks to my father’s stick frame)—I’m talking about the shape of my wedding dress. After a handful of appointments with my seamstress, about four returned undergarments, and a slight spike in my stress level, the dress is starting to really take shape and it couldn’t happen soon enough because our wedding day will be here before we know it! I feel like I went into this whole thing extremely prepared. When my dress arrived at the beginning of the year, I instantly dropped it off to my seamstress. (After my parent’s cat had been eyeing up the garment bag that housed my dress to use as a scratching post, I was anxious to get it out of their house.) A few weeks later, my mom and I found ourselves at my first alteration appointment, holding my dress up as my seamstress jokingly complained about the structure of it. The dress fit pretty well from mid-waist down, almost perfectly—but don’t worry, the top half of the dress made up for it’s almost perfection. |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER STEPHANIE: OUR MENU TASTING!Posted by Stephanie Genuardi on 5/17/2013 at 11:04AM | No Comments
 A glimpse of Stephanie and Pat's menu tasting at the Four Seasons Philadelphia. A heavenly Nutella shooter, gloriously creamy mushroom risotto, a candied walnut salad bursting with flavor—our menu tasting at the Four Seasons last week easily ascended the ranks to my favorite wedding appointment so far! I wish I could do a tasting every day! The concept is just so awesome. The happiness a delicious meal can bring me is somewhat ridiculous, but man, do I love to eat. After being warned the appointment would take at least three hours, Pat and I decided to both take the day off. The three-day weekend, thus, had us in a very good mood, as well as the opportunity to spend another day together (as we’re still pushing through the long-distance and working in separate cities until the wedding). |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER CARLY: OUR RSVPS ARE COMING IN!Posted by Carly Day on 5/10/2013 at 5:01PM | No Comments
 iStockphoto Last week, Sean and I got our invitations in the mail. With a cramped right hand, I was more than happy to pass off our invitations to the postal worker to be sent out into the world. As soon as the next day, I was already getting texts from friends who had received the invitations and were very kind with their reviews. What a relief! I was so glad to know that USPS was able to decipher my falligraphy (that’s fake calligraphy, if you were wondering) that I didn’t even think about what would happen next. |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER STEPHANIE: OUR ENGAGEMENT PHOTO SESSION!Posted by Stephanie Genuardi on 5/10/2013 at 2:23PM | 1 Comment
 A shot from Pat and Stephanie's engagement shoot in Washington Square Park. Photo by Susan Stripling. Pat and I aren’t a public-display-of-affection kind of couple, so as we walked to Washington Square Park last Friday evening for our engagement shoot—both still agitated from the massive traffic we sat in on our way down to the city—I was a bit nervous. How were we going to fair with a photographer up close and personal, snapping photos of us kissing and hugging? I was also a bit worried about the location. Pat and I had hit all of the local spots significant to us in a shoot we did with our videographer a few weeks ago (which I’m hoping to keep top-secret until the wedding, so it’s a surprise!). So when I kept thinking about where to shoot our engagement photos, nothing was necessarily floating to the top of the list. But we knew we wanted to be outside, preferably somewhere natural and beautiful. |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER KRISTY: CHOOSING OUR SONGSPosted by Kristy Schultz on 5/10/2013 at 10:21AM | No Comments
 iStockphoto Do you have a song that, every time you hear it, takes you back to a moment you’ve nearly forgotten about? You catch yourself in the grocery store daydreaming while staring at a can of beans or while waiting at a stoplight, and you’re suddenly snapped into reality when the person behind you honks their horn during the chorus. Well, the song that Eric and I have chosen for our first dance, and the song my dad and I will dance to, have done that to me for years. And it’s so exciting to know that for the rest of my life when I hear them after the wedding, I’ll immediately be thrown back into that moment. |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER CARLY: MY SURPRISE OFFICE SHOWER!Posted by Carly Day on 5/3/2013 at 5:09PM | No Comments
 Digital Vision I have some pretty amazing co-workers, and today I want to thank them for the beautiful shower they surprised me with! I work in a very fun department at Drexel. A huge part of my work-happiness is due to the amazing people I get to work with each day. I don’t know for sure, but I think it is rare to find a group of 20-plus people who genuinely enjoy each other’s company as much as we do. From laughter-filled lunch breaks to very happy happy hours, we are a group that knows how to have fun. And when there is cause for celebration, we will celebrate. So I expected that my co-workers would throw me a shower in honor of my up-coming wedding. What I didn’t expect was when or where. |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER KRISTY: MY WONDERFUL BRIDAL SHOWER!Posted by Kristy Schultz on 5/3/2013 at 11:18AM | No Comments
 Kristy at her bridal shower last weekend. You know the saying “It takes a village to raise a child”? Well, it came full circle to me this weekend when I realized how many people, events, and moments made me into the person I am today. Sometimes, I guess, it takes a momentous event, like your bridal shower to make you realize it. This past weekend, I gathered with some of the ladies from my “village” to celebrate our upcoming nuptials. There were women from all aspects of my life; ladies that babysat me before school, ones that fed me homemade meatballs every Sunday, ones that shared late nights and even ones that shared too many glasses of wine. But more importantly, ladies who have shaped me into a woman that will soon marry the love of her life. And what better way to celebrate this than good food and wine, amazing company, embarrassing soon-to-be-newlywed games, and a showering of presents! |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER STEPHANIE: TUX-BUYING AND TO-DO LISTSPosted by Stephanie Genuardi on 4/26/2013 at 4:20PM | 2 Comments
 Pat in his Hugo Boss wedding tux! Just under three months to go until the wedding, and I am both completely ecstatic—ardently wishing the day would just get here already—and rather nervous and fearful of how we’re going to accomplish everything on our seemingly interminable planning list. Over the weekend, however, we tallied some important check marks. All of the groomsmen will be wearing Vera Wang Black tuxedos from Men’s Wearhouse. We reserved the rentals, and now, we just have to hope the boys don’t forget to get their measurements taken (the email with very specific instructions has been sent!). The rental comes with the tux jacket, pants, shirt, cufflinks, bowtie, shoes, and socks—a pretty awesome deal that will hopefully eliminate any last-minute “But I only brought white socks,” “I only have a blue button-down,” and “I can’t wear my sneakers?” problems. |
BRIDE-TO-BE BLOGGER CARLY: MY FIRST BRIDAL SHOWER! OR: WHEN RED CHAMPAGNE MEETS A WHITE DRESSPosted by Carly Day on 4/26/2013 at 1:30PM | No Comments
 Carly with her mom and sister at her bridal shower. I woke up one Sunday a few weeks ago to a beautiful day. Sun was pouring in my bedroom windows and the forecast promised mid-60s. What the forecast didn’t promise was the April shower that would take place that afternoon (and that’s because John Bolaris wasn’t invited!): my first bridal shower! I say my first because I’m being blessed with three: one with my mom’s friends, one thrown by my bridesmaids, and a joint shower for both of us at his parents house with some of their local friends. This first shower was held at my parent’s house in Ambler, with a guest list including some family friends, a few of my mom’s co-workers, and some of my girlfriends as well. |
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