Monday, November 28, 2011

Not Your Everyday Wedding Slideshow

Here's the slideshow from our wedding - enjoy!


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Honeymooning

After the wedding, Special K and I went to California for a fun, albeit much too-short, honeymoon. We only had 4 days really, so in a nutshell, this is what we did (don't panic, this is a family friendly post):

Day 1: Flew to San Diego, rented a red mustang convertible and cruised around Old Town and Coronado island. We walked along the pier and even a toured the USS Midway, a retired aircraft carrier (which was much more interesting than it sounds, ladies).


Day 2 &3 : Drove up the Pacific Coast highway to Long Beach, stopping here and there to watch the surfers in Laguna Beach and Huntington beach.



 Once in Long Beach, we boarded the ferry to Catalina Island. Fun fact: The whole island is owned by the Wrigleys (yes, the gum people), and everyone drives a golf cart!


There were pimped out golf carts, golf carts with baby seats,  golf cart tow-trucks. So cute.

We also did a lot of this.



Day 3&4: After spending the night in Huntington Beach (hot tip: for your next US holiday, try using Hotwire.com to book your hotel, we lucked out big time.), we drove to Escondido, the wild animal park, and did a zip-line tour over the animals. It was very very cool, and left one of us with extremely white knuckles (rhymes with dirt).

This was the route
He did not want to let go

These are rhinos, really.

soaring like a bird!

We did it!

We spent that last night in the "Gaslamp" district of San Diego, just relaxing and people watching from the outdoor restaurants. We also gorged ourselves on the best crab-stuffed lobster!

Sure we found out afterwards that it cost $96, but what the hell! Look how happy he is.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Wedding Bells

The peacock wedding was a success!! It was a perfect day, in my mind anyway! Everything turned out just great -- thanks a million to everyone who helped in some way! (Especially my parents and wedding party -- I love you guys:)

So much preparation goes into the day, and then it's all over so fast! I wish I could do it again just to have more time to enjoy everything and visit with people for more than 30 seconds each! I can't wait for the pictures -- I should be getting them in a week or two, so stay tuned!! Although most of it is a blur, here are my favourite/most memorable moments of the day:

*Walking down the isle with my parents and seeing Kirt's beaming face waiting for me.
*The dress tying fiasco. It took 6 hands and one multi-tasking photographer to tie that thing up without showing any crack.
*The cake! How awesome was that? And so tasty too. Rose Sen, you are the master cake decorator.
*The ice sculpture. It took a while to catch on, but it was a hit and the boys enjoyed smashing it in the parking lot afterwards.
*The toasts. Everyone did so great! I loved Steven's sense of humour..."Love is like wetting your pants...everyone can see it, but only you can feel it!"...Dad's touching welcome to the family speach - there wasn't a dry eye in the place after that...and the girls' clever "Meagan is unique" toast -- you girls are so dang creative!
*The food. Pat's Palate Pleasers cooked up some fine chicken (or was it peacock??) And could I ever go for a bowl of McKay's ice cream right now...
*The slideshow. It was my little project for, oh, approximately 1 million hours, and I was sooo glad it turned out!

Oh, and pretty much everything else :)