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When last we left off, Andreas and I had just finished our photo shoot on the Greenway and Beacon Hill and were headed back to the Wang for the ceremony.

First though, we took some pictures with our fabulously dapper wedding party. Here’s Andreas with his guys.

And me with my unbelievably gorgeous ladies.

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Hi friends. Time to continue our journey back through the wonderfulness that was our wedding in September. I know these wedding recap posts have been a bit slow coming, but you should count yourself LUCKY because we still haven’t finished our the thank you notes yet, which for me, I assure you, is excruciatingly guilt-inducing, but we’ve just been far too scattered and busy to tackle such a project! Honestly.

So, where did we leave off? Ah yes, my dapper groom and I were off to frolic around sunny Boston for pictures and get my dress all kinds of dirty but me in my freakishly calm I’m getting married today nothing can bother me state of mind of course didn’t care. In fact, it was one of my favorite parts of the whole day, when we got away from the wedding madness for an hour and paused to revel in the moment.

We’ve gotten lots of compliments on this picture (curiously, the one where I am least visible… just saying) and some have even observed an Abbey Road-esque quality about it. Dave snapped this up in the approximately seven second gap in traffic. Brave photographer, he is.

We started at the carousel on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, which our wedding planner had suggested at the last minute as a possible good place to shoot. We went, not really knowing what to expect or how it would work. When we got there, a ride was just ending, so we went to the booth to buy some tickets (Andreas thinks I look sad in this photo but I think it’s more emo-chic, non?).

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When we finally got to see the full set of professional photos from our wedding the response so far from our family and friends was overwhelming. People loved them. They made people cry, if you can believe it. And what’s more, they made people cry and I LOVE IT, I do. Cry some more, people. There, there. I know. They’re amazing. Just let it out.

So before I continue with the next part of the chronological recap (you can read part I here), I want to rewind a bit and share some more favorites from the “getting ready” part of the day.

First up, my pretty pretty dress. Just hanging there, prettily. Waiting to steal the show. For those who are curious, it’s by Modern Trousseau. Got it at a sample sale for more than 60% off!

Getting ready with my mom and mother-in-law. Will always remember these moments.

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I’m not really sure how to begin to summarize our beautiful wedding, where to start putting into words the emotions I experienced that day.

It was a shiny, bright blue day in Boston. Warm, but with the first strains of fall detectable in the breeze. I remember driving from the hair salon to the hotel to get dressed and my cousin observing that there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.

We woke up together, in our own bed. Nerves steady. Smiling, we stared at each other. Trying so hard to hang on to this moment, to be in it. It’s our wedding day, baby.

Exchanging our gifts for each other, then walking together through our neighborhood to pick up bagels and cream cheese. Back home, we toasted with mimosas I made with the champagne I’d been saving since my trip to Napa this past spring. We practiced our first dance. Then I twirled around the apartment to the Dixie Cups’ “Chapel of Love”.

Spring is here, the sky is blue,
Birds all sing, as if they knew,

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So I got a question the other day from someone doing research on Boston wedding venues, wondering if  we found any other venues in Boston (as in, other than The Wang Theatre where we got married) during our research that were really cool too. And the answer is yes. While the Wang provided the look we were going for in the location and price range that we wanted, there were several other great venues we strongly considered.

First of all, if you have the budget for it (and by “the budget for it” I mean $25,000 to spend on the venue alone [jaws up people, these things to do happen]), check out the Boston Public Library. This was actually my original “dream venue” before we found out the cost. After that, it became my inspiration when looking for new venues. Can’t you just picture it? The marble courtyard, the great reading room, the grand staircase. It’s all so wonderfully romantic and charming. So Boston. Check out these photos from a wedding that was held there last year to see what I’m talking about.

We looked at some of the museums in the area as well but ruled them out for various reasons. I would have DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN immediately if we could have had our wedding at my favorite of all favorite museums in Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, but tragically, they don’t allow weddings there! (They do allow other events to be held there so keep that in mind.) Neither does the Museum of Fine Arts allow weddings.

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A few months before our wedding, I was really struggling with what to get my bridesmaids for their gifts. You’ll remember this (rather desperate) post?

Well, I came up with putting together what I called a “wedding day survival kit” for my girls. I started by looking for a gray handmade tote bag on Etsy (gray was one of our wedding colors) and wound up with these fairly basic bags from Etsy seller Fantella (who was great to work with!). I thought these bags were simple enough to suit all of my bridesmaids’ varying tastes. They make great casual weekend bags and are big enough to fit books, laptops, whatever!

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Hello lovelies. Hope you’re all having wonderfully calm, inspired days.

I’m so excited to kick off the first of my official wedding recaps here on EAD. Just last week we got our pictures back from our amazing wedding photographers, Dave and Jo of Allegro Photography, and as I said on my own blog, they. are. phenomenal. And the slideshow movie they made is making our guests tear up left and right. I love it!

Our wedding day. How to describe it? Three words that come to mind: serene, opulent, and joyful. And special. So, so special.

Since Allegro did such a beautiful job of documenting our day, I’m going to let their pictures do most of the recapping of our “getting ready” moments. First up, my handsome groom, getting ready in our hotel room.

My pretty dress, quietly waiting for me.

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I’m still waiting for the official pictures to come back from our photographers (although they have given us a sneak peek!) so I thought I’d tell you all a little about our rehearsal “dinner”.

When it came to planning the rehearsal dinner, I was a bit stumped. I was trying to organize so many other details that it wasn’t a big priority for me. I thought I might like to have something outdoors (a BBQ maybe), since our wedding was going to be entirely indoors,  but when I looked into the details of renting a space and getting all the food out and our guests out to a park, plus plates and cups and napkins etc., I got overwhelmed and figured we’d just make a reservation at an interesting restaurant and be done with it.

Then we hired our wedding planner, Danielle, and once we told her that most of our guests were from out of town, she had a great idea. Why not take them on one of Boston’s famous Duck Tours? Since we hadn’t been on one either but had heard great things, we were all for it. She also thought of having a caterer set up in a public park and suggested Christopher Columbus Park on the waterfront, which is one of my favorite parks in Boston.

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Hello hello hello again! I’ve just gotten back from the whirlwind that is getting married and then spending 10 days in Hawaii. It was a long trip back to Boston but we’ve finally arrived and are just trying to stave off jetlag long enough to celebrate my new hubby’s birthday which happens to be today!

Anyways, there’s so much I want to share with you – and finally can share with you – now that the wedding is over. Of course we are still waiting for the professional pictures to come in, so why don’t we start with the most recent event – our beautiful honeymoon in Kauai!

Back when I was researching honeymoon options, I didn’t know if we’d be able to afford Hawaii. But after one of my ever helpful bridesmaids discovered Home Away, a vacation rental website, I was lucky to happen upon this beautiful condo on the north shore of Kauai in Princeville. By staying in a condo, we enjoyed the convenience of far more space and privacy, a large lanai with ocean and mountain views, and a full kitchen, all for less than $200/night (during the off season when we went, just $160/night).

View from our lanai plus a visitor {author’s photo}

Kauai is the oldest and one of the least commercial of the Hawaiian islands. It is known as the “Garden Isle” and for good reason: it is green and lush and home to some of the world’s greatest natural features, including Mount Waialeale (known as the wettest place on earth, receiving up to 600 annual inches of rainfall) and Waimea Canyon (dubbed by Mark Twain as the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific”) – not to mention some of the best beaches in the U.S.!

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Hello, my dear EADers. Sorry for being a little MIA lately. This past month has thrown me for a loop. We’ve gone through the process of almost buying a house and then losing that house and then finding another one, all in the midst of the most intense period of wedding planning.

Needless to say, I’ve been hanging on to my sanity for dear life! But I’m in a good place and I wanted to share this that I wrote this morning and posted on my own blog about all the feelings I’m experiencing right now.

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This is it. We’re one week out from the wedding. This. is. IT!

I know I can’t keep starting all my blog posts with “This is it” but you have no idea how hard it is to stay grounded in the present when you’re one week out from your wedding. Your mind keeps wandering to the bridesmaids gifts and will we assemble the programs in time and I need to write all my cards out and whoa.

Whoa.

Slow down, sister. Yes those are all important things to think about but let’s focus on the here and now. Let’s focus on the fact that in one week, one week from this moment, Andreas and I will be waking up together for the last time as “single” people. Let’s focus on how amazing that is. This is the moment. Right now.

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