Sam and Lorena's Reception

My cousin Sam and his wife Lorena got married in Argentina last December.  Upon moving to Nashville in June, they had a small ceremony to make it legal in the States.  Last night they had "Wedding #3" - their wedding reception at Vanderbilt's University Club.  What a lovely and fun party!!  Good drinks, good food, good dancing, good people, and also important, good babysitters.  (thank you SOOO much Tom and Shelly) 

Rachel and Sarah

 Sam and Chris

 Lorena and Me

 Linda, Aunt Carole, Aunt Ann

 Go Jill

I do love a good wedding!  Congratulations Sam and Lorena.  We love you so!

John and Lauren's Wedding

My cousin John got married on Saturday in Evansville, IN. We drove up that morning - Charlie added two states to his list: Kentucky and Indiana. :o) Luckily the hotel let us check in early and our babysitter that we had booked met us there around 1pm. She was great! She took great care of Charlie while we had a blast at the wedding ceremony and reception.

The beautiful and yummy cake:

 "Bathing Beauties" shot: E, Rachel, Sarah, Suz

So many cute little cousins! Lily Jane

 Caroline and Maggie

 Handsome couple ~ they met in law school and both took the Bar this summer.

Matthew, John, Pat

 E and her boyfriend Mark

Aunt Monica sampling both flavors of cake :o)

 Pink Ladies - my cousin Kristin and me

 Aunt Carole, Lorena, Uncle Robert, Sam

 Ruffles! Aunt Ann and Sarah

Sisters!  Unfortunately my heel found it's way onto E's foot on the dance floor.  Oops - very sorry.

But we sure had a blast!!!  A great quick trip with family!

Warren and Alyssa's Wedding Weekend

Our good friends tied the knot in Skytop, PA over the weekend at the Skytop Lodge.  They had gotten engaged over a year and a half ago, so this day was a long time coming.  :o)  Since we had been in Cape Cod, we were able to leave Charlie with his grandparents for the weekend.  (thank you, thank you)

With Alyssa's help, I found a great house to rent within walking distance of where they got married.  (side note: It's on VRBO.com, listing #323288 - I will definitely think about using this site for future vacations) We stayed there for two nights along with 3 other couples (Dave and Dia, Jeff and Candi, and Evan and Elysa).  It worked out great because it was way cheaper than the hotel and had a kitchen, screened in porch, pool, and an awesome collection of VHS tapes.  Ha!  It's amazing how just a couple hours from NYC feels so remote.  The Poconos is a gorgeous area. 

We got there on Friday just in time for a huge downpour. We sat in the screened in porch overlooking the pool and played Jenga (borrowed from their game closet)

The rehearsal dinner was held at a little "cabin by the lake" and was full of some great speeches and lots of laughs.

Anne and Dia

 Dave and Connor (brother of groom)

 Pat, Rob, Denis

 Pat and me

 Pat, Rob, Warren, Denis, Dave, Ryan (brother of groom)

 Anne, Leanne (sister of groom), Suz, Dia

 After the rehearsal dinner was over, everyone headed over to the Lodge's Tap Room.  Alyssa and Me:

We spent all of Saturday lounging by the pool.  It was a perfect and beautiful day!  We walked over to the ceremony that evening.  Candi and Jeff:

 Pat was a groomsman.  Oh, Dia did my hair! :)

 Jason, Courtney, Ashley, Mike, Jeff

 Anne and Dia

Here she is!  I LOVED her dress.

Our friend Rob made a great speech during the ceremony. 

 Yay!

 After the ceremony, we all walked over to have an outdoor cocktail hour.

 Jeff, Chris, Denis, Pat, Ryan, Jason, Dave, Jay, Evan, Rob

 Julie, Lisa (adorably pregnant), Suz, Dia, Courtney, Elysa

 I always love to get a cake shot:

 The tables were all named after movies (Warren is obsessed with movies)

 Alyssa dancing with her brother Ryan.

 The dancing was a blast!!  Rob, Pat, Denis, Dave

Courtney and Jason just got married at the end of April down in Florida.  (we had to miss it since CQ was so young)  Great to see them!

And after midnight Chris brought Julie a couple glasses of champagne since it was their 1 year anniversary.  Very sweet. (they got married down in Florida Keys last year)

Pat and Chris

 Ryan and his new fiance Kyle

The married couple hung around to the very end of the after party.

Love them.  We hugged them goodbye on Sunday since they are off to Spain for their honeymoon (and they'll miss our farewell BBQ this weekend)  What a perfect wedding - love both of their families and we're just so happy for them!

We drove from PA to MA to get CQ on Sunday.  :) We sure were anxious to see him!  We returned to NJ on Monday for tons of packing.