Wedding photos are up… sorta

As promised, most of the wedding photos have been posted, but are still a work in progress. We are still sorting, ax-ing, sifting, etc through the massive amount of photos taken by F7, masters of photography. It’s a real process because we love nearly all of the photos and narrowing down our favorites has been a feat trumped only by picking the music for the ceremony! Regardless, all the photos are up for your viewing pleasure: http://www.f7photography.printroom.com/katieandjosh

Eric, our videographer mailed us all the raw footage from the day… yea, we need to cut a little bit of our foolery and make a parent/friend-safe version! Eric’s footage plus our pre & post wedding footage should make a pretty good video… we hope. All we have to do is deliver it all to Fisch so he can work his magic. Once complete, we’ll see if we can get a highlight reel so we can post it online.

We’re back from our perfect day

Before you ask, the wedding was AMAZING! Katie did such an amazing job planning and organizing such a huge event for nearly 150 guests… I can’t believe it all came together so swimmingly. For those that couldn’t make it, we had a team of 3 photographers and a videographer documenting every event from our getting dressed to us dancing like tired monkeys at the end of the evening. We have a few of our own photos, but they are still being put together. We should have all the footage & photos up for everyone in a few weeks and in the mean time, our photogs have posted up a mini slideshow for you to enjoy:

http://www.f7photography.printroom.com/katieandjosh

Six days and counting

The Wedding
We only have 6 days until the wedding, can you believe that? Katie has been hard at work finishing all the last minute details while I have been helping her out whenever I can. We’ve been folding programs, printing menu’s, cutting, gluing, tying ribbon… all to make our wonderful day that much more wonderful. To top is all off, it looks like my mom is going to be able to make it after all. Katie’s mom gave me the most incredible gift of an airline ticket for my mom to attend our wedding, which I had conceded to being impossible at this point. A very pleasant surprise. Needless to say, there is still alot to do, but at least Katie and I have 2 days of road tripage ahead of us (which we are completely excited for!) to unwind and take in the Zen of the road. Once we are in Seattle, all that will change with the last minuet preparations, but we’re going to deal with that when we get to it.

The Puppies

Have I mentioned I have the best friends on the planet? Matt, Joe and my brother Joel will be watching the dogs while we are getting married. Naturally we have 1001 instructions for them to follow… yea, we’re pet parents.

Road Trip Music
All week I have been putting together road trip playlists so we can rock out when Sirius becomes too much (which is becoming more frequent these days). Now, I have an OG generation 2, 2Gb iPod Nano while Katie has the 80GB iPod Classic… her entire library of tunes can fit onto that beasty while I have to somehow narrow down my 40GB+ of music down to 2Gb. I think I’ve done a pretty good job, but man is it a task! I’m going to have to sell some of my airsoft gear to get a new iPod, that’s all there is to it!

Easter
Oh, and today is Easter. I had to work but Katie is at home getting us packed and ready for the trip. Not the relaxing holiday we had last year, but to make up for my working, I gave Katie a little surprise this morning. It started on Friday when Katie was broken up about not being able to have any kind of family get together for Easter and how much she loved the holiday. I felt terrible. That night I went on a grocery run and got her the works; basket, grass, TONS of chocolate, 12 plastic eggs, etc. Now I suck at keeping surprises a surprise. It was a true feat of strength for me to keep my mouth shut! I assembled most of the goodies on Saturday night and hid the eggs in the apartment on Sunday. This morning she called me when she found them… almost in tears at how surprised and over joyed she was. I think I have achieved rock star status.

Photos
I know, long post, but we have uploaded a mess of photos from February to April… check ‘em out.

Engagement photos are up!

Did you know that it’s only 59 days until our wedding? I know, right? On December 21st, 2008, Katie and I met our photographers at Disneyland in Anaheim, California for the engagement photo shoot. Despite a few bumps caused by Disneyland security (thanks, “speedbump” Patty), the day could not have been more perfect. Jen & Jeff from F7 met us there really early, and could not have been a nicer pair to work with. I know we hired them for the shoot, but they made us feel very comfortable and at the end of the day, felt like old friends. In short, we love F7 Photography! What better location to take the engagement photos than inside the park where it all went down. You can view the entire gallery here: Link to Flickr

December is Disneyland month

Main Street Decorated for XMas

Normally we hit the park maybe once or twice a month… but not this month. This month we have 3 trips on the plate, well, technically 2 as we just made one:

December 14:
Engagement Photo Recon
We are having our engagement photos taken at the park (seeing as DL played such a HUGE part in “us”) and we needed to do a photo-tour of the park to see which areas would make for great engagement photos. I took about 200 photos and think we have a pretty good map of where we would like to have the photos taken… so mission accomplished.

December 21:
Engagement Photos
We’re meeting our photographers at the park for the engagement photo shoot… maybe a few rides, who knows.

December 27:
Katie’s Mom Comes to Town
Any chance Katie’s mom can get into the park… she will! Just so happens she will be visiting over Xmas and wanted to hit up DL with us. We have a reservation at the Blue Bayou and plan to spend the entire day at the park, as opposed to our usual 4-5 hour romps.

All in all… a DL packed month. I worry about maybe getting sick of the park, but we did a similar schedule in February and couldn’t have had a better time.