I Now Pronounce Thee... Lord & Lady!

Wedding season strikes again!  In a medieval courtyard!  In Baltimore!  Figure THAT out!

Lady Kristina & Lord Glen were married last weekend.  The ceremony was beautiful.  The attending kids were adorable (I really am drawn to photographing cheeky little kiddos!).  The falcon was a ringbearer & it was shocking (literally, came out of nowhere, no notice, BAM... bird of prey) & awesome.  All in all, it was a wonderful way to pass a Saturday!
























Too many pictures of the kiddos?  I can't seem to help myself! They're all such little characters!  And seriously... how many garbed kiddos do you usually see at weddings?

If you found your way to my website because I gave you a card at the wedding, please email me for a link to the whole photo collection, where you can download photos of your family (&, probably, your kids).  I will have it all up for invited visitors by the end of the week.  Just use the bride & grooms last name & wedding date in the email subject (hey, I gotta screen a little so strangers don't download photos of people's kids!).  You will receive your email invite by Friday.

Have you ever been to a themed wedding before?  What did you think?  Bear & I loved this one!

Fells Point

So, the day after the wedding.  A lot of people were hung over.  I've been limiting my alcohol consumption to three drinks a day, and I usually only allow myself to drink anything one day every two weeks, so I wasn't drunk the night before (although I always feel kinda woozy after that initial drink) and I wasn't hung over the next day.  But I WAS sleepy.  See, we all got back to the hotel room and everyone crashed.  Except me.  I stayed up to watch the episode of 30 Rock we accidentally ordered for $5 (they are getting sneaky about paying for TV in hotels, and since we paid, I figured someone ought to watch the whole thing, even though I am not a big fan of awkward comedy).  Then I went outside for a cigarette.  I met up with some of the wedding party, who were after-partying, and talked with them a bit (everyone was in street clothes or still dressed up, while I was in PJ pants and a hoodie... CLASS).  Then this taxi drives up and an honest-to-goodness hooker stumbles out.  There I am with a minor and three gays, and she surveys us and decides that we are, indeed, the perfect group to try and... well, hook.  After an awkward banter, she teetered away leaving us to wonder if that really just happened.  It had.  It still seems surreal.  But, that's the city, I guess.

Anyway, the next morning we all got up and checked out of the hotel with plenty of time to spare, despite daylight savings time jipping us an hour of rest.  We decided it would be a good idea to hang out at Fells Point for a little while before driving the two hours back home.  We hit up a local independently owned record store that reminded me a little bit of Empire Records, not in the way it LOOKED, but in the way it FELT, if that makes any sense.  Then we ate at an Irish pub and had a glass of wine at this little place called V-NO.  We walked around a little bit and then decided to leave.  And guess what?  That day happened to be Baltimore's early St. Patrick's Day parade day.  So traffic was AWFUL and the GPS wanted us to take every road that was closed.  So it took us at least one full hour longer to get home than planned.  I always try to think of these delays as an adventure (we see parts of the city we otherwise wouldn't, maybe we will grow more familiar with the area for future reference...) but Bear and I always manage to run into these awkward sorts of hold-ups, and my optimism doesn't make a long detour home any more charming than it is.

Enough with the words.  Onto the photographs!




























Happy "hump" day!  xo

Spring Break is Over, and Wedding Season is still Going Strong

Well, I had all these blogging intentions for Spring Break, none of which were met.  Here are the things we DID do:

* attended an awesome wedding at an art gallery (technically, this was a week ago, but hey...)
* saw the Purdue Glee Club rock it out at a local church, where my brother sang to me and then gave my mom his Lavalear (I probably misspelled that, but it's a necklace with the PMO logo man on it; the guys get two in their senior year.  One is for their moms, the other for their future wives.)
* got clearance to go to the Pentagon to see the Glee Club perform there, too!  Awesome!
* tried to get into the Spring Cleaning mode, and barely succeeded.  At least we can use the kitchen table again, and the dishes and laundry are almost all clean.
* acted as DD for St. Patty's day after cleaning all day and referring to myself as "working Irish".
* sang a bad Traditional Irish version of Finnegan's Wake at karaoke at a local bar.
* found homes for some more Christmas stuff that has patiently been waiting to leave it's gift bag.
* was interviewed for a local TV channel about the art gallery I work at's current exhibit.  I am awful on film.

Bear had to work, even though I was mostly off work, at least from the college, and he was thoughtful and left the MiFi for me to use.  Unfortunately, I didn't notice this, and assumed that he took our internet, and therefore decided to just clean the house.  HA.

So, let's go back to last weekend and see Mel + Zack's awesome wedding spectacular!  They were married at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.  Bear and I attended one other wedding there before, and it truly is an awesome venue!



Mel is Jewish, so they were married under a canopy and partially in Yiddish.  I am sad to say my knowledge of Yiddish is unremarkable, so I only understood maybe a tenth of what was said prior to the English translation.  The night started out with a cocktail hour where everyone got a drink, listened to the quartet (same group we had!) and caught up with the bridal party and bride and groom.  Then we trouped down to the ceremony space on the main floor, where the wedding took place.  Mel switched out of her cute short white party dress into a stunning bridal gown.  I loved the flowers; they had little LED lights in them!  The couple is a fun-loving sort, and had whimsy, color, and sugar throughout the whole event.  It was super cute, but still classy.  The reception was wild, people were jumping around the dance floor until I was afraid the floor would break!  Lots of dancing and laughter for all.  I loved dancing in a large circle around the couple, which is a traditional Jewish dance the name of which escapes me, but it offered a real sense of camaraderie.  It was truly a wonderful wedding, and we wish them all the best (they are off in Disney right now, on their last day of honeymooning)!































And, look who caught the (sock) bouquet!





I'll come back with our adventures through Fells Point the day after the wedding tomorrow!

xo