t-1 days

Busy day today! We picked my best friend and his wife up at Newark airport late last night night, so this morning we decided to go into NYC.



They live in Seattle, and had somehow never had cannoli! So the three of us, along with my sailor's mother, went up to Bleecker St in Greenwich Village and went to Rocco's to acquire some sweets. It was a nice little distraction for the morning!


Here are the three of us on 7th Ave in the west village:


Here are a few shots I snapped inside Roccos:





Then it was back to Jersey City and go go go go! Family arrived in town, my mom had last minute wedding checklists, and we all walked two blocks up to our favorite restaurant for a huge family dinner. I'm off to an early bedtime... we are looking at a 70% chance of rain & thunderstorms tomorrow, so I hope that it will somehow clear up a little bit for us.

t-2 days

Today is Floral Friday - our bulk ordered flowers arrived and flooded my kitchen! It took about two hours to unbox all of them and get them into big vases & pots. Tomorrow we will actually make the arangements, although I did make two little ones:



You might recall I originally wanted to do hydrangeas... well, I did a trial run with them, and they all wilted far too quickly. So I decided I could either pay a florist $$$ to do the original idea of hydrangeas, so switch flowers. I talked to one of the online floral places & decided to go with white carnations, yellow roses, and yellow stock, since they are all very sturdy.

Here's my dining room table:


That's only a small portion of the flowers! Here's another view of a few more sitting in vases, waiting to be trimmed. The pot in the picture is a FIVE GALLON POT. Just to give you a hint of the size of all this nonsense. ;)



It feels like our apartment is a florists shop today. ;)

Buying good floral shears was key. I also bought bulk flower preservative, and collected lots of vases and vintage glass frogs to hold the flowers in the vases. Some of the vases won't work with frogs, so I bought a few blocks of floral foam as well. The key with bulk shipped flowers is to be there when they arrive and rush them into water as quickly as you can so that they can re-hydrate and rest from their long trip.


Here is my dress on the hanger, waiting...

t-3 days

Quiet day today because I'm still sick.

In the morning, we scoped out potential picture taking spots over at Liberty State Park. Then I went and got my haircut, and we dropped off a few more things at our venue like the cake topper and our sailboat shaped tealights.





And I finally pulled pictures from Tuesday - we had dinner at South St Seaport that night. Here's the deck we ate on:



And here is the view of the Brooklyn Bridge we had as we ate!



So, while we're eating dinner, several ships went by in the east river. At one point, a motor boat went RACING down the river, revving its engines. I turned to the sailor and said "that can't be legal" -just as he said "where is one of the small boats when you need one?" Very funny, little did he know that his racing along was right under the watchful eye of a coast guard captain. ;)

Tonight the boys are at the Yankees - Red Sox game, which I'm guessing is in a bit of a rain delay due to the huge thunderstorms rolling through here. Hopefully they're staying dry! They are all Coasties, so they're very blasé about huge rainstorms. ;o)

t -6 days

6 days to go.

Today I wrote escort cards:


And printed our programs (the paper is pre-folded & pre-gilt printed, from Wilton):


They have a crossword puzzle in them, so as to get the various guests talking to each other:


(the font we used is Alana)

And I ate lunch over at WFC in NYC. Lunch was a mozarella and tomato salad from le pain quotidien, one of my favorite NYC chains for lunch. It came with a slice of bread and a little container of the freshest, tastiest pesto I've had in ages. It was the kind of pesto that just explodes summer in your mouth. Mmmm yum. I sat near the koi pond with my kindle & lunch and just enjoyed the sunshine for a while....



In the evening we walked through the venue with our Day of Coordinator and scoped out the setup.

Tomorrow, I'm making our menu cards, so I need to go to Michael's in the morning & have a look at their cardstock options. So far we're thinking 8.5" x 11.5 inch cardstock, then trimmed (paper cutter may be the best DIY wedding tool I've bought so far!) so they're tall and skinny, maybe 4 x 10?