We’re back from Tahiti and had an ama-a-a-a-azing time! We came back about a month ago and have been back at work since. The trip was fabulous and we did so much. A few highlights:
- Scuba diving four times and seeing lemon sharks, black tip sharks, sea turtles, eagle rays, moray eels and all sorts of wonderful underwater creatures
- Going shark and ray feeding. Standing in water as these guys swam around us eating. Sounds crazy!
- Swimming with a dolphin—literally grabbing its dorsal fin as it took us underwater. An amazing experience.
- Taking an ATV tour around the island and learning about the various fruits
- All the delicious food
Pictures can only describe this experience….of which we took lots! Here are Pictures from Bora Bora and Pictures from Moorea.
You would think that with the wedding over, we’d be completely done—but we still had a few things to do. For starters, we took advantage of the completion discounts from Macy’s and Crate & Barrel to get a few items off our registry. Of course, we have been working on Thank You cards (of which we’ve only gotten about half done so far). Lastly, we still have a wedding reception in Boston that Matt’s parents are throwing for us in November.
This will be the last wedding blog post I’ll be making. If you’re curious about photos, I’ve created a section on the wedding website — Wedding Photos — that links to all the guest photos that I know about. I also put the disposable camera photos on there from the tables and will eventually link to the professional photos when we get them (probably in about a month or so).
Meanwhile, if you’d like to continue reading about my various ramblings, I do keep a personal blog on my regular website.
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Greetings from the middle of nowhere! Yup, we found a working internet-hooked up computer here at our hotel. We arrived early yesterday morning and it has been absolutely glorious since arriving. The water here is sooo blue it looks surreal. Earlier today, we indulged in a wonderful spa treatment at the Manea Spa at the hotel and wandered around town a bit. In a few moments, we’re going to jump on the boat shuttle to go onto the main island to watch the dance finale for the Polynesian Heritage Festival here—should be fun! It is absolute paradise here and we are incredibly happy and in bliss. In any case, just wanted to drop a note to say hello!
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We did it! We’re married! Man, the last few days have been such a whirlwind. It really does fly by and time seems to pass so fast. So many of our wonderful friends and family were there and I wish I had more time to talk to everyone! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for attending! It meant the world to us to see everyone present. All wedding-related activities were so much fun: the 4th of July BBQ, the rehearsal dinner, the actual wedding and the day-after brunch. We were also incredibly fortunate to get such fabulous summer weather here! It’s actually unusually hot—today it’s hitting the mid-90’s in Seattle and like over 100 tomorrow…..which is HIGHLY unusual for Seattle! In either case, we were so happy to get such wonderful weather. I’m writing now with 4 hours left before leaving for airport to being our trip to TAHITI! I’m still packing and needing to prep the downstairs to get our floors re-done while we are away. Meanwhile, I’ll leave y’all with photos from some folks that have uploaded pictures online already. Enjoy! See y’all when we get back!
Eugene’s Photos on Flickr
 Pierre’s photos on Flickr
 Amy’s photos on Flickr
 Phoebe & Ray’s photos on KodakGallery
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I’m excited to see the weather really holding out this week! The forecast predicts sunny weather in the upper 70’s by this weekend with the next few days and the few days after the wedding being equally wonderful. Woo Hoo!
For those of you out of towners visiting, I forgot to mention that I created a whole section on this website for Visiting Seattle. Here, I’ve compiled some information on getting here as well as places to see. Hope you find it useful!
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181, including us, is the final guest count…and 2 babies.
Seating chart and table arrangements done.
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I’m sleepy. It’s been a whirlwind of wedding related projects one after another for the last few days. Matt’s parents arrived last week to check out some of the Red Sox games—we’ve been hosting them and it’s been wonderful to have them around! We got soooo much done in the last few days, it’s incredible. Check:
- programs
- table cards
- placecards
- favors
- OOT bags and personalized water bottles
- cocktail menus
- picked up our engraved wedding bands
For the most part, all the crafty stuff is done now. All that’s remaining is primarily sitting in front of the computer:
- queue up music for when the band takes a break
- scan all our childhood photos and create a slideshow. Load onto computer.
My parents and brother arrive tomorrow. Last day of work–do a spec review.
Wednesday — host BBQ for friends and out of town friends that are in town. Watch fireworks on rooftop.
Thursday — golf game. Pick up grandmother from airport. Take dance lessons with dad. More airport pickups.
Friday - mani/pedi with girls followed by lunch and rehearsal. Check into hotel. Pick up dress. Rehearsal dinner.
I had a minor wedding meltdown today. The Grand Hyatt, which is where I’m getting ready and where the wedding night suite will be, emailed me this morning telling me that due to an issue with their reservation system, they had to cancel my reservation and move to a hotel in South Lake Union. I about flipped out in my office at work. Called up Matt who marched over there during lunch time and spoke to the sales manager. Within an hour after meeting them, they sent me an email telling me that I can keep my suite and that they’re incredibly sorry. Whew.
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We’ve been eyeing the weather forecast like a hawk. Now that it’s less than 10 days away, weather.com has more specific predictions for the weather. So far, so good—pray that it doesn’t rain. Pray that it doesn’t rain. Pray that it doesn’t rain. It rained today and is supposed to for the next few days….I really do hope the rain clouds lift by next week as they predict it to!
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I’ve gotten some questions after my recent post about things left to do on my plate….including planning the day-after brunch. No worries–y’all are invited. I didn’t put anything in the invitation. I wasn’t sure if I was going to have one until recently. But yes—it is going to be from 11am - 2pm at our home, 615 E Pike St #404 the day after the wedding. It will be very casual, we’ll have pastries, fruit and smoked salmon there. Drop by when you can and see our home! Hopefully the weather will be nice and we can even head up to the rooftop. Super thanks to Phoebe to helping me plan this! For all of you out-of-towners staying downtown, our home is an easy 10 minute walk up the hill so you don’t need a car or anything. Hope you can make it!
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I’m so excited to truly recycle my bridal magazines as I unloaded all of these onto Sandra tonight, who recently got engaged to Wally! (congrats!!!) What’s sad is: this isn’t even all of them. This is the pile after doing some recycling of my own over this last year. It’s pretty pathetic how many wedding magazines I acquired over this last year. With going to the grocery store and all the random flights we took this last year, it was so easy to just grab a wedding magazine to read. Well, now, they’re all with Sandra so she can get mentally stimulated with wedding dresses galore! Have fun!
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179 is our final guest count, including the two of us and pending 1 person who should let me know by end of week.
This number has been instrumental in this last week or so in determining the number of tables, number of centerpieces, number of placecards, number of programs, number of menus, etc.
This weekend is the last that Matt and I have to ourselves and to do random errands before family rolls in—his parents get here on Tuesday! (primarily to catch the Red Sox)
I’m proud to say that placecards and menus are complete as of 15 minutes ago. Woo Hoo! Double-sided tape is my friend and I think we (yes, we–Matt helped assemble today) went through about 4-5 rolls of tape putting together the menus today.
What else is there left?
- put together favors
- make programs
- determine music for other special dances
- pay off vendors
- fill out form for photographers
- make tablecards
- put together slideshow & scan photos
- plan brunch for day-after
- buy bubbles for after ceremony
- get red envelopes
- pack for honeymoon!
There’s more, I’m sure. Eeks! 2 weeks!
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