New beginnings

So Andy and I are now officially UNH graduates. It's pretty scary but really exciting at the same time. We are going to be out on a cruise for the next week to Mexico but once we get back its head first into the wedding planning! I have an appointment to look at a beautiful place in Pomfret. I'm hoping that I'll like it in person as much or more than the pictures you can see online. Andy and I met freshman year at UNH and have been together through all four years. I'm happy we were both able to help each other through those too fast years, but now it's on to the "real" world. I'm looking forward to seeing what we have to help each other through in the future.

My girls!

So i officially have bridesmaids! I'm so excited and thankful that they all agreed to be in the wedding. All of my girls really mean a lot to me and have always been awesome friends to me. I wanted to do something different instead of the cheesy will you be my bridesmaid cards you can get online, so i made my own using all the scrap booking stuff i have around. I made them all different for each girl and then wrote a silly question along with personalized messages inside. The questions were of course all jokes and just meant to be funny: "Will you wear an ugly dress?" "Will you be my bride slave?" "Will you hold my dress while i pee?" and "Will you get me a stripper?". Of course i don't really want them to do any of that but they were cute anyway. So i then put together a dinner for us and asked them all with pictures of each of us together at some point.
So...the girls are Kerri (who is my stepsister), Sara (freshman college roomie and one of my best friends), Amanda (one of my best friends who i met working at BRU aka Hell),Sarah (neighbor and friends since we were 5!), and last but not least Nicole (we met during summer orientation for UNH and was my first friend here). For a while I wasnt sure if i wanted to have a maid of honor since all these girls mean a lot to me. However I knew deep down that I wanted to ask Amanda. She has been a great friend to me (and Andy) and is truly a life long friend to me.
So again thank you all for agreeing to be my bridesmaids!

Reception Sites

On wednesday my mom and I had an appointment at the Mansion at Bald Hill in Woodstock. It's a very pretty house and the rooms are beautiful upstairs. The only downside with it is that the land is a bit small and there's not a lot of option to put the reception tent. If we did decide to have the wedding there, the walk down the aisle where they have ceremonies is awesome and a good length. Since im having both my dad and stepdad walk with me down the aisle it may be a tight squeeze so we would have to look into that.
On saturday we are also looking at the Gwynn Careg Inn in Pomfret. I've looked into them early last year after andy proposed and actually forgot about the site. The inn is actually catered by the Mansion at bald hill so in some way both sites would still be connected. I'm leaning more towards the inn now just because its larger (14 acres) and they have more options to set up the reception. I'm just glad that there are good choices around where I grew up.
Oh, and we also changed our wedding date a bit. Instead of may of next year we are looking into july.