Danny & I got engaged on December 10th 2007 and have been planning our 10.18.08 wedding for the last several months. We met through mutual friends and were friends for a few years before we started dating in October of 2004, after the Red Sox won the world series.

 Some of our E-pics by Adriano Batti. pics were taken in Medford

 

 

The ceremony will be at Our Lady's Parish in Newton, MA with the reception at the Back Bay Hilton

1st reading

song of solomon                                                                                                                            songs/music

2:8-10, 14, 16; 8:6-7                                                                                  Grandmothers & mother: Ave Maria
My beloved speaks and says to me:                                                      Attendants: Canon in D
Arise, my love, my fair one,                                                                       Bride: Trumpet Voluntary
and come away.                                                                                          Recession: Hornpipe
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the covert of the cliff,
let me see your face,
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely.
My beloved is mine and I am his;
he pastures his flock among the lilies.
(He said to me:)
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.

The Word of the Lord

 

 

 

 2nd reading

 1 John 4:7-12                                                                                                                

A reading from the first letter of John

Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is from God;
everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God,
for God is love.
God’s love was revealed among us in this way:
God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
In this is love,
not that we loved God
but that he loved us
and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God;
if we love one another,
God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
The Word of the Lord

 

 Reception- The Back Bay Hilton

Entrance song- bridal party -walk this way~aerosmith

B&G~ eye of the tiger

We couldn't be happier with the venue. Danny actually insisted that we have it there after my cousin recently had her wedding there.

 

Mom's dress from Montage

 

My mom just picked out her dress at Occasions in Wayland. She tried it on several months ago and has recently decided to order it. It looks amazing on her, she'll be wearing it in the Mocha, that is shown.

 

The guys will be ordering their tuxes at classic tux. Black tuxes with black vests and a blue tie, the groom will have an ivory vest and tie. They're by Calvin Klien, 3 button (I can't find a picture)

 

Bridesmaid dresses are from Wtoo by Watters in the atlantic blue and I'll be making the chocolate sashes to go with them. It comes with a ribbon, but it doesn't go well. My MOH will be wearing chocolate with a blue sash.

It's a little blurry, but you get the idea.  It's shown in knee length, but their's will be tea length.

 

My dress is by Kenneth Pool and Amsale, compliments of VOWS! It's absolutely amazing. At this time, I'm not going to post any pictures of my dress (for fear of a lurking groom).

 

Our Invites are from Carlson Craft through Rhoda at Cordially Yours, she was awesome to work with and we got so many compliments on our invites.

 

 The rings! I love them! My E-ring is a brilliant cut diamond set in the sweep setting in platium and my band is 5 brilliant cut diamonds set in a platium sweep as well. My band is from Barmakian, we loved them!

 

 

Ken's Flower Cafe will be doing our flowers. He's a long time family friend. This picture is at one of my bridesmaids weddings last September. I'll be copying her bouquet. A mix of mango callas, black magic roses and berries. My bridesmaids will have mango callas. our tall centerpieces are with circus roses, white hydrangeas and and berries. (some pics from theknot.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Blue dresses with orange flowers! I love the combo (from theknot.com)

 

 

 

 Our Unity candle

and our memorial candles for both our dads, they'll be in hurricane vases with berries underneath.

 

 

Placecards! mini pumpkins...

 

Our Cake from Montilio's, will be 4 layers, very similar to the picture, but no flowers and our monogram on the 3rd layer. and blue ribbon that matches the BM dresses at the bottom of each layer with fondant chocolate on the top.

chocolate with tuffle and vanilla with raspberry. the top of the cake will be lemon for us!

 

Like this one, with blue ribbon and a M

 

 hair ideas

 

I had my hair and make up trials at The Mane Escape in Concord, Ma, since we'll be at my mom's house I figured I'd go somewhere close.

My second trial at Diva Salon in Sudbury! we'll be going here! they aren't as chaotic as the mane escape

RD invites from the paper store, they came out great.

 

 

 

Our progams are being done by Kelly from allthingspaper.net and she's out of Boston!

great prices and beautiful job. they are being cut and printed as I write. They are similar to below. Ivory paper with blue monogram and brown ink and ribbon!

 

 Favors cards from vistaprint.com

Our table numbers (numbers from Tdiddy2)... just a few, we have a lot of tables.... I LOVE THEM! thanks, kristen! she's a friend and graphic designer!

 KMatta1025@rcn.com

 

 

 

 

Our menus and other paper ideas -  from knottie TDiddy2

 All our paper stuff was designed (with some ideas from Tdiddy)by my friend Kristen, if you like anything, you can email her KMatta1025@rcn.com

 

 

 

OOT poems

 

Bathroom poem

 

 

 

 

 

 

reserved signs, programs, & Dancing shoes, from Tdiddy2 and my friend kristen

 

 idea from theknot.com

 

 

Candy bar ideas from theknot.com

 

 

 

Adriano Batti will be our photographer, www.adrianobatti.com

we love Adriano, however, I initially wanted Jim Canole, but he was booked.

 

Our band is airtightband.com - we've been following them around the last few months and couldn't be happier with our decision to book with them.

 

UI productions will be our videographer

 

Kenny's Coach for transportation.

 

 

Our home, we moved in the end of May and love it... here's a few pics, our living room is set up differently then the sellers. It's so cute, 4 bedrooms, pool, and finished basement.