Wedding Details

Hi friends! We're finally back home in Boston after quite a crazy week. I haven't cooked much  in the last few days but I thought you all might enjoy a few wedding detail shots. I haven't got any from the actual ceremony because, ahem, I was a bridesmaid, but I got these during the downtime between the awesome rock star style wedding party photos and the ceremony itself, which was completely lovely.



When the bride is an artist, you know the details of her wedding are going to be just lovely. Christy made these paper flowers that were strewn about the aisle. She also made the gorgeous mobile above the altar. The space in which they got married (The Foundry at Puritan Mill) is an old soap factory that's been converted into a huge open space, and it was truly gorgeous.



I also got to be involved in some of the decorations, since I got to hot glue the  pearls onto the "something blue" cast.

Oh hey, it's wedding day!

I won't have time for a real post today (in fact we've already begun primping, hee hee) but I thought you guys might get a kick out of the fact that her something blue is a plaster cast. We'll be gluing on some pearls and things later to bling it up. Wish us luck!

Free Stuff for the Bride

One of my best friends from college is getting married tomorrow. She also, ahem, broke her leg playing soccer on Sunday. So she's in a cast. And a wheelchair. Don't worry, we're figuring out how to festoon the chair, and she'll be on a crutch for the 10 minute ceremony, but it's sure been an interesting few days! We've been milking the story for free things, such as this free frozen yogurt at Chick-Fil-A at lunch yesterday. Wish us luck tomorrow, ok?

And Now We're Married

It's true what they say about your wedding day flying by. It was a wonderful day, sunny and warm for New England October, but it seemed like we woke up, put on our party clothes and BOOM, it's over. Who's taking home the centerpiece? Is there any cake left? (No, there was not. I only had about four bites of cake and I WANT MORE.)

These wedding photos were taken by our photographer David Barnes. If you want to see more wedding photos, you can see some on Facebook on the David Barnes Photography page. I also want to point out that David is awesome: he is calm and collected even though we didn't have a ton of time for photographs (read: didn't stress us out one bit) and he still managed to get a ton of awesome shots. I can't wait to see the whole set!

Two other local Somerville businesses were totally awesome, so if you're in the market for flowers check out Nellie's Wildflowers in Davis Square. My bouquet was freaking gorgeous and it had baby pine cones in it! The centerpieces were exactly what we wanted, even though I was vague and unhelpful with my ideas. Our amazing cake was from Lyndell's bakery in Ball Square: holy chocolate frosting. I might have to go down there on our one month-iversary (please, did you think I was going to wait a year?) and get myself a tiny cake just so I can eat more of it. Four bites is not enough. 

The day after the wedding we headed home from the Museum, packed up, and drove up to Woodstock, Vermont, to the Village Inn (warning: their website plays music) for a three day mini honeymoon (mini-moon?). It was perfectly delightful even if we were the youngest tourists in town. The thing is, retirees make dinner reservations, and we are young! and crazy! and newlyweds! Which means we only had reservations for one night (at Simon Pearce, where we had a gift certificate from the best man - thanks Tyler!) Luckily, there are tons of awesome restaurants in and around Woodstock and we managed to find great food every night. We had a really wonderful crab cake that I can't wait to recreate at Richardson's Tavern, and the house special whole fish at Mangowood was crispy and flavorful. 

In addition to awesome food (breakfast at the Village Inn was unbelievably good), we got in two solid mornings of hiking and plenty of cribbage. We also tasted cheese and maple syrup and brought home plenty of deliciousness to savor for the next little while.

We've been back in Boston for about a week, and it's been a little weird adjusting back to real life. Not much is different, except that Adam wears a ring now. He still goes to work, I still go to school (oh, and I got a part time job doing prep work, so I go there, too, and make hundreds of spinach triangles), but we're not planning a wedding any more. Frankly, it's pretty nice. 

I'll be back again soon enough with something more substantial, but to ease back into things, here's a blurry picture of a salad for fall that we had a few days after we got back. It's made with a bunch of raw lacinato kale, center ribs removed and sliced into 1/4 inch strips, one sliced honeycrisp apple, and a nub of diced smoked gouda, with a handful of chopped walnuts for crunch. The dressing is red wine vinegar, salt, and olive oil, and you can just mix it all up and let it sit for an hour while you make the rest of dinner if you want. Raw kale can stand up to the vinegar without wilting much; it's even good the next day!