I left you off with the happiest day that ever did happen! We went to bed EXHAUSTED and woke up early as could be.
We decided at that moment, that we should go through all of the cards and gifts and make a list of everything, and then put it in a place for safe keeping. We were shocked at the gifts, big and small! Opening wedding gifts has got to be the funniest thing ever. Some gifts are smack you in the face shocking in good ways and bad. Mostly we received money, but there were a few home made gifts that were awesome. One was from Sophias mom Alice, who I affectionately call " the gramma", who made us a shadow box with our wedding invite in it! It is stunning! We can't wait to move and hang it in our new place! Some other very appreciated gifts were DISNEY gift cards! It was nice to have them, because we didn't feel guilty spending them, where as cash we knew we should be responsible and stock away for later use (and BOY, did we use it! Moving, new computer, new car, LAWYER, and now our move! I should mention that the new car was not paid in full lol) we tried to be smart and write in each individual card what that person wrote. Being the awful person i am, we STILL haven't sent out thank yous! I did finally receive them though, form the girl who made our invites! That was our wedding gift from her, our invites and thank yous! Lucky for us, you have a year to send out thank yous... tacky, I know! Life got stupid busy, and then I hit that wall o depression, and then baby, moving.. blah. No excuse I suppose. f good intentions paved my way... They are just about ready to go out though, I promise!
With that said, no thank you note can ever fully express how grateful we truly are! Not just for the gifts, but the time, and love that everyone so freely gave!
one way we wanted to extend our gratitude was by throwing a day after breakfast! we opted to not do a rehearsal dinner, so Bobs mom offered to pay for the breakfast! Apparently the grooms parents are "supposed" to pay for a rehearsal dinner.. she felt guilty not doing that lol
Breakfast is my favorite meal, and I was STOKED to get to see people again, and continue the party just a little bit longer!
Surprisingly a TON of guests from the wedding showed up! Sadly, I don't have many pictures at all! But did you read, a TON of wedding guests showed up, and man that was awesome to see everyone in a less formal , mostly hung over and exhausted state!
Carrie was especially excited to see left over cup cakes, and I myself even got to have one!
The Inn did a BEAUTIFUL job setting up the buffet! They reused most of our wedding decor, which was awesome and totally unexpected!
I did feel the need to step away and get a few shots of that!
Did I mention how much we LOVED that it snowed out!
After breakfast was done, we said our good byes to Carriatrick, and the Roots, which made me miserable! I hated saying bye to such wonderful, beautiful people! To make matters worse, Jophia didn't even make the breakfast because they had left EARLY to head down to Disney
guess I couldn't get too mad about that!
Once everyone cleared out, we paid our final dues, and started packing up the van! We also helped his sister, and mom and dad pack up their cars with wedding stuff that they were bringing home for us, or back to their house.
We took one last look, and with that, our wedding was over!
Normally this would be a sad moment, but not for us! we were heading to straight for our DISNEY-FAMILY-MOON!!
We did however decide to stop home for a quick sec and drop a few things off, and last minute potty! But after that, we were on our way!
Next up- the long drive to happiness!
WAHHHHH!
Thank God..I live like 20 min. more northeast of Mayfair..it's pretty nice here. Since hubs is in the PFD we have to live in the city...boo!!! We make the best of it and I'm going to Community College of Philadelphia for nursing school, which is pretty cheap for city residents and an excellent program so that's getting me through. LOL
Fingers crossed someday!
