Our weekend in New Jersey

This past weekend we had a wonderful time visiting our friends, Christina and Kenny, in New Jersey for another weekend of Fall-filled festivities! I always love the weekends we visit with them, and this one didn't disappoint as it was complete with corn mazes, apple cider, Poltergeist, and one of the most amazing home-cooked meals I've had in a long time.

 

They made us pork wellington with risotto. I am still dreaming about how good this dinner was! Christina also made pumpkin chocolate chip, butterscotch cookies. I forget exactly what all was in them, but they were amazing!

  

What did you do this weekend?

Friday Find: Lib Dub Proposal

Ok, it took me awhile to watch this viral video. I thought "aw..another lip dub proposal..cute..been there, done that." But then I finally sat down and forced myself to watch the whole thing since the "interwebs" seemed to be going crazy over it. 4 minutes later, I was reaching for a tissue, crying at my desk...if I had a dollar...

So here's the deal: The beginning part is cute, fun, quirky, entertaining. If you get tired of it, skip ahead to 2:50 and watch from there. It's really sweet and I don't know how he got that many friends and family involved in this! I think Huffington Post (UK) said it best:

"You see why we're practically lost for words now? How the hell did he do it? As much as we adore our friends and family, there is absolutely no way we'd ever be able to organize them all into doing something like this. Half of them would be late, sick or go to the wrong car park. It would almost definitely rain. And our chances of persuading everyone we know to learn the words to a One Direction track are practically zilch."

It's going to give you a restricted playback notice...just click on "watch on youtube" to watch it there!

Enjoy and happy Friday!

Remember, you can always check my Friday Wedding finds over at Storymix Media where I share the most outrageous wedding stories of the week, and my wedding series with Russo's on the Bay every Tues./Thurs. and Saturday!

Pennsylvania Weekend

I'm having some major Blogger problems right now hence the lack of posting. Google is looking into the issue and hopefully I'll be back up and running in no time. In the meantime, here's a quick post recapping our lovely weekend in Pennsylvania with our friends, Chris and Corinne, while visiting my family and going on an 18 mile bike ride!

Friday Find: Wedding Fails

With wedding season 2012 winding down, here is a compliation of the top wedding fails of the year. Some of these I already featured on the blog, and many are new.

Here's to a year of great weddings and to many more weddings fails to come in 2013!

Mal and Eric's (Surprise) Engagement Party

Remember my friends Mal and Eric, who just got engaged? Well on Saturday, September 29, they had a surprise engagement party of epic proportions! My friend, Lauren, did an amazing job putting together this beautiful party. Complete with gold balloons with pictures of the couple tied to the strings, personalized Mal and Eric coasters, candle-lighting everywhere, pumpkins spray painted with their initials in gold, PLUS amazing food, it was a stellar party from start to finish.

Lauren and her mom were anxiously awaiting Mal and Eric's arrival!!

They finally arrived, and were VERY Surprised as they walked into the house!

And of course, we oogle the ring!

The cake was awesome and made by a friend of a friend who owns a bakery. It was out of this world and pretty too!

Mandy and I enjoy our glasses of vino

Lauren set out this "Honeymoon Fund" jar to collect funds for the honeymoon. It was very cute...though I don't think that cash pile grew very much during the party :)

Mal and Eric opened their presents

Lauren had ordered pretzel rods decorated as brides and grooms. How cute is this??

Top: Lauren and Mal, and below: together with their moms:

Mal and Eric with Mal's family:

Love these girls!

Here is a full slideshow with all my pictures and video of the toasts from the evening:

Happy Colombus Day!

I'm off of work today catching up on boatloads of stuff and relaxing after our day at the Giants Game yesterday. I hope you all had a great weekend, and I'll be back tomorrow with a recap of Mal and Eric's Engagement Party from a few weeks ago!

Friday Find: Groomsmen Dance

So at first I thought..."Ok. Another groom and his groomsmen performing an awkward dance for the bride...great." But this one...this one was different. The beginning is bit rough when he tries to sing along with the microphone. But THEN...THEN!!! around 1:00 in, it just gets awesome.

These guys are actually really GOOD! Their choreography is spot on and together, these guys can MOVE. This is a revelation. PS. Guy in the sunglasses to the left behind the groom? Um. Yes please.