Thursday...
Carly's family and Matt's sister came over to our house for chicken kabobs and grilled corn on the cob, bbq chips and cupcakes from Happy Cakes. I also made homemade lemonade, pink and regular!
the happy couple!!
my lemonade ad
Grill master tony
We had a wonderful time at dinner in the backyard, chatting and relaxing until about 8:30 when we got dressed up to go downtown for a mixed bachelor/bachelorette party at the Cruise Room in the Oxford Hotel.
Alicia and I
Alicia and Carly
Philly and Carl
Tony, Philly, and Lisha
We filled up 2 large booths with about 12 people and had ourselves a sloshing good time. $300 later we left at midnight where only 7 of us continued on to Double Daughters. We ordered drinks then pizza from Mario's 2 Fisted and stayed until about 1:30am. Finally, home again with Phil and Alicia spending the night.
Matt, Mark, Kim and Tony
Mark and Jenny
Philly and Jenny dancing like fools
Friday...
The next morning I got all our luggage, fancy clothes and the quilt ready to go while Alicia, Phil, and Tony went to the mall. I picked up Carly and Alicia to begin the drive to Estes Park. Tony and Phil drove the rented yellow Eclipse. At about 1:45 we arrived to get our nails done. Finally after 2 hours we ran to the Stanley and changed for the Rehearsal dinner at the Dunraven.
Tony and I were lucky enough to join all of Carly and Matt's family for dinner.
I had the veal parmesan with a baked potato and seafood bisque. Tony ordered the filet mignon with the same sides. It was a wonderful dinner with lots of laughs in a quirky little resteraunt.
Once we made it back to the Stanley, 10 of us met in the bar for champagne. We were all so beat we made it to bed by 10pm.
Saturday...
The wedding day. Tony, Alicia and I went to safeway to grab bagels for people while the actual rehearsal was going on.
After breakfast and the rehearsing finished up, we were able to set up the reception room with table decorations, gift bags, candles, and bows on the chairs.
At 2:00, I helped Carly get ready for photos. Of course, hair, make-up, and the dress took forever. By 3:30 when the photographer arrived she was just barely in her dress.
The Strozinsky/Wentzler clans were off to take family photos and couple shots.
Tony and I were able to get ready slowly as the ceremony wasn't until 5:30.
By 5:00 everyone was ready for the ceremony, except one person...the officiant. She had been very hard to get ahold of for a couple weeks so it wasn't too shocking. But of course she arrived at 5:25, just for good Hollywood effect.
Matt's brother played the trumpet while guests were seated and Phil played Book of Love on the guitar when Carly and Greg walked down the aisle. It was a beautiful ceremony and everyone laughed and cried.
(all the wedding and ceremony photos that i took were taken with normal old film, so there are no photos yet!)
Afterwards, we all had a big group shot and the reception commenced. Cheese, fruit and crackers for appetizers, open bar, wonderful dinner buffet, toasts, cake, dancing, dancing and dancing. We ended up staying in the reception area for an hour and a half longer than we were supposed to b/c the wait staff danced with us! One guy named TR (apparently like teddy roosevelt) gave us the rest of the champagne, even if they weren't opened.
Tony, Elena, and Randy (the siblings)
Finally we moved the party to the porch where TR also found cigars for all the fellas! We sat, drank, smoked and talked for a couple hours. I also gave Carly and Matt our gift to them... the quilt!!
After a really long day, everyone went to bed!
Sunday...
It was really tough getting up the next morning. We ran to safeway again and grabbed 3 dozen donuts and juice for whomever wanted to join us back on the porch for breakfast. Everyone looked very similar with shades and hangovers.
Carol, Carl, Susan, and Kim
packed up. checked out. said goodbyes.
Tony, Elena, Randy and I decided to hang around The Stanley to take a tour. We had to see room 217, the mosted haunted of them all. And of course when we got to the room something on the other side of the door knocked so hard the door visibly bowed out! YIKES!! And the elevator button shocked 3 of us terribly. So, it was obviously time to go. We found a diner to get some good greasy eggs and bacon before we started the journey home!
Room 217
The stanley was so beautiful, old and interesting and was such a great place for the wedding and just to stay in general.
Oh and they play the Shining 24 hours a day on a loop. Could it get any better? We bought the book in the gift shop.
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