Wedding Photos Almost Ready

Mary and I had been wondering when we were going to be able to see the proofs of our wedding photos.  The teaser that our photographer posted over a month ago got us really excited, only to keep us wondering when we were going to see the rest!  Finally I contacted them and was told it should only be a few more days now.  

On a side note, I've got our new website up and running, but have a few minor changes to make before we send the link out to anyone.  Look for that in the next few days....I promise!

Photo Preview

Our photographers have posted a preview of a few of the photos from our wedding day on their blog.  Please visit Mr. Stacey to see these pictures from our day.  We could not be more excited with how these have turned out and we cannot wait to see the rest!

Don't Panic! (Photos)

I want to thank everyone who has uploaded photos to my photo sharing website!  If you have digital photos that you took at any of the weekend's festivities, please take a few minutes to upload them.  Also, if you have been going to GPUDS to look at pictures from our wedding, you may have noticed that suddenly, they are all gone.  Well, don't panic, we still have them all, but in the interest of conserving space, I removed everything from the online album.  We're still waiting to get pictures from a few more people, then we'll put everything together in an easy to view online album :)

We Now Return To Our Previously Scheduled Wedding Planning

Some of you may already know, but yesterday, Mary and I moved into our new home!  The day started at 8:30am at my sister's place so the movers could pick up all my boxes, my dresser, tv, chair, bar, computer(s) etc.  That took just less than an hour, but after the first few boxes were loaded, I could already tell that I would be very thankful for hiring movers by the end of the day. 

The movers and I then headed to Mary's apartment, we got there just before 10:00am.  With the exception of a dresser, everything in Mary's apartment got moved!  Bentley was there and he was very confused with all the people coming and going.  The boxes weren't too bad.  The difficult items were Mary's couch (with two built-in recliners) and her love seat with a pull-out bed.  Both were really heavy!  Fortunately, Mary lived on ground level with only three small steps.  After another hour and a half or so, it was off to the condo.

It was at that point that I was REALLY glad we hired movers.  They had to carry everything up the back stairway to our second floor unit.  After about two-thirds of our things were moved in, it started to rain...a lot!  All the furniture was covered and the the contents of the boxes were all fine.  For the most part, everything went great (one small bookshelf incident), and after five hours, everything was moved in!

Mary, her Dad and I went to grab a quick bite to eat before retrieving Bentley from Mary's apartment to finally bring him "home."  We unpacked and organized things for several hours before finally retiring for the evening with a bottle of champagne and a frozen pizza!  Now that floor-refinishing, cleaning and moving is over, we can get back to the task at hand.  Only two and half weeks to go!!

Engagement Photo Session

This actually happened over a month ago, but better late than never right!  The photography package we selected for our wedding included a complimentary engagement photo session.  Mary and I weren't planning on purchasing this, but since it was at no cost to us, we figured we'd take advantage.  Our photographers made a good case for it as well.  They said that the purpose of the session was for us to "warm up" to having our pictures taken a lot and be the center of attention.  This proved to be a really good idea.

Although we did warm up a little towards the end, there was definitely a feeling of, "what are we supposed to do?"  Most of the time, when someone is taking your picture you look directly at the camera and smile, right?  Well that's not the case for wedding pictures.  Not that we expected it to be, but actually having to act candid was quite a challenge.  Of course, on our wedding day, we'll be so pre-occupied with guests and such that I'm sure we'll hardly even notice the photographer.

Some of the pictures didn't come out to be our favorites, but we did really like a lot of them.  It ended up being a great experience to get to work with our photographers ahead of time.  We're also planning on purchasing several of the photos from our engagement session as well.  I'm sure that only our parents and maybe siblings will be interested, but we'd be happy to let anyone view them online.

For security reasons, I'm not going to post the address to the gallery online, but just send us a message on our contact page, and I'll happily send you the link!