Wedding Pictures

They have arrived!

http://www.pictage.com/699810

You may need to create a profile to see the pictures, but they are worth it!

One More Week!

This afternoon, we will drive up to the North Country to begin the last leg of wedding preparations.  We can't wait to see you all on August 1!

New Registry

We now have a wedding registry at Bed Bath & Beyond. We thought that it would be nice to have an actual store to go to instead of just ordering online.

Click on the image below to visit our registry:

First day of poll = not too successful!

Hmmm... we think our lack of posts in the last month has led to a shortage of visitors to our site! We hope people will come back and take part in these awesome music polls. We will admit, the only votes so far have come from us (trying to make us look more popular than we are!). Please vote! If you didn't like the the first poll, maybe you'll like the second one better :)

NEW: Guest Participation

We know - it's been awhile since we updated our blog.  That just means we've been busy getting ready for the wedding!  But now, we're prepared to take this blog to a whole new level by introducing...

GUEST PARTICIPATION!

We'd like our guests' input on song choices for the wedding reception.  Starting now, and leading up to the wedding, we will be conducting numerous polls to gauge our guests' musical preferences.  The polls will be generated based on our personal tastes, but this will allow you to guide us in the most reasonable direction possible.  Please vote!  We'll really make an effort to put out a new poll every day or every other day, but we need you to do your part and vote!

We can't wait to see everyone!

Wedding Invites

After struggling with them for about 3 hours, the wedding invites have been ordered. Of course, we need to double-check the digital proof to make sure our late night writing actually makes sense to our more coherent selves, but hopefully we'll be able to send them out shortly.

Thank You Double B Contracting

Double B Contracting, out of Lowville, NY, came through big with 3 portable toilet units. Unfortunately, these won't be the deluxe sink units, but they're still going to rock. I mean, come on, they're port-a-potties!

Disaster averted--the wedding is still on!

NOOOOOO!!

So, apparently, all the portable toilets are booked for August 1. I'm still trying to find them, but the dream is slipping through our fingers. Portable toilets! Port-a-potties! We're losing them!

Hopefully, someone will come through. If not, I'm just not sure what we'll do...

Our Wedding Registry

Our Amazon.com wedding registry is now ready. We'll be making updates to it as time goes on, but thought it would be a good idea to put it up. Click on the big green button to see it.

Wedding Music

After several weeks of exhaustive searching, we've almost finished the plans for the music at the wedding. Stay tuned for the final details, we'll be posting them soon.

Yummy Cakes

This weekend, we tasted some delicious cupcakes from our wedding cake baker. After much deliberating and...well, a lot of tasting, we've made a decision about our wedding cake.

It's basically going to be split between:

• Chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and raspberry filling
• Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Additionally, we're getting lavender royal cream flowers on the tops of the cakes.

As the post title says, yummy!

Our Officiant

We've done a lot of thinking about who we want to officiate our wedding and we found that we kept going back to the same person.

While the main role of the officiant is to sign the marriage certificate, what we really wanted was somebody who could more than adequately perform a ceremony that is, obviously, very important to us. To do this properly, it needed to be somebody who really understands us and who knows what our relationship means to one another.

With that in mind, we would like to formally announce that our officiant will be our good friend, Carline Czaja. Carline will set the perfect tone for the wedding and we can't think of anyone we'd rather have officiate our wedding.

(Thanks Carline for agreeing to do it!)

Porta-potty

That's right--porta-potty. I always thought that "porta-potty" was slang that shouldn't be used formally, but I guess that's the official name for a portable toilet.

Today, we put in our reservation for 3 of those babies and boy are they nice! We're talking full-sink deluxe units. No hand sanitizer for our wedding. I don't know what I'm more excited about: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que or 3 deluxe porta-potties. It's too difficult to decide.

Mmm, Dinosaur BBQ....

As we try to get things planned, we thought we'd share with you some highlights from our catering menu (subject to changes):

Appetizers

• Teriyaki chicken skewers
• Nachos

Entrees

• Pulled pork
• Ribs
• Mojito chicken
• Veggie skewers

And more!

Lodging Recommendations

Our wedding date is August 1st, 2009.

Below are some lodging recommendations:

The Kilbourn House Bed & Breakfast
8292 State Highway 3
Harrisville, NY 13648
(315) 543-2008
http://www.kilbournhouse.com/
5 miles from venue

Lawrence Manor
214 E. Main St
Gouverneur, NY 13642
(315) 287-1640
http://www.lawrencemanor.com/
16 miles from venue

The Clearview Motel
1162 US Highway 11
Gouverneur, NY 13642
(315) 287-2800
http://www.the-clearview.com/
16 miles from venue

Hidden Comfort Bed & Breakfast
11733 Jerden Falls Rd
Croghan, NY 13327
(315) 346-6745
http://www.hiddencomfortbb.com/
19 miles from venue

The Butterscotch House Bed & Breakfast
5449 Trinity Ave
Lowville, NY
(315) 376-3882
http://www.butterscotchhouse.com/
35 miles from venue

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites
Watertown-Thousand Islands
1290 Arsenal St
Watertown, NY 13601
(315) 779-1234
http://www.hiexpress.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/artaa?rpb=hotel&crUrl=/h/d/ex/1/en/hotelsearchresults
41 miles from venue

Hampton Inn Watertown
155 Commerce Park Drive
Watertown, NY 13601
(315) 782-2222
http://hamptoninn.hilton.com/en/hp/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=ARTNYHX
41 miles from venue

Days Inn Watertown Fort Drum
110 Commerce Park Dr
Routes 81 & 3
Watertown, NY 13601
(315) 782-2700
http://www.daysinn.com/DaysInn/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=06630
41 miles from venue

Welcome

We'd like to welcome you to Emily and Ryan's wedding website. We'll be posting details about the wedding as soon as we know what's going on!