First of all, a huge THANK YOU to everyone - friends, family, attendants, and vendors. Everything went without a hitch (except ours ;-) and it was a fabulous day. Even the weather cooperated - maybe a bit windier than we would have liked, but the day was so wonderful that it didn't matter.
The Springdale House looked great; the trees and flowers bloomed in time for photos. Maitre d' Karen was very helpful; everything was set up as we had requested, and the food prepared by Peter and Robert was delicious.
All of the music was lovely - the F.A.M.E. Brass Quartet sounded great for the ceremony, our cocktail hour pianist Paul Lentini did a nice job, and Dave Hoeffel of Sound Choice was indeed a sound choice as he played many different types of music at an appropriate volume. We were quite pleased with all of the musicians.
Steve, our photographer from Lucas Studios, was terrific and smiled all day, even when dealing with numerous clowns - oops, relatives. ;-)
Phil de Carlo of Uptown Videos captured it all on film - and we can't wait to see it all. He was there for all of the important moments and really catered to our desires - all without the bright lights usually associated with video cameras.
Everyone looked terrific, too. Panache Salon took care of the females of the bridal party, and the guys looked dapper in their tuxes. Our colorful bouquets created by Tracy at Martinsville Florist turned out lovely, and Holly enjoyed presenting hers to Gail Bethard, who with her husband Wilson won our contest for the longest-married couple at 41 years!!
At the end of the evening, we were whisked away to our honeymoon suite at the Somerset Hills Hotel by a shiny white limo from Dream Limousine.
Our honeymoon was very relaxing. We spent the first week in Grand Cayman (see our resort), and then the second week was the cruise from Miami with stops in Hispanola, San Juan, St Thomas, and Nassau on Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas (see our ship). The weather became cloudy during the cruise, but we had a lot of fun on the ship and in the ports.
Please check back soon, as we hope to put up some pictures! Anybody who has any good shots, if you email us the jpegs, we'll post them on this site.
