Showing posts with label ChristinaDan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ChristinaDan. Show all posts

Monday, October 29, 2007

Megan and Ed's Wedding 2007

Megan and Ed got married! The wedding was in Florida where Ed is from, and Ed's mom helped with a lot of the arrangements. In Florida, there's always a threat of rain, so they kept the ceremony short and sweet. Thanks to their strategizing we were all inside right as it started raining outside.

Megan and her father
Megan and her dad

Megan's mother does a reading
Megan's mom doing a reading

The ceremony
Vows during the ceremony

The first thing we did before cocktail hour was take a big group photo of everyone at the wedding. I'd never seen that before and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Kevin and I copied that and the style of their invitations for our wedding. Suffice to say, I like their style. The cocktail hour was really fun in part because Megan and Ed actually attended their own cocktail hour. Again, it was the first time I had seen that, and Kevin and I copied that too.

Taylor Wedding 2007
Awesome group photo. 

Darren, Janice, Megan, and Ed
Darren and Janice with the bride and groom during cocktail hour

It's been five years but I still remember that the reception was beautiful, and the dinner was delicious, and they had an amazing cordial bar (with chocolate and coffee liquors) and a chocolate fountain. I loved that bar. And we all had a wonderful time celebrating and dancing together. It was really fun.

Laurie, Jamie, and Janice
Laurie, Jamie, and Janice

Taylor Wedding 2007 
Fake table photo missing Laurie (I think she was dancing?)

Taylor Wedding 2007
The beautiful cake

We were all so happy for the two of them. By the time they got married I had known Megan for 10 years. I had seen her be very happy before, enjoying herself with her friends, but since she met Ed, it seemed like she was permanently in that state of happy. When I met Ed in 2005, I thought he was great anyway. The reason I thought they were great together was that Megan was her best self with Ed. And all that beaming back and forth they did- wow. In five years, you can just look at them and see they haven't lost the magic. In many ways, they're even better now. They even run marathons together and have an amazing baby boy William.

First Dance
Even though this picture is from far away, I think you can see how happy they are.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Dinner with College Friends- October 2006

Saturday, in lieu of actually attending our college reunion, Kevin and I had dinner with my college girlfriends and their significant others. We had a delicious dinner at DC Coast. I'm always so happy to see them, but it's especially happy being surrounded by my wonderful friends and the loves of their lives. What a happy time!

DC Coast 2006
Megan, Christina, me, Janice

DC Coast 2006
DC Coast mermaid statue

DC Coast 2006
Megan and Ed are engaged! I'm so happy! So are they.

DC Coast 2006
Christina and Dan

Visiting DC- October 2006
Janice and Darren

DC Coast, WDC 2006
Kevin and me

Saturday, September 9, 2006

Visiting Christina and Dan 2006

I had an interview in New York yesterday, and I have another on Monday. I donated the hotel to PILA and visited with Christina and her boyfriend Dan. We went to East Japanese Restaurant in Kips Bay, a neighborhood bordered on the north by Murray Hill; on the west by Madison Square; on the south by Gramercy Park and Peter Cooper Village; and on the east by the East River. They live nearby in Murray Hill, and I stayed overnight with them.

New York City 2006
Dan and Christina with their chopsticks

New York City 2006
I heart sushi and Christina and Dan

Monday, September 5, 2005

Girls' Weekend 2005

Last year, my college girlfriends and I went to the beach for our first annual "Girls Weekend." This year, the summer got away from us, so the girls decided to come visit me at my new place. Since I was up in Arlington for Michelle and John's wedding on Friday, Friday night we all slept over Janice's apartment near Pentagon City. Saturday, we bought a bunch of orange shirts, drove to Charlottesville and went to the UVA football game against W. Michigan. GW didn't have a football team so it was a novelty for all of us.

Girls' Weekend 2005
Me, Janice, Laurie, Megan, and Christina

Girls' Weekend 2005
Trying to figure out how to get to the game... (Where does this bus take me?)

W. Michigan v. UVA Football Game
Megan and Laurie chilling

W. Michigan v. UVA Football Game
W. Michigan v. UVA Football Game!! UVA wins!

Sunday, we had brunch on the Mall, followed it up with some gelato at Splendora's, and then caught a movie. We ate so much for dinner that we had a strange hodge-podge for dinner that included Megan's spinach dip bread bowl, Christina's crab dip, and ice cream cake... because that's how we roll.

Girls' Weekend 2005
Christina and Megan

Girls' Weekend 2005
Laurie and Janice missing Soraya.

Girls' Weekend in Cville 2005
Me, Megan, Christina, Janice, Laurie

Girls' Weekend 2005
Movie snacks

Girls' Weekend 2005
Hurray!

Thanks for an awesome weekend girls! And thanks for being some of my first visitors!