Our favorite pictures

There are SO many pictures that we love but here are a few of our favorites. If you want to see all of the pictures, let us know and we can send you the snapfish link for printable copies.

Getting readyFirst sight

Elena and Laura being excited

The bridesmaids

The guys

Right before the veil flew off!

Good times

Top of the flour tower

There are so many other great pictures of family, friends, the ceremony, reception and dance but WAY to many to post on here (much like the honeymoon pictures, I see a trend). Thank you so much to everyone who was part of the wedding and who traveled to be with us. We had such an amazing day and hope everyone else did too!!

Wedding Pictures

The wedding pictures are in…kind of. You can see them online at pictage: http://www.pictage.com/client/event.do?event=704509 right now but we don’t have the CD with all of the images yet (it should be here by the end of the week). As soon as we have the image files, I will upload them to snapfish which will be a much cheaper option. So if you want to order any pictures, just send me an email case0149@umn.edu and I will send you the invite to the snapfish page as soon as they are uploaded. We will also hopefully post some of our favorites up on this site by the end of the week so if you don’t want to scroll through ALL of the pictures (there are over 700) you can check back in a few days!

We’re back!

Well we’ve been back from our honeymoon for less than 48 hours and we’re still recovering. It was an absolutely amazing trip. We took SOOO many pictures but here are a taste of a few of my favorites:

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Sunset at Amboseli

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Our first elephant sighting!

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Wildebeest and baby

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Us in a hot air balloon over Massai Mara Park

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Lion Yawning

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Elephants in front of Mt. Kilimanjaro

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Lion chasing zebras (she didn't catch them)

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Giraffe at Lake Nakuru

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Cheetah Lounging

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Red Colobus monkey in Zanzibar

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Colobus Monkey playing with his tail

If you want to check out the rest of our pictures, you can see all 700 of them on Gabe’s flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabemc/sets/72157623649998259/

Next up…AFRICA!

Well the wedding is over. Everything was perfect in my mind and I had an amazing time so thanks to everyone for being there and partying it up with us. If you want to check out pictures from the photo booth, you can find them all online at www.thetravelingphotobooth.com and then click View Event. The password for our event is MD8A4. Even if you didn’t take any photos, check them out! There are some gems ;)

We’re heading to Africa in about 3 hours for our fabulous honeymoon so check back in two weeks for some great pictures. Thanks everyone!!

Success!

The wedding was absolutely amazing. We want to thank everyone for all their love and support!  We will be adding lots of pictures as soon as we can.  We are heading off on our honeymoon in Kenya and Zanzibar on Wednesday. We will be back on Sunday, April 4th.

Pre-wedding celebration for all!

Hi everyone! We hope you will all be able to join us for a pre-wedding celebration on Friday night after the rehearsal dinner. The entire wedding party and immediate family will be doing our rehearsal dinner at Nye’s Polonaise Room at 5:15 and we would love everyone to join us for dessert and polka dancing at about 7:30pm.

We will provide cakes from the famous Cafe Latte for dessert and Nye’s will have the “Worlds Most Dangerous Polka Band” and “Sweet” Lou Snider at the piano bar. Local and national magazines have ranked Nye’s as one of the best bars in America with great live music!

Nye’s is about 1 mile from the reception site and just across the river from downtown Minneapolis. We hope to see everyone there!

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Getting Excited

I know I always say this but I really cannot believe that the wedding is only two weeks away. It seems like just yesterday that I was saying 100 days to go. A few things happened this week that really made the wedding seem real. First of all our marriage license came in the mail! It just seems so official and it really hit home. The other thing that was really crazy was ordering the escort cards with my name as Mrs. Laura Cook. Wow!!! I can’t wait to see everyone and have a wonderful day.

Almost time!

Well the RSVP’s are in (for the most part!) and the schedules made. I can’t believe its only 20 days until we get married! WOW!

Hotel Rooms

Hey everyone, just a reminder to book your hotel rooms in the next few weeks. Next week they will reduce the block of rooms by half so book asap! There are still rooms left at both The Grand Hotel and The Hotel Minneapolis for a group rate of $99/night. For more information on the hotels, see the Guest Information tab of this website. We can’t wait to see you in less than 6 weeks!

A Change of Plans

We found out yesterday that the hotel we had booked in Zanzibar would be closing down early this year! There is always a shortage of electricity on the island and those smaller resorts without their own generators must often close throughout certain months of the year. So, after looking through reviews of MANY different hotels on Zanzibar, we decided to instead book an oceanside room at the Breezes Hotel and Spa. As a slightly bigger resort, it will have a different feel than the smaller island oases but we think that might be ok after 5 days on a safari staying at the more rustic lodges. We updated the honeyfund registry to reflect our change. I think although it was a bit of a hassle it will be wonderful and it made me even more excited for our honeymoon! I’ve been spending so much time thinking about the wedding, the honeymoon often seems like it is so far away but now I’m excited about it all over again!