Jonathan & Tricia's Wedding

I had such high hopes for my iPod touch helping me to post on here more often.  Instead if has been very helpful keeping me on track of wedding appointments.  Since I last posted Tricia and I have covered a lot of ground

On June 13th we went to New Hampshire and met with our DJ Chris Brunelle of Party Time Productions.  We met him at his home and were treated to cookies his wife made.  He is a fun and interesting guy who clearly knows his stuff.  We spent an hour or more discussing music.  What bands and genres we like (Dave Matthews Band, rock, and country).  What we want to avoid (Hip-hop/Rap, line dances).  What songs will be danced to (My mother and I are dancing to Where You Lead by Carole King from her Living Room Tour…yes the link will take you to iTunes to hear a snippet).  We also discussed some of the ceremonial things we’ll do like first dance, cake cutting, and speeches.  He gave Tricia and I some homework because we have an eclectic taste in music.  I’m tasked with compiling some essential anime and video game music to give him.

More recently we met with David Antocci of Engaging Moments Photography.  He came from Rhode Island and has shot a lot of weddings.  He came to the Endicott Branch Library to meet with us and we discussed more about photographs than I knew was possible.  I handled the leg work for photographers and both Tricia and I fell in love with his photographs and his style.  He has created a custom package for us that provides exactly what we want.  We’re getting both a proof album and proofs on CD so we can print our own copies.  His samples were incredible and he has a nice online setup where anyone can order the prints they want.  I was sick the weekend we met him but managed to pull it together to have a great meeting.  We like him so much that he will be taking our engagement pictures on the Endicott Estate.

The next activity we had planned was our marriage prep for the Church.  We went to the Espousal Retreat Center in Waltham for their program.  It came strongly recommended by my pastor.  The program consisted of a Saturday evening and then all day that Sunday.  The program was thorough and very helpful.  Tricia and I had a lot of fun and loved being able to focus so much time on us and our approaching marriage.  There was one activity, in particular, that I enjoyed.  We were asked to answer the question “Why do I want to spend the rest of my life with you?” and had to answer it in the form of a love letter to our beloved.  We had 15 minutes to write and when completed had to read it to our fiance.  I wrote up a storm and ultimately ran out of time.  I went to find Tricia, they split the couples up for each of the activities, she looked up at me and said “I’m not done yet.”  The weekend concluded with a beautiful mass in their chapel.  Since that weekend I’ve felt more in love with and closer to Tricia.  It helped to reinforce something I’ve known in my heart from the moment I saw her…that I love her and want to spend the rest of my life with her.

I know these blog posts are supposed to be short.  So I’ll wrap this up for now.  But there is more to tell.  As Dave Matthews says “You and me together, we could do anything, Baby You and me together yes, yes.”

Jonathan the Groom