This has been an amazing year for weddings. Our "baby" brother Bo and Leah got married in Tennessee, Our great friends Kevin and Naina were married in Cincinnati and another set of amazing friends, Alan and Emily, were married this month in Philadelphia! I love weddings, but there's is something super special about watching loved ones get married. It's such an honor to be a part of such a special and momentous moment in a relationship!
John and I love Philly, but we didn't do much sightseeing this trip. We spent the entirety of our time hanging with friends, which is exactly the type of weekend we wanted:)
The wedding was simply perfect. It had all the parts you want to see in a wedding: great food, amazing friends, music you can dance to, and just enough tradition to hit on everyone's favorite parts but not so much that it seemed you were attending the same ol' wedding. There was a lot of love in the important details of the wedding, and all the frivolous stuff was left out. Simply put, it was perfect and the love between Alan and Emily radiated in every detail.
I could go on to describe all the moments of our weekend, or I could just show you, so I'll do that. I hope you enjoy my creative use of google+'s new editing functions; I certainly did ;)
I know what you're thinking: "These people take a lot of trips!" It's true, this year has been a HUGE travel year for us, but that's just what happens when your family AND friends are scattered to the four winds!! One of these days we'll take the time (and money) to take a true vacation, but until then, we'll just alternate visiting our loved ones:)
So why were we in Cincinnati? The city of...actually, I have no idea what it's the city of. If I had to pick, it would be the city of "Nothing Open on Saturdays," but that might have just been that we were visiting on Labor day weekend. Anywho, we were in Cincinnati for the wedding of two of our favorite people- Kevin & Naina!!
Getting to Cincinnati was a bit of a rough trip. We left around rush hour, well after we had hoped to leave, and what could have been an 8 hour trip turned into a 10 hour trip once you added in food, gas and bathroom stops. Not to mention there were a million cops out, ensuring our compliance with the speed limit. We got in around 3am. The upside was that Kaiya slept the entire way! The downside is that Kaiya slept the entire way. As soon as we checked in to the hotel it was clear that her 10 hour sleep had sufficed and she was ready to be awake. At 3am. Obviously that wasn't going to fly for mommy and daddy, who had NOT slept, so being the good baby that she is, she kindly napped on and off until 7:30am, which was when mommy finally got up so as to not wake daddy, Aunt Els and Uncle Jon (who were sharing the room with us and also got in super late).
At this point, I went down to the lobby in search of as much coffee as I could find. Eventually I was pointed in the direction of a little hot pot in the middle of the Hilton's massive vintage dining room.
While Kaiya and I were chilling in the dining room, waiting for the others to wake up, she decided she wanted to work on her vocab and practiced her very first word: Mama!
She's such a smartie:)
A couple hours later John and Els were up and ready for coffee/breakfast, so we went to a nice little coffee shop around the corner from the hotel and camped out for a while. The coffee was great, the food super yummy, and it was a nice reprieve from the heat starting to build outside.
Not long after Jon joined us and had a little breakfast of his own, did we head out to meet up with some of the rest of the group at a little Italian place Vino Vito.
Eventually, it was time to get our wedding on! I didn't get very many pictures, unfortunately, because I was on baby duty, but I did manage to get a couple.
Some of the beautiful centerpieces!
A Murphy family picture <3
The lovely bride and handsome groom on their first dance!
John gets silly with the napkin wires
Alan works his baby whispering magic on Kaiya
After an AWESOME wedding, daddy and baby pass out
I love a good wedding, but I LOVE a wedding joining two friends, and with a guest list filled with the people that mean the most to John and me. We had so much fun at Kevin and Naina's wedding and we can't wait until we can do it all again in October when Alan and Emily take the plunge! 2013 has been such an amazing year!!
Our story began all the way back in 2004 on a little island called Shelter Island, though our "love" story didn't begin until early 2006. After a year in Ithaca, NY while I got my masters at Cornell we moved to Washington, DC. In 2010 we were married in the beautiful St. Leonard, MD, in April 2013 we welcomed into our lives and family our first little one, Kaiya Paige Murphy. In February 2014 we moved our family to Nashville, TN and started our lives in the south. Now we're expecting our second beautiful daughter in June of 2016! In honor of our growing family, and because family has become ever more important since deciding to build our own, I started this blog as a place to document our amazing lives together:)
