Networking

Well you always hear "it's not what you know, it's who you know" - so here it goes. This is a great networking tool:

More oak

Thought I would post this picture - it shows the deep purple/red colour in our family room, and also shows our oak fireplace. Goodnes gracious. I think we may just eventually put a gas insert into it, since we won't use wood (the glass doors do nothing to keep the sparks in the fireplace, and I don't want burn marks on the floor or area rug). Still thinking of something to do on the mantle...

This pic was taken at our gift opening. Holy smokes - had no idea how tired you get after a wedding!

What a pretty hutch

This is the beautiful hutch that my grandparents bought us as a wedding gift. We also bought a dining room table to match. Very pretty. The crystal in the hutch is just part of a collection that my grandma has been building for me for the past few years. I have changed the order of the shelves a bit - not pictured are our wedding toasting glasses, the picture of us toasting (other picture here!), and my tiara. Had no idea what I would do with the silly thing (tiara!) after the wedding, but it actually looks really pretty in the hutch. This is the only place in the house that anything wedding-y is displayed.

Photography Disaster

So while the photographer, Bruce Benson, at our wedding took some nice pictures, he gets the grade of F. Let me tell you why.

He lied. He ignored. He was just not easy to deal with.

Our wedding was in January - he told us since our wedding was in the off season we would have the cd's with our pictures on them in 2 weeks (this normally takes 8 weeks he told us). Well, 8 weeks after the wedding I hadn't heard from him. So I called - he set up an appointment for us to come pick up the cd's. He didn't bring the cd's. UGH. Brought us the cd's over three consecutive days the next week (why he couldn't bring them all at once escaped us).

Going through the pictures I took notice of a lot of pictures missing...

-pictures from before the ceremony of Trevor, of our friends, of the string quartet...all pictures that friends told us after the wedding had been taken
-our first kiss. Can you believe a wedding photographer missed this one?
-a huge family shot that I know the photographer was there for
-the bouquet toss

Sadly I could go on. Fortunately friends and family have pictures of most of these moments.

We asked for explanation over why the pictures were missing. Never got one. He just kept ignoring my emails and calls. Finally Trevor emailed him. Guess what? The guy wrote back to him right away apologizing for the terrible service. UGH. Finally last week (6 months after the wedding) we received the developed proofs. I will not use him to produce our wedding albums, I will not recommend him to friends.

Please don't use this photographer: http://www.brucebensonphoto.com/

Regardless, we had a great day. This is one of my favorite photos - are you surprised that it is yet ANOTHER photo that the "professional" photographer missed?? This photo was taken by Trev's aunt - I'm making a kissy face at her six-year-old.