First Comes Love. Then Comes Marriage.: Such a great weekend.

This weekend, one of my dear friends became a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo! Early Saturday afternoon, a couple of us took a road trip up to see Nicole Stanton. We unfortunately missed her ceremony, but got to spend the rest of the weekend with her. We had her put on her cap and gown and took some pictures together in her adorable little home. I am so proud of her and am so happy that we were able to join her in the celebration.

On our way home, we were able to stop in Santa Barbara to try the beer that a friend is brewing for our wedding. There is a "His" and "Hers" option and they both are coming along quite nicely! We are so excited for these and are so very thankful for the time and effort that Garret is putting into it.

This past week, Pat and I got to work finishing our invitations, booking our wedding night hotel, etc. It was a succes and we stuffed the envelopes, wrote the addressess, stamped them all, and sent them out! We are really happy with the way that they turned out--as we did everything on our own! I will put up a picture a bit later of the whole invitation including the envelope--but for now here is an image of the invitation itself. They were individually designed and silk-screened by ourselves and a hand full of our friends.

(front)

I don't have an image of the back--but it has a cute little hand-drawn map of the directions to the venue as well as where the ceremony cocktail hour, reception, etc will be held. Our friend Lorien drew this for us and it turned out to be quite darling.

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In terms of the hotel for the wedding night--we found one! We had to jump on it pretty quickly, as with a summer wedding, the rooms fill up quickly. We found a couple that we really liked, but then came to find out that they were booked or required a two night stay (which we can't do because we leave the next day for our honeymoon). Anyways, we decided on The US Grant in the Gaslamp district of San Diego. It is about 30-35 minutes away from our venue...but we figured that it would provide a nice amount of time for us to talk about the wedding together--and it is also a place that we would enjoy celebrating anniversaries at. Here are some pictures of the historic, modern hotel.