veteran's weekend

brian and annie went to winthrop this last weekend with brian's parents, dave and terry. we met with the florist, the cake lady, and our photographer....we are really on top of all of the planning and we can't wait to share all of our hard work with you at the wedding

Hotels

Brian's mom, Terry and annie searched for hotels in winthrop this weekend. listed are our recommendations and the number of rooms reserved
mt gardener - 5 rooms
the virginian- ranch room (sleeps 6-8), 3 cabins (sleeps 2-3), 2 (sleeps 2-4) 5 (sleeps 2)
wolfridge- 1 townhouse (sleeps 2-4), large cabin (sleeps up to 10)

another possibility for a large group is at the river run, they have a large cabin that sleeps up to 13

all of these hotel and more are found on the winthrop chamber of commerce website, off our wedding website

Camping

We have reserved 2 campsites at Pearrygin Lake State Park (#60 and 62), please let us know if you are interested. there is enough room for 16 people. the state park is almost completely full at this time, however there is a KOA in town with cute cabins and tent site, and it is on the river and closer to town. just let us know what we can do to help make reservations!

The dress!

annie found her dress finally!!!

Welcome Guests

welcome everyone, we are excited you made it to our site! if you are here it means you have recieved our save the dates!!! we are looking forward to sharing our wedding with you and from our website, hopefully we can share in some of the planning too. on that note...we booked our photographer today, she is from winthrop and we are very excited about her, and annie continued the hunt for her dress, and she thinks she may be getting close. keep in touch everyone, we enjoy reading your comments.
love brian and annie

RIP Kona

Kona was Brian's childhood dog, and he had to be put down monday October 15. it is a very sad time for brians family, kona was definitely a member of the family, he will be missed

Save The Date

We have finished the save the dates, and i am so excited for everyone to see them!!!! we are in the process of addressing them (hope we got everything right) so be on the lookout in the mail for an orange envelope!

Road Trip 2007

we have just returned from a 3 week road trip through winthrop, yellowstone, and arches national park, and a stop in the dalles to visit brian's grandparents! we drove through 7 states! it was a blast!!!!!!! annie is going to upload some pictures from the trip to the wedding website so keep an eye out. now that we are home we are back to wedding planning. we have our invitations picked out....thank you sonya!!!! they are amazing and i can't wait to share them with you all. also tomorrow we will meet with pastor bryan burton and a possible photographer. everything about the planning is very exciting to us, thank you for reading our updates and sharing in our excitement!
love annie

Wedding

Terence and Aiko's wedding was amazing. i hope ours goes as smoothly as theirs! brian and i are taking a break from wedding plans after being so busy with theirs. i have the invitations in the works and am looking forward to seeing them! i have been wedding dress shopping with family and i am definitely getting close to finding the one. thanks for all of your comments and for signing our knot website
-annie

Terence and Aiko

We are happy to share with everyone that Brian's brother, Terence, is getting married August 18, to Aiko! so for the next couple of weeks we are going to be very busy with them and helping with their plans, in fact this weekend we are painting brian's parents house. but annie did go wedding dress shopping on friday...let the search begin!

Leaving Comments

ok we changed the setting so you do not have to make an account to leave a comment. just click comments and on the right side of the page, identify yourself as other, then you can enter your name.

Website Headache!

Annie has been painstakingly working on the wedding website trying to add pictures for all to see. It's been a pain, so please view them for her sake

First Post!

So far, we have our wedding date (June 21st) and location (Sun Mountain Lodge) in Winthrop, WA. It's going to be beautiful, we are both so excited. We will be continuing to add posts to the blog as arrangements are made and planning is continued! We hope that you continue to check in and make use of the comments below!