Yacht Club Rennovations :)

My lovely AYC got a bit of a facelift.  Originally built in 1896.  Up until this summer has looked the same since as early as I can remember.
Most exciting - new bathrooms!

The Designated Driver Home

For all guests, or anyone interested in a return ride from the Annisquam Yacht Club to the Cape Ann Marina I have booked the Lady Sea to pick us up at the Yacht Club Dock at the end of the wedding.
We will cruise around a bit in the river (no rough seas for those who get sea sick!) then get dropped off at the Cape Ann Marina.
There is a bar on board!

Either carpool or take a taxi to the wedding so you can join us on the boat ride home!

Few Bridesmaids Shots

Best Man Cpt Mully Takes the Winnies Fishing

The 1st Winn Christmas Card

Not sent out yet.....but when they arrive this is what it will look like!
It took us forever to get a 1/2 way decent heart...this is the best we could do.
It was freezing and football was on so I'm happy with what I got considering! :)

Winn on the business cards

:) officially official

Annisquam Yacht Club it is!!!!

So my dream location is booked for our perfect date....exactly our 1 year anniversary 10/5/13!!!!
I'm so so so excited, and I can't believe the date was available.  They only had 2 dates left and ours was one.....
I grew up going to summer camp at the AYC...learning to play tennis and sail as required for growing up in Annisquam.  It is directly across the river from Wingaersheek beach which also is the name sake for my wedding planning company WingaerChic.
Even better news, they are renovating and it will be complete for our re-wedding!

All of the 10/5/12 pics

If you would like to see more pics from our 10/5 ceremony they are all on snapfish...
A special thanks to Fran and Chloe for taking the amazing pics for me :)
I love how they came out....

http://www5.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=7070267028/a=11967578028_11967578028/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/

Matching Portraits

These are from before we met..a gift from cali closets....also hilarious

Beach B&G

Card from my parents....pretty perfect.

The SHIRT and TIE combo that made us happen!

Thanks to Ms. Jessie Will - We have come up with a picture of Brendin in the shirt and tie combo responsible for us! 
She also reported that he spread the news at the office followed with a “I sure am glad I wore that tie that night!”

How we met.... (this is funny I think)

It wasn't that long ago that I only knew Brendin through a voicemail.
I left bose to work as a designer for California Closets....Brendin was an installer there.  Designers and installers don't really mix in the world of Cali Closets.  We get voicemails telling us what we did wrong and thats it.
Needless to say - Chloe (my bffe also a cali closets designer) and I walked into the Christmas party at The Marathon.  This was Feb 17th 2011 and about a year since I had started with Cali Closets. We new about a quarter of the people....so we made our way to a corner.
I found out later on that when we walked in Brendin said to Paul "Who is that!" and Paul said "Kendra!" and Brendin said "What you never told me she looked like that! I've probably been mean to her on the phone!"
(I don't remember him being mean to me.)
Later that night after Brendin had a few beers to warm up - he came up to me and said "Do you know how much a polar bear weighs?" I looked at him like he had a million heads and he continued "Enough to break the Ice - Hi I'm Brendin."
He was wearing a pink shirt with a light purple and pink paisely tie.....I wish I had a pic he looked adorable.  He gives that outfit all the credit.
I do however have a pic of him with no shirt on in a cali closets van that I find funny.

That was really that - we've been attached at the hip every since.

First round

So we decided to get married Friday 10/5/12....then again next oct.  There were two reasons for this....neither of which are that I'm prego.
1. Financially better off
2. I got my dream beach wedding on lighthouse in annisquam where i grew up.   It's a small private beach where I spend most of my summer time hunting for sanddollars.  I love love love this beach.
So we flew my sis in from LA...rounded up a JP...got our marrage license and we were ready to go.  I had 2 dresses from 3 years ago that were perfect for the occasion (see pic of me and my sis below.)
Friday was the most perfect weather ever...sandwiched between some not so perfect days.  It was just like it was meant to be.
Mullen drove up from the cape to be Brendin's best man....I had Cait as my maid of honor. Then our parents came.  That was it....totally private romantic and gorgeous if I don't say so myself.
My perfect dream wedding.....Brendin and I were thrilled!
I know we were missing so many special people but we promise to have the party of a life time next year on our 1 st anniversary.
Wooooooo
:)

Ohhh....the RING!!!!

Forgot to include a picture of the ring....the center stone is an old minors cut which is an antique cut that dated until 1900.  That means it's old.  It's rare also...Old minor cut diamonds were mostly converted to brilliant cut if the jewelers had them in stock.  I thought this part was really cool.
The setting is from an antique shop in Payson Arizona where Brendin's grandfather lives.

The Engagement Story

We took a trip to the cape....we went to a really nice dinner...we took a walk on the beach...he got on one knee and I said yes.
Sounds perfect now doesn't it....(Don't get me wrong it was perfect and I'm thrilled...)

This is how it really happened:
We went to his buddies place....Brendin was in his typical gear....Work boots...bright yellow softball tshirt...camo jacket.  We were leaving to go to a nice dinner when his buddy (Best man to be) Mullen told him he couldn't wear what he had on if he was taking me to a nice dinner at Scargo (Our favorite restaurant)
So Brendin went to the car, got his bag - changed into a diffrent t-shirt and some cute sneakers and we left.
Dinner was amazing as usual. (If you are ever in Dennis MA go to Scargo and get clam chowder and panko scallops.)
Then he asked me to go for a walk on Mayflower beach....we drove over there, got out of the car....and he starts swearing.  The ring was in the bag that he had taken into the house because he had to change....
Sooooo at this point I definitely knew what was going on...I did have an incling of a clue to what was going on before we got there, but now I was positive.
So I said don't worry about it...lets go for a walk anyway and I'll get the ring later.
He proposed on the beach...I said yes...I got the ring 15 min later when I got back to Mullys.
I loooooooooove my ring!