Salado to Houston

If you ever are thinking of Hoyt and I then come here and find out where we are today...we will try to provide some fun pics and hilarious antecdotes along our adventure...

It all started in Salado...for our quaint Texan wedding...about 100 of our friends and family gathered in little Salado where two weeks before the town was put on the map by a certain daughter of the President but as Emily said it just prepared the town for the real celebrities...Hoyt and I...

We had spent the previous week moving to Houston with Hoyt being the super trooper and actually driving to Houston TWICE within three days...he arrived on Wednesday at 3pm just in time to meet me at the county clerk's office to get our marriage license...in Texas you need to get the license 72 hours before the wedding so we made it by 3 hours... The next few days were by far the most fun days of our lives. It started with Mom and Allison arriving and the three of us running errands until we couldn't run anymore...literally because we were getting our mani/pedi :)

Anyway, on Thursday the crowds arrived for the Thursday night feast (see photos) at Jaime's Mexican Village which was Hoyt's hangout all through college and then we moved the party next door to Club de Villa and then to see a Rocakabilly band at the continental club called the Mother Truckers. On the way home from Austin we jammed out to Jane's Moldovan best CD...needless to say the party had only just begun...

Friday started with a power walk with Richard, Cindy, Em, Katherine, and Jen recovering quite well from the night before - we learned about Jesse James' visit to the Salado Inn and Jenna's bridal brunch...it was superb! Then, I was off to see Brother Bobby (the pastor for the service) in his clockshop and Hoyt and Chris went to get the CHAIRS in Austin...

Chair sidenote...I decided that white was too informal for the wedding reception so we rented 115 chairs from this place in Austin and Chris (bestman) and Hoyt took responsibility for the chairs all weekend...see wedding pictures to see how nice the wood looked - thanks Chris and Hoyt! After lots of running around, I retreated for a nap while the wedding team (Mary Helen, Anne aka Hoyt's Mom, Allison and my Mom) went to town preparing for the rehearsal dinner and wedding which as you can see from these shots was absoultely perfect...thank you Mary Helen and Anne!
The rehersal dinner was a casual barbecue with barbecue, beans, different Texan beers, American wine (Pinot Gris from Oregon and Zinfandel from Northern California) with blackberry cobbler to wash it down with...yum! Many great toasts were given including a teaful one by me (and I told everyone not to cry) and a sweet one by Mom about not getting to meet Hoyt during her trip to Moldova and a funny one about the credit card getting stuck in the machine and Hoyt making sure that the tweezers used to get the card out would be properly sanitized afterward, one by Adam about the little loin cloth at the Budapest bath house...if you missed that one too bad - what happens at the wedding, stays at the wedding...