i'm baaaaaack.

Hi friends.  I'm back.  Did you miss me?   I sure missed you!

Didn't you love all of those fabulous posts from my lovely friends that were willing to hold down the fort while I was traipsing around Italy with my mom?  And the husband, isn't he a gem?  I was impressed with their creativity - I loved coming back to read their posts!  Well, really, in all honesty, I read most of them while I was in Italy... I just couldn't stay away.  I may or may not be embarrassed about that.

So, while I was gone, I received a wedding invitation in the mail.  As with all wedding invitations this family receives, the husband waits for me to open them.  I love opening wedding invitations... it's like Christmas morning for me.

This wedding invitation is like nothing I've ever received before.  It was so creative yet simple...no fancy paper, not a gazillion pieces of paper included, no glitter, no embossing, no calligraphy, just simple... simply awesome. And it was so so personal to the couple, who they are together, how they met, and just gave you a glimpse into their personalities and their relationship together.  And knowing Sam (the bride), the style and content of it was so perfectly her, which I adored.

The words went like this...

Samantha & Guy

(commonly referred to as lion & penguin)

Met in high school

While she ignorantly believed they were friends

He adamantly declared they were not

Just the same, they spent a lot of time together

Same circle of friends

Same beach trips

Same Five Iron Frenzy shows

Same youth group band

Same favorite movie

And yet they hardly remember each other

Three years, six months, and seventeen days later

Through a combination of 

Mutual socialization and innocuous flirting

They met again

This time they found each other much more memorable

They spent the next few months...

Building forts, composing love e-mails, constructing illegal bonfires, making art projects, holding hands, Generally oogling each other

It became a curious thing, how had they not seen each other before?

They began to see: their lives had been purposely composed

At a friend's party as their pounding hearts kept time with a flashing strobe light,

Guy asked Samantha to be his girlfriend

Two years, six months, and fifteen days later

Those same pounding hearts kept time with rolling ocean waves

As he asked her to be his wife

And so the story was told throughout the land

Sometimes the second look is the look that changes your life

Now that we are all on the same page...

Dr. & Mrs. David Matthew Ross and

Mr. & Mrs. Guy Richard Cappiccie

invite you to join in the marriage celebration of their children

Samantha Claire Ann

to

Guy Daniel Cappiccie

Saturday, June 25th, 2011 at 6:00 PM

King's Raven Winery

(light fare, fancy footwork, and forever to follow)

How stinking cute is that?

Sam and Guy, cheers to you for thinking outside the box!  It turned out lovely.

Cheers.