The Wedding

So as I mentioned in the weekend update, we spent Saturday evening at Josh and Kelly's wedding! They are currently on their honeymoon, but their wedding was so awesome that I wanted to dedicate an entire post to it.

Eric and I actually met them through this blog. We exchanged a few comments, found out we lived nearby, and finally met. And then realized we are pretty much the exact same people. It was almost weird going to their apartment...we have the same rice cooker, same knives, same ice cube trays, etc. I think it was meant to be.




The wedding was held in the Old City section of Philadelphia, not too far from our apartment.




The ceremony, which was short and sweet, was held downstairs.






And then the party got started upstairs with the cocktail hour.
Josh and Kelly put a lot of thought into all the drinks served at their wedding, which was awesome.




Not to mention a lot of thought into the details.


They were being swarmed by people congratulating them, but Eric and I were finally able to say hi.






And then it was time for dinner! Their entire wedding was vegetarian, and if that wasn't enough, they changed a few things up for us to make our meals vegan. Totally unnecessary, but much appreciated.


We started with a balsamic watermelon salad, which I kind of want to eat everyday during the summer.


And our entree was an eggplant napoleon.


This is the eggplant dish I tried to recreate with my dehydrator...unsuccessfully.


And I should mention that they got me and Eric vegan champagne. Again, TOTALLY unnecessary, but much appreciated.




Some people partied too hard during dinner.


We went back downstairs for more drinks and dancing. They made these cool cards with the drink recipes. We took one for each drink...where we supposed to take them? I'm not sure, but now I will be making fancy drinks!






Then it was cake time!






And Josh and Kelly are sooooo amazing, that they even had a vegan cake. You bet I ate that cake so fast. It was delicious.




And then more dancing!






Their wedding was so much fun. Eric and I kept talking about how fast the night seemed to go, a sure sign that you are having a blast.
Josh and Kelly are so nice and I am so happy for both of them and happy that they are our friends!

photos from the weekend

Friday marked the end of the first week of summer hours at work, meaning I got out at 12:30! It was really awesome to get home at a decent hour. I celebrated by getting a manicure then meeting Eric for happy hour.

We hit our usual joint, Cantina Dos Segundos, and I tried a blackberry margarita. It was good, but I can never have more than 1 because the sugar really upsets my stomach.



After heading home for a quick bite, Eric and I rode our bikes to Belgian Cafe for some beer week festivities. Eric is planning on doing a post on beer week, so I will only post one photo.


We each had 3 beers at Belgian, but they were all atleast 10% and rightly knocked us on our ass.

Somehow Saturday during the day got away from us. I went to the gym and Eric partook in more beer week festivities.


Saturday was a big night...IT WAS JOSH AND KELLY'S WEDDING!






The wedding was awesome! Eric and I are going to do a post completely dedicated to the wedding, but we had so much fun. I am so happy we became friends (through blogging!) and I couldn't be happier for the two of them.


Sunday was a taking care of business day. We spent the morning running all kinds of errands.
After almost a year of looking, I finally found a print to hang above our bed. I was happy to finally frame it and get it hung Sunday morning.
I think the print sums up my life.


It's two cats in a bike basket...and don't mind the messy bed.

The cats spent the morning playing outside, and spent the afternoon sleeping.




Eric and I both agreed we have been indulging a little too much lately (beer week, weddings, visitors in town, etc.) and want to get back on track with our eating.
At Josh and Kelly's wedding they served a delicious looking eggplant dish. It wasn't vegan so I didn't try it, but I haven't gotten it out of my head. I decided to try to recreate my version. I sliced some eggplant then breaded it, and it's now hanging out in my dehydrator.




Ok so a few sentences ago I wrote that Eric and I were going to really zone in on our eating, but we couldn't pass up an offer from Juli, Abby and Adam for a Sunday night dinner at Kingdom of Vegetarians. Greasy Chinese food...all vegan!


For appetizer we had BBQ ribs


And scallion pancakes


I didn't get pics of everyone's entree, but a few of us tried some new things.







Deliciousness.

In other exciting news, Eric and I arrived in Philadelphia exactly one year ago today!

bits of the weekend

wow, we actually had a fairly busy weekend.
friday night was low key. eric and i went out to dinner. the weather has been pretty rainy, so we had to get suited up in our rain gear.





we stopped by the foodery and picked up a bottle of beer for dinner.



i love byob.



and that was really it. we went to sleep early which was awesome.

saturday we went to wiz and d.marie's wedding! luckily it didn't really rain at all, but it was still pretty hot outside.





adam and juli


me and eric


rachael and kevin


me and juli


eric and his friends


eric and ian


they just had a bunch of cupcakes instead of cake.


which ended up on a lot of people's faces.


and congrats to wiz and d.marie!


sunday morning we met rachael and kevin for brunch at silk city. the outdoor part was pretty cool and reminded us of spider house in austin.


rachael ordered french toast scrapple. i took a photo of it since scrapple really isn't found outside of philadelphia. read about scrapple here. side note, eric and i actually found vrapple (vegan scrapple) which we have yet to try.




after brunch we decided to go to atlantic city and go to the beach! i had been wanting to go to atlantic city, and to the beach, so this accomplished both.


it is sort of like a mini-vegas.






the water wasn't too cold, which was nice. i lost my sunglasses though.


after swimming and hanging out for a while we went to the tropicana casino and played a few slots and ate some dinner. i successfully won 85 cents.