Get'n Hitched

"Thank you to everyone who threw me and came to my Bridal Shower! It was awesome!" - Kaela Jennings

Kaela came home last night with lots of wonderful gifts from her bridal shower. To be honest, I felt kind of lazy yesterday because it was a Saturday and literally didn't have anything responsible to do while she was gone having a good time with family and friends, so I was sort of eager to get off my butt and help unload the car and get everything put away when she got home - I hate a cluttered apartment. There was soo much stuff it didn't all fit into Kaela's car and our friend Tracy helped by loading up her car and driving it over here as well.

Kaela was eager to play show and tell, so we looked through some things while we waited for friends to come over later in the evening as we had planned.

It wasn't until this morning that I actually had a chance to start putting things away. Kaela had work this morning and I wanted to try and have everything put away for her by the time she got home - Since it's Sunday, I had nothing better to do anyway.

As things were put away I took some pictures for anyone who was unable to attend but was interested in seeing what some of Kaela's gifts were.

See all the things we love on our Target and Sears registries in store or online. Each registry has completely different items in completely different price ranges.

To make your shopping effort easier, please consider printing off this page to take with you to the store. The barcodes / registry id's will allow the store staff to remove any purchase you make from our registry to lessen the likelihood of another friend or family member purchasing us the same gift.

Target Registry | Sears Registry

Lots of people. We're inviting family and friends from all over - from eleven different states to be exact. We have sent out engagement announcements to tons of people, have finalized our guest list, and will be sending out invitations by 15 March 2010 - We would have sent them sooner, but the printing company messed them up.

Worried that you didn't make the cut? That it got lost in the mail? That we forgot about you? Don't worry, just shoot us an email and we'll try to figure out what happened. No biggie!

You're inviting your students?!?! Ummm, nope. Sorry guys, 1) you're not old enough to come to our wedding reception since we'll have champagne and 2) we simply can't afford to feed our friends, family, and the entire Bradley Theatre Troupe! You'll need an official invitation like the one shown to the right to even get past the Dublin Police Officer and into the banquet hall. Since we have to rent a cop for the reception anyway, why not have him be our bouncer : )

Kaela and Robert love a variety of music.

We'll definitely have the traditional wedding music, the trite wedding music, and the awesome wedding dance music. We love pop, r&b, country, oldies-but-goodies, etc. You can bet though that we'll have the Cha-Cha and Electric Slides as well as other music that you won't be able to refuse getting up on your feet while they're playing. We'd even like to do some karaokeing at the wedding reception!

Our entertainment will be provided by Mr. and Mrs. DJ, Linda and Bruce (as seen to the right), who have been doing this for twenty years.

Our cake is going to be a bit of a surprise, we don't want to give it away completely, but we will say that is will make sense with out theme.

We made our final decision on March 9 as to who we're going to go with. We had tasted a number of different cakes from a number of different cake vendors and weren't impressed until this week.

We decided to go with TG Patty Cakes. She used to be located in Hilliard, but has moved to London. Kaela had been emailing back and forth with her for several weeks, but the give-away that we needed to actually meet with her was that both our florist and a caterer we were considering suggested her.

So we drove out to London, met with her, and then tasted three different cakes. They were amazing! We tried a French Vanilla cake with Butter Cream icing and Butter Cream and Raspberry filling - OMG! Then we tried a Chocolate cupcake with Butter Cream icing with chocolate drizzled over top - HOLY CRAP! Last, we tried a Fruit Cake cupcake with Butter Cream icing, and even though neither of us like fruit cake, it was actually pretty good because it was different than what you think of traditional holiday fruit cake, it was just good.

So anyway, we'll leave it a surprise as to what exactly we're going to do.

We'll be going to the "Columbus Bride: The Show"...


...with Tracy this afternoon to check out what they have there. Hopefully we'll find some good ideas for the wedding and reception, we're still looking for awesome photographers and videographers  - It's just soo hard to find people with the style that we're looking for. We found an awesome video production company that does exactly what we want, but they're in North Carolina and - though they said they would - it'd just be too expensive for them to come up here. So we'll take some pictures and post them on Facebook and on the site here for everyone. Stay tuned!

Hello everyone!

Just a quick note to let you know that we've added a photo gallery to our website. you can now view candid photos of everyone. Right now we've uploaded photos of purchasing the ring, the proposal, the bride and groom, and everyone in the wedding party.

Later we'll be adding more photos - pre-wedding shopping, dress fitting, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, honeymoon, etc - you know the drill. So check out our photos and keep checking back for updates!

Here's the engagement video (with reaction and proposal) that Robert made for Kaela and played in front of all their family, friends, and hundreds of strangers at the Red, White, and BOOM! fireworks...



Here's the entire, original engagement video.

If for some reason you never received our engagement announcement...
First, we're sorry... Second, here it is:


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Morning Wedding Ceremony

Afternoon Wedding Ceremony

Evening Wedding Ceremony

Here's the engagement video that Robert made for Kaela and played in front of all their family, friends, and hundreds of strangers at the Red, White, and BOOM! fireworks...

Since we're theming around Caribbean ocean / beach, our colors will reflect this. The two official colors are Mermaid and Clover. For those geeks out there that's #009C9A for the Mermaid and #619A6C for the Clover. If you prefer RGB, it's "0,156,154" and "97,154,108".

Or for those who are more visual:
 

It was a total surprise! My maid of honor flew in from N.C. to spend the 4th of July with me (and the whole time she knew what was going on, as did everyone else in attendance). It was July 3rd, 2008 at the Red, White, & BOOM fireworks show in Columbus, Ohio. Robert had constructed this massive box to supposedly hold everything we needed for the day, when really he needed something to hold the Television and generator to help in his proposal. About an hour and a half before the fireworks were to begin, I was under the impression we were going to play some more guitar hero when all of a sudden a video of Robert and I showed up on the T.V. The video, I guess, was supposed to ask me, but the generator gave out before it could finish, so Robert gets down on one knee, with all of our family and friends around, and asks me if I will marry him. My eyes watered and I, of course, said YES!

Hello Everyone-

We've just launched our new wedding website. The initial one was fine for the initial announcement of our wedding, but we decided we wanted something a little more substantial for everyone to visit and use.

This new website has a lot of features that the old one didn't. We're going to have our wedding blog. We'll have photos and videos. We have an FAQ's page to help answer questions you might have. We have links to our registries. You're able to RSVP online. And of course, information about the date and time of the big day!

We hope you enjoy the features of the new site and all of the content that we're putting here for you. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop us a note.

Thanks! Kaela & Robert