![]() ![]() The ceremony location was beautiful on its own so we decided to skip ceremony florals as well. It turned out great and I absolutely loved both centrepieces! We also saved by not doing any elaborate floral designs for our ceremony. I feel we saved on flowers by deciding to do the larger floral centrepieces on every other table and small bud vases with greenery on the rest. The photos of our wedding were very important to us and we wanted to ensure that our photographers were experts and were going to capture the overall aesthetic we were looking for. We spent more money on our photographer, but decided to not have a videographer. Where did you splurge and where did you save? It also helped us to budget, save and plan along the way. This helped to give us a big picture of every little thing we were spending money on and make sure we weren’t getting too out of hand in certain areas. ![]() Rick created an excel sheet that tracked what we would spend in each area or what we hoped to spend. When I opened my cookie the first thing I saw was a shiny diamond ring and then a fortune that said “Danielle will you marry me?” Then Rick asked me the question, and I of course said yes! And then immediately, “But wait – how did you get it in the cookie?” Turns out Rick had met my Dad earlier for a beer so they could talk and he could ask his permission. We were finishing up and Rick started clearing the plates and brought the fortune cookies back out into the dining room. We met back at home, ordered our food and drove the 20 minutes or so to go pick it up. We had plans to order Chinese food that night because we had been craving it. I knew we would be getting engaged somewhat soon because we looked at rings extensively and worked with someone to map out my ideal style. Currently, we have been together for 5 1/2 years. To know each other a little through chatting at work and one day he asked for my number, which I was impressed by because I knew he was pretty shy. He seemed like my “type” and I think I asked someone about him, and my question ended up getting back to him. One of my first shifts, I was in the kitchen and remember seeing Rick standing there and thought he was cute. However, we met a lot of great people there including each other! Rick had already worked there for awhile as a busser, and I was just starting as server. We were both working at a restaurant, (a job we would probably both like to forget). We had 145 guests and it took 18 months to plan.’ We loved the ceilings, columns, and woodwork of the location already so we didn’t have to do much of anything to have the backdrop we wanted. The ceremony location at the Karpeles Manuscript museum was the same way. Their Greenhouse Room has such a beautiful, rustic backdrop so we knew we wouldn’t have to do a ton to get the overall look we wanted. Our reception was at the Hotel at the Lafayette. We love the history and architecture in Buffalo and wanted to have our wedding in locations that embodied that. ‘The ceremony was held at The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum on North Street in Buffalo, NY and the reception at The Lafayette – The Greenhouse Room – Downtown Buffalo, NY.Both of us are from Buffalo and we wanted our wedding locations to be in the city. ![]() It was simple, but elegant and 100% true to us.ĭanielle and Rick were married on 2nd September 2018. Our wedding was not exactly traditional, but in subtle ways. Dexter is super excited and I have the face glitter at the ready! For now though, it’s on with today’s wedding and it’s the turn of Danielle and Rick and their elegant and modern New York Wedding courtesy of Ayres Photography. Gloworm is a festival specifically for children, we’ve been for the past two years and we have had a fantastic time, so I’m hoping this year will be just as good. And then this evening I will be getting myself ready for the weekend as we are all off to Gloworm festival in Nottingham. As it’s so rainy we are off to the cinema this morning and then meeting up with a few friends this afternoon. Happy Friday everyone, I hope you are all well and happy and have had a wonderful week so far! For me it’s the weekend as I have today off to look after Dexter. ![]()
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