The Bride & Groom just celebrated their two month anniversary!
And what a great team they make together!
Champion newlyweds?
“Perhaps?”“Duh.”“Yinz know it!”
(giggles)
Another look back, on their wedding day, takes us this time to review
the clever table names & centerpieces they choose.
To compliment their Wedding theme of…
“All Things Black & Gold”
they departed from the traditional table number scheme
and instead
selected the names of various Pittsburgh affiliated athletes who
represented the (University of Pittsburgh) Pitt Panthers, Pittsburgh Pirates , Penguins, and of course
Super-Bowl Champions
the Pittsburgh Steelers!
All of their favorite Pittsburgh Champions were well represented!
The very first thing we did was to collect various gold or black picture frames. Some were new and others were repurposed and refreshed with the help of brilliant-gold spray paint!
After the groom personally selected the players nearest & dearest to his heart, we printed photos of each player to place in every frame.
There was a lot of ink needed to print off photos of such great Champions!
Besides a photo,
there were also Black & Gold Ribbons attached to each frame;
so that all of the guests could easily find
their assigned tables!
Guests could find their tables by name, photo or the player’s jersey-number!
The centerpieces themselves were trophies we spent months collecting from various locations. Some as far away as England!
As 2016 begins our family prepares for a full year of celebrations!
There will be bridal showers, baptisms, a daughter’s wedding, a golden birthday for me, and Cuppycake & I will celebrate 30 fun-filled years together.
And this is just in our immediate family of five! You cann0t imagine all the other hap-happiness that will be celebrated in our extended families as well!
Through all the party-planning to be done, surprisingly Cuppycake has become sentimental on me! It’s not uncommon, in the last several months, to receive an endearing photo instagrammed or emailed to me with a sweet or funny message.
I am loving his out-reaches to remind me just why & HOW we have thrived, (or is it survived??? Giggles.) happily together. And admittedly all of this has been great…until thesetypes of photos started showing up!!
Yes, I know I am about to enter the golden years with him, while celebrating 30 wonder-filled years together but seriously…WE ARE NOT READY FOR MATCHING JERSEYS (yet!)
I mean we are still living life ‘in color’ not black & white!
How Cuppycake sees us in 20 years.
Plus we still have a hop, skip, and a 36-inch box jump left in us!! (With of course a lot of giddy-up and go behind it…or a tidge of liquid courage.)
“What is all of this about??” I queeried.
“Well, we ARE grand-parents now.” he reminds me. “Growing older together has officially become inevitable.”
He’s got me there.
And so I do what I usually do. I follow his lead, I trust his wisdom, as head of our home, and I become sentimental along with him.
I just haven’t broken it to him yet that we’ll be doing ALL of what growing older together entails….
hugsnblessings 
