Pictures

We have posted some of the pictures from the various digital cameras to Yahoo Photos (http://photos.yahoo.com/joey_jojo1999). You can purchase prints from this site or print them at home.

Shortly, I will post a separate link to the pictures broken out by event. We should receive the official pictures in the next week.

Our Vows

There were some requests at the wedding that we post our vows. These may have been made facetiously but I am proud of them so here they are. As will be evident, we each wrote our own vows.

Joey's Vows
You are my favorite and I love you the most.
I vow to love you until my dying day,
and even old Man Devillier couldn’t drag me away.
I will be with you and share life with you - in the good times and bad.
I look forward to every day of the rest of our lives.
I will cherish our lives together and I promise to tell you so every single day.

I give you this ring as a symbol of the declaration I’ve made in front of our friends and family that I LOVE YOU!
It will a reminder of the vow that I took today and I will be pleased to wear it for the rest of my life.

Erin's Vows
JoJo, in the years that we have known each other, our relationship has passed through many phases – friend of a friend, friend, lover, partner. As we stand here before all of our friends and family to affirm our decision to move to a new phase – married people (hopefully, to be followed by “old married people”) – I make these promises to you:
· I will take care of you and let you take care of me – though some days it is hard to say which is more difficult
· I will cherish your family as I cherish mine – crazy cousins and all
· I will continue to leave piles of books scattered around the house – but with that comes the promise to learn, to travel, to experience new people and ideas
· I will laugh at the peanut joke as long as you keep singing me silly songs every day
· And last, there is no need for you to mention in sickness and in health for everyone here knows what a wonderful man you are – but I also promise to stand beside you always. I love you. There is no where else I would rather be.


The Peanut Joke
So, this peanut was walking down the street. It was a-salted.

The Wedding Party

Erica, Erin, Joey, and David

Maid of Honor, Bride, Groom, Best Man

Erin's Sister, Erin, Joey, Joey's Cousin

July 22, 2006

We Did It!!!!

On July 22, we actually/finally/happily/(fill in adverb here) got married. Without boasting, I can say it was a perfect day. The ceremony was a lovely reflection of our relationship. I am thrilled that so many of our friends and family were able to join us. For the next six months, be prepared to be bored with wedding pictures and stories galore.

A preview of what is to come follows (insert ghoulish laugh here) but I would first like to thank our friends and family for all of their support and hard work. Most importantly I would like to thank Joey and my parents for their emotional support during the past few months. (Mom and Dad, I promise never to have another wedding, ever. Maybe we can get Erica and Ben to elope... not together, of course.) Ole, Susan, Toby and Rosie, the rehearsal dinner was delicious -- it was everything I hoped it would be. Boylan family, your help was invaluable; having you take care of stuff meant that we didn't have to worry about a thing. Erica, you astounded me with your "togetherness" and your elegance (even if everyone else thought you were more adorable than elegant). Dae Dae, your calm presence and willingness to just take care of stuff was wonderful. Toby and Brian, you did a great job bringing up the rings. Bell girls -- Annsley, Makenna, Rosie, Allison, and Isabelle -- you may have stolen the show but I am so glad that you were there. Joey's Kim, your singing was absolutely stunning (and a bit too much of a tear-jerker!). Ben and Kim, thank you so much for putting the whole event together. Even the caterers' commented on how well you handled everything.

Erin, Makenna and Annsley (Joey's nieces) before the ceremony.

Bill (Joey's Dad), Barb (Joey's Mom), Joey, Erin, Judy (Erin's Mom), Mike (Erin's Dad)