Pictures... finally!

I know we haven't posted since the wedding, but I think I'll try to get back to it.

It took us long enough.... but we finally got our favorite wedding pics posted! A huge thanks to Audrey for getting that done. She had some free time today, so she was able to narrow down the 750ish pictures to her favorite 150. I know it's still a ton to go through, but it's better than 700+

I'm trying this for the first time... but you should be able to view the pictures on Facebook externally, even if you aren't on Facebook. Try this link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2712335&id=7903770&l=896de7fcbc

Here's a little preview:
If you have any problems with that, I think we have them on Picasa as well, so let us know and we can shoot you that link.


As for current happenings - Audrey started up a new position at Dell. She hasn't figured out yet exactly how to describe it, but the gist of it is that rather than placing the orders, she helps manage the customer relationship a bit more, and makes sure that the people on her previous team place all the orders as needed.

For me - nothing too much is new. Work has been fun; I've been involved in some really neat new projects around the office, which is fun for me. Gives me a chance to do something a bit different from time to time.

We're taking a little road trip this weekend to Coushatta to do a bit of gambling. Should be a fun little road trip, with a fun crew of people. Gotta love the random road trips.

We also booked a trip to NYC for the first week of Sept. Aud's never been to the city, so it's one of those trips we've been looking forward to. The fact that we got free flights from our airline miles makes it even more attractive. Looking forward to doing the usual touristy stuff, a few shows, and I'm sure some other random excitement.

More to come....hopefully

Nothing new....

Yeah, nothing much has happened since our last post..... well, except for the whole wedding thing. After all of our prep, we finally had our big day! Everything went great - we had a whole lot of fun throughout the whole day. I don't even really know how I could begin to describe the whole event because as everyone warned us, the day flew by.

The ceremony only took like 15 minutes, but it only felt like 5 to me. Audrey looked pretty damn hot. From there we took a bunch of pictures, then headed to the reception. It took us almost 2 hours to eat (quickly) then circle the room to say hi to all of the tables, and that was even moving quickly from one to the next. We obviously wish we had a lot more time to spend with everyone that showed up. Then we moved on to the cake cutting, dancing, etc....all of which was a lot of fun.

We're so glad that so many people were able to come. Our photographer, Shannon Cunningham, just posted our pictures online this past Friday. As soon as we get the DVD, we'll pick our favorites and post them on our picture site. If you just can't wait, you can check out all of the pictures here, but as a word of warning, it's something like 700 pictures. You'll have to create an account, and enter our password of "0314" to get in.

We went straight to our honeymoon at the Excellence resort in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic). That will have to be a whole post on its own, as well as bunch of pictures, so that will be up next!

Also, if you happen to want more frequent, shorter updates, you can check out my Twitter feed on the right side of this page or via my site. Audrey hates that I spend time on this, but she spends more time overall on Facebook, so I guess we're even :-)

We're officially under contract!!

We came to an agreement with the current homeowners for the house on Walnut! This week we have the inspection, which is always a nerve racking part of the home buying process for all first time home buyers.....according to HGTV :-)

So hopefully everything goes smoothly with that. We're really excited, and happy to finally have found a house that we're going to be happy in.

On the wedding front, we're trying to figure out our cake. We went and talked to one lady already, and we're thinking about checking out another one or two. The problem with the cake is that neither of us feel too strongly about anything we really want - it's not something that's too big of a deal for either of us, as long as it looks and tastes good.

We still need to figure out our honeymoon, though... feeling behind on that planning. Any suggestions on where to go? We're thinking Caribbean.

More engagement pics posted...

I posted a bunch of our official engagement pics which we just got back from Shannon:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rdesjardins/EngagementPics

Weekend activities

We spent Saturday morning taking our engagement pictures with our photographer, Shannon. We'll probably get them back in a few weeks, but you can keep an eye on her blog in case she posts one or two sooner than that. We did some down by the Four Seasons, around a few DT streets, and some on campus as well.


After that, we had a marathon of looking at homes with our realtor. We looked at places for about 6.5 hours. Found a few possibilities, but nothing amazing. The next day, we hit a few builders and found one in the Buttercup Creek neighborhood that we really liked. It's not our perfect location, but not bad either.

We still have a good deal of looking around to do until we make any final decisions, but it's so exciting to be looking forward to moving into one of these places!


We still have a few big to do's for the wedding - this week we're looking to narrow down on hotels and rehearsal dinner locations.

Dress shopping!

Yay! My first post!

I'm trying to get the ladies together to start dress shopping. I want to check out Belle Saison. Getting all the girls in one place at one time is going to be tough. I'm trying to focus on bridesmaids dresses first.... but might get the itch once I get there.

Not positive what color I want for the dresses, but of course, I'm leaning towards my favorite teal! :) Here's one I like:

Save the date possibilities....

Aud's favorite:
Other possibilities:
Brown & Pink
Dots
Green

What do you think?

March 14, 2009

We're locked in for March 14!

Next up:
Finalizing our photographer, Florist, DJ, Hotel recommendations, and Save the Date's

We haven't started:
Dress/Tux, cake, invitations


Also, I got us a shorter Wedding page URL. We currently have:
http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AudreyWilmot&RyanDesjardins

....obviously, too long. You can now hit us on:
http://www.Ryan-and-Audrey.com

First post

Had an idea to use this to help keep track of our wedding planning process.

We've decided on River Bend Chapel for the ceremony.
River Place Country Club for the reception.
And March 14, 2009 for our date! 245 days to go...

Here is our Knot site.