:: SUBMIT A SONG FOR THE WEDDING! ::

Which leads me to my next topic of this post, SONG SELECTION! Marisa and I have a ton of great songs already lined up for you, but we also know how much fun it is to hear your favorite one when you’re already on the dance floor cuttin a rug and shakin bootay.

Name of Artist & Song Title
Simply leave any song you would like hear at the wedding in the comments below and we will see if we can round it up for you! We’ll only charge you .10 instead of .25, Just kiddin

WARNING: If you request the chicken dance, electric slide, or any other hanus wedding non-sense, you will be tazerd by a crew of misfits and shot in the neck with a poisonous blow dart from a Native Aborigine hiding in the rafters (like the ones in Crocodile Dundee).

Click here to see the whole photo set on Jeanne’s Flickr, if you can handle it!

As designers, we have tons of resources at our disposal. And at the top of that list would have to be photographers. We have more friends who are semi or professional than Michael Jackson has noses. But one of those friends work sticks out miles above the rest, a good mutual friend of both of ours, Jeanne Ciasullo.

We have been a fan of Jeanne’s work long before we knew her and we especially loved her photo session of the Wet Hot American Summer party at TSI a while back. Photos like that make it an easy choice. She has already worked with Marisa on a couple of other projects so we can’t wait for her to capture our special day.

Check out Jeanne’s website jeanneciasullo.com or all of her awesome pics on flickr.

And now for the most difficult decision of all for us and more specifically, Marisa. Who to pick to make our cakes? Not long after we got engaged, we were at a birthday dinner for a couple of friends, when we had one of the best carrot cakes we ever put our lips on compliments of Judy Tan. A couple of months later we made a visit over to Etiquette of Chocolate and sampled the all they had to offer and got to meet Jaycel Adkins, the other half of EOC and the rest is history.

Judy Tan, a native of New York City, is a career changer who left a life of chemical formulas for the land of chocolate and cake recipes to satisfy a need to make people happy and express her own creativity. She has worked for numerous acclaimed chefs and establishments, including Fauchon and Le Cirque in NYC.

Jaycel Adkins, a native of Jacksonville, grew up working in the family restaurant since he was little. After saving money and traveling throughout Europe, he decided to enter the Pastry Program at the French Culinary Institute. He has studied under many acclaimed chefs, including Ron Ben Israel, Andrew Shotts, and Stephane Glacier.

It was while attending the French Culinary Institute in NYC that he met Judy and struck up a life long friendship based on their desire to make people happy through the amazing confections their vision and talents lead them to create.

To see more of their cakes visit etiquetteofchocolate.com or check out the Blog!

We now have our place to party! We have chosen to have our reception at the newly renovated O.C. White Room just off the bay in St. Augustine just a trolly ride from the Oldest House. The White room is located upstairs on the back side of A1A Ale Works. There is a hot dancefloor for cuttin the rug and a nice porch outside to cool off on. Can’t wait till our day. More pics to come!

Visit The White Room for more information on the venue

After scouting many locations and scouring the web for the perfect spot for our wedding day, we landed on the garden at the Oldest House in St. Augustine Florida. Levi grew up pretty close to there and we both love St. Augustine so much it was an easy choice. After we picked it, we did some asking around and found that we have several friends who have gotten married there and they loved it, so we can’t wait. More pics to come.

Visit The Oldest House Website for more information on the venuue

After seven long years of putting up with each other, we finally got engaged on our anniversary in Savannah Georgia. Levi’s original plan was to propose to me in the garden from “Midnight in the The Garden of Good and Evil” but after taking one of the scariest ghost tours of our lives, the tour guide said if you you go int the garden after midnight the cops will either kick you out or you will get harrassed by bums. So with that being said, Levi popped the question on the bench in front of Clarey’s Cafe (also in the movie and serves up the best sweet tea in Savannah). So now we have our very own bench to go back to!

We stayed in the Planters Inn which is one of the few buildings in the city that survived the fires and was said to have been a brothel at one point and extremely haunted. We had our anniversary dinner at the Olde Pink House which is right next door to the Inn and we spent a lovely saturday walking up and down the streets and through the many courtyards that fill downtown Savannah. Another favorite of ours and a must upon return is Vic’s on the River. Excellent food at a great price, great view of the bay and a charming madame on the piano… can’t beat it. It felt like a scene right out of a movie.

Another place we will have to visit again is the @Home Store, on main street. Marisa was in love with this store as you can tell and I think it fell in love with my wallet. But I must admit, they had really cool design / antique things for reasonable prices. We also went by the SCAD shop which was supposed to be all student work but I saw a lot of stuff that I had seen online before. Prices not so good.