Pioneer Presbyterian Church

by Stephanie
On our Thanksgiving trip up to my parents' house we booked the church we are getting married at! It is the oldest, continuously running Presbyterian Church west of the Mississippi. It is a classic little brick church, complete with a little steeple. It is a small Church, but it will hold 120 people in the pews and they can add about 30 to 40 extra chairs along the side, which should be MORE than enough. There isn't much of an aisle to walk down because of how the church is set up, but Danny said he likes that because it means that it will take less time for me to get up to the front next to him :-) The church has a neat history, and I will write a post about that later, once I find the little brochure the church lady gave me. Below is a slide show of a couple of pictures Danny took of it when we were there. Just click on the play button in the middle of the picture. If you would like to see bigger versions of the pictures you can click on the orange link below to take you to a full sized version of the slide show. You can also click on the other orange link which will take you directly to our flickr photo website.



Click HERE for a full screen version of the slide show.

Click HERE to go directly to the album on our flickr photo website.

I really hope the ceremony turns out to be beautiful!

And they lived happily ever after...

Photos

by Stephanie
I finally got around to adding a couple more pictures to our "slideshow" over on the right hand sidebar of this website. If you would like to see more pictures feel free to check out our two flickr accounts. Just click on the orange links below.

farmerbosse - This account has pictures from our 2008 Europe trip. We went to Amsterdam, Vienna, and Prague. There are a TON of pictures. I haven't had a chance to really go through and make a "best of" album, but there are some really beautiful pictures!

farmerbossewedding - Right now the only pictures here are the pictures of us that appear in the sidebar slideshow. Eventually this will be where our friends and family can upload the pictures they take at our wedding, and where we will post pictures from the honeymoon.

I have ton of other photos that I will eventually upload, and when I do I will write another post here letting you know to go check again. Until then, we hope you have fun looking at some of our pictures!

And they lived happily ever after...

Busy, busy, busy...

by Stephanie
So I know I promised I would update this wedding blog on a regular basis, but things have been SUPER busy around here. We haven't been doing much wedding related stuff this last week, besides collecting mailing addresses, figuring out how to address the envelopes, organizing the stacks of save the date materials and stuff like that. Nothing too exciting, just very time consuming. This weekend I will post some pictures of our disaster of a living room so you can get a feel for the chaos that comes with getting the save the dates done lol.

Until then, wish me luck on my "Physiology of Tate and Smell" practical tomorrow! Just for fun I will post my menu of 5 appetizers I created for tomorrow so you can get a sense of what I am working on in school right now. For our test we are given three out of five possible proteins and we have to make an appetizer out of it. We only have a strange assortment of ingredients we can use so it makes it really interesting to try to come up with something that might actually taste ok lol. We have to combine different types of flavors and "pushing" and "pulling" tastes. Weird, I know.

Sauteed Sea Scallops with Leeks and White Truffle Vinaigrette
Sea scallops marinated in white wine, lemon juice and thyme. Sauteed in a pan until golden brown. Served on top of a bed of leeks sauteed in butter. White truffle vinaigrette is drizzled over the scallop.

Grilled Striped Bass with Parsley Compound Butter and Bell Pepper-Pear Salsa
Grilled striped bass, topped with parsley compound butter and served with a chilled red bell pepper-bosc pear salsa.

Pan Fried Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Caramelized Granny Smith Apple
Pork tenderloin medallions marinated in soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Pan fried until golden brown. Served on top of a caramelized apple slice. Finished with a pan gravy and scallions. A play upon "pork chops and apple sauce."

Grilled Curry Shrimp Satay with Spaghetti Squash Slaw
Grilled shrimp with coconut-curry sauce served on a bamboo skewer. Served over spaghetti squash slaw made with apples, celery and carrots in a tangy vinaigrette.

Salmon en Papillote Trio (en papillote = cooked in oven in a parchment paper pouch)
A trio of miniature papillotes is presented. Each papillote contains a small bite sized piece of salmon, each cooked with a different key ingredient: red bell pepper, dill, and lemon with thyme. This is done to show how the flavors can each enhance the flavor of the fish in different ways. Each papillote performs the same function of enhancing the salmon's flavor in successively bolder, more intense ways.


Any of these sound any good to you guys? Which one, if any, would you order as an appetizer at a restaurant?

And they lived happily ever after...

Photographer

by Stephanie
We found a wedding photographer that we are going to use! His name is Nick Curteman. After searching the Internet for quite some time we finally found one that we really liked. Click Here to take a look at his galleries and proofs if you like.

And they lived happily ever after...