New York - Alex & Mia's Wedding Reception

We had the best time at Mia & Alex's Wedding Reception!  It was in a really cool venue called the Green Building.   We danced, ate a lot of great food (a pig roast, beef and goat and lots of great sides), listened to great music (loved the band), hung out with family and took lots of pictures.  They had a photo booth with fun old props so we took lots of silly pictures.  I can't wait to see those, although I did get one picture from Sue of us in the photo booth (see below).  We all had so much fun in NY I didn't want to leave.  Hopefully another cousin will get engaged soon so we can all get together soon.  I wish everyone could have made it...Mindy, Emma, Alli, Monica, Jenni - we all missed you guys!  And I know my Dad would have loved to be there~

Alex and Tom (his brother-in-law)

Some of the cousins...

Tony & Ethan

Alex and Uncle Hank

Nick, Hank and Dennis

Mom & Aunt Cindy

The lovely BRIDE...

Julia, Mia and I

Me and Sis-in-law Sue

Alex & his Dad

Hank & Jackie

Cindy & John

Stu & his girlfriend Sarah

The carving station

Nick, Frank and Jan

John & Sue

Mom & John

Bryan, Mom and John

Mia changed her dress to this beautiful one...Doesn't she look beautiful!

Mia and F-O-B Frank

Julia and Craig dancing...so sweet!

Dennis & John

Pat, Kim & John...

We went to a bar afterwards and got 50 wings and a bunch of appetizers...we were out until 3am!  John and Dennis stayed up until 5am back at the hotel.  John was falling asleep standing up, but then he caught a second wind.

Fun times with the cousins...

Pictures from other people...

Sue's picture from the photo booth

They are so grown up!

Cool picture of the reception that Bryan took...

New York - Mia's Wedding Ceremony

We spent the day helping Mia set up for the reception and getting hair and makeup done.  It was so nice hanging our with Mia on her wedding day.  The ceremony was outside at Carrol Park in Brooklyn.  It got started late because the bus full of people from Manhattan carrying all of Alex's family got stuck in traffic and Mia's Dad got stuck on the subway because several trains stopped.  He called Mia from a pay phone (didn't know they still had those) because he didn't have any cell reception to tell her he was late, but she couldn't hear him and didn't even know who was calling.  In the end it all worked out because half of the people weren't there on time.  Of course we were at the reception site down the street so we just kept relaxing and getting ready.  The ceremony was very nice.  Bobby (Alex's uncle) officiated and did a wonderful job.  After the ceremony we marched over to the reception with a New Orleans style band and stopped lots of traffic.  People were coming out of their houses trying to figure out what was going on.  It was so cool.  Alex's Mom's side of the family is from New Orleans so it was their tribute to her roots.

Mia's dress was beautiful!!!!  This picture does not do it justice.