Posted by Rob on January 27, 2010 – 4:22 pm
Six years ago today, Shell and I spent a snowy January 27th at Olive Garden and the mall for our first date. We have always celebrated January 27th as our anniversary, and this year will be the last time. Once we are married later this year, our anniversary will then be celebrated in May.
We fell in love very quickly, and are a great match. We have been through it all, including maintaining a relationship while at separate colleges, and have had a blast living together for the past two years. I couldnt ask for anything more in a wife, and I look forward to marrying her.
Happy anniversary babes! I’ll love you forever bever!!!
Posted by Rob on January 17, 2010 – 7:16 pm
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Tagged as adamantium, avatar, belkin, big bad bob, bigbadbob, gold, jeweler, kay, lord of the rings, ring, the one ring, titanium, titanium man, unobtainium, wedding, wedding band, Wolverine, x-men
Shell and I picked up our wedding bands today at the mall. I snagged mine from Kay Jewelers, and Shell ordered her from Belkin.
I ended up picking out this:
I know the pics are not the best quality. I blame the camera.
Anywho, I wanted the very best quality ring possible. Shell would not let me get The One Ring, and unfortunately the jeweler did not have any adamantium or unobtainium in stock. Thus I went with the next best thing, being titanium. Its basically a black ring with a thin silver border. I have never worn rings before, and I did not want to get a “girly” gold ring, so I wanted something manly. I think this fits the bill pretty well, and Im pretty happy with my choice.
Posted by Rob on December 30, 2009 – 7:00 pm
Shell and I just got back from Men’s Wearhouse, where we were planning out my tux for the wedding. We got a few things decided already, but the place did not have tuxes in stock to try on, so I didnt try on the jacket. In a few weeks I will head back to Middletown, meet up with my groomsmen, and we will go the the Men’s Wearhouse down there for fittings and such.
While I didnt get what I wanted (top hat, coattails, white gloves, cane, monocle, etc- Shell calls it the “Monopoly Guy” and Steve calls it “Mr. Peanut”) I did score a victory with a pinstripe suit! Its not a very obvious pinstripe, as in its faint, so I liked it. The groomsmen will be getting a greenish vest and bow tie (to match the bridesmaid dresses), but I dont know what Im going to do. They say I should have a different vest to kind of stand out. The lady suggested that I use an ivory vest to match Shell’s dress, but their vest looked more like a yellow, and I hated it. Im thinking of maybe a silver or charcoal gray…I’ll have to try on different things when we go down for the fittings to see which looks good. Also, I was able to negotiate the shoes, and snagged some nice square shoes. I really hate those nasty pointed tux shoes.
Im still holding out for a hat. The “tux hat” they had was like one of those ridiculous zoot suit gangsta hats that are like five feet wide (and yes, the one in Mens Wearhouse actually did have a feather in it.) However, they do sell “non tux” hats, and the fedora looks nice. I dont know why, but I really want a nice hat. I have a thing for hats…
Posted by Rob on November 9, 2009 – 6:30 am
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Tagged as animal kingdom, caribbean beach, dining plan, disney, epcot center, florida, hollywood, honeymoon, magic kingdom, mgm, park hopper, sea world, walt disney world, water park, wedding
We got back from the travel agent, and the honeymoon is booked. We will be spending ten nights at Walt Disney World, at the Caribbean Beach resort. We threw on the park hopper passes, so we will be able to go to all the parks as often as we want. The parks we will be going to are the four main Disney ones…Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom (which Im really excited for since I havent been there yet) and MGM, which is now called something like Hollywood Studios or something like that. We decided not to go to any water parks because neither of us is very big on that…we are just as happy chilling in the hotel pool or whatever. We also got a dining plan, which includes one “snack” (like a pretzel or ice cream), one “sit down service” (which will be any of the little fast food restaurants for lunch), and one dinner and dessert at a restaurant for each of us per day, which is sweet.
We didnt book the plane tickets yet. We want to use South Western since it is the only airline that will fly non-stop from Albany to Disney, and South Western also tends to be a little more affordable. My biggest concern with flying is doing as little actual flying as possible and spending as little time in airports waiting as possible, so the direct flight is a big deal to me.
Im pretty excited. I love Disney, and I know we will have a blast. The only other thing is that I want to also swing over to Sea World since I love marine animals/fish so much, but we will play that by year. I wish it was 2010 already!!!
Posted by Rob on November 8, 2009 – 10:37 am
Yesterday Shell and I had our precana. For those of you not familiar with the term, its basically a requirement that the church has on newly-engaged couples. In our case, we had to attend this “workshop” in order to get married at the church. Its basically where a bunch of engaged couples come together and discuss love, marriage, relationships, and all that stuff in terms of spirituality. Some of these things are actually full-on weekend retreats, but ours was only one day, from 8:30am-4:30pm. Needless to say, it was not how I envisioned my Saturday to be, so I was not exactly looking forward to it.
So we get to the location, and the place is pretty packed. I would say there were at least twenty couples with us, crammed into this small room with very uncomfortable seats. The precana was led by an older couple (prob. in their 50s or possible even early 60s). When we came in, they gave us a workbook that we would use for the remainder of the day and a nametag. I already wasnt looking forward to getting in front of all these people and talking about relationships and all this stuff. I didnt think it was going to be a good day.
It turned out not being all that bad.
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Posted by Rob on September 13, 2009 – 5:02 pm
I dont think Shell will go for it, but you never know…
Posted by Rob on September 1, 2009 – 7:50 pm
This is the topper that I want on our wedding cake.
