The Vieyra’s Wedding Reception at The Metropolitan

On Friday, August 28^th, Jason and I headed over to The Metropolitan for our friends Andrea and Erik’s wedding reception. They were married in a small ceremony back in February, but decided to have a reception so they could celebrate with more friends and family. It was quite the party!!! It was extra fun for Jason and me because their reception happened to be in the same location where we will be getting married and throwing our own party in three short months. We have only ever been to The Metropolitan during the day when there is not much going on, so it was a lot of fun to see it filled with people celebrating and having a great time!

I work with Erik, the groom, at Capella currently and I used to work at eq-life with Andrea a million years ago (or more accurately, about 4 years ago) so it was a ton of fun to reunite with some old friends to celebrate Andrea and Erik! Thank you for having us…and congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Vieyra!!!

We had so much fun at the reception, and I was in love with my dress and not yet ready to take it off for the night so I somehow convinced Jason that we needed to stop at a bar on our way home. He obliged, but I think this pictures illustrates how happy he was that I insisted on staying out just a little bit longer!

Food Tasting at the Metropolitan and a Wedding in Fargo

Today was one of those days that we realized that the wedding is coming up soon…95 days and counting!!! We had our food tasting at the Metropolitan and it was a lot of fun. We were allowed to have two guests come with us and we noticed that most of the other people had their parents with them. Jason and I love Chris, Jack, and Sandy very much, but they are very Minnesotan and sometimes find ketchup to be a bit too spicy…so we thought we better invite people who may actually enjoy the fanciness that is D’Amico catering. So we asked my sister, Nicol and Jason’s cousin, Jacie. The food was AMAZING!!! We got to try appetizers, salads, vegetarian, seafood, chicken, and beef options…not to mention the ridiculously awesome desserts! (“Operation Skinny Bride” was put on hold for the tasting…I’m just saying!) My friend (and the event planner for the Metropolitan) Jess hung out with us as well.

We decided a while ago that we wanted the food at our wedding to have an Asian theme because the date is two days after Thanksgiving. We didn’t want any of the food at the wedding to resemble the food people had on Thursday or the leftovers they will be eating for the next week. So overall, the tasting was not all that productive in deciding what specific food we will be having on the 28th, but we got to have an amazing lunch with family that we love and you can’t go wrong with that! The one productive thing that was accomplished was a decision was made on dessert, and let’s not kid ourselves, is there anything more important than that?

On another note, this past weekend Nicol and I drove to Fargo/Moorehead for a friend’s wedding. The ceremony was performed by the bride’s brothers, so I was able to get some ideas for our ceremony which is being performed by my cousin Brad. It was a beautiful day, a beautiful wedding, and we had a great time…congratulations to the Buffingtons!!!

This coming weekend, Jason and I are going to the Vieyra’s wedding reception, which is also at the Metropolitan. Then in two weeks, we will be going to my cousin Billy’s wedding…how perfect that we have so many weddings leading up to ours? I am going to steal so many ideas from all three of them!!!

Hotel Options

We have set aside a block of rooms at two different hotels for those of you coming in from out of town and those that would prefer not to drive home after the reception. Both hotels have rooms set aside for Friday, November 27^th as well as Saturday, November 28^th. The first hotel is the Holiday Inn Express in Golden Valley. It is located about two blocks from The Metropolitan and they will provide a shuttle to and from the reception. For those looking for something a little fancier, we have also set aside a block at The Grand Hotel in Downtown Minneapolis. Please see below for information on locations as well as room rates:

Holiday Inn Express
Golden Valley
(About 2 blocks away from The Metropolitan – shuttle provided to and from the reception)
6020 Wayzata Boulevard
Golden Valley, MN 55416

1 King: $69.99
2 Queens: $74.99
Suite: $79.99

For reservations call: 763.545.8300
*be sure to mention the Hamilton/Jaglo wedding when booking to receive the discounted rate

The Grand Hotel Minneapolis
(Downtown Minneapolis – about 4 miles away from The Metropolitan)
615 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55402

1 King: $89.00

For reservations call: 612.288.8888
*be sure to mention the Hamilton/Jaglo wedding when booking to receive the discounted rate

Lots of things crossed off the list...

As the wedding approaches, Jason and I are realizing how many things we have left to do before November 28th. On Saturday, we decided to try to tackle one of the things that we had been putting off…doing a registry. We had started a registry at Target a couple weeks ago, but a lot of the stuff that was on their was sort of jokey, not necessary items and we realized that we should probably register for some serious items like dishes and silverware. So we headed to Macy’s at the Mall of America to get the process started. Surprisingly, we had a pretty good time…I never knew that I could absolutely love dishes or silverware, but we found dishes and silverware that we absolutely love. Hopefully, we will feel the same way about the items when we are 65! Later on in the day, we also registered at Crate & Barrel. If you would like to see the not necessary stuff at Target or the dishes and silverware I love, click here:

Macy's Registry

Target Registry

Crate & Barrel Registry

Okay, so back to Macy’s…the woman that helped us with the registry told us about some sort of rewards program thing that we should sign up for since we were registering and I fell for it hook, line, and sinker. You would think that someone that works in sales would not fall for a sales pitch so easily, but turns out; they work really well on me! Long story short, we signed up for a Macy’s credit card. One of the benefits of the Macy’s credit card is that you get an additional 15% off anything in the store the day of and the day after you sign up. With this knowledge I suddenly remembered that Jason and I have a friend’s wedding to go to in August and my cousin’s wedding to go to in September, and obviously I would need to buy a new dress for each of them. What kind of fool would pass up an additional 15% off of dresses that they have to buy anyway? Not this girl! So Jason and I went down to the dresses and proceeded to try on a few…I did leave with two, although I am not 100% on one of them so I may need to return it. But I digress…

One of the big areas for the wedding that we hadn’t decided on was if Jason would be wearing a tux or a suit. After trying on the dresses, Jason suggested that we go downstairs to look at suits since we were already there. We got downstairs and were greeted by the very friendly salesperson. We told him our dilemma and he said that he had a perfect suit for us. Guess what? The perfect suit happened to be Calvin Klein, which happens to be the most expensive line of suits that they sell. Not at all surprising, right?!?! You may be thinking to yourself, “oh, that sucks, they found the perfect suit but it cost way too much.” Think again…Macy’s was having a gigantic sale that day and the suit was 50% off! Plus we had an additional 15% off for opening up an account that day…yep, that’s right, we got 65% off the most beautiful Calvin Klein suit!!! And we got to cross of the “what will Jason wear” question off of our list! Now, on to the 14,000 other small details that we need to finish…