Wedding Bells: Kris & Mark

We ended up spreading out our 2 year anniversary over three days. Tasty food, good drinks, Trivia Smackdown and happy memories. We even got a card from Daisy. Mark said one day she asked for the car keys and she came back with our present: a porcelain mug from Starbucks. He said “china� is the traditional gift on the two year anniversary.

Two years of wedded bliss. We’ve had our ups and downs…but we’re still so very much in love. That’s a good thing.

Limoncella Sorbet, originally uploaded by queenkv.

We finished up our anniversary dinner with a Limoncella Sorbet at the New City Cafe. I’m tickled to find my favorite Italian liquor in a Topeka restaurant. It tasted, sweet, lemony and refreshing on a hot summer night.

Old Married Couple, originally uploaded by queenkv.

Earlier this month, we went to my cousin’s wedding in Long Island, NY. I suppose you could call us the old married couple. My cousin made a beautiful bride and it was a pleasure to meet her new family. It was lovely to watch this August wedding and remember our own…two years ago.

Our wedding photoblog has moved to WordPress….hooray! I’m working on the site design to make it look pretty. All our pictures from our wedding day should be there…please let us know if anything’s missing - ok?

It’s chilly in Topeka — stay warm, wherever you are.

We celebrated our one year anniversary on Sunday.
Good times…

Earlier this month, Mark’s family got a us a cake to celebrate our one year anniversary. We had such a blast in New York!

On our wedding day….I wore a very expensive dress and Mark had on a lovely tux. For our anniversary cake — we finally got to indugle in some wedding-like screwing around.

And now some musical memories from our Wedding Day.

note: Thanks so much to my cousin. Jennie designed our beautiful program…

“Love is a Journey�

The Marriage Celebration of
Kristina Balois Vera
&
Mark Andrew Phillips
Saturday, August 27, 2005

St.Denis Catholic Church
Diamond Bar, California

Entrance Rite
Music: Prelude “In Love We Chose to Live� – Jeanne Cotter

Processional
Music: “Clair De Lune� – Claude Debussy
Teresa Dunne, mother of the groom, escorted by Mark Phillips

Tom Jackiewicz and Jennifer Marzan
Tom Dunne III and Maria Smith
Hans Protzel and Betina Protzel, Matron of Honor
Kaine Marin (best man) and Susan Surapruik, Maid of Honor

Devon Dunne - Flower Girl

Sponsors
Nora Marzan and Porferio Marzan
Marichu Maddy, escorted by Scott Becker
Evelyn Balois, escorted by Charlie Basabica

Jovita Vera, mother of the bride, escorted by Michael Phillips, father of the groom

Music: The Bridal Chorus – Richard Wagner
Kristina Vera, escorted by Ramon Vera, father of the bride

You can see more pictures from the wedding, the bridal shower, the rehersal dinner, the engagement party in Vegas and more wedding related stuff on our Flickr Wedding site.

David’s in Kuwait and he reports his unit will be moving to Iraq soon. My family prays for him. My husband and I were thrilled David could make it to the wedding. His high school buddies drove him to the church.

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We have more pictures posted on our Flickr Wedding site.

We loved being surrounded by our family and friends on this day. People came from all over the country - Northern Cal, San Diego, the East Coast….we even had my aunt come in from the Philippines.

The head table.

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After our photo session at the church, We hopped in Auntie Evelyn’s car. Missy and crew decorated the car with some sweet wedding decorations. Kaine drove the car. Strangers honked at us on the freeway. We felt giddy about the whole thing.

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Andrea posted some pix of the wedding on her site.

She slept over at my parent’s house…keeping me company on my last night as a single woman. We didn’t do the typical “night-before-the-wedding” activities…like strip clubs, night clubs, bars and stuff like that. Our rehersal dinner at the bowling alley ran a bit late…and Andrea was pooped from the plan ride.

So I did my thing. I blogged. It’s what I do.

Oh yes….not only can you re-live the wedding through pictures….I also created a podcast. It features music from the ceremony and the reception. So, you can download the feed from that site…or click on this link for the mp3 file.

It’s been a joy to look through all these pictures from our photographer. I showed parents a musical slideshow through iTunes. I’ll probably make a slideshow movie for the blog….eventually. This entry has a sampling of shots from before the ceremony. You can see more pictures at our new wedding pix site on flickr. Heck, there’s only so many meg’s this blog can take before my ISP shuts me down. So, I went through Flickr to host the rest of the pictures.

So…I think our photographer had time to take some nice pix since the bride’s side was running a little late. Devon, our flowergirl, looks lovely by the fountain.

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