The scene the crime, as it were!

As you may already know if you've been reading this here blog, yesterday was my 8th wedding anniversary! We had a lovely, lovely wedding and a whoppingly fun reception! It was quite the par-taaay! There was a lot of whooping it up, dancing, drinking and general fun going on that whole, entire night! We kicked the last revelers out at 4am. I was pooped, to say the least.

We had the wedding itself in the seaside garden at the House of the Seven Gables, which just happens to be a short walk from our house! So neat! Here's a bit of the garden:So pretty, right? Spectacular.

As we walked down the "aisle" (which was grass between the rows of chairs!), the very special schooner, The Friendship, sailed by under sail!Since we are both just lovers of boating and the ocean, we felt it was a really good omen for that to have happened!

Here was our great invitation; created by my husband's very talented sister:That entire thing perfectly captures our life - our fine city in the background, the ocean, boats, whales, and most importantly, the dogs hugging each other at the bottom of the card! On the left is my beloved Lady and she is hugging our boy, Koty there on the right! I love the hearts coming out of them and their happy faces! That really summed it up for them. They chose each other out of 20 other dogs that were playing together one afternoon on Salem Common. They didn't want to play with anyone else - just each other! And so began their love affair; which apparently rubbed off on us!! It was a big lovefest with the four of us.

It's not quite the same with Sadie and Koty - he sort of tolerates her and she reFUSES to play with poor Koty. He tries every single day to play with her and she just stands there frozen like a statue. It's terrible! Poor Koty!

Anyway, back to the story!

The reception for this shindig was at our house! Not something I would recommend to anyone. Ever. Ever ever ever. We had to move out all the furniture, clean clean clean the house, get a huge bar stocked, find a caterer, get plates, cups napkins, silverware, and do all the decorations! We also did the flowers ourselves (surprise!) and basically had 130 humans leaving cups and plates and crap EVERYWHERE! What a mess! Anywho, our favorite band, Lonely Gus and the One Night Stand - (again, says a lot about us that a band with that name would be our wedding band!) - set up in the corner of our huge living room (it's like 600 square feet in there):


We decorated the entire ceiling in there with funny handmade fishies and sea creatures and then hung streamers from the ceiling, as well! Here is one of the fishies and two streamers I saved:It was quite festive!

To celebrate our anniversary last night, we first went to our go-to place for a drink, Finz:


We then walked downtown for dinner and ate at a brand new restaurant called the Adriatic Restaurant and Bar:

OH. MY. GOOD. LORD! The food was exceptional and the waiter was fantastic. I cannot recommend this place enough. Honestly, the best meal I've had outside of Boston. Ever.

It was a wonderful, delicious evening and I can't wait for our 9th next year!! : )

Happy Thursday (or Friday if you're reading tomorrow!)!

Ciao!