Luke and I celebrated our first Wedding Anniversary yesterday! As much as I love surprises, I prefer to be the one to make the plans. We compromised. Luke was to plan dinner and I already had dessert planned - since last year. ha! It was important to me to keep with tradition and have the top of our (red velvet) wedding cake as dessert.
I also set aside one of the SKY lanterns we had as a seaside surprise for the guest. I loved having the guest send their Wedding Wishes for the new Mr. & Mrs. up in to the sky with the SKY lanterns. I had only seen these in the Disney movie Tangled and loved them. I was curious if they existed in real life and where and how to get them; thanks to a google search, and www.Skylanterns.com we were able to bring them and their magic to our oceanfront celebration.
I had hoped that my guy Sky and I could walk down to "our" beach, and send our last SKY lantern up to the heavens with the wishes we hold for the years to come. The rain washed that hope away, there is always next week. Maybe it was Mother Nature's way of giving us the opportunity to celebrate the anniversary of our oceanfront celebration too...
While we were on our honeymoon cruise, we booked a cruise to Greece to celebrate our our first anniversary. In January of this year I was named Mrs. Suffolk County NY America 2012-13! It is an incredible honor and I am both humbled and elated to represent the married women of Suffolk County in the prestigious Mrs. New York America Pageant. This meant that Luke and I would have to make a choice since our cruise and the pageant were the same time. We made the choice to sacrifice our trip to Greece, for now. I am so grateful that Luke encouraged me to achieve a life long goal of competing in a pageant of this caliber, and how he generously insisted that we cancel the cruise and go to Rochester.
Our anniversary fell on Tumble Weed Tuesday much to my disappointment some of our favorite restaurants were already ... <gasp> closed. Some have already adjusted to their fall hours, where they are only open on weekends, and others already closed up shop for the season. Knowing this, overhearing Luke talk with friends about Cavo (a Greek Restaurant), in Astoria and Luke asking that I be home, and ready to go at 2pm / 2:30 the absolute latest, I thought for sure we were heading in to the city for dinner.
Much to my surprise and delight we spent the afternoon, at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton. Our 1st Wedding Anniversary, was their last day at the Jobs Lane location in Southampton Village. Over the next few months they will relocate to the brand new location in Water Mill. It was sad to see the blue sign that read "Last Day"on the door when we arrived.
We
were two of four guest that were able to appreciate the Parrish during
it's last hours at this location. The other couple were there on their
50th Wedding Anniversary (there celebration is Saturday). How randomly
sweet. While the Mrs. shared additional details of the Landmarks of New York, the Mr. sat and read. She was very warm and helpful, she shared many tales, of her experiences at these legendary New York Landmarks.
I'm so grateful that these love birds choose to celebrate their 50th
Anniversary the same way we decided to celebrate our first, our
experience at the last day of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton
Village; wouldn't have been the same.
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| My handsome hubby admiring the exhibit. |
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| The Landmarks of New York |
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| Liminal Ground: Adam Bartos Long Island Photographs 2009- 2011 |
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| Au revior, Parrish Art Museum (in Southampton Village). We look forward to visiting you at your brand new Water Mill location this November. |
