I’m going slightly out of order here, but I thought it would be easy to write up a quick post about our wedding anniversary celebration in NJ before I delve into detailing our Vermont trip which took place the week before. On Saturday, October 20 the two of us went to dinner at our wedding venue, The Mill. The sun had already begun to set by the time we arrived, so we took a few pictures outside by the lake before going inside. We talked about how pretty this spot is this time of year and how happy we were to have had our wedding during the day so that we could have this lovely view through the panoramic windows in the reception room.
We had a nice dinner, and I was very excited to see a squash soup on the menu. Butternut squash soup was on our wedding menu and I was excited about it from the moment I saw that it was an option months before, because I thought it went so well with our autumn theme. It was also one of the only things I had a chance to eat at the venue on our actual wedding day. This time we each got the soup and an entree. While I was in the bathroom, Ilya, the sly little devil that he is, told the waiter it was our anniversary and we had gotten married there and got them to give us a complimentary dessert which came out as a surprise after our entrees.
While we were in town for dinner, we stopped at the bakery nearby to pick up our anniversary cake. The baker who supplied our wedding cake gives you a fresh replica of your wedding cake (with all the same flavors and designs and such) for $20 on your first anniversary. This way we can partake in the “top layer on your 1st anniversary” tradition without having to eat freezer-burned cake. We did take home our actual top layer and froze it and ate it on our 6 month anniversary.
We saved our new fresh layer to share with my mom, Ilya’s parents, Juliya, Oleg, and Nathan (he passed on the cake) the next day. We all went to lunch at P.F. Changs and then came back to our house.
We want to try to do this anniversary tradition where on our first anniversary we take a picture of ourselves holding a wedding picture, and then the next year we take a picture of us holding the previous year’s picture, and so on and so on. So we went outside and posed with our wedding picture for this purpose. I’m posting 3 that are pretty nice of us and our house, but there is a good bit of glare on the wedding photo in those 3, so the 4th one is probably the one that we will hold next year for our anniversary picture (along with a 6 month old baby!).
Happy Anniversary from one snookums to another!