WE ARE MARRIED!!!

Thank you to ALL of our fabulous friends and family for sharing our special day with us! It really was the most amazing day! We couldn't have asked for a more perfect wedding! The winery was GORGEOUS (thank you Eva for everything!!!), the flowers were insane, everyone was dressed to the nines and looked fantastic (especially our parents and wedding party!!!), the food was yummy (at least the little that I could put down - haha), the wine was endless (Thank You Falkner Reisling), the music was a perfect blend of old & new, the cake (or cupcakes) were insane, the speeches were all tear-jerkers (as expected), my new hubby looked so handsome, I didn't look to shabby if I do say so myself... but most of all, and we were just talking about it... we are so happy and blessed to have the family & friends that we do. Who come from near and far to share such a special occassion with us. Who support and love us unconditionally. And who have all played an important role in who we have become today and will continue to be a significant part in who we become, as individuals, but mainly, as a successful, loving, forever-lasting married couple.

Here are some pics below from everybody's cameras (THANK YOU)... Please send me your pics while we are on our honeymoon! We want to come back to flooded email inboxes filled with pics of the best day ever!






Seriously, one of the most hysterical things was the night of the rehearsal dinner... when our entire group took over at Texas Lils and karaoke'd our lil asses off!




This is when I thought that there was going to be NO SUN for my wedding day... but Cory promised me that it was just resting until the ceremony... and he was right!!!


Aren't we GORGE!!!




Yes, I am double fisting a glass of champagne and a bottled water... Thank You Rachy for keeping me hydrated!!!




You can't tell here, but Cory was teary eyed when I walked down the aisle. For someone who never cries, I almost lost it seeing him cry! It was perfect!




YAY Mr. & Mrs. Smith!!!






Look, we're all Smiths...








One of the most memorable and special parts of the night, was when my new husband sang our wedding song to me. It was so unexpected. And really was the sweetest thing ever!

THANK YOU to everyone who helped put this together! Our parents and families, my bridesmaids, especially my MoH, Jenn! And to my new sis, Meghan for putting all of the programs together! Thank you to the Cord & Veil peeps for being a part of the ceremony... Michelle & Dino and Uncle Colin & Aunt Sue! Thanks again to all of you for coming out to Falkner Winery and sharing in our wonderful day! We love you all!!!

Lastly, thank you to my wonderful, loving new husband... I really do promise to fill our home with peace, love, laughter, and chocolate covered pretzels... In-N-Out, which sounds AMAZING right now... thank you for giving me my dream wedding and being the love of my life. You are my best friend and my one true love. I can't wait for our honeymoon... and eventually for our reality show that blows Jon & Kate out of the water!
Nobody loves you like I do...

One more day...

One more day to go, Ladies and Gents! We are literally in the home stretch, and so excited! All of the family is here... we are packing up and getting ready to leave for Temecula. I'm a little nervous because there is rain in the forecast, but we are looking into it. Everybody pray to the rain gods to be kind.

This is probably the last time I'll be on here til after the wedding. We cannot wait to see each and every one of you. We are all so blessed and excited to have you be a part of our special day.

YAY WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!!!

8 days, 7 nights...

One more week... seven more days... one hundred sixty eight hours... ten thousand eighty minutes... six hundred and four thousand eight hundred seconds...

(wait for it... wait for it)

And I'm a SMITH... HOLY CRAPBALLS BATMAN!!!

Pretty much, everything is set. All the dresses are hemmed, vendors are paid, menu is set, music is selected, emotions are high... We picked up our wedding bands last week... and HEART them! Cory likes to put his wedding band on and prance around the house. It's too cute! The only things we are working on now are finishing up the wedding favors and the wedding program. Thank goodness we have Meghan coming in tomorrow! Haha! We originally weren't going to have programs. But... since we've encountered a slight snag with trying to do a slideshow, we've decided to do a program instead and incorporate some of the pictures from the slideshow, into the program. We started working on it last night, and it's actually turning out to be super cute. Nuttin like last minute projects to get the adrenaline pumpin!

Here are some pics from Catalina when I did my first ocean dives. Sorry, no pics of me in my sexy wetsuit and scuba gear!

This is me and Groomy by the casino...

This is me with my scuba instructors (Sandra and Sean)...

That's it for now... see ya in a week!!!

From Groomy...

Hello All!! I am the groom. It's taken me too long to put my thoughts down for you all, but better late than never. Since Annaliza and I been engaged, we've been very busy with wedding planning and making sure everything goes well at the wedding. It really has gone incredibly well and we've enjoyed every part of it. There are certainly times that we didn't know where we'd get the time to get everything done, but we've been fortunate to have so many things fall into place. We are so excited for the big day, too see all our families and friends together, and hope that the time does not pass too quickly. We've put so much work into this and really do hope that everyone has a great time sharing this big event in our lives with us.

The best part of all this planning is after the ceremony is complete, the wedding party is over and everyone has gone home, I will have the most wonderful bride by my side, to love, to laugh and to grow with.

Even with all this planning, Annaliza still found the time over the last month to get her scuba certification! We are looking forward to go on a few tropical dives in the Caribbean. It will be part of some much needed relaxation.

So I'll try to post a few more thoughts in the next couple of weeks. Can't wait to see you all May 1st!

In the home stretch...

...and we are exhausted, but hanging in there!

In addition to completing my Open Water Scuba Certification yesterday (whoo hooo!), we are putting the final touches on this fabulous wedding that is coming upon us in just 12 short days... Holy Moles! Last weekend, we finished putting the wedding favors together and started on the wedding party gifts. This weekend, we're finalizing the music for the guitarist, for the DJ, printing the place cards, finishing the corks for the place cards (Thank You Cory!), getting all the last minute stuff like ring bearer pillow, coin pouch... oh and braving the early summer heat and taking our table number pictures out by the lake! (Thanks Cat and Mike!!!) Hope you guys love the table numbers! We're also picking our songs for the Father/Daughter and Mother/Son dance... all of which have made me teary eyed. Damn it, it's starting already...

Anyhoo, keep checking back for all the last minute deets... SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU ALL!!!

PS - What's up with my Angels????

That's why this one is for da... Girls on the dance floor...

LADIES... what can I say... in the history of ALL bachelorette parties ever had, we gave them ALL a run for their money... AND WON! I don't know what bachelorette party was filled with more P*NIS, than mine... do you? Too bad it was all gay... but so worth it!!!

I really want to thank all of you GORGEOUS LADIES for coming out to Palm Springs and staying at the Ultimate House of STYLE for my send off into marriage... my ALOHA to SINGLEDOM, if you will! Jenn, Rach, D, Lily, Ngan, Marcy, Cat, Jax, Megan, Melissa, Lynsey... WELL DONE! We def missed my other bridesmaids who couldn't make it because they live out of state, Meghan and Tek, as well as my other fabulous hotties who were unable to attend. We absolutely toasted a few to you! I especially want to thank my MOH, Jenn and also Rachy for putting this all together. You saw me, I damn near cried when we got there... and NO that was not the windstorm bringing on those tears!!! The house was perfect, the pool rocked, the playlist was out of this world, the food was delish, the alcohol was ABUNDANT. We missed the Guitar Hero World Tour, but geedeemit, made up for it with the KARAOKE MICS - thanks to Miss Cat, my Siamesey! Who woulda thunk it? That we'd have an AMAZING weekend amongst lesbian women and gay men at Dinah Shore Week! My B*TCHES were more FIERCE (thanks Lily) than those queens! HAAAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

For the sake of the world and all that read this blog, I will NOT be posting pictures of the weekend. But you can ask and we'll think about it...

And - To Mike, Sam, Josh, and Gabe... THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY MAN OUT FOR A BACHELOR NIGHT OF DEBAUCHERY! I'm not sure your crazy times equal our crazy times, but we'll throw you a bone!

In addition to our crazy bachelorette/bachelor weekends, wedding plans are bogging us down. But we are almost done. We have our final meets with everyone and things are FINALLY coming together. And, also exciting... I am in the process of getting my Open Water certification for SCUBA diving. The class is normally 3 weeks long, then there are 2 ocean dives at the end of it, which landed on the weekend before the wedding. As if we wouldn't have enough going on. So, since there aren't any other people in the class, it's just little old me... they were nice enough to change their class schedule around to accomodate our chaotic lives! SO - we are condensing 3 weeks worth of classes into ONE week... ONE class day, and ONE pool day... OUCH! Then two different ocean dive days. We had orientation last week, I rocked putting my gear together. Last night, I had my classroom work, had to take my tests, then decided to take my final... I PASSED! WHOO HOOOO!!! Tomorrow, I will be spending pretty much the whole day in the pool learning all my skillzzzz... Saturday, we're heading out to Catalina to do my first ocean dives. And next Saturday, we'll be in Laguna doing my last set. Who's bright idea was this to cram in a SCUBA certification right before getting married??!?!??!!? Oh well, I'll be exhausted, but when all is said and done, Cory and I will get to do some AMAZING diving in St. Lucia - CAN'T EFFING WAIT!

We are at a whopping 23 days til the BIG ONE... any questions? Please remember to make your hotel arrangements at the designated hotels listed on our wedding website. We have room blocks reserved for cheaper prices that what is listed on their websites.
http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AnnalizaVictoria&CorySmith

SEE YOU ALL VERY SOON!!!!

ONE MORE MONTH...

T-minus...

30 days...

Til the BIG DAY...

Holy Crapballs...