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The Gabby’s 2011- Wedding Inspiration

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Phil and I at the 2013 Gabby Awards

Phil and I at the 2013 Gabby Awards

When I thought about Phil and I’s wedding I wanted to be as personalized as possible. If I picked something out for our wedding I wanted to have some sort of meaning behind it. It’s kinda cheesy, but I like cheesy. I want our wedding to kind of tell the story of our relationship beginning to present. Back in 2011 we attended and volunteered at the Greek America Foundation’s Gabby awards at Ellis Island in New York. The Gabbys are an award show for elite Greek people and are given to Greek people who have done cool stuff in the arts, teaching, sports, and other categories. Since I am a sucker for celebrities and hanging out with Greek people I naturally wanted to be there. My cousin Leah and one of my bridesmaids was the producer of the event and I naturally volunteered my celebrity services.  Like most things I want to go to or do I like to drag Phil along with me. He was willing to go with me and he never had been to New York and wanted to see the city.

2011 at the Gabby awards pre-party with our Metaxa Mojitos

2011 at the Gabby awards pre-party with our Metaxa Mojitos

During our 2011 trip to New York we got 2 of our wedding ideas. The first one being our signature drink, the Metaxa Mojito. I’ve been to plenty of parties in my lifetime where Metaxa, a Greek brandy, was served but I never had a mojito version. Let me tell that any time that Metaxa is served it should be in mojito form. They are yummy and dangerous. Metaxa was a sponsor for the pre-party and it was open bar so of course Phil and I had our share of mojitos that night. In honor of VIP New York fun we are having Metaxa mojitos for our wedding.

Our second idea that we stole from our experience during the 2011 Gabby’s was the red carpet. I love Hollywood. Ever since I remember I have been obsessed with movies, TV, and celebrities. When I was little I wanted to be a child actress and I begged my parents to get me an agent. They didn’t listen to me and I still tease my mother for not letting me be a child star. Then she points out I would probably be Amanda Bynes or Lindsay Lohan by now if she would had let me become a child actress. An important part of the Hollywood lifestyle is frequently walking on the red carpet. The first time I actually took in front of a “real” red carpet was at the 2011 Gabby awards. I felt like a real genuine celebrity.  I wanted to create that same feeling for our guests at our wedding. So we are having a red carpet at our wedding. We are going to have a backdrop and everything. So you better practice your skinny red carpet poses.

2011 Gabby's Red Carpet

2011 Gabby’s Red Carpet

The Tangier Tasting

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The Sish Kabob!

The Sish Kabob!

As I previously stated in many posts, Phil and I love food. But, who doesn’t? I personally was looking forward to tasting our wedding menu. My dad created the whole menu himself and I was super excited to try it. The owners and the chef at Tangier are Lebanese and I’m half Lebanese so it was a perfect match. Basically every special occasion growing up we had shish kabob. Also it doesn’t help that my mom makes a mean shish kabob. Phil’s 1st birthday as a couple I made him my mom’s famous shish kabob and rice pilaf. So it made sense when my Dad created the menu I had absolutely no objections to his choice of an entree. Wedding food is one of the most important things when it comes to have a successful wedding event. So, naturally we needed to taste our customized wedding menu. I wasn’t hungry enough for all the food that we were going to taste. We started out with some of the appetizers that we chose, which included hummus and baba ghanouj  and pita bread. Normally I don’t like baba ghanouj aka eggplant chick pea dip, but Tangier’s is very tasty and I couldn’t stop eating it.

We are painfully stuffed at this point

We are painfully stuffed at this point

Another app that we tasted is our mashed potato bar. Phil and I fell in love with a mashed potato bar at the 2009 Barrister’s Ball. Barrister’s Ball is formal dance put on my law school and law schools everywhere. For those not familiar with the delicacy of a mashed potato bar, it is a variety of mashed potatoes served in a martini glass and you can put a bunch different toppings on the mashed potatoes such as gravy, butter, chives, cheese, bacon, or brown sugar.  Mashed potato bars are probably the best culinary invention since the sandwich…well I don’t know about that, but you get my point. My parents and Phil’s Dad had never had a mashed potato bar before so they were a little bit skeptical in trying it. After seeing all the topping laid out on a tray and pairing them with buttery mashed potato they were sold instantly. Other apps that we are having at the wedding but we didn’t try because the Lebanese chef was in Lebanon during our tasting, are vegetable platter and Spinach and Meat Pies.

After stuffing ourselves with a massive amounts of carbs we still had to find some room for 2 more courses. Up first was the shish kabobs. We tried a steak one and a chicken one. The chicken one was good but it was honey mustard flavored and it really didn’t go with the whole Arab food vibe we were going for. So we choose to have two steak kabobs. Then we tasted our late night meal. I copied this idea from my bridesmaid Kendra. When she got married she had make your sliders served at 10 pm. It was brilliant because it just the right type of food you need to have after a 4 or 5 hour open bar. When Phil was courting me in Columbus our favorite late night meal after a night of socializing was classic Columbus gyros.  You can’t find a gyro in Columbus that actually uses tzatziki instead of ranch dressing, but they are so good. Since our favorite are gyros and we are Greek we are having a late night gyro bar at our wedding. They taste really good and will do the perfect job of satisfying our guests 4th meal cravings.

Happy Parents approve of the meal

Happy Parents approve of the meal

A Few of Our Favorite Things

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1 of 3 Registries

1 of 3 Registries

We registered for a lot gifts. Our registries are overwhelming to us and I’m sure it is overwhelming for our guests to our wedding. So Phil and I decided to share some of our favorite things off our registries. (Disclaimer: we love everything we registered for) So here you go:

Bed Bath & Beyond

Crate & Barrel

Macy’s

Cleveland Bridal Shower

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Me with all my gifts

Me with all of our gifts

I was nervous about my first wedding shower. A wedding shower is nothing like anything I’ve ever experienced before. I never had a party thrown for me in my honor and I never had to open up gifts in front of people. Yes, I have had birthday parties where I opened up gifts in front of people but nothing like this. I usually think too much about these type of things and make myself nervous. I was nervous about who was going to come, what I was going to get, what I was going to say, and what I was going to wear. Phil is usually the only person that can calm me down about these sorts of silly over analyzing . Phil  did have to calm me down before my Cleveland shower and he did a great job. I am lucky enough to have two wedding showers. Phil’s side of the family threw me a shower on May 11th ( yes I know this post is a little late) at Red Tail Golf Club. I had bought my dress for my first shower months prior from Kate Spade due to the art deco pattern. But of course I doubted my purchase a week prior to the shower but Phil convinced me that I looked pretty in the dress and it was perfect for my first shower. Unfortunately Ohio’s weather is very unpredictable and of course  it was cold and rainy the day of the shower and I was afraid I was going to be cold in the dress. But as my Yiayia says “sometimes you have to suffer to be beautiful” so I still wore the dress and I wasn’t cold at all. I was super excited to try my shower cake. Phil’s family knew about my love for salty caramel cake and they found a Cleveland baker that makes the elusive flavor and it was a very tasty cake.

Phil and I with our Mothers

Phil and I with our Mothers after Phil gave out the flowers

I’m not gonna lie I was very excited to open my our shower presents. I can’t handle surprises. I am such a little kid when it comes to surprise presents. I was one of those kids that would look for their Christmas presents.  So when it came to my shower presents, it is the worst case scenario for people like me, you can look at your registries and find out what you are getting before you open them. I really tried hard not to check my registries before my shower…but I just couldn’t do it. I probably checked them more than the average bride, but who cares, at least I didn’t know who they were from…right? My dad gave me flack about checking them because he said it would ruin the shower for me. My mom sort of agreed with him but then would ask me if I got anything new for the shower. Looking at my registries before my shower did not ruin it at all. I was still genuinely surprised when I opened a gift and I had a blast doing it. For the record I broke 5 bows, so that means Phil and I will have 5 children. We will see about that… Phil was nice enough  to bring me red roses and a red rose for my mom and his mom. It was a nice touch and he is a sweet guy 😉 Lastly and most importantly, I want to thank the hostesses for the event: Elpida Kosmides, Susan, Jan, Becky, and Connie Giallourakis. Also I would like to thank Phil’s mom Angie and thank everyone for coming near and far. 1 down 1 to go!

The Epic Greek Band Search

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The Aegean Duo from Vasili’s World Video on Vimeo.

I am a music snob. I admit it and my family and friends know it. Anytime I go to some event where there is music played I am super critical about what kind of music is being played and what order it is played in.  I am also super picky about Greek music.  I think I secretly want to be a DJ, my friend Cynthia knows about my DJ ambitions, in fact she sometimes calls me DJ A-List. So when it came to picking out the band for our wedding, I wanted the best. Due to the demographics of our wedding and our parents suggestions we decided that we wanted a Greek band for our wedding. I thought I had a pretty good grasp on the Greek Bands out of Northeast Ohio. I was right I did. Your main Greek bands in Northeast Ohio are Stigma, Karizma, The Fabulous Grecian Keys, and the Orion Express. But the big problem with Greek Bands is that there are made up of Greek people. As a Greek person myself I know that Greek people like to wait til the last minute to do things, aren’t the best at communicating effectively, and sometimes make promises that they can’t keep. I suffer from these stereotypical traits myself. My mom and I started contacting Greek bands late November, our first choice was booked and our second choice lead us on for approximately 3 months. See some Greek bands in Northeast Ohio are not made up a set group of people and their lineup changes depending on who can play that weekend. This particularly charismatic group was one of those bands and it took them 3 months to not tell us that they couldn’t find a bouzouki player. So after calling a few bands and not getting a response from them or them charging an arm and leg for their sub par performances, I started to get worried. I ended up calling some of the bands that were on the bottom of my list because I didn’t know who to call. One of the bands I called was very responsive and got excited that I called. I have seen them perform so I was excited. But this fabulous band had submitted a contract to a festival that same weekend so they were waiting to hear back from them. So they made us wait a month and half  waiting to hear about this festival contract. So naturally me being me I panicked. I had my parents and Phil’s parents ask everyone they knew what other Greek bands were out there. I was too invested in the idea of having a Greek band to search for a DJ. Luckily we got the best recommendation from Presbytera Goldie who gave Phil’s mom the name of the band that was at her daughter’s wedding, The Aegean Band from Rochester, NY. So naturally I Google’d them and found their website and watched and listening to all their music on their website and I was instantly fell in love with them. The video that was posted on their website I knew all the songs, they were playing songs from the last 5 years (which is rare for some NE Ohio Greek bands), and they sounded great. The moment they had me sold is when they played THREE of my favorite Greek artist’s songs in their promotional video. My Justin Timberlake of Greek music is Nikos Vertis, I love him. I have all of his CDs and my dream is to see him in concert one day. My favorite Greek song of all time is “Pes mou ksana” (The Aegean Band knows that song). When I contacted Steve from the Aegean Band he got back to me within hours of my email and was so nice and accommodating. They were actually up for the same festival contract as the other band that lead me on for a month but told me that I was his first priority since I was contacting him and was willing to reserve the date over the phone. So after discussing the band with Phil and the parentals we booked The Aegean Band and I couldn’t be happier. Opa!

This is Nikos Vertis’ newest single…isn’t he dreamy?

Cake, Cake, Cake

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We killed that cake

We killed that cake

I love desserts. Phil also love desserts. So when it came to picking out a wedding cake it was easy as pie….or should I say cake. (Wow that was lame, but I’m keeping that joke anyway).  In the summer of 2011 Phil and I traveled to New York to volunteer at the Greek American Foundation’s Gabby Awards. At the Gabby’s I had my first ever Georgetown Cupcake, it was a salty caramel cupcake and I was in love.

My first Georgetown Cupcake...June 2011

My first Georgetown Cupcake…June 2011

After the Gabby’s, and my first Georgetown Cupcake experience I become obsessed with everything that had to do with salty caramel. Salty caramel cupcakes, salty caramel ice cream from Jeni’s, salty caramel cheesecake, salty caramel popcorn, and everything else that was salted and caramel. So when it came to deciding on what kind of wedding cake Phil and I wanted to have it had to have some kind of caramel in it. When my mom, Phil’s mom, and I went to the Today’s Bride Bridal Fair I went to the fair with the intention of finding a cake vendor who offered a caramel flavor. To my surprise none of the cake vendors at the fair actually made a caramel cake but most vendors make a banana flavored cake, a flavor that I never ever tried, but none had a caramel flavored cake. So I had to choose vendors that had caramel filling, which is just as good. Phil and I setup an appointment with Any Way You Ice It because 1) it had a sweet punny name 2) they had caramel filling 3) they handed out cupcakes at the bridal fair and it was tasty and 4) the price was right. So Phil, I, and Phil’s parents went to go taste cakes and these were the flavors we tasted:

1. Chocolate with Peanut Chips cake with Creme Caramel filling
2. Chocolate cake with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Filling
3. Yellow cake with Creme Caramel Filling
4. Strawberry Cake with Chocolate Gnache filling.
5. Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese filling.

All the flavors were AMAZING! We especially like the chocolate cake with the peanut butter cream cheese filling and the yellow cake with you guessed it the caramel filling. So we decided to have 2 flavors of cake at our wedding chocolate cake with peanut butter chips with peanut butter cream cheese filing and the second flavor being yellow cake with creme caramel filling.

Phil's Mom and Dad enjoying the cake

Phil’s Mom and Dad enjoying the cake flavors

When it came to the design of the cake that was pretty easy. I wanted to incorporate an art deco design with my wedding colors. Luckily art deco style is based on a lot different designs and patterns and it wasn’t had to find inspiration for the cake. I received inspiration for the art deco design from a Martha Stewart art deco wedding cake, a 1920s screen door, and the Great Gatsby book cover. It was actually much easier than I thought to create my own design. Since we loved the flavors and Kelly, the owner of Any Way You Ice It, we booked her as our cake vendor. One thing we do regret is interviewing more cake vendors just for the sole purpose of tasting more cakes.

Our Cake Design

Our Cake Design

Our Ohio State Tailgate Engagement Party

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Us in our Ohio State gear

Us in our Ohio State gear

When my parents decided to throw Phil and I an engagement party, my mom asked me what kind of engagement party we wanted to have. My mom was thinking about throwing a party with heavy appetizers, champagne, and other fancy stuff. My idea was to recreate the day Phil and I met and have an Ohio State tailgate themed engagement party. My mom was kind of shocked to hear that I wanted a tailgate themed party. “OSU themed party? Don’t you want to use the champagne fountain I just purchased and have sushi?” she said to me. I was sticking to my guns and told her I wanted an Ohio State themed party. I wanted a party that was fun, relaxed, and celebrated what Phil and I were all about. As much as I love champagne and sushi, I wanted a relax fun environment for our extended families to meet. So my mom took my idea and ran with it and pulled off the best engagement party ever!

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The party was on March 2nd at the Monticello Barn in Canton, Ohio. The guest list included 120 people of just family…yes you read that correctly Phil and I have 120 family members combined…that is the size of a normal wedding. Originally I wanted to serve Pita Pit to our guests because that is the first meal Phil and I had together but my mom nixed that idea and instead served “very little” food which included Italian sausage, pulled pork, gumbo, pastitsio, chicken wings, salad, meat pies, baked beans, chili, meatballs, cheese tray, a bunch of dips, pasta salad, and enough dessert to feed a small village. My mom also gathered all the decorations and a lot of the Ohio State decor was provided by family members who are OSU alum. She had a lot of help from my Aunt Carolyn, my Nouna, my Yiayia, Sarah, my brother Alexander, my Uncle Jr., my Aunt Mona, and my Aunt Dina. In the invitations we told everyone to wear Ohio State gear and/or Scarlet and Gray and to Phil and I’s surprise mostly everyone wore OSU stuff. We were super happy about that. The night went smoothly we everyone eating too much, music from our college days playing in the background, and 2001 National Championship Game playing on the TV it was perfect. Phil and I like to thank everyone for coming and all the awesome gifts you gave us, except we don’t thank you for the photo of Phil in his M*ch*gan gear.

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Questions You Should Ask Before Marriage…Really?

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I found gem of a questions on Pinterest titled “100 questions couples should ask before getting married” After reading these questions I thought “oh Phil and I should ask these questions to each other we could learn a lot” after reading through all of the questions I thought, “What kind of questions are these?! Shouldn’t all couples know all of the answers to these questions before you get engaged?!?” Below are Phil and I’s answers to some of these questions; our answers were kinda comical.

Question #1: What is the best way for me to show that I love you?

Phil’s Answer: You show it to me everyday

Alysse’s Answer: Awwwww, how can I follow that answer? Kisses and hugs.

Q#2: Have you ever been involved in any criminal activities? What were they?

P:  Have you ever been involved in any criminal activities?!? Huh? Huh?

A: No, what is this NCIS? You have been watching too much NCIS.

Q#3: Is it permissible for us to open each other’s mail?

P: I don’t see why not.

A: You can’t open my mail when it is from a clothing store because I love opening up packages from clothing stores!! Also don’t open your Christmas presents before Christmas.

P: Well, duh.

Q#4: Do you trust me with money?

P: Yes, of course…

A: What is that supposed to mean? I trust you.

Q#5: How will you support my hobbies?

P: What does that even mean??? What are your hobbies? You tell me your hobbies and I will tell you if I support them.

A: Well, let’s see my hobbies include celebrity gossip, watching a bunch of TV and movies, and listening to a ton of music, and I guess now blogging.

P: I pay the cable bill so I support your hobbies!

A: I support your  hobby of fantasy sports teams because sometimes you take me on nice trips with that money. I also support your man cave sports collectibles collection obviously because I have gotten you half of your collection.

Q#6:  Do you anticipate maintaining your single lifestyle after we are married?

P: Video games and sports games.

A: I just studied when I was single I don’t know what single life is like without studying. Thus, I don’t want to maintain my single lifestyle.

Q#7: Is there anything about marriage that frightens you?

P: Nope.

A: You getting sick of me.

P: I’ll never get sick of you.

A: Awwwww

Q#8: How will we schedule holidays with our families?

P: We have being doing it before we get married so no need to change now.

A: Ditto and why not have every holiday!

Q#9: Other than formal schooling, what types of education will our children get and how will they receive them?

P: Well kids, you’re Cleveland fans, sorry!

A: No matter if they are boys or girls or both they will watch classic movies, television, theater, and appreciate art. They also will go to clown school.

P: Oh yes, they are totally going to clown school.

Q#10: When we have children, who will change the diapers, heat the bottles, prepare the meals, do the housework, bathe the child, get up in the middle of the night when a child is crying, take the child to the doctor, buy clothing, and dress the child?

P: Both of us. Is that the correct answer?

A: Yes, it is. I have trained you well.

Q#11: If I had bad breath or body odor or wear dirty clothes, will you tell me? Should I tell you? Why or why not? How should we do it?

P: Yes, I will tell you.

A: And I will tell you too, your breath is stanky.

Q#12: Do you approve without reservation of the way I dress?

P: Yes, minus blazers and that headband you are wearing is a little whack.

A: What you don’t like I’m wearing it like I’m a ninja. What is wrong with a strong female wearing a blazer? I like them they are cute and I wear a lot of them. Yes, except you can wear less sweatpants in public and sometimes you wear stuff that doesn’t match.

Q#13: Would it bother you if I made body noises all the time, like passing gas or burping?

P: You are already do that! Oh Burn!

A: Whatever you fart too. If you don’t fart and burp in front of each as a couple something is wrong.

Q#14: When do you need space away from me?

P: Never!

A: Awwww there is he goes again.

Q#15: If you always say you are going to do something but never do it, what is the most effective way to bring this problem to your attention?

P: Bribe me.

A: Hahaha. I have done this before and it does work. You can just remind me.

Q#16: What makes you not want to talk to me?

P: Your stanky breath.

A: You just stole stanky from me. I usually don’t want to talk to you when your cranky and you haven’t eaten.

Q#17: What justifies going into debt?

P: Food, is that lame?

A: Hot tubs, In-Home Movie Theaters…

P: Pool tables, calf implants…

A: Backstage passes to meet Justin Timberlake and anything from Madewell.

Q#18: How should we prepare for a financial emergency?

P: Buy blow up furniture. What are your thoughts on that.

A: Whatever happened to blow up furniture? I say let’s do whatever they do in NBC’s “Revolution”

P: So basically gather a bunch of candles and crossbows.

Q#19: What do you fear?

P: Nothing. Read the quote my twitter profile, “Limits like fears are often an illusion” said by Micheal Jordan.

A: Thanks Master Phil. I fear snakes, just snakes and NSYNC never getting back together.

Q#20: How do you feel about having guns in our home?

P: There are already guns in our home (Phil then points to his flexed arm muscle)

A: SMH

Q#21: Do you like pets?

P: I’m allergic to pets.

A: And that’s why we are a perfect match. I don’t like pets 🙂

Q#22: Have you ever had any psychological problems?

P: I have ADD….What did you just say?

A: I’ve just been crazy for you 😉

Q#23: Is there anything in your past I should be aware of?

P: I just farted it is right behind me.

A: I once stole a Barbie bookmark from the book fair in the 2nd grade.

P: You criminal.

Q#24: Have you ever been able to overcome a bad habit? What was it?

P: I don’t eat fast food any more.

A: Lies!

P: Not like I used to!

A: Well, if you gave up fast food. I gave up reality TV shows.

Q#25: Would you prefer to live in the city, the country, or by the beach? Why?

P: In the jungle. I am Tarzan.

A: That wasn’t even a choice.

P: I’m tired.

A: Ok, I’m done with this too.

Registering in the Night- Macy’s

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Phil with our luggage

Phil loves our luggage we picked out…he can’t wait to go to the beach with them

Phil and I wanted to register at Macy’s because we needed somewhere to register for nice bedding, towels, luggage, and fancy things. I found out that Macy’s has an app that you can use as a scanner to add things to your registry. So after work Phil and I went to out to dinner and then registered with my iPhone. After we registered at Bed, Bath, and Beyond I had made a list for Macy’s and Crate & Barrel of certain items that BB&B didn’t have or things that we still needed. Turns out most of the things on our list weren’t at the Great Northern store where we went. But we still were able to test out the softness of towels, sheets, and pillows. We were really impressed in how well the Macy’s app worked. Registering at Macy’s only took an hour and half, which was a piece of cake compared to Bed, Bath, & Beyond. Check out all the fun stuff we registered for at Macy’s here: Phil and Alysse’s Macy’s Registry

The best way to test towels is to do the Yenta

The best way to test towels is to do the Yenta

This is what happens when Phil has a camera in his hands at Macy's

This is what happens when Phil has a camera in his hands at Macy’s

Go Big or Go Home: Bed, Bath, & Beyond

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Phil & I registering...the picture is 100% candid ;)

Phil & I registering…the picture is 100% candid 😉

Phil and I could not wait to register. We decided to register at Bed, Bath, and Beyond first. BB&B has everything and we thought our wedding guests would enjoy using their 20% off coupons to buy tons of presents for us. The one piece and best advice I got from my mother on registering was that always register for extra/enough stuff, most importantly place settings and serving pieces. I took her advice and we registered for a ton of stuff. I started the registering process by doing a TON of research. Phil and I picked the 3 places that we wanted to register and made a dry run at each place by checking out patterns and items that we liked. We decided on BB&B, Macy’s, and Crate and Barrel. Then I printed out the registry checklists from all three places, combined them and researched what the best products were on Amazon.com and Good Housekeeping.com and then found those products on the stores’ websites. For example, I would check out which toaster had the highest reviews on Amazon.com, which was the Cuisinart toaster and looked on BB&B’s website and if they had it I wrote it down. For the stuff that didn’t have reviews like place settings, flatware, glassware, bedding, and towels, etc. we just picked what we liked.

Me with my extreme list.

Me with my extreme list.

We had made an appointment to register with an assistant, Torrie at The Strip location in Canton. Torrie was super helpful because she told us where everything was, what the most popular items were, and she kept us on track. Phil was a little hesitant to register things that we already had or things that were too expensive. But after the 1st hour he was in the registering spirit and scanning a $140 trash cans and he was quoted saying, “we only get to register once.”

Phil scanning like a wild man

Phil scanning like a wild man

It took 3 1/2 hours for us to register. I could not even imagine how long it would have taken if I didn’t have my extreme prepared list. We were tired and hungry the last hour but we kept on trucking. One thing good about being tired the last hour is that I got Phil to agree on some girly stuff just because he wanted to get out of there. So check out our registry here: Phil & Alysse’s Bed, Bath, & Beyond Registry

This is our fancy place setting...it's kate spade. Phil says I loooooooovvvee everything kate spade. Is that a bad thing?

This is our fancy place setting…it’s kate spade. Phil says I loooooooovvvee everything kate spade. Is that a bad thing?