New York Wedding Weekend (the outtakes)

Although we spent the majority of our relatively limited time in New York ensconced in planned pre- or post-wedding activities, there were two very important stops that we had to make that involved (1) shoes and (2) candy (two exceptionally important things!).

I've got to hand it to Sara and Leon, who planned this NYC wedding with parents as "close" as New England and as far away as overseas. And since the third flower girl, darling Sophia, falls in to the latter category, we had to coordinate dresses and shoes via email and FedEx.

When I struck out trying to find little girl shoes in Ivory state-side (OMG who would have thought the one of the major dramas of the summer would involve little girl shoes!?!), Leon's mother jumped to the rescue and found darling shoes in her neck of the woods. I converted the girls' sizes to European sizes and emailed them off. And then I crossed my fingers that the shoes would fit...or at least fit well enough to get down the aisle.

Anna's shoes were a home run. They fit. Perfectly. And she loved them. Tons.

Lily's shoes...not so much. Somehow they ended up 3 sizes too big. So errand #1 on the day of the wedding was to hit as many children's shoe stores as it would take to find a pair that would work. Our luck turned around because the first store we walked in to had a pair that would work just fine. In her size. On sale. Bingo!

The Lennon memorial (Strawberry Fields) was right by the shoe store...and the second the girls hit the "Imagine" circle, a crowd of Japanese tourists ran over and started photographing them...

So then it was on to errand #2...to find candy for the girls, a reward for the promise of good behavior during the wedding (yes, we are those kinds of parents...). And where else would we go while in NYC but to Dylan's Candy Bar. Disappoint it did not. We managed to leave with a "paltry" tab of $36...we were the only ones in line within earshot who walked out of the store without dropping at least $100 (not to mention the post-Dylan's dentist bills!).




I wish that it hadn't taken us 8.5 hours to get there. I wish that we could have made the rehearsal dinner. I wish that we could have had more time in the city to spend with family and friends. But we got to participate in the wedding, the beginning of something very special. And I know we'll be back in NYC before too long!