My Goodness, My Guinness: East Coast Party

The East Coast Party was on Friday (August 7th), and it was super fun!! The planning was a little stressful, but the party ended up being a total blast.

My friend Lindsey and her husband Mike drove up from Virginia on Thursday, and got here in plenty of time to meet Guinness (he was maybe the most calm he's ever been when meeting new people! I was so proud of him) and have a house tour, and then we all went out to dinner in the city. We took them to Garces Trading Company for steak and fries, but it turned out it was Restaurant Week so they were only offering a few things (and steak frites was not one of them!). The food was good though! Then we drove to the airport to pick up my friend Melissa! She has been living in Tampa for years, but just a few weeks ago she moved to Texas.

On Friday I had to work unfortunately (HUGE project for work... and part of it was due that day), but Lindsey and Mike headed to Hershey, PA and Melissa stayed at the house for some relaxation time (moving to Texas was stressful and exhausting!). Melissa also had a phone interview that day, which went really well! But Friday evening we all got ready for the party, and then took an Uber cab to the venue! The venue was the Merion Tribute House, and it seriously looked like a little castle. The first part of the party was a liiiiiiiitle stressful just because there were a LOT of people that McGee and I were meeting for the first time, so we were busy! But then it was eventually time to head in to the main room for dinner, and soon after that it was time for DANCING!! Yayy!! We had SO much fun dancing the night away. The time flew by once we were on the dance floor!! I'll just put a ton of pictures here, along with a few captions when needed:

Here's me and McGee with his cousins

Here are a few of Kevin's friends! That's Fro and her boyfriend Ben, and then Reverend Dunn (aka Timmy).

Me and Kevin with his cousin Shannon. Shannon and her husband brought their PA system for our music, and Shannon and her husband also took all of these photos!

There was this cool little balcony thing

Here's one of the groups of McGee's family! I think this is maybe just cousins...

Here's all of our friends that came to the party! Colleen is standing by her brother (Timmy), and Melissa is in the blue dress and Lindsey and Mike are next to her on the right side of the pic!

Here's the table of Kevin's group of friends! It's Kate on the left (she goes to Solid Sound with us), then Timmy, Big Mike, Fro, Juliff, Ashley (Juliff's fiance), then Anthony and Rob!

Here's our table! This was during McGee's dad's toast.

Slow dancing

Dancing!!

Melissa's getting down!!

This is when I dragged Lindsey out to dance to Rockin Robin with me! It was a blast :)

That was the party in a nutshell!! The food was delicious and our caterer was AWESOME, and the open bar definitely came in handy too!! A lot of people were thoroughly taking advantage of that and having a good ol' time, which was fun to see. I was drinking the pinot grigio all night, and my goodness it was delicious! I should have found out what winery it was from, because it was a good one and made it wayyyyy too easy to drink more than I meant to! I definitely got pretty tipsy, but I had such a blast. And before we knew it, the party was over and our Uber driver was picking us up to take us back home! When we got home Lindsey gave us the amazing present she made for us!! It's so cool, and will definitely help us remember our anniversary date since we're both SO bad at remembering dates!! Haha :) It's sad but true (at least it's BOTH of us, right?). It's a beautiful gift, and so sweet. And Melissa also made us a really cool and sweet present, so we have to figure out where to hang these thoughtful and amazing gifts!! Oh and Melissa also got us a little clip that says "Together is a wonderful place to be" (awwwww), and a funny book called "Don'ts for Wives" that is from 1913 so the advice is HILARIOUS and not at all applicable to today's relationships. I think Melissa knew that I'd find that sort of thing hilarious :)