finger lakes wedding

sorry for the delay in posting...finally, our weekend recap.

while tony enjoyed a weekend with mimi and poppop, john, my sil sue and her bf luis road tripped it to the finger lakes in upstate new york for their cousin sean and his fiance alison's wedding. the wedding was held in the chapel at keuka college and the reception at the belhurst castle in geneva, ny. it was a loooong ride (and we had not so nice weather), but from what we did and saw, we can't wait to go back!

we drove through watkins glen and saw the cars still hanging around from the grand prix vintage festival. this was very cool and i wish we would have been up there that friday which was the actual day of the festival.

our next stop was the glenora wine cellars in dundee, ny - home of my favorite wine, bobsled red and my new favorite, yellow cab.

friends of ours brought a bottle of bobsled red back for us when i was pregnant with tony and it was the first wine i drank after i had him. i was hooked, but unfortunately you can't purchase it around here, so i've been without for almost 3 years...needless to say, we stocked up with a couple of bottles before we left.

from glenora we went to the church and got ready (since heading to our hotel would have taken us about 40 minutes out of the way past the church). the chapel was beautiful. old, neat architecture situated on the keuka college campus, right next to the lake. just breathtaking. as the guests were arriving, we were greeted by a bagpiper marching across the front of the chapel. so neat!

the ceremony itself was beautiful and sean and alison looked so happy. it was very quick and sweet, then we were back in our car to continue north to belhurst castle for the reception.

the cake and flowers were amazing...

i drank way too much wine and way too many of these...

which is probably why i look like this in a picture taken of us that evening...

there was a lot (and i mean a lot) of dancing...and we even made some new friends...

shout out to meghan and todd!!

we hit another winery on the way home (just to take some pics as we left way before they opened), but we were told it was enough just to walk around and see this one in person even if we couldn't taste their wine. it was called rogue's hollow and as you walk the path from the parking lot to the actual tasting area, you feel as though you are in a scene from jeepers creepers, the hills have eyes, wrong-turn or another one of those country-bumpkin-gonna-chase-you-and-kill-you-and-do-all-sorts-of-weird-things-to-you type of movies.

as scared as i was to peek in the windows (not quite sure what might be lurking on the other side of the glass) i was shocked to see this sign when i did get brave enough to peek inside (my dad's company).

we had a great time and john and i will be planning a much longer trip to the finger lakes for some more wine tours very soon (even despite the 5 1/2 hour drive - ugh!). it was just too beautiful and too much fun! you can view more pictures of our weekend get-away here.