Mini-Moon

Roger and I were only able to take a few days after the wedding for a mini-moon to The Hamptons. Next year we hope to take a longer honeymoon to a more distant locale.

A fantastic breakfast at the B&B. We relaxed, read the paper, and enjoyed chit-chat with another newlywed couple from England.

A Butler's Manor B&B in South Hampton. While here we dined on fine food, heard a free jazz concert in the park, and lazed about on the beach. I was so tired after the wedding, all I wanted to do was sleep...which I did on the beach.

I could not help but do a little celebrity stalking... Martha Stewart's East Hampton house!

We visited Jackson Pollock's house and barn studio in the East End. He and his wife Lee Krasner lived and worked here up until his death in a fatal car crash down the road. Lee continued to live here part-time and the house and barn are largely preserved in the same manner in which they lived.

Self-portrait on Montauk beach.

My husband the very patient Merman.

The Aftermath

After the clean-up at the party pavilion, Roger and I headed back to the hotel loaded down with centerpieces, leftover food, and a lot of beer. Some friends also knew we had food and beer and they showed up too!

Shannon Demarco among others showed up to help us eat up the yummy kababs.

Jack Sprat and his Wife

Stuffed bride... I really didn't eat anything but cake at the reception.

For Your Viewing Pleasure

The pictures are here! The pictures are here! 

Our photographer has created an online photo album for us to share with friends and family.

The password to access the gallery is: gerrie

There are two ways you can view the pictures---

If you want to look at ALL the images, you can click through the thumbnails in each of the 5 separate image galleries. 

If you want to enjoy highlights of the day you can click the link to view a slide show of selected images at the top of each gallery page. The link to the slide show appears above the thumbnails.

Click here to access the online photo album.

If you have any photos to share with us, please send them to Roger or me. We love seeing all the candid shots!

T-minus 24...

As promised, more pictures of the little rehearsal at the Gardens the evening before the wedding. In retrospect, I guess we actually should have really practiced the worst case scenario!

Rehearsal on July 26th

Or... what the Gardens look like when it is not pouring cats and dogs.

The days leading up to the wedding were spectacular! Sunny, warm and dry. 

Pictures from our little ceremony rehearsal. I'll post more as they become available:

Sugar High- Let Us Eat Cake!

I am exhausted! The wedding is over and we are officially newlyweds (for a whole year according to Jewish custom) and all I really want to do is nap. However, I still have some unfinished pre-wedding blogging to do that was neglected in the week or so before the big day. I guess that is what happens when you have all sorts of last minute things to do and house-guests galore. 

One blog worthy subject was our cake tasting session with Stacee. Yummy! She decided that I should not have to pay $600 for a cake that would only taste marginally good and not be made with the blood, sweat, tears and-oh let's admit it-love of a good friend. 

Back when we both lived in Portland, OR, Stacee baked a cake for my birthday that I still drool over: moist white cake with scrumptious caramel frosting which I unabashedly ate out of a bowl in her fridge. That's right, no shame! So I knew I wanted the caramel for filling at least. Knowing that we had to make a cake for about 120 guests, we figured on three plump layers. Plus, knowing that the wedding day would be HOT we needed fillings and frostings that would hold up to the heat of a drive down from the tip of Manhattan as well as a bit of display at the reception. And here is where the tasting came into play.

After much discussion Stacee came up with multiple test combinations of the following:

Cake layers: Moist Buttermilk, White Cake, Banana Spice (in honor of Roger)

Fillings: Caramel, Chocolate Buttercream

Frosting: Traditional Buttercream, Swiss Meringue Buttercream, White Chocolate Ganache

Stacee trucked over to Jersey in her Mini Cooper bearing 9 different combinations. The traditional buttercream looked and tasted too much like butter, the ganache was just a little off and didn't seem like it would hold up under pressure, and the buttermillk cake while moist was deemed a little flat in appearance.  Too many forkfuls later the winning combo Cake Haiku was decided:

Happy Bride Eats Cake

Cutting Layer: White Cake and Caramel Filling

Layer Two: White Cake and Chocolate Filling

Top Later: Banana Spice and Chocolate

Swiss Meringue Covers All

Mmm Yum

*A million thanks to Stacee, Amy and Sarah for their combined cake efforts! It was beautiful and everything I could have wanted in a wedding cake... except just one more piece.  

What's in a Name?

The other day we received our first piece of mail addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Roger Borg" and I am sure it will not be our last. 

People... I am not changing my name. My mind has been made up about this since I was a little girl. Blame my mom (Hello, Susan Sokoloff), blame my feminist leanings and knowing that women most always get the short end of the stick in many things, or blame my stubborn nature, but it just does feel right to change something that has been part of me for the past 32.5 years. My last name isn't even all that interesting, but at least it is easy to spell unlike my first. And in my defense, I did ask Roger if he would consider hyphenating, but he is as stubborn as I am in this matter, meaning he wouldn't dream of changing his either. 

I absolutely respect those women who want to follow tradition. In many respects I am being somewhat traditional in my wedding: veil, long dress, Jewish ceremony, ketubah, etc. and that is how I choose to honor tradition in marriage. But the name thing for me is pretty arbitrary.

Oh no! What about the kids! - They'll be fine, trust me. Little Borgs, every one of them.

Don't you want to feel like a family? - Yes, that's why Roger and I are getting married. Names don't make a marriage, love does.

Isn't it just easier to change your name? - No, it's not, it is a big pain in the arse.

So from here on out we will be the un-hypehnated Hall and Borg family, and that is fine by me ... Roger however might have a quick retort.