the day after

 One of the saddest parts of our weeding weekend was having to dismantle all the beautiful flowers...and desperately not wanting them to die in a couple of days. Flowers evoke different emotions for different occasions, I can honestly say our wedding flowers made me so overwhelming happy I just didn't want to think of them dying...I'd shared collecting them and choosing them with Kim, then had the honor of Natasha spending the day in the basement with us creating our beautiful bouquets and filling jar after jar with her amazing creations...SO much happiness and happy memories were bunched up in our wedding flowers. So on the Sunday dismantling most of the posies was kind sad,  but then we put them in a wooden chocolate crate...where they once again created a visual delight of happiness to everyone who saw them.
Shared out amongst friends and family they then filled the homes of our friends & family for another week.

Our Wedding

Unfortunately because I was the Bride there wasn't much time for me to take photos of the venue and the details...but here's what I have...

Table settings

Welcome hampers

Bunting!

Wine list

Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue.

Menus & Onion chutney stand

Monte Stivo & Rifugio Marchetti

This weekend we took ourselves off up Monte Stivo in Trentino to Rifugio Marchetti which is run Matteo Calzà...who is a machine!! To celebrate our good friends birthday...it was tough going, the sun managed to shine for us almost to the top...but 3 hours of incline is alot to ask on a Saturday morning. We finally made it to Marchetti for the night, after a couple beers and an amazing view...the 3 hours prior seemed a distance painful past.

Goulash, polenta and saurcraut to fill our tummies before grappa, cards and then off to bed, one last trip to the outside loo before hiding under 3 layers of blankets to fend off the cold...finishing off an exhausting, head clearing day.

 Quick lunch stop

 Halfway up

 Brrrr...it's cold at the top

A moment of contemplation...

 Beers and sunset.

 Breakfast in the Rifugio

Early morning frost

NEW IN

NEW IN STORE

ligurian lunch

As always when we go to Liguria...we eat too much...the food in this part of Italy is probably my favorite...it's simple, fresh and bascially delicious!

A Cozzolino family favorite in Chiavari is Luchin, it was my first time eating here and I could taste why it's a favorite..

 It's Mushroom Season!

 Luchin

 Primo: Trofie & Pesto

Secondo: Frittura di Pesce 

MR & MRS weekend

Our first weekend at MR & MRS and I had a fab weekend with my new husband!! (wedding post to follow shortly)...after a crazy week of enjoying having all our friends and family in Italy, it was a little strange to be back to just the two of us, but finally we had time to relax and reflect on what had been an amazing week, we managed to drag ourselves out of our apartment...which is bursting at the seams even more now...and drove up to Lessinia to enjoy some serious fresh air and some serious home made pasta!

Tired? just a bit.

We did it!!