Sean and Kelly's Wedding

Kelly’s latest baked creation – peanut butter cookies with Hershey Kisses! An all-time favorite of mine. My Grandma used to make these every Christmas and now Kelly’s carrying on the tradition. Woohoo!

My Dad proudly displayed his major award in the living room window so the entire neighborhood could see..

This has nothing to do with the wedding but I figured I’d share. Enjoy.

Kelly and I found a really cool vintage print from a travel book printed in 1933 featuring Dun Aengus – the place where I proposed to Kelly on one of the Aran Islands off the coast Ireland.

The Strange Forts of Aran

We hope to have it framed soon. We found it on an eBay store called Simple Gifts, which features a ton of vintage magazine and book prints. Check it out!

Just went on the trip of a lifetime – a ten day long tour of Ireland with the love of my life…  and came back engaged!

It was on the second to last full day of our trip when I proposed.  We had taken a boat out Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, and biked our way out to the “Man of Aran Cottage” where we stayed for the night. Man of Aran is modeled after the old fashioned thatched roof cottages that were once common in Ireland, but was actually built in the 1930’s for the documentary “Man of Aran“.

Man of Aran Cottage

Our view from the cottage

Enjoying some wine at the cottage

Dinner at Joe Watty's Pub

After dinner we started walking up to Dun Aengus, an ancient fort built around 900BC alongside 300 foot high cliffs... and where I proposed.

Kelly at the 300ft high cliffs at Dun Aengus

Scaring the living sh*t out of me

Just before proposing

An areal view of Dun Aengus

After we got back I did some reading about the place and learned that the name Dun Aengus translates to Fort of Aengus.  Aeungus was the pre-Christian god of love, youth and poetic inspiration.  The myth says he had four birds flying about his head, which supposedly is where the xxxx’s symbolizing kisses at the end of love letters come from. Cool!

Couldn’t be happier!