newport, ri

We left for Newport, RI via Boston early Friday morning. It was a gorgeous flight. You fly along the eastern seaboard the whole time and Boston is a gorgeous city to fly into. We grabbed our rental car and headed off on our hour drive to our hotel. By the time we got to the hotel we were starving and as luck would have it there was a Chili's in the hotel parking lot. Even though it breaks one of my cardinal rules to eat a national chain restaurant when visiting a new place, we did it anyway and it was worth it. After lunch, we checked in and tried to get Asher to nap knowing we had a long night of wedding rehearsal and dinner ahead of us. No such luck. So we dressed for the rehearsal and headed into town.

I can not say enough about what an absolutely gorgeous place Newport, RI is.  The rehearsal (and wedding) were at the Trinity Church built in 1726.

Asher and Quinn really enjoyed walking through the church cemetery and checking out all the very cool headstones.

After the rehearsal we had some time to kill before dinner and we drove through charming Newport.

We headed out to the cliff walk to check out the view.

We saw many of the famous Newport mansions, including this one The Breakers.  Stunning and huge!

More views from the cliff walk. 

After taking in the amazing scenery, we headed back into town for a rehearsal dinner at The White Horse Tavern. For some reason I didn't take a picture but the building was quite charming. It was originally built in 1673 and they have really tried to keep it true to that time period. All of the rooms were small and just like how you would imagine it to be back then.  It was a fun day and around 11 pm we finally headed back to the hotel for some sleep.

The next morning we headed back into Newport. We spent some time down by the harbor checking out all the boats.

Then we walked to the end of a pier where you could buy lobster and other fresh seafood.

You can't really tell from the picture but the lobster at the very top was HUGE. I bet it was easily 10 lbs+ and almost two feet long.

This was a cute restaurant I saw that was built circa 1780. We saw many of these types of buildings. We strolled through the streets and visited tons of cute shops. Once we were worn out we headed for lunch.

Lobster rolls. Delish! So so good. Then we headed back to the hotel so Asher could nap. It didn't work out very well. Quinn ended up putting him in the car and just driving him around for an hour and a half so he would sleep. We needed him well rested for the wedding.  It was finally wedding time. We got dressed and headed to the church.

Asher was a ring bearer and he here is pictured with his flower girl Isabella. I spent most of the time just trying to keep him happy before his big moment. I don't have any pictures of him walking down the aisle so that will have to wait for the professional photographer. By all accounts, he was perfect and adorable. I think he did stop about half way down and the matron of honor had to hold his hand and coax him a bit.

The inside of the church.

Still trying to keep him happy.

This is a picture of the pew that George Washington would sit in when he would visit the church.

After the wedding we headed over to the sight of the reception at one of Newport's mansions, The Rosecliff. It was spectacular and my pictures do not do it justice.

This is the view from the back terrace with Asher running off towards the water.  Asher only stayed for cocktail hour then he was whisked off to a babysitter.

He spent the evening on a lovely boat in the Newport harbor with this adorable girl named Sloan. We raced back to the reception just in time for the introduction of the happy couple.

Ben and Ashley Harris

The ballroom.

Ashley had commissioned an artist to paint the scene of the evening. I loved watching him work all night. We had a delicious dinner of roasted lamb and had fun dancing.

Here I am with my good friend Ashley the lovely bride.

We had a fabulous time at the wedding but we are old fogies so we ducked out around 11:30 pm headed back to the boat to pick up Asher and then back to the hotel for some sleep.

Stay tuned for pics from our day in Boston.