THE PICTURES ARE HERE!!!

Bob's son, Peter, the Best Man, helping Bob to get ready before the wedding.




My daugher, Jessica, my Maid of Honor, helping me into my dress.




My son, Chris, walking me down the aisle.





My children gave me away - I bet a lot of kids would like to give away their parents!




My bridesmaids, our daughters, Zealia, Lyzz and Jessica




Our groomsmen, our sons, Peter, Nathan and Christopher




Lighting the Unity Candle




Shaun and Jessica sing "From This Moment On"




The Worship Team sings "You Are My All in All"





Bob places the wedding ring on my finger





Shaun sings "When I Say I Do" during the slideshow





The new Mr. and Mrs. Andrews!


On our way to the Oaks for pictures



We went to the oaks for a fun photo session before we went to the reception.




I used this picture for our wedding announcement in the newspaper



The Wedding Party

Bride and Groom with Best Man and Maid of Honor




The Ladies


My Cowboys


Sort of looks like the Cartwrights or something, huh?



On the bridge


Stealing a Kiss


The Saloon Girls


The Tombstone Men



Entering the reception at Keeley's to the song "Wild, Wild, West" by Will Smith



My Mom, my Son, Chris and Bob's Son, Nate in the receiving line


The Wedding Party at the Head Table


Cutting the Cake


Bob feeding me cake, and he was nice about it!


Bob's Family from Arizona, Ohio and Orono


Pam's Pastor and church family from Stroudwater Baptist


Bob's Pastor and his wife from Liberty Chapel


Our First Dance to "Amazed" by Lonestar


Bob and his daughter, Lyzz


Jess started the train dance to "We Are Family"


Garter time - notice the boots!


The kids decorated our getaway car


Leaving through a tunnel of sparklers






- END OF PICTURES - (for now, will add more later)

We're Back!

For those of you that have come to this page looking for our Wedding pictures, they will be here soon. I have received a few, but I am still waiting to get them from Jack and a few other people. If you have some pictures to share with us, you can either:

* EMAIL them to PEH56@aol.com

* MAIL them on a CD to 40 French Street, Acton, ME 04001

* UPLOAD them to your MySpace account and message me at myspace.com/pamhouston

* UPLOAD them to your FaceBook account and message me at facebook.com/pamela.andrews3

* UPLOAD them to photobucket.com/pamandbobswedding
We are looking forward to seeing them all! Our honeymoon was wonderful and I will still be posting journal entries on our wedding page until I get the pictures to post here. ~Pam

NEW SITE!

This blog is being replaced with our new Wedding Webpage which can be found here...
http://mysite.weddingsolutions.com/pamandbob/ The blog continues under the tab that says "Wedding Journal". Check it out and leave a comment!

Save the Date!

Today I finished the Save the Date Cards and will mail them tomorrow. I had fun designing the cards. They are in the Fourth of July theme. But then I went to the post office to get stamps and the postcard stamps are ugly! They are lime and peach with pictures of tropical fruit cut open with the seeds hanging out, uuggh! It just doesn't go with the red, white and blue. I was so freaked out that they were the only ones they had that I just didn't get any. Tonight I went over my options. I could have photo stamps printed, but they cost more and would take time to ship out. I could use the regular love stamps that I'm using for the ivitations but people would wonder why I didn't use the cheaper postcard stamps. I talked to Bob about it. He understands my creative frustration, but after talking with him I decided to just go with the fruit. Maybe some people eat tropical fruit on the fourth of July so it won't seem weird to them. And guys probably won't even notice the stamp. Most people reading this probably think I'm just being silly obsessing about stamps, so yeah, they will go out tomorrow with the fruit. The card mention our new wedding website. I will be posting blogs on that from now on instead of here. So just go to www.mysite.weddingsolutions.com/pamandbob and read from now on. That will take you to the main page. The blog be be the link on the left that says "Wedding Journal" . But make sure you visit all the other pages. There is all sorts of information there for you. Thanks for reading!

Working on The Guest List

I have been furiously working on the guest list. Bob has family coming from Arizona that are going to have a family reunion then. I had asked the Root Cellar if they rented their hall space because it is larger than the space at the church, but they don't rent it to private parties. So I think we will be able to have the dinner downstairs at the church and then the dancing part at the Reactor next door, where they have the Youth Group meetings. There really doesn't seem to be enough space in either room for both activities. I will need to check with Pastor Don about this as he is in Nicaragua on a mission trip right now, but he did say he would marry us, so at least we have the Preacher! I'm thinking that after the ceremony, the wedding party will go across the street to have pictures taken in front of the river. Hope we have good weather.

Bob's daughter, Lyzz, bought me a wedding planner book and it has a webpage that goes with it. I am working on setting that up and will give out the address when it's ready. It has lots of neat things on it, like our registry, places of interest for travelers, info about us, a guestbook, plus it has lots of checklists to help me keep track of things and I am able to enter my guestlist into it and it keeps track of the rsvps. It's pretty cool. I may transfer this blog over to there if there is something similar there, but I will keep a link here to get to it.

Lyzz is acting as our Wedding Planner. She loves the details and seems to having a lot of fun with it. My daughter, Jess, has some creative ideas too, but she's not as good with the details. It's going to be a real collaborative effort and everyone has different gifts. Jess wants to sing a song at the wedding. She has one in mind, but I'm not sure if I like that one or not. I have a good idea on the dresses now. I think I'm going to go with burgundy bridesmaids dresses instead of the blue. And we have decided on a Victorian/Western/4th of July theme. What a combo, huh? But it will be fun.

Where Will We Live?

The first question that everyone seems to be asking me is, "Where are you going to live"? That is because I currently live with my Mom and my daughter in Portland and Bob lives with his youngest daughter and several pets in Acton, Maine, which is an hour away. We have been praying about this for a long time and decided that we wouldn't wait until we had everything figured out before we got married. We felt the important thing was to be together and take things as they come. If we don't find something midway before July, I will move to Acton and commute to work.

I am a bookkeeper for Seacoast Scaffold in South Portland. I have been there for 15 years and I am sure that I would never find a job like this one. My bosses and the people I work with are wonderful and the pay is good too. This is one thing that I really don't want to compromise on. Everything else is negotiable. I will need to come to Portland anyway to check on my Mom and my great Aunt Hattie, who is 93 and lives with friends right near my office. And Jess is not 100% independent yet either. Plus I am quite involved at my church, Stroudwater Baptist Church and hate to leave. If I live in Acton, I may not be able to go as often though, especially in bad weather and I will need to go with Bob wherever God wants him to be. He's thinking of becoming a Pastor and I need to listen to what plans God has for us.

Bob is a printer and works for a publisher, Odyssey Press, in Rochester, NH. He operates an HP Digital Press and has been there for 8 years. He is specially trained on this press and there are only a few in Maine, which means finding a comparable job is difficult, especially in this economy. He likes where he works, but if the opportunity of a job closer to Portland arose, he would consider it. He is a Trustee at has church, Liberty Chapel, in Milton Mills, NH. His house is literally on the border of NH and he can walk there. The Acton/Milton Mills area is really beautiful. There is a river with a waterfall right behind the house. I really do love the town, and the people are very friendly there too.


Bob grew up in Tuscon, Arizona and I can't wait to visit there some day. I have lived in Maine, within a 30 minute radius of Portland, all my life, well at least so far. So it will be a new thing for me to have to venture out a bit more. I was hoping Bob could move here, but that would make an hour and a half commute for him, which is even more than it would be for me. So, in the meantime, we will make the best of things. As long as we can be together, it will be great.

Dresses and Colors

My Bridesmaids are going to be Bob's daughters, Lyzz and Zealia and my Maid of Honor is going to be my daughter, Jessica. Bob's oldest son, Pete will be his best man and the groomsmen will be his younger son, Nate and my son, Chris, who will also give me away. We will give special jobs to Chris's wife, Kimberly and Pete's wife, Nikki, like passing out the bulletins and sparklers - well it is going to be the 4th of July, so we have to have sparklers!

I had originally thought that my dress would be dusty rose and the bridesmaids would be white with rose sashes. My reasoning for this was that it is a second wedding for both of us so I probably shouldn't wear white, you know, the whole purity thing works better for the young girls. When I told the girls about this, Jessica was appalled that I wasn't going to wear a white wedding dress. She said it would be ok because it was a new beginning for me. Maybe she is right and I may reconsider. But if I wear white, what color should the bridesmaids wear? Should I go with the dusty rose for them? Jess thinks I should go with purple or lavender because that is my favorite color. I do like purple, but I like rose too. And then there is the red, white and blue theme for the reception decorations. Should the dresses go along with that theme or is that too tacky?

I went into David's Bridal to look at what dress styles look like these days. Everything is sleeveless, strapless and very plain. I was not impressed. I know I can make something better for much less. I did see a lace dress that was sort of nice, but they wanted $799 for it and I couldn't see spending that much money- must be the Scot in me. Then I went over to Joann's Fabrics and looked at the patterns. They were just as bad as the dresses at David's. And the fabric wasn't very impressive either. They have a lot to make quilts, but not much bridal stuff. I guess no one has time to sew anymore. I found some nice lace online, but they wanted $85/yd. for it and who knows if it will look as good as in the picture.

Bob likes wearing black, so the guys are pretty easy to decide on. It's just a matter of the color of the tie and vest. And for styles that I like, well I'm kind of partial to victorian. I really like the high collars and long sleeves. That was really popular in the '70's, but it's like non-existant now. Oh well, I don't care to be like everyone else. But they sure make it difficult to get what you want when it's not in style, thanks to the fashion czars. So, if you have any ideas on colors, styles, patterns, fabric or places to get such things, please let me know.