photos

Wedding photos are up and beautiful!!!

countdown

I am totally in countdown mode. I wish that I didn’t have any work to actually do and I could just think about wedding stuff.

I am now checking the 10 day forecast on weather.com about four times/day to see what the weather will be like.

My rain plan is the K of C, and that is fine, except that I can’t imagine the wedding pictures against the carpet covered walls. Ugh. Pray for sunshine (the forecast today is better! Keep on coming sunshine!

 

 

oh. cost cutters

Not only am I getting my wedding hair done at cost cutters, but I just called to make a prep appt for Friday and move the appt back to 10am for Sunday. And the girl on the phone is going to be the one doing my hair, so right at the end of the conversation she says: “Now, you don’t want cornrows do you? because I don’t know how to do cornrows.”

 

What kind of a place am I getting married where this is a legitimate question?

 

 

call for song requests

I need to submit to the DJ the songs I want played. I already have the big ones, but I am also providing a list of songs that we love that we would just like played somewhere in the rotation.

If you have a song that is very special to you I would be happy to add it in.

 

Sarah… it can be Lil’ Kim if that is special to you. J

Lucia

Dress

As you probably heard, to get the dress I was in love with I had to order two sizes smaller than I really should have. That was April.
Except for taking the month of June off for my sabbatical, I have been working really hard to lose weight. I have lost over 35 lbs.
Yesterday was the moment of truth, would it fit?

Great news, it did fit! Whew. The backup plan was not pretty - picking a dress off a rack at David's Bridal and abandoning my beautiful expensive one.

So, David's Bridal isn't necessary, but I am still a little chunky for the dress - another 10 lbs and it will look a lot better. So, the super intense diet and excercise routine continues...

program - nearly done!

this weekend I worked on the program for the ceremony - all I need is Rick's reading choice and it is done!

hall/catering

got a bunch of stuff done last weekend, here are some of the updates (trying to do a post every day or so)

Catering/Hall -
Knights of Columbus, Mary

Food: three courses served in grazing stations
1) light/cold finger food - starts at 4 and continues until the next course comes out
- fruit tray, veggie/dip tray, cheese/sausage/cracker tray
2) hot food - starts at 6 and continues until at least 8/9
- meatballs, hot beef sandwiches on dinner rolls, baby red potatoes, a vegetarian pasta salad, and some more stuff I can't remember...
3) late night - starts at 10 and includes any food left from the previous courses
- fried cheese curds, tater tots (possibly Rick's favorite food), chicken wings

coffee/tea station all night
water on the tables
real plates (but they are glass)
real silverware
real glassware

Bar:
Old Fashioneds from the bar
wine - this was a fun moment, I said one white and one red, she said "White? well you will want White Zin, and for Red, I have a nice one called Polka Dots. yep, let's do those" sooo, apparently in honor of Jen I am having white zin at my wedding. :)
beer - serve yourself from the tappers Miller High Life (the champagne of beers) and Miller Lite
cash bar open for all other options

Organization of the room - I have a picture I drew, but I will need to scan it in. Basically, you come in the door and the bar is to the right, directly in front of you will be the table with the placecards (and later in the night, the cookies to take home), just to your left will be the guestbook with some guestbook attendants that I haven't asked yet :), and then next to them the gift table. Then as you enter the ballroom (as we are going to imaginatively call it) the grazing stations will be to the right and the DJ on the left. Pass through the dance floor to get to the round tables and the head table right smack dab in the middle of all of them.

bathrooms (2 sets) are handicap accessible.

we can enter to get our stuff done at 9am.

We can hang the globe lights and those are reserved at the Rental Store.

they do not have table number holders, I will be making these.

shoes!

little lift - check
silver to go with dress - check
useable after wedding - check
reasonably priced - check
comfortable - check! and Done!

wedding prep weekend

Ma and I are up in the Northwoods getting stuff done (mostly she has been awesome at forcing me to just do stuff/make reservations/etc.

things we want to get done:
Cake
DJ
plan for seating at park
plan for tables/seating at hall
photographer
directions confirmed

good luck to us

Spa Day - Spa chosen

we went and visited this one: www.wellnesssparesort.com - it was really nice, a big complex and has a lot of services. They will also give us a room for the bridal party to hang out in.

However, we need to make reservations for the Thursday before the wedding probably before mid-June. So... I will be contacting everyone and seeing if they can make it and what services they want me to make reservations for.