Monday marked the one-year anniversary of our engagement! It’s been an exciting year since we sat in my car outside a restaurant I used to work at calling our family and friends with the big news and I can’t believe we’re less than five weeks away from our wedding day. We can’t wait to celebrate it all with you and we’re working hard with our families to hopefully make everything as perfect as it can be possibly be.
The planning process is an interesting one because you would think getting engaged in May would provide you with all kinds of options before the upcoming wedding season. Oh no, because we ended up being late season call ups to engagement season we found limited availability for the 2006 campaign and had to push things to the early summer to coordinate a church with a reception location. I may be forgetting a detail or two, but once the date had been decided it was really nice to relax for a few weeks and relish in the engagement.
Then the fall rolls around and it’s time to pick through your numerous options. Meetings include, but are not limited to flowers, dresses/tuxedos, stationary, music, food, the ceremony, linens, hotels, and the registry. And I’m not only talking about organized formal meetings with professionals. There are meetings with each other and families to explain/make decisions. Ideas are tossed around, settled on, changed, switched back, and kicked to the curb. And I’m not even getting into our near disaster of the priest search.
So after batting these thoughts around for a few months you find yourself immersed in wedding kingdom. Your dining room could pass for a Crate N Barrel franchise (check out our Spring into Summer sale next weekend), there are papers/pads of all different shapes and sizes in every room with wedding notes scrawled on them, and when you even try to slip out for a few beverages on a beautiful Sunday evening you end up planning your reception over Mojitos and Captain Morgan (with a little help from the bar staff).
But you know what? Sometime around the middle of April most of the major decisions worked themselves out and while plenty of tasks still remain we find ourselves in control of what’s going on and are having fun with it. I’m sure it will be a frantic finish, but stay tuned for a great evening.
The planning process is an interesting one because you would think getting engaged in May would provide you with all kinds of options before the upcoming wedding season. Oh no, because we ended up being late season call ups to engagement season we found limited availability for the 2006 campaign and had to push things to the early summer to coordinate a church with a reception location. I may be forgetting a detail or two, but once the date had been decided it was really nice to relax for a few weeks and relish in the engagement.
Then the fall rolls around and it’s time to pick through your numerous options. Meetings include, but are not limited to flowers, dresses/tuxedos, stationary, music, food, the ceremony, linens, hotels, and the registry. And I’m not only talking about organized formal meetings with professionals. There are meetings with each other and families to explain/make decisions. Ideas are tossed around, settled on, changed, switched back, and kicked to the curb. And I’m not even getting into our near disaster of the priest search.
So after batting these thoughts around for a few months you find yourself immersed in wedding kingdom. Your dining room could pass for a Crate N Barrel franchise (check out our Spring into Summer sale next weekend), there are papers/pads of all different shapes and sizes in every room with wedding notes scrawled on them, and when you even try to slip out for a few beverages on a beautiful Sunday evening you end up planning your reception over Mojitos and Captain Morgan (with a little help from the bar staff).
But you know what? Sometime around the middle of April most of the major decisions worked themselves out and while plenty of tasks still remain we find ourselves in control of what’s going on and are having fun with it. I’m sure it will be a frantic finish, but stay tuned for a great evening.
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