We got all of our invitations out this week, and even got our first reply! Husband and Wife - congratulations! You were the first to respond! (Though, knowing wife, I'm not surprised). :)
Next up.... Jessica's graduation, and her dad and grandparents meeting my parents. (We'll do the mom later). I anticipate this to be a pretty calm evening. After that, a trip to my parents' home to survey the area, and stake out a good place to put the tent. We'll also need to create a layout to give to the caterer.
Also, we've been talking about our honeymoon, and we're currently considering just going away the following weekend to Chicago. Something much more lowkey than the Caribbean. With Jessica's job search still coming up fruitless for Columbus, not wanting to ask for a week or two off after just getting her new job here in Ann Arbor (doing merchandising for Macy's) and all the books/computer/clothes I'm going to need to buy for school.... we're thinking that an exotic trip to the Caribbean might not be the best idea.
Toodles!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Wedding From Hell
No...not mine. My sister's wedding. I want to hurt myself every time I have to go to one of my older sister’s wedding appointments. From dress fittings to trial run hair appointments, everything seems to go wrong and someone ends up crying. My little sister started crying at the dress fitting because her bridesmaid dress didn’t fit her, my older sister started crying because the florist went behind her back and tripled the price their original agreement and myself….I just sit back and laugh to myself because I find the whole situation to be quite humorous. I am sooooo glad that Ben and I are having a small wedding and that everything has been a breeze for us to plan. We haven’t had one problem so far. I think the hardest thing we had to deal with was picking out music for the reception.
Back to my sister’s wedding appointments….Over this past weekend, my sister had a hairstylist come to my mom’s house to do a trial run for our (my mom, my older sister, myself, my younger sister and another bridesmaid) hair for her wedding. As we were waiting for my older sister to arrive, she calls us and tells us that she has run out of gas on the freeway and her fiancé’s car is dead. Now most people would feel bad, but I just started laughing. Why? My sister and I used to share a car and every time it was returned back to me the gas gauge wouldn’t move when I would turn the car back on. That means she would put the minimum amount of gas in the car to make sure she could drive from Ann Arbor to Farmington Hills and back. It was so frustrating because I was the main driver of the car and I was paying for the gas myself. I even had to coast into a gas station one night because I could tell that the car was pretty much out of gas. Anyways…it finally caught up with her! It was great! We ended up having to go, get gas and find her on the freeway (she had to coast off the freeway on the left-hand side of I-275). As we were driving back, my mom called to inform her that the hairdresser was only going to do a trial run on her hair and not on the rest of us. She would do everybody else’s hair for the first time on the day of the wedding. Of course that was not what the original agreement was, so everybody started getting mad once again. The other funny thing was that the hairdresser is pregnant with twins and is due probably 5 weeks after the wedding. That could get interesting because she is planning to spend about an hour with each person – that’s going to be 5 hours. I don’t imagine that she is going to be exactly comfortable standing for that long in her eighth month of pregnancy.
I can only picture the day of her wedding being complete chaos with the way things are going. Again…I am soooo glad that I don’t really have to deal with any of this in the planning of our wedding.
Our wedding invitations came in yesterday…expect to see them in your mailboxes soon (:
Back to my sister’s wedding appointments….Over this past weekend, my sister had a hairstylist come to my mom’s house to do a trial run for our (my mom, my older sister, myself, my younger sister and another bridesmaid) hair for her wedding. As we were waiting for my older sister to arrive, she calls us and tells us that she has run out of gas on the freeway and her fiancé’s car is dead. Now most people would feel bad, but I just started laughing. Why? My sister and I used to share a car and every time it was returned back to me the gas gauge wouldn’t move when I would turn the car back on. That means she would put the minimum amount of gas in the car to make sure she could drive from Ann Arbor to Farmington Hills and back. It was so frustrating because I was the main driver of the car and I was paying for the gas myself. I even had to coast into a gas station one night because I could tell that the car was pretty much out of gas. Anyways…it finally caught up with her! It was great! We ended up having to go, get gas and find her on the freeway (she had to coast off the freeway on the left-hand side of I-275). As we were driving back, my mom called to inform her that the hairdresser was only going to do a trial run on her hair and not on the rest of us. She would do everybody else’s hair for the first time on the day of the wedding. Of course that was not what the original agreement was, so everybody started getting mad once again. The other funny thing was that the hairdresser is pregnant with twins and is due probably 5 weeks after the wedding. That could get interesting because she is planning to spend about an hour with each person – that’s going to be 5 hours. I don’t imagine that she is going to be exactly comfortable standing for that long in her eighth month of pregnancy.
I can only picture the day of her wedding being complete chaos with the way things are going. Again…I am soooo glad that I don’t really have to deal with any of this in the planning of our wedding.
Our wedding invitations came in yesterday…expect to see them in your mailboxes soon (:
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Quick update
Ok, its definitely been a while since we last posted, but thats because its been a busy couple of weeks. So let me break things down for you. In the last 3 weeks, we have secured the following:
Tent/table/chair rental
Photographer for the day after
Caterer/bartender
Cake
Invitations
Officiant
Jessica's dress
Ben's tux
We've also figured out how or where to do or get the following:
Booze, water, pop & snacks: at Costco
Flowers for table decorations: also Costco
Seating arrangement: pretty easy with so few people
Disposable plates, cups, flatware, napkins (Hey- we said it was going to be casual!)
Rings: we still need to check out Herman's, but we've found suitable rings in Ann Arbor, if we don't see anything we really like at Herman's.
So basically, everything is going well. We're actually somewhat excited about this now. We've remained stress-free (except for a little of Jessica's mom)... but really, I don't know why people make such a big deal out of wedding planning. Its been really freaking simple. Its like throwing any other party- except we're not making the food, and we need to make sure that people know where they should sit (to start).
The only things we haven't really thought of so far are:
What Jessica and I are doing after the party, and if/where we are going for a honeymoon. Thats just about it.
Tent/table/chair rental
Photographer for the day after
Caterer/bartender
Cake
Invitations
Officiant
Jessica's dress
Ben's tux
We've also figured out how or where to do or get the following:
Booze, water, pop & snacks: at Costco
Flowers for table decorations: also Costco
Seating arrangement: pretty easy with so few people
Disposable plates, cups, flatware, napkins (Hey- we said it was going to be casual!)
Rings: we still need to check out Herman's, but we've found suitable rings in Ann Arbor, if we don't see anything we really like at Herman's.
So basically, everything is going well. We're actually somewhat excited about this now. We've remained stress-free (except for a little of Jessica's mom)... but really, I don't know why people make such a big deal out of wedding planning. Its been really freaking simple. Its like throwing any other party- except we're not making the food, and we need to make sure that people know where they should sit (to start).
The only things we haven't really thought of so far are:
What Jessica and I are doing after the party, and if/where we are going for a honeymoon. Thats just about it.
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