Manditory Wedding update

Dave and I are bottling wine tomorrow.  Fun Times!  I'm looking forward to the new experience (I'm sure that by about bottle 20 of 90, I'll have had enough experience and just want it to be over!).   We went with fruity wines instead of the plain ol' red and white - I'm looking forward to that too!  Now, if I can manage to stay out of it for the next 3 months...

It's not actually 3 months away anymore.  We are now under 3 months away.  T minus 78 days.  Ack.

Our 'pre-marital counseling' is over now.  I'll keep my opinions to myself about that one.   My boss seems to think we should attend his marriage prep weekend (tonight and tomorrow) at the Catholic church.  I declined, but he still insisted that I take a copy of all the booklets.  At least two of the booklets are about Natural Family Planning....  Thank you, Fr.

I think we might actually meet with the caterer this weekend.  Its not something I'm terribly concerned about, but we do need to know how she runs things so that we know what sort of dishes we'll have to rent.  I'm not too very keen on having to do any elaborate hall decorating, so I've been avoiding the task of going to a rental place.  But sooner or later, it will have to be done.  Good thing I've got a couple future sisters-in-law willing to take on the decorating!

The girls are going shopping next weekend.  Hopefully that will take care of dresses and shoes.  I really am leaning towards three different coloured dresses for the girls, but we'll see what we can find and who knows what'll happen.  The guys, well, if they show up to the wedding wearing pants, it'll be a bonus!  :P

I have 2 little kids who keep hounding me to be the flower girl and ring bearer.  Tough luck kiddos!  Ain't gonna happen.  I'm pretty sure that Zachary thought it was completely against every rule in the book to not have a ring bearer.  "Amy, you can't even get married without a ring bearer!  Who's going to carry the rings??"  Not to sound mean but I don't need a little ham at the front of the church fidgeting around begging for attention - there's already going to be four grown men standing at the front doing just that! 

Speaking of wedding bands, they're looked after too. Davey's should be done soon; nice and plain - exactly what he wanted.  Mine needs to be custom made to fit beside my engagement ring properly (it's got a flared band on it that makes fitting a generic ring beside it a little troublesome), but!  It's going to be really plain too, and won't cost more than one of those generic bands anyway.  Bonus!

Invites are just a postage stamp away from going into the mail.  So if you're expecting one and haven't got it yet, don't worry, aside from the few that have been hand delivered, no one has one yet!  Please note: I think we invited 214 people, and the church seats about 180.  So.... *sigh* I would love to have all of my 420 facebook friends in attendance, but it's just not practical.  No hard feelings, k?

I've got a good pal who's willing to sing a song or two during the wedding, plus a co-worker who's more than delighted to take on the organist job (assuming our regular church organist doesn't want the job).  Now we just have to pick out some songs and bible readings - something that I feel like I have had very little direction or guidance with.  Davey, with very little church experience under his belt, has zero opinion about it, so I'm sort of on my own on this one.  Suggestions are appreciated, but be warned, if your suggestion consists solely of 1 Corinthians 13, I might be less than impressed.

Other than the little details like flowers, this thing is planned!  (Maybe we can just pick a bunch of dandelions off the side of the road?)  It's really not all that hard to plan a wedding.  Stressful, well, as stressful as you make it, but not hard.

Oh yeah, honeymoon?  That's planned too.  Just need to book our ferry tickets to Newfoundland!