Progress

12 11 2009

A couple more things have been completed. We sent out the Save the Dates, so those should be arriving in everyone’s mailboxes soon. We wanted to get them out early to give everyone time to make plans to join us next year if they can. With our friends and family spread out across the country unfortunately there really was no central location. So we decided to choose a spot that we loved, that wasn’t to far away, was affordable and could also be turned into a week-long vacation. We understand not everyone will be able to make it there, but for those that can we will definitely try and make it a good time.

Also, I booked the photographer yesterday, which I’m excited about. I wanted to have amazing photos to be able to look at and remember the special day with. We booked Michelle Haber Photography. She was picked as “The Knot Best of Weddings” for 2008 and 2009 and I love the work that I’ve seen of hers. I’ve talked to her husband Doug several times and he’s been great.

So that’s another couple things checked off the list of stuff to do. Not having a job has been driving me crazy, I’m definitely over hanging out at home everyday and with the weather getting colder my outings with the puppies are getting shorter. I try to stay productive every day though, and this has meant a lot of the planning for the wedding has been completed. Looks like by the time I do get back to work most of the big stuff will have been completed, which is great!


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A little change in plans

11 11 2009

So after putting some more thought into it and what will work best with the number of people we are inviting and the set up for the caterer we have changed the house where we will be having the wedding. We will now be having it at Rendezvous. It has the outdoor space for the reception as well as some more inside space and a better set up in case we have to have everything inside because of weather (fingers crossed we won’t have to though!) It also has an extra bedroom, which will make coordinating the accommodations for the wedding party a little easier. We’re happy with the choice, so far things seem to be going pretty smoothly.


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Lots of changes…

30 10 2009

My first time getting on here and writing something after Ryan was so nice to put this together. Life has been more than a little crazy recently, finally got the Saratoga house rented, we got a new, bigger apartment in the city and I left my job to come down here. So between packing up the house, deciding what to bring, what to put in storage and what to throw out, getting everything from the house moved down, cleaning the new apartment so it was ready to be moved into, packing and moving Ryan’s apartment and unpacking it’s been a little busy. Add to that me looking for a job and being sick, I haven’t had a whole lot of free time on my hands.

I have started the planning process though, and we’ve started to book a couple things. Most important, we reserved the house where we will be having the reception, the ceremony will be on the beach in front of the house. This is also where we’ll be staying for the week along with the wedding party. The house is Sea Esta, it’s in Corolla in the Whalehead neighborhood. It had just about everything we were looking for, enough bedrooms, a big open space upstairs, right on the beach, and it’s around a bunch of other houses that are available for rent so hopefully everyone will be able to be close-by for the week!

We also booked our officiant, Jay Bowman, really really like him and am excited about that too! Plus, he looks a little like Brett Favre so I think that won Ryan over.

Plus, we ordered our Save the Dates and those should be going out soon. We ordered them from Bobbie, Darren’s mom, and she did great helping us find just what we wanted even though we went in there with really no idea of what we were looking for. If you are ever in need of invitations or any other stationary, we would highly recommend that you contact her.

Hopefully people check back here often, we’ll try to keep it updated with what’s going on. And I really hope that everyone can join us next October on the beach!


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