Fittings

Jonathan's suit hangs in the closest.
Amanda will have her first fitting this Tuesday. (hoping she still likes how she looks in the dress)
Lady of Laughter has been fitted and looks gorgeous.
Lady of Sanity will be fitted this Thursday.
Flowergirls' dresses have been ordered!
Parents of the Bride are working on their fittings as well.
Wedding bands are in our possession.

And more importantly vows have been formulating in our brains.

It's all coming together and yet stress looms on Plaza Street East. We are so pleased that we heard from several of you saying how much you like our invitations and 12 of you have sent back a reply of "YES WE'RE COMING!" And yet, we're exhausted and little things just keep popping up to make us feel a bit wonky. We laugh and tell each other it's all going to be okay. And usually we believe it.

We are once again excited by this whole wedding thang

We love our wedding officiant, Kevin Bartlett. In the midst of checking off all our lists and chaos of finalizing details, Kevin helped us to remember why we're doing all this: us. We are uniting together because we cannot, do not, want to imagine our lives without each other. We talked with Kevin about the ceremony but also about what we expect of our marriage--there's so much more than deciding the perfect wedding colors and who djs the wedding. There's just us and our lives becoming one. We felt rejuvenated after speaking with him and gleeful about celebrating our new life together. We hope you too can join us in our merriment.

Look for your invitation very soon--they're just about ready!

How are those wedding plans going...

Lots of things we're working on and nOtHiNg is definite yet.

Invitations: almost there...kinda.
Florist: three possibilities. may want to create a "wishes for the couple" centerpiece. (more about that at another time).
DJ: working on getting references and demo cds.
Ties for the groomsmen, but oddly enough not for the groom: done
There's more too that hasn't even made the "we're working on it" list.

AND, we're both nursing a cold. Yay.

But it is the Lady of Laughter's birthday so Happy B-Day Ms. Snyder!

Appropriate Ending to the Summer

On Sunday we spent the morning in line for tickets and then spent the evening at Shakespeare in the Park - A Midsummer Night's Dream (an interesting choice for the end of the summer). A very nice performance, in spite of the slightly awkward chronology of title and season. But what Brooklyn summer would be complete without a trip to Coney Island? Not ours, surely. So this Labor Day weekend, along with our friend Joanna, we headed to the amusement park. We ate at Nathan's, walked the boardwalk, played lots of skee-ball and rode the rides. And while we didn't make it to the Freakshow, we managed to have a great time anyway. The Log Flume was very refreshing on the warm summer day, and it was Amanda's first-ever ride on the world-famous Cyclone (possibly the best wooden roller coaster in existence.)

What's the "proper" attire for the bride and groom?

Maybe we don't need to wear typical wedding clothes. Who needs a ravishing gown or an elegant suit when inflatable ware exists?
Probably should be out looking for a DJ or florist instead of rifling through pictures of the summer, but how could we resist putting up these made for each other pictures?

The tux poll is in: NO!

So the masses, or at least 17 of us, voted and the nays won. 9 to 8. No powder blue ruffle tux for Jonathan. So it was a slim win, but nonetheless a win. (and it tilted toward nay after my aunt emailed me that she still wanted to vote "no" though the polls had been closed). So look for Jonathan in a dashing, non-ruffle suit.

Jonathan is quite pleased.

No wedding planning this past weekend

Here we are in the TV room at Graceland. That's right--mirrors on the ceiling! TCB baby! You can't see in this picture that we are indeed wearing blue suede shoes, a hound dog is behind us and we are most definitely all shook up.