futuremrsnixon
holy smokes, i'm getting married in something like 268 days!!! let me tell you, i'm so ready! i never knew agony until i watched bryan walk down my front porch steps on his way home the other night. ugh, just to be able to say goodnight to him and not have to watch his back as he walks away. it's likely to be a long nine and a half months...
fortunately, the planning aspects are coming along quite well. after a few tearful breakdowns (okay, so maybe i'm a bit emotional...) with regard to the budget and the time frame for the ceremony and reception...things seem to be falling right into place!!! whew!
if you've checked the wedblog, you've seen that we're having the ceremony at Bastyr University Chapel. it was originally to start at 6pm as i have been planning on an evening wedding...and lo and behold, once we finally found a workable reception venue- at the last minute, the chick told us that there is a 10pm curfew and we'd have to be the heck outta there by ten!!! WHAT!? so...frantically, i called everyone i knew as i felt completely incapable of making such a decision all by my lonesome. i thought maybe i could move the wedding to 5pm??? bec said i'd be too rushed. she suggested moving the wedding to the afternoon. i gasped, "OH NO!" ....and with a hint of a whine and a dash of desperation... "but the song i'm walking down the aisle to is 'On a Night Like This!!!' I can't walk down the aisle to 'On a Night Like This' at toooh oh clawk in the eeyafternooooon!!!!!" bec replies, "ang, it's clearly your wedding and you need to do what you want but these things tend to take longer than you'd expect and i don't want you to feel rushed." i left in a huff only to hear my dad suggest the 5pm time (because "this isn't a family reunion but a wedding and you will have other things on your minds than talking to a bunch of people"...seriously, i think my dad was talking about sex- YIKES!) and my mom was leaning towards not wanting "such an important event to be rushed for some dumb curfew!!" then, only minutes later, some friends at school reply, "maybe you could change the words of the song? or get a new song?" and THAT my friends, is just NOT an option!!! finally, the guys said, "do what you want, ang. it's your wedding. make it perfect for you...but if you have a 5pm ceremony, you'll only be at your reception for a couple hours." hastily under my breath, "gee thanks." with my options narrowed to plan A or plan B (A being: have the ceremony at 5pm, with an appropriately titled song, with only 2 hours for us to be at our reception...and plan B being: have the ceremony at 2, with a nighttime song, with sunglasses to be provided for the guests, with a reception that can last as long as our little legs can dance...), i call ruth. ruth says she thinks it's okay to have the song at a two o clock ceremony. ruth asks phil. phil agrees. so i'm hopeful. but i have to make another call. i call maigen. maigen tried with everything in her might to make it work for the evening wedding...then finally, she sighed and said, "ang, really, i don't think you have any other option than to move the ceremony. i'll be the first one to put on some sunglasses!" i was encouraged...though not convinced. i had one last phone call to make. last but not least- it was the most important..."bryan...(tears already forming in the inside corners of my eyes)...i want the song but the reception place says we have to be out by ten which means we would have to have a two o clock ceremony with a nighttime song- that i am NOT changing!!! what do you think?!?!"
lo and behold...after such anxiety and chaos...it is working out! we did move the ceremony to 2pm...and our reception will begin immediately following at hotel nexus where we will party the night away- at least until 10pm!!!! check it out, we're excited to have something lined up that is nice, has affordable catering, and offers a variety of rooms for our out of town guests!!! whoo hoo!!!
ps...bring sunglasses. 8-)
fortunately, the planning aspects are coming along quite well. after a few tearful breakdowns (okay, so maybe i'm a bit emotional...) with regard to the budget and the time frame for the ceremony and reception...things seem to be falling right into place!!! whew!
if you've checked the wedblog, you've seen that we're having the ceremony at Bastyr University Chapel. it was originally to start at 6pm as i have been planning on an evening wedding...and lo and behold, once we finally found a workable reception venue- at the last minute, the chick told us that there is a 10pm curfew and we'd have to be the heck outta there by ten!!! WHAT!? so...frantically, i called everyone i knew as i felt completely incapable of making such a decision all by my lonesome. i thought maybe i could move the wedding to 5pm??? bec said i'd be too rushed. she suggested moving the wedding to the afternoon. i gasped, "OH NO!" ....and with a hint of a whine and a dash of desperation... "but the song i'm walking down the aisle to is 'On a Night Like This!!!' I can't walk down the aisle to 'On a Night Like This' at toooh oh clawk in the eeyafternooooon!!!!!" bec replies, "ang, it's clearly your wedding and you need to do what you want but these things tend to take longer than you'd expect and i don't want you to feel rushed." i left in a huff only to hear my dad suggest the 5pm time (because "this isn't a family reunion but a wedding and you will have other things on your minds than talking to a bunch of people"...seriously, i think my dad was talking about sex- YIKES!) and my mom was leaning towards not wanting "such an important event to be rushed for some dumb curfew!!" then, only minutes later, some friends at school reply, "maybe you could change the words of the song? or get a new song?" and THAT my friends, is just NOT an option!!! finally, the guys said, "do what you want, ang. it's your wedding. make it perfect for you...but if you have a 5pm ceremony, you'll only be at your reception for a couple hours." hastily under my breath, "gee thanks." with my options narrowed to plan A or plan B (A being: have the ceremony at 5pm, with an appropriately titled song, with only 2 hours for us to be at our reception...and plan B being: have the ceremony at 2, with a nighttime song, with sunglasses to be provided for the guests, with a reception that can last as long as our little legs can dance...), i call ruth. ruth says she thinks it's okay to have the song at a two o clock ceremony. ruth asks phil. phil agrees. so i'm hopeful. but i have to make another call. i call maigen. maigen tried with everything in her might to make it work for the evening wedding...then finally, she sighed and said, "ang, really, i don't think you have any other option than to move the ceremony. i'll be the first one to put on some sunglasses!" i was encouraged...though not convinced. i had one last phone call to make. last but not least- it was the most important..."bryan...(tears already forming in the inside corners of my eyes)...i want the song but the reception place says we have to be out by ten which means we would have to have a two o clock ceremony with a nighttime song- that i am NOT changing!!! what do you think?!?!"
lo and behold...after such anxiety and chaos...it is working out! we did move the ceremony to 2pm...and our reception will begin immediately following at hotel nexus where we will party the night away- at least until 10pm!!!! check it out, we're excited to have something lined up that is nice, has affordable catering, and offers a variety of rooms for our out of town guests!!! whoo hoo!!!
ps...bring sunglasses. 8-)
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