Less than a month left!

“Less than a month” is a completely different feeling than “more than a month” for sure! And so much has happened since my last post…

Last weekend, we picked out Chris’s ring, which both of us are excited about. It’s hard to describe in words, but I’ll do my best: It’s white gold, there are two thin, shiny bands on the outside, and the middle, thicker band is actually hand-hammered… it looked like the texture of a cymbal, which is why we thought it was so appropriate. We will be able to pick these up on the 16th.

After the rings, we met with the DJ and his wife/assistant at a coffee shop to run down the song lists and order of events. We loved seeing them again, and I’m excited to work with them as well as the MC. I love how I always forget that acronym means “Master of Ceremonies,” how appropriate. Anyway, it went well, but we need to call them again because things have changed in the meantime.

I took Monday off that week to make up for Friday, and my mom and I went down to the photographer to pay the remaining balance and turn in our information. I still have to give them my “must take” list, but that will be done early this week. We will have a phone consultation with the photographer on the week of our wedding.

After that, we drove over to the Chateau to try to get our logistical questions answered, and it went better than we could have hoped! We actually wound up switching rooms to the slightly larger one that we visited the first time we were there, over a year ago. This will work out fabulously because no one is booked before us in that room, so we can get in early to set up and take pictures if we need to. We also decided to do all of our dining in the atrium, which will be beautiful since it is all white (the pictures on their website have a few good ones depicting how that will look). So, the banquet room will be used for cocktail hour, and then dancing. Another cool thing: After our ceremony, during cocktail hour, we will have a special cake cutting ceremony right there on the dance floor with everyone around us, rather than waiting until dinner. It’s a really cool idea.

Note to self: put gum on all the tables to counteract effects of black-dyed frosting. Lol.

Anyway, we’ll have to redo our talks with the DJ to let him know he has two rooms to do the sound, rather than just one. But we have to send him some music files anyway, so it will work out.

We met with the pastor this weekend, which was a nice way to wrap up our sessions. We won’t miss the early morning drives out to Rockford, though, even though his house is very nice. I don’t actually feel like I know what I’m doing yet, but I doubt I will until the actual wedding is over. Other than that, we actually took most of the weekend off, aside from a little bit of work and me designing the wedding program cover. It was nice to almost have a break.

We are at 199 attendees (including photographer, DJ/assistant, MC who will all be eating) and I’m thinking we will get 3-4 more. That’s right where we estimated, which is exciting. It’s unfortunate that we picked Indy 500 weekend, as I’m sure more people would attend if we hadn’t, but oh well…

I’ve even talked to my “freelance boss” about the time I need off from additional work.
Also went to the dentist… yelled at for bad habits as usual. At least I went!

And still nothing new about the condo, except that we had been waiting on 2 more contracts from the building which apparently needed to be signed (wish they had told us this!) Now, those are taken care of, so we should be hearing from the bank any day now…

Friday: Doctor’s appt (should find out if Illinois needs blood tests for marriage) and getting marriage license. Wow!