Wedding Talk In Pittsburgh

I am never going to have engagement photos :P The trouble is that I don't actually like photos. I keep meaning to ask Ryan's sister-in-law, who is a great photographer, to take some of us to use... but when we're actually together, I'd rather be doing something else. So there will be no engagement photos :P We'll be lucky if there's any wedding photos at this rate :P

We spent the weekend at his parents' house. I tried to keep track of all the amusing, wedding related comments that were made, but I can't remember any of them. Tres frustrating.

Ryan's brother is already planning the bachelor party, lol.

His mother is threatening to hire a polka band. I told her Crazy Venue II supplies a dj; she said the dj cold play when the polka band takes a break. Ryan told her she can bring the polka band if she can also get the Dalai Lama to come. Stay tuned! :)

To Love, Honor, and Not Steal Dip...

I can't make up my mind about vows. Should we use conventional ones and risk being boring? Write our own and risk sounding cheesy?

If we do write our own, Ryan says he's going to vow never to steal my dip... I suppose I should vow never to wake him up and unfairly accuse him of taking my dip again...

Hmm... maybe it's safer to stick to conventional vows :)

Decisions, decisions...

How is it that two people who love to talk about travel and going places can't think up anywhere to go on a honeymoon? :)

One Year

365 days and counting!

Omens

Remember when I said my pastor resigned on the very day I was going to ask him to marry Ryan and I? I was going to ask him at the end of the service and he announced his resignation (due to a promotion) at the beginning.

I thought that was kind of a bad omen. If I really believed in omens.

Today my friend told me her cousin's church burned to the ground two days before the wedding.

If that's not a bad omen, I don't know what is :P

(She says they are still happily married. At the first dance of their ceremony, held at a nearby hotel, guests lit their lighters, lol.)

Starting to Finalize Plans

The folks at the Crazy Venue never really responded to my inquiries, except for one phone call after my mother spoke sternly to them, so clearly they were not going to work out as a location. You'd think I would then go find a nice, normal location for the wedding, right?

Instead, I searched and found: Crazy Venue II

These people are much more responsive. Yesterday I went out and actually saw the boat - yes the boat - where we would be getting married. The good news is that I did not get hopelessly lost in DC traffic despite driving at rush hour. I also was not late to work that day, even though I had to run back upstairs after forgetting to put on my ring. Oops. I had to go back to get it - I couldn't show up to discuss my wedding with no ring!!! lol.

Anyway. I liked what I saw. And though I still think I'm crazy, all systems are go at this point.

We are getting married at Crazy Venue II on Saturday June 11, 2011.

Yay! :)

Just Stuff :)

Let's document this: today, as we debated a wedding topic, Ryan said sincerely that we could do whatever I wanted :)

Dinner at our favorite restaurant followed by a trip to the ice cream shop and a walk along the waterfront wasn't so bad either :)

A humerous interlude...

I heard a wedding joke on the Internet...

A woman is getting married and she's determined that it will all go perfectly. However, her parents' nasty divorce is threatening to ruin everything.

She and her mother find a beautiful dress for her mother to wear to the wedding, but then her father's girlfriend goes out and buys the exact same dress!

Her father's girlfriend refuses to return the dress, insisting that it looks beautiful on her and she deserves to look beautiful at the wedding. "Don't worry, dear," her mother says, "I'll find a new dress. It's fine."

So, her mother finds a new dress. Later, the woman discovers her mother still has the old dress. "Mom, don't you think you should take this back?" she asks. "It's not like you're going to have another chance to wear it."

"Of course I will," her mother replies. "I'm going to wear it to the rehearsal dinner."