I’m currently sitting in the Hong Kong airport waiting to board again for Singapore. Oh the places I go with this job. Anyway, I’ll be back next Tuesday and John and I will jump back into wedding planning.
See you on the other side of the world!!
Anjeanette
I’ve made it safely to Texas! We’re staying with Jeff in Dallas for a few days. Mitchell is here too. Jeff and Mitchell are my future brother in laws! I went to college here so its nice to see the ole stomping grounds too.
Now that John and I are in the same city again, we’re going to try to fit some more wedding planning into this trip. Might have to re-consider our original reception site.
Happy to be on vacation!!
-Anjeanette
So, there’s a new separate page (click-able from the top) that lists our spending priorities for the upcoming event! Each of our concrete choices also features a link, so you can get a bit of a preview as to what’s coming! There are a few options that haven’t been looked into yet – flowers, etc. – so if you have any suggestions, feel free to comment either here or on the page, or give us a shout!
We are officially 9 months away from our Wedding Date. “Wedding Date” you say? Yes. Wedding Date.
September 11 – a number of things led to us choosing this date, mostly to do with scheduling (the space where we have chosen to do the reception isn’t available the previous weekend, the Church only has the one slot open, etc.)
We’re unafraid of the eventual criticism we’re going to get from certain quarters – September 11 is a day that needs to be reclaimed by more people, actually. So, Screw You, Bin Laden, we’s a-gettin’ married!
It’s really nice and warm here. Staying with Paul Kreppel and Murphy Cross for a week, I think, and then I’ll be staying with Jay Johnson – they’re having me stage manage The Two and Only at the Colony Theater, and in exchange for giving me a rather lowly sum of money and not paying my air fare, they’re getting me an Equity card. At least, that’s the hope!
I hate times like this, actually – it’s a great show, and they’re fun people, but I’m 3000 miles away from my dearest, just as we’re starting to really hammer out details of our upcoming nuptials. Ah, well.
John and I are enjoying this day after Thanksgiving by parking in our local coffee shop and planning!!
Really we’re just adjusting a wedding budget spreadsheet and making it a Google shared document. We sitting across from each other with our laptops and editing the same spreadsheet. It’s awesome!!! This is how we’ve been putting together a guest list and bouncing ideas back and forth. It seems silly when we are in the same room, but these shared documents will come in handy as John leaves for LA for 2 weeks on Sunday. (Sad face!)
We think we might use Hill Country to do our catering. They are a decent BBQ place, for New York anyway. They can do a full service tables and chairs and all that stuff. My favorite part is that they can provide Mason jars for the drinks!! There is something so magical about seeing my family and friends dressed up and eating ribs and drinking out of Mason jars. Feel free to check out their site:
The catering person should get back to me Monday and hopefully we’ll have a better idea of prices. Ribs!
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Sheesh! Things sure to seem to add up. We’re going to try to beat their goal (they actually didn’t make it) – I think it’s possible, as neither of us is so fixated on “Special Magical Fairy-Tale Specialness” – but it’s New York.
An update as to potential costs and plans:
Catering is looking like it’s going to be about $3000.00 minimum, unless we seriously cut the guest list.
Anj is seriously looking into using her mother’s wedding dress, with alterations and such, which will save money if indeed that does (or even can) end up happening.
Still looking into the venue, but since we’re planning on doing Bar B Que, it will probably be either completely outdoors, or a combination space. I don’t believe either of us wants to be in a room at, for example, a place like this. Our sincere goal is for everybody to have a good time and to celebrate love – neither of us is extremely comfortable with the idea of massive artifice – we do that stuff for a living.
-John
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