Boston? Was incredible. It included, a fabulous photo shoot, a fabulous dinner with a friend of fiance’s from high school that recently got hitched, a beautiful wedding, seeing old friends, getting obliterated off chardonnay followed by a pretty nasty hangover, decent flights, and an open invite to Martha’s Vineyard with a friend of mine from college who lives in DC - a friend who got me started in the college dems back in 2003…he’s definitely getting a wedding invite!
Tonight, after dinner was made and Meet the Press was watched, we did some wedding stuff. We got our proposal from the event planner at the Phoenix Park - about $5k more than we’d like so we’re going through and cutting stuff out so we can go meet with her and go over things before we put down a deposit (which we’re hoping to do after we go over everything with our parents in the coming weeks). We did our guest lists - somehow I’m inviting about 25 friends, he’s inviting about 35, i’m inviting about 30 family and he’s inviting somewhere between 25-30. Our number? Not including the ah-hem…B list (the maybes) is 119. We were shooting for 125. So it works out. I made him par down a bunch of his friends…it was at 60. I was like Dude. No.
Either way, everything is perfect. We’re clearing it all with parents - checking names. Getting addresses. Granted save-the-dates don’t need to go out till like…Christmas which is still a full 9 months before the wedding - is there any certain time frame for that? Especially if a majority of people will be traveling? Is 9 months late? Early? I’m still figuring all this out…
Bought a couple new wedding magazines for the flight, we’ve got a couple other ideas for the honeymoon - three options now, we’re going to see which is most reasonable:
1. Mexico
2. Ireland/Slovenia/Greece. Two days in Ireland then five-seven in Slovenia which is right near greece. I want beaches and apparently the beaches are just as nice as Greece but cheaper since they’re not on the Euro…o.O
3. French Polynesia - Tahiti. I’d love to go to Thailand but he said if we were going to go that way, why not just splurge and go to Tahiti…sooo we’ll see.
Later this month, we’re going to go to a cake tasting at Cake love since they do testings that are free a couple times/month. The cake at the wedding last night? Wassss increddddible. Everything was so classy and beautiful not to mention J and R looked sooo incredible and stunning and in love and just happy. I was so glad I could be there to share their day with them.
Anyhow, onward to finish the proposal changes, emailing Jess at Delicious Design Studio is doing the wedding website, my blog and fiance’s blog. Then? I’m done for the night. So much to do!
We peeked around Crate and Barrel for the registry but I think we’re going to do it this weekend 
I’m so excited!!
Anyhow, enough from me….i know you all enjoy the wedding planning updates so much 
You are getting me FAR too excited for my own impending engagement/wedding planning….
Sounds like you are having so much fun planning. Like Renee, I’m hoping to get engaged soon too. I’m so excited about planning my wedding. And I think it’s supposed to be around 6 months prior to the wedding that you send out Save-The-Dates, but I would think you could do it a little earlier if lots of people are coming from out of town.
Keep the updates coming! You and I seem to be at about the same stage of planning (nevermind the fact that I’ve been engaged for 10 months) so it’s fun to read
good honeymoon options. they seem to be so completely different though… you’ll definitely get the most for your peso in Mexico.
seriously, you are like wedding planner extroirdiaire! have you ever thought of doing it professionally? just a thought. damn it, my bf had better get on the ring buying soon! i’m so glad things are going well! xoxo
You are getting things done super fast! When I get engaged, you can help me okay?
Registering was a lot of fun for the first few hours. I got tired around hour three and just started saying, don’t care, don’t care. But we ended up getting a lot of great stuff so it was worth it. I think we sent out a total of like 500 invitations between our three receptions and the wedding… oops.
I’m impressed at your wedding planning skillz!
love the locations. I like #2 and #3 especially, because they are more “exotic” than Mexico, and really for your honeymoon shouldn’t you go totally allll out? Greece sounds just fabulous. Good look picking your fave!
We did Mexico for ours but that’s b/c 1) we were on a tight budget and 2) I couldn’t fathom doing or seeing anything except lying on the beach with a drink in my hand and nachos in my belly.
Haha I love how this wasn’t in any way brief
You’re so ahead of the game. I love it!
oh man you guys are so on top of things. i love it.
and i would definitely vote for the ireland/greece combo, that would be amaaaazing!
Yay wedding plans! I desperately want to go to Tahiti! Jealous.
I’d send Save the Dates out nice and early if the majority of your guests are traveling. It’s helpful!
Your possible honeymoon locations sound perfect. Don’t you wish you could just combine all three? Wow, that would be awesome.
Love all the honeymoon spots! I’ve been to Tahiti, and it’s AWESOME. Two thumbs up. Look out for the weather, though; they’re in the southern hemisphere, and they have a real rainy season. I was there mid-August and we had a few beach days that turned into hang-out-in-the-hotel days because of torrential downpours. Even in the rain, though? It’s beautiful. Definitely keep it on your list, even if it doesn’t work out to be your honeymoon choice.
I vote for Ireland/Slovenia/Greece. One of my friends is getting married in October and they are going to Greece- I’m totally jealous and it’s on my top five list for potential honeymoon spots!
I’d also send out the STD cards soon…just so people can plan. When I do mine, they will go out early, since most of S’s family/friends are in the midwest…
Hehe, I just noticed how bad it looks to write STD cards! Ooops!