Well, after meeting with Susan last night, I think we’ve got our woman. I mentioned her before – and she’s definitely a perfect fit for us. we pretty much will get to hand craft our ceremony. And she’s a bargain compared to some of the other officiants – sold! Aside from that – we also decided to go with Instant Request as our DJs. everything seems to be falling in place for the big details! Tomorrow morning – our first cake tasting. We’ll see how that goes as well. I’m not in as big of a rush for that, but it should be interesting. I hope I can get hungry for cake at 9am.

This is far too entertaining not to share with everyone. I’ve been emailing back and forth with a woman about officiating our ceremony. I found her online at www.affordableidos.com. When I asked her about when we could schedule a meeting, the Reverend suggested we meet at a place in NE Minneapolis called Gasthof’s. For those not familiar…this tends to be a rowdy German bar/restaurant. In the words of the fiance, this is handy – we can “Have a beer, snuff shot and book our minister.” Should I be concerned? Or elated? I’m not sure – I’m leaning towards elated. Anyway, we’ll see what happens next Thursday night when we meet her there. Tonight – 7pm – meeting with potential DJ. This should be interesting!

Well, I just got back from getting my top teeth covered with braces. Yep, I’m a brace face again. Not so much metal mouth as these are technically “clear braces”. I dunno…I can see them. All in the pursuit of straight teeth (again) for the wedding…and forever. Everything went fine – I only gagged once when they did the impressions. Hats off to the technician at Dr. Colby’s office, Jen. She was super nice and I didn’t vomit from having clay in my mouth. High Five!

Well, maybe not so much “begins,” seeing as how we’ve really been working on this wedding since June…but the real guts of the planning is just about to begin. So, just in case anyone wants to keep tabs on how hellacious my life is about to become…check back often, as I’m sure I’ll be able to provide comic relief in here somewhere.

So far, we’ve got our venue booked and I’ve got my dress. And aside from that…um…yeah. That’d be it. I’ve been doing a lot of careful consideration about things that need to be done and that need to happen…but that’s about it. This should be interesting. I’m going to give the keys to this blog to the hubs as well, so that he may add his two cents when he feels fit, but you’ll most likely only see my thoughts and panic indicated here.

Ciao for now.