Hmm... guess we should start doing some things.

Now that we pushed the wedding forward I don't have that nice security blanket of copping out of questions saying "I'm not worried about that yet, it's not until 2010." People are starting to freak me out that we haven't done more yet... come on, there's 11 months left still. We have the ceremony/reception site at least. It's just too busy of a time lately. I've been doing tons of overtime so we have money for the rest that we need, which doesn't lend time for researching who we'd like to hire. Markus is going to graduate on Monday and then he'll be Monday thru Friday 7-330. It will be a lot easier then for us to do things. Even so, all I'm concerned about right now is geting engagement photos done, since I'd like to use them for some projects. Besides that, we'll be busy helping my mom move, having Markus move in, Thanksgiving, a NYC trip mid December, and then Christmas. Yup, that's all of my weekends booked up until the end of the year. Eeek. We'll find the time when we're ready to though.

Another Inspiration Board... (and various ideas)

Refining my vision a little bit... found some wonderful pictures of cherry red/lime decor. We've moved our wedding to October 10th, 2009 now, so I can incorporate some aspects of the season. There will be all sorts of lovely colors with it being fall. It will also be apple and pumpkin season here. I'm thinking I'd like the ceremony outdoors. I know I run the risk of bad weather, but it should still be warm around that time and if it does rain there is an area between the ballroom and dining room at the pavilion that is covered. We'd rent white chairs and I'd like to decorate a trellis with flowers for us to stand under. Since it may be on the cooler side I think it would be nice to have a small table set up with hot cider, coffee, tea, etc... that people could get before the ceremony begins. We could either have the ceremony down by the lake or by the fountain with flowers around it.

Being that the colors are close to Christmas ones, I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for after-Christmas sales. Maybe I can get some nice red or green charger plates for the tables. I hope that the wedding doesn't look very Christmas-like though. At least the green will be brighter. Maybe I'll throw a few orange accents into the mix for good measure? What do you think?

Well here's the board I made...